But it could also make it harder to shed past identities — something people growing up with Facebook might struggle with as they move from high school to college and from there to the working world.
No longer, she's concluded, can a kid from an affluent suburban community expect to waltz his or her way into a decent college, and from there back into an affluent suburban community: "The days when you could la-di-dah your way out of Bennington" and into "a guaranteed starter job in the industry — a job, not an internship — were gone".
Tinder, which first launched at a University of Southern California party and expanded to other college campuses from there, is part HotOrNot.com -- a site that lets people rate strangers' appearance -- and part "f*ck, chuck, marry" -- the high-school sleepover game that makes players pick which they'd do to three people.
Even when I dropped 30 pounds in college from anorexia, there you were.
My older brother went to college in New Orleans, and my own college roommate was from there.
As a teenager, he drank and fought and smoked pot and carried a knife, but he also stayed in school, worked in a factory in the evenings and won a scholarship to Bowdoin College in Maine, and from there went on to earn a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
I'm a bit skeptical about the contest essentially paying for growth but it would be a small price to pay if they're able to really take over the college market and spread from there.
When you're just graduating from college, there are so many people who want to start something.
When I graduated from college, there were plenty of fancy ways to get out of going and being a part of that.
Brokers estimate that less than 10 percent of the separate servants' quarters that remain in old buildings are still used as housing — perhaps a nanny here, a child home from college there.
