Perhaps that's why William Hazlitt wrote that revisiting books can "transport us, not over half the globe but (which is better) over half our lives, at a word's notice!" By the end of college, standing in my bedroom and turning my head from left to right could transport me across my entire reading life.
Here was a black man, at a historically black college, standing in front of a stage with mostly black faces, delivering an address to young black men, at one of the most salient, yet frustratingly "out of reach" rituals for countless black men -- a college graduation ceremony.
You're also the college sophomore standing in a corner of a keg party in the basement of some desperate dorm.
Pamela B. Gann, the president of Claremont McKenna College, a small, selective liberal arts college in California, admitted on Monday that a "senior administrator" had been submitting inflated SAT data to ratings agencies since 2005, in an apparent effort to increase the college's standing.
Instead, we returned to the old political tropes: a prime minister outside Downing street, backbenchers grousing on rolling news channels, financial experts delighted outside City buildings and Nigel Farage on College Green, standing outside the palace he wants to get in.
"We feel like part of our city is a museum, but this is real life," said Ahmed, a college student, standing by the tin-roof shack he calls home.
Before the game, Georgia Tech Coach Paul Hewitt, a New York native and a devotee of the ball-sharing philosophy of the former Knicks coach Red Holzman, said his Yellow Jackets were one of only two college teams standing because each knew their roles and played with a long-forgotten purity.
At some colleges, advanced standing and credit are granted for students who have scored well on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or A level results.
The key to being successful at a college essay is standing out and providing the student body of the college with value of some sort.
Nine years ago, Mr. Rucci -- 45, a butcher's son from South Philadelphia, a philosophy major in college -- was standing in a welfare office asking for help to pay his rent.
"It gives the younger kids an alternative to being on the corner," said Kelvin Thomas, 18, a high school graduate with hopes of going to a city college, who was standing a few feet away.
