"Except that I went to the wrong college apparently".
Pierre Henderson-Niles, a former Memphis player, said in a Twitter message that Jackson went to the wrong college, which made it into the local newspaper and radio shows.
The "right" college to me is the wrong college to someone else; there are people who are inclined to vote against a candidate just because he went to Harvard.
Many of the seniors worried that picking the wrong college might darken the rest of their lives, with some waiting until Monday night, within hours of the midnight deadline, to mail out their answers.
From the exploits of the math whiz Dwayne Wayne and the Southern belle Whitley Gilbert at Hillman College I understood that, whatever it got right or wrong, college offered two things: a place where you could debate ideas, and a place where there were no guns.
"Then I got this big wakeup call and started feeling that maybe I had gone to the wrong college or that I should have skipped school and become a mechanic or electrician".
And in that pool, some kids come home believing they made the wrong college choice.
In the end, the college experience is what you make of it, and it's hard to make a "wrong" college decision if you did your research and applied to a balanced list of colleges.
With the amount of stress already in students' lives and the negative outcomes possible for the wrong college choice more care should go into matching students with a school.
