College
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Today it is widely believed that to be successful a person needs to go to college before going out and getting a job. You all know how the story goes. Many parents force their kids to do their best throughout their elementary, junior high, and high school days so that they will be able to get good scholarships to good colleges, so that they can get a better education, so that they will be able to get a better job, so that they will make more money, have a better life and so on. You've obviously been through the routine or you wouldn't be sitting here.
Mama always said that going off to college was going to be one of the best decisions I could ever make, I'm sure most of your parents told you the same thing, or something to that effect anyway. As soon as I arrived at the University of Iowa I could tell she was right. Everything was great. Campus life, football games, the women. Even the school work wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Then one day Mr...