I was 21 when I became politically aware. I had just started a job driving truck across the US and Canada and had many radio stations to listen to and time to think about what I heard.  I decided I was conservative very quickly. I registered to vote for the first time that year and have not missed a chance to put my mark down sense. I am now 35, soon to be 36, and I have not wavered from my initial self-assessment.    I think that like me, most of the people I knew between the ages of  18 and 21 did not consider politics important, they were to busy with relationship intrigue and making it through the first few years of college.

Actually, a good school teaches you not to trust the gauge. You are always supposed to take a look in your tanks or fill them up if you can first if it's a truck you haven't driven before, then use math to figure your MPG at your next fill and use the average you get from doing that a couple times to make your own judgment about your probable fuel level on a regular basis... Funny how things that make people good professionals at work are some of the same things that make them successful in all aspects of life when applied consistently.  

Lavaux, I can not agree more.  Charity is absolutely something we need in our lives, the giving of it and the receiving of it. Charity  is something the government is not capable of.  If the government gave that homeless man shoos  there would be no story here, this is about people, and confirmation that even those with reputations for being able to just shrug off the horrors of city dwelling can still be touched deeply and moved to acts of charity in that environment. I for one was uplifted by the story. 

I always thought of Harvard as extreme education at an extreme price, but this move might just be to much.  If I had a college aged child and could afford to send them anywhere to study, Harvard would be right off my list. 

I attend Utah State University at an extension facility in my home town, and I have already heard there will be a tuition increase for spring semester, and the teachers I'v seen are all looking rather preoccupied.

I am feeling lucky that I only have one more semester left to go, but at the same time, I am beginning to think I may have just struggled through four years of college for nothing.  People dont move up in times like these, they move out and dont get replaced.