Please forward it on to others
.. it may encourage others...
Especially in this day and age of Kim Kardashian types..
A father’s advice to a son heading off to college.
“Look for THIS woman... and don’t try to take advantage of her.”
Bookmark.
My daughter graduated from the University of Vermont gulag as a staunch right winger like me. =)
I would add join a sorority for peer group support.
If being abducted do not get in the car. Do whatever you have to do not to get in the car. If you get in the car you may find there are worse things than death.
Central is unusual in that the bishop of Grand Rapids bought a tract of land adjacent to the campus in the 1950s and later sold part of it to the Lutheran and Methodist churches. As the school grew from 4,000 to 21,000 students, it expanded around the churches, which are now in the middle of a large state university.
Just got off the phone with my daughter who is entering her senior year in High School. Told her that I was going recommend to her going to Thomas Aquinas College (tho I didn’t tell her specifically - just said I was going to recommend a college). Her attitude was “no, no, no.”
Kids today are so indoctrinated by the public school system that they don’t take their parent’s suggestions seriously.
I think she would do great at a small, Christian (please, no fundamentalist arguments here about Papism) college that concentrates on the great books (Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Einstein, Nietzshe, Aquinas, Shakespeare... need I go on?)
Instead, her mother wants her to go to some impersonal, huge California college where she’s going to have to learn “Women’s Studies” or “Gender Identity” or whatever else loser professors in Academia have thought of since the 60’s.
I think this is even harder to go through than the original divorce (and again, for those FReepers out there who are perfect, I didn’t get divorced because I wanted to, I got divorced because either she or I would have killed the other - blame me if you want for choosing the wrong woman to marry and have a child with, but don’t blame me because the person I chose turned out to be a psychopath.)
I would add “Question everything your professors tell you about politics, religion, culture, or anything not math and hard science.” Also try to take classes with visiting professors from foreign countries. Not only will you get a different perspective but it’s harder for those in power to brainwash or intimidate foreigners.
Our oldest is venturing forth to her first year in 12 days. I will pass this along for what it’s worth along with a blessing.
Study hard and keep your skivvy’s up.