20 Things About Life That My Son Needs to Know Before College

Author and professor Molly Pennington wrote an advice packet of life lessons for her first-born son when she left him at college. On women:

1. Months of charged flirtation are way more pleasurable than one-night stands or random hook-ups. Flirt your heart out. But be wary of kissing. Most especially be wary of drunken kissing (because of where it leads.) Not that you’ll ever be drunk.

2. Girls care about sex and intimacy. I’m not saying that you don’t. I’m saying that girls might obsess over...