College Life is Like a Painting in Progress

“College is the best time of your life,” my daughter hears as she prepares to leave home.

“Does she love it?” my friends ask of me at the holiday break, nodding their heads up and down.

Daily she’s bombarded with images on Instagram and Snapchat that paint a picture of “the perfect” college life experience happening at every college campus across the country. Those are big expectations to live up to for an 18 year old leaving home for the first time, living with complete strangers packed thre...