Deja Vu: When Your Child Goes To Your Alma Mater

“You can’t go home again” goes the old adage. And intellectually we all know that is true. Things change, people move or pass away, buildings are torn down and new ones rise in their place, old friends make new friends, commonalities that brought us together don’t apply anymore. But nostalgia is a powerful force and for many of us nothing brings it on in waves more than returning to our college campus.

We arrive for reunions at a beloved alma mater and, after the small talk and the photos of...