Dear Son, You Don’t Have To Go to College

Dear Son,

I know the questions are coming in fast and furious about what your major is going to be, where you want to go to college, and what you want to be when you grow up.

I remember these questions all too well- when I was a senior, it was just assumed that everyone would go to college- it’s just what you did after high school.

There are these unwritten rules and expectations; as 18-year-olds, there weren’t many of us who thought we could argue with that so, we packed up and left to pursu...