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Campus Brat: on graduation
The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More
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Campus Brat: Choosing Rochester (The shame of settling)
I had decided at a very young age that I would go to URochester (although it’s always been “the U of R” to me). I would get free tuition and I could hang out with my dad all the time. Read More
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Campus Brat: Logo Parentis
That cheerful logo has always been around me. Every time I logged in to play Club Penguin in my dad’s office, this was the logo on his browser homepage. When my dad got tenure in 2009, this was the logo on the envelope sharing the news. Read More
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Campus Brat: Care and keeping of faculty kids
The faculty child is no ordinary child-stranger. I would know. I once stood in their tiny light-up Sketchers. Read More
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Campus Brat
Most of us don’t even know each other, but we all have one thing in common: We’re children of UR professors, URMC employees, administrators, and campus support staff. Because of this, I’ve affectionately dubbed us “campus brats.” Read More