Seeing College as Possible

When I was in high school in the late 1970s, my best friend asked this:

“What do you mean you don’t know if you’re going to college? What will you DO?”

She was wonderful, but these were, in retrospect, loaded questions based on her own life experience. Think about all that’s built into that query. The assumption that I even see it as a choice or that it’s something my parents would…