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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen the national media turns its eye to college campuses, it often focuses on the ways the college experience has evolved in recent years,\u201d Ashley Fetters wrote in 2018. \u201cSo it\u2019s easy to overlook the fact that one of college\u2019s most beloved features\u2014a round-the-clock culture of frivolity and togetherness\u2014has barely changed at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Eight years later, American college life is changing all over again, as AI and political and economic realities transform what colleges are like and where students choose to go. But those formative parts of the college experience\u2014growing up, making friends, and making mistakes\u2014aren\u2019t going anywhere. Today\u2019s newsletter explores what it feels like to be a young person preparing for the wider world.<\/p>\n On College Life<\/strong><\/p>\n What I Learned About Life at My 30th College Reunion<\/p>\n By Deborah Copaken<\/p>\n \u201cEvery classmate who became a teacher or doctor seemed happy,\u201d and 29 other lessons from seeing my Harvard class of 1988 all grown up (From 2018<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n How College Changes the Parent-Child Relationship<\/p>\n By Alia Wong<\/p>\n The distance can actually strengthen the bond. (From 2019<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Where America\u2019s College Kids Stay Up All Night<\/p>\n By Ashley Fetters<\/p>\n Students across the U.S. share their school\u2019s version of that place\u2014<\/em>the one where everyone just winds up late at night, for better or worse. (From 2018<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n P.S.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Donna Moriarty<\/p>\n I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Donna Moriarty from Ossining, New York, writes: \u201cMy husband of almost 50 years has taken to posing two stuffed animals, Felix the Cat and Snoopy (of Peanuts fame), that we still have from our children\u2019s childhood. He\u2019ll pose the two characters in ways that illustrate what\u2019s happening in our lives (or how he feels.) Recently our entire family had gathered under the same roof for the first time in more than five years. After everyone left, I went to our bedroom and found Felix and Snoopy gazing out the window as if watching their departure. My heart melted at the melancholy feeling emanating from the way he positioned the two little figures.\u201d<\/p>\n It was like \u201che knew exactly what I was feeling,\u201d Donna writes. \u201cAfter being married so long, you\u2019d think I wouldn\u2019t be awestruck by my husband\u2019s ability to touch my heart with a small gesture like this one. But his funny, creative expressions of what he\u2019s thinking and feeling, even after all this time, make me fall in love with him over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n \u2014 Isabel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. 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