The College that Never Was [Oh, It's Tuesday]
We’re about to start submitting my second novel, THE AWESOME GIRL’S GUIDE TO DATING EXTRAORDINARY MEN, which is about three women who attended my alma mater (Smith). This means 2 things. 1) I can finally read COMMENCEMENT by J. Courtney Sullivan (which is about white Smithies), without fear of influence and 2) I’ve been thinking a lot about the colleges I didn’t attend.
I’ve no regrets about attending Smith, which was my first choice going into the college selection process, but Middlebury, a small liberal arts college in Vermont, was a rather close second on my list, and I often wonder how my life would have turned out if I’d gone there. I still believe that I’d be a writer, but maybe I’d be a different kind of writer. Or maybe I’d still be living abroad, given Middlebury’s reputation for language and international study. There’s a chance that I might have stayed on the East Coast, or gone into academia. I might have ended up way more crunchy and granola than I am now.Who knows … but it is nice to wonder.
Do you also have a college that got away? How do you think your life would have differed if you’d attended that college? Have you ever met anyone from that college — what’s funny is that I’ve yet to meet a Middlebury alum, which makes me think that I definitely wouldn’t have been this me if I’d gone to that college.
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