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Breakout: The Real Point of College

Internships, learning how to be human, and the connective threads that bind alumni for life.

This Breakout paired two pieces that turn out to be the same conversation: Brandon Busteed on the internship gap, and Wesleyan president Michael Roth’s New York Times essay on what college is for.

Busteed challenges a familiar myth, that the size of an endowment signals the quality of a student’s experience. It does not. What predicts a strong experience…

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