Saying Goodbye and Hello!

New York Times - July 15th, 2005

The adjustment to college is surely emotional, and entails saying goodbye as well as hello.

W. Houston Dougharty, vice president for student affairs at Grinnell, has been reminding incoming freshmen in recent years that theirs is the first generation heading off to college that will never really separate from family and high school friends — largely because of “electronic tethers” like Facebook, texting and Twitter. His advice: cut that virtual cord, or at least curtail its use.

“Every minute you spend updating the people back home,” he tells freshmen, “is time you’re not investing in developing relationships in college, whether that’s with new roommates or new faculty or new friends.”

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