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...wanted to leave my freshman fall,” she says. “The culture was just so different.” A native of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Jones started college in the same boat as many other warm-weather-loving, East-coast-bound soon-to-be-Ivy-Leaguers. The adjustment wasn’t an easy one for her. But four years later, Jones dreads the thought of leaving the hallowed halls she now calls home...
...Maybe paradise is an exaggeration, but I love Hamden for how it defies New York. Unlike Manhattan, Hamden can not offer Ethiopian-Mexican restaurants, inexpensive public transportation, and a Starbucks on every corner—all available 24/7. But where New Yorkers might find it limiting, I find it liberating. My neighborhood may not be as diverse as a New York subway car, but at least I’m friends with the 20 families on my block. I might not be able to find public transportation at 3 a.m., but I never hit traffic driving up my street...
...campus whose temperature is as chilly as its temperament. “Kids won’t pass up Harvard, even though they may not be elated the entire time they’re there,” says Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise, an admissions counseling service in Manhattan...
...thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night with a doctor, and her son is driving her to the hotel...
...women open up about their extracurricular duties, however, some find their employers surprisingly receptive. Aynesh Johnson, 35, pulled long hours as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs yet found time to sit on the board of a nonprofit that aids low-income families living in a wealthy area of Manhattan. News of her altruism reached the executive suite and might have helped her land her current role as vice president of global leadership and diversity. "It's seen as a positive," she says...