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My Dorm Life Advice

On August 13, 2017September 16, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Fatherly AdviceLeave a comment

As our oldest daughter prepares for college, I'm thinking back on stories from my own dorm-life days.

Who Needs this Learning Stuff?

On September 1, 2016November 20, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Fatherly AdviceLeave a comment

Dear Daughters, As you went back to school this week, one of you posed the question kids have been asking since the dawn of educational time: "when am I ever going to use this stuff?" You had in mind the contents of your lessons: the facts of history and the functions of algebra. But when …

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