When You Know, You Know
2 min readDec 29, 2020
When I was in high school, I had my mind made up.
I was going to attend Mankato State University in Minnesota. Mankato State had sent me a postcard that looked a lot like my dream school — Pepperdine (!) in California — but was a public school with in-state tuition (my mom’s requirement). Mankato was about as far away as I could get from home while still getting — you guessed it, in-state tuition — and the town seemed…
