This past June, I finished final exams after my first year at Northwestern and went back to my hometown, New York. For the first time in six months, I was home, in the city I grew up in, living with my...

Like many Wildcats this past week, I left home to begin the academic year at Northwestern. I took off from Seattle with the words of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros serenading me over and over, “Home...