The author of this opinion piece, Frank Brun, writes a lot about education. This particular article is skewed a bit towards (recent) alums of highly selective private schools, but he makes up for that by spending some time on the results of a "mammoth study" of 100,000 college grads and their views about how they spent their college years: "The study has not found that attending a private college or a highly selective one foretells greater satisfaction. Instead, the game changers include establishing a deep connection with a mentor, taking on a sustained academic project and playing a significant part in a campus organization. What all of these reflect are engagement and commitment, which I’ve come to think of as overlapping muscles that college can and must be used to build. They’re part of an assertive rather than a passive disposition, and they’re key to professional success." CSUN students can retrieve this article for free through Oviatt. Frank Bruni. "How to Get the Most Out of College." New York Times Sunday Review, Aug. 17, 2018.
