A question I’ve gotten a lot these past four years has been why I chose to go to Penn State. This question typically comes right after I explain that I’m from Chicago (don’t tell anyone, but I’m from Chicago in the same way that some of you are from “just outside of Philly”), and people want to know why I would choose Penn State over a closer Big Ten school like Illinois or Northwestern.
I like to make a joke that I couldn’t have gotten into Northwestern which is probably true or that I needed to get the hell out of Illinois, which is