My Sister Told Me to Clean Her Shoes at the Country Club. I Threw Them Away and Drove Home. Weeks Later, I Had 49 Missed Calls.

answers and no ambiguity about which was which. I made a few close friends who didn’t care about social hierarchies, spent most of my free time in the computer lab, and counted down the days until college.

When I got accepted to MIT, my mother’s first question wasn’t congratulations—it was whether I’d considered staying closer to home. “UConn has a continue reading …