When Maddie Walsh decided to join the CrossFit club during her second year at Penn State, she was unaware that she would meet her best friend and future THON dancing partner, Maddie Williams.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: The reports of higher education’s death have been an exaggeration. American universities produce more research and relevant knowledge for the world at large than any other institutions I know of. Tuition may be too damn high, but over the long-run, undergraduate degrees are definitely worth the cost. But Penn State could be so much more. It used to be, I think.