![]() She was a new dormer but we still approved of her. Rob is an architect living in Northern Virginia, the father of two daughters and married to Sharon Kelberg Shutler (Col '79), whom he met first year. He undertook the project, he said, "to fill in some of the gaps." While he loved his time at Virginia, he doesn't think college gives you a complete education. There is also a subversive nature to Rob and his new game. But moreover it signified the three foundations of Roman higher education-grammar, logic and rhetoric. And it implies the intersection of ideas-where people meet to confer. In fact, here is the answer to one of the game's questions, about trivia itself: "The word ‘trivia’ comes from the Latin tri (three) and via (ways), literally meaning the intersection of three roads. The first is he loves fascinating facts and myth busting, and he feels trivia gets a bad rap. Rob created the game for several reasons. It is a social thing where you have to be face to face-not a social media thing where one is Facebook to Facebook. is decidedly retro, a breakeven proposition at best. I asked Rob if creating a board game in such a digital age is madness or genius, and he replied, "Probably madness. The board itself is a beautiful orange and blue, with a gorgeous photo of the Lawn and Rotunda in the center. Some questions are uniquely UVA, though others are as rich, diverse and fertile as my friend Rob's mind. Players advance around the board-through first year, second year and so on-by answering questions. And he has created something new, a board game, College Daze, a game, as he notes, "Of the Wahoos, by a Wahoo and for the Wahoos." ![]() Rob has remained a dear and lifelong friend. He also knew so much about so many different subjects, always marveling at the world around him, a real Jeffersonian in my eyes. He would "sleep fast"-condensing a night's sleep into four hours-something architecture students needed to do when working on their big projects. He only ran in the rain, and as a Christian Scientist, never got sick. So if you know anyone who could benefit from reading this book, both parents and teenagers, consider sending it to them as a gift, because College Daze will probably be the most important-and most referenced-book a college student will ever own.When I arrived in Dabney Dorm in the fall of 1975, I met a young architecture student across the hall, Robert W. Yes, College Daze is going to upset a lot of helicopter parents out there who think their teenagers are, and always will be, little angels, even when they enter college.Īnd they might actually be little angels, but at college they’re going to be exposed to a lot of young adults who aren’t, and they need to be ready for it. This is that guide.Ĭollege Daze was written solely for the purpose of helping students avoid the most common perils and pitfalls of college life, a brutally pragmatic guide that will teach you everything that every other college student, myself included, had to learn the hard way, from avoiding venereal diseases to dealing with asshole landlords, evil sorority sisters, student loan counselors, and campus cops.Īnd if you’re a parent of teenagers who are headed to college, hope for the best while preparing for the worst by reading this book. What college students need is a guide that will tell them exactly what problems to expect and the best ways to deal with them a guide that will help keep them on track, prevent them from making common yet serious mistakes, and see them through right up to graduation day. They drop out because their new life away from home-a life free from parental authority and rife with addictive distractions-is suddenly too much for them to handle. Think about it: College students don't drop out because their classes are too difficult.
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