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College students can learn a lot from their parents

It is two weeks before classes begin at UW-Madison and I’m nowhere near campus. I’m sitting in the living room of my parents’ new house in Pensacola, Fla., decompressing from a summer spent working in “the real world.” In the meantime, I’ve been given a story assignment that involves imparting wisdom to a group of college freshmen who are only two or three years my junior.