When I became a Skidmore parent, I developed a new and different view of the campus, with my son's experiences and our socioeconomic class, as opposed to others on campus. My son became involved with a young woman here, and they continued dating after graduation and had plans of moving together to San Francisco. Her family was quite wealthy. And he, as they were planning on moving out together, discovered that the inequity in the social classes really presented a problem for them. She had just this enormous budget for an apartment, and he was unable to really even pay half of that. And in the end, their relationship sort of dissolved naturally, because it just sort of didn't work out. But it was interesting that while they were here on campus, there was sort of an equalizer; and then afterwards, it became too difficult to hold together.

Classless Society Stories Project