This is an I-Heart podcast.

Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

I think probably being a college professor, one of the most difficult things for a incoming student to determine, kind of goes without saying, is what am I going to

major in? It's kind of interesting in sense that many kids that arrive are 18 years old. There are

very, very few of them, in my experience, over 20 years now in academia,

that know what they want to do when they show up. Those that do know are the exception and not

the norm. They come to a university because there's something that is attractive to them, perhaps about the campus or the people they initially meet and engage with.

There might be some things that they're interested in.

Then others show up because mom and dad said they had to and that they're going to this university.

Well, for those that make it through the academic course, which are fewer than I think

many people believe, the next big decision is, what do I want to do with my life?

You know, you've been prepared for four years.

Now you're pushed out onto the stage.

Do I try to go to graduate school, or do I dip my toes into the water of the real world,

not a protected, I-y-covered environment.

Today on BodyBags, we're going to talk about a young woman.

A young woman who had made it through the rigor of an academic experience at Penn State University and was now starting her journey.

She had been a beauty queen. She had been a cheerleader. She'd been present on Saturday nights

in Happy Valley for whiteouts, one of the loudest places in the country,

but nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared her for what waited just around the

corner.

And it was pure, unadulterated, evil.

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