Contents

Preface

1. On the Banks of the Old Raritan…

2. Rich Kid Sid

3. The RU Screw

4. The Quarter-Life Crisis

5. Twenty Years of Schooling and They Put You on a Day Shift…

6. Use Me

7. Thanksgiving and the Great Depression

8. Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City

9. Degree Mill University

10. The Bends

11. Tunneling Out

12. Death and Taxes

13. Portrait of the Scumbag as a Young Man

14. Fear of Flying

15. Graduation

Acknowledgments

Notes

Footnotes

Bibliography

A Note on the Author