Mediagazer: What a Tornado Taught Me That College Didn't (Susannah Breslin/Forbes.com)

4:20 AM ET, August 12, 2011

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Susannah Breslin / Forbes.com:

What a Tornado Taught Me That College Didn't — Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … My college career did not end when I turned in a final exam. — It ended as I stood in the seventh-floor waiting room of a hospital, viewing the destruction an EF-4 tornado had wrought on Tuscaloosa less than 24 hours earlier.

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