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I remember my college move-in day like it was yesterday. I got my room assignment, marched up the stairs, opened the door, and was disappointingly greeted with four walls of uninviting cinder blocks.

Room 3227. That was my assignment. It was 1982 and the letter from Cornell had just arrived. I opened it and found not my first, second or even third choice of dorm. I had not ever wanted to live in ...