half-listening while he attempted to give me life advice...And of course, that stripper tip wasn’t true.

So, she was struggling with the pressures of a rigorous academic program at an elite university, but she’s not returning to Columbia because she wants to focus on her modeling career? I mean, talk about an out of the frying pan, into the fire situation. Trying to make it as a model in NYC has to be at least as…

For years, black families have been begging for the media to give the same kind of attention to their missing daughters and sisters as they do white women.

Sounds like a self-entitled brat who can’t handle life. People have a right to make their choices and decide that college is not for them. But don’t let the people who love you think something horrible happened to you because you’ve decided to have an existential crisis.

I don’t know what to think. I’d say she wasn’t thinking straight, but her actions were so detailed she clearly had a lot of control. Apparently, the idea of speaking to someone about taking a leave or changing majors was not something she was able to do. Even if she believed her mother would be furious, disappearing…

No need to make a national spectacle of yourself when you don’t want to admit failure. Just drop out and do something else like the rest of us. An Ivy League school was stressful? You don’t say.