I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.