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Today, Explained

What if college isn't for everyone?

13 Apr 2025

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For decades, high schools and parents have prioritized college for all graduating seniors. Now, more students are asking if there's another way. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Colleen Barrett, engineered by Matthew Billy and Patrick Boyd and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill. Photo by Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1.098 - 22.442 Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe here. This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, Answers to Life's 20 Questions. Plus, we've got some fun and important updates from The W and the NWSL, and of course, we've got a new Are You a Megan or Are You a Sue?

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22.702 - 26.543 Megan Rapinoe

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30.017 - 45.945 Marques

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46.565 - 61.529 Marques

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62.769 - 66.05 Erica

But we know what your best effort looks like, and that looks like a good college.

69.891 - 72.652 Chelsea Waite

What a good life means is defined on their own terms.

74.326 - 95.726 Johnquilyn Hill

I'm John Glenn Hill. This is Explain It To Me, the show where you call in... I guess I'm calling because I want to know, how do people choose what they do after college or high school or when they're going to join the workforce? This feels like such a different landscape now. than it was for my parents.

96.207 - 103.895 Johnquilyn Hill

And we get you answers. The landscape really is different right now. Other people are wondering what to do after graduation too.

104.335 - 108.38 Erica

I had no idea until this year what the heck I was doing after high school.

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