A feather in the cap for my alma mater: high profile OOS freshman Sasha Obama is reportedly attending freshman orientation at the University of Michigan, accompanied by the Secret Service. No official confirmation from either the university or the Obamas, but this was long rumored after she posted on Instagram some months ago that she’d be joining several of her friends there. The Obamas are a highly education-oriented family. Both Barack and Michelle have multiple Ivy League degrees, and they sent both girls to the prestigious University of Chicago Lab School and Sidwell Friends School in DC, a favorite of the Washington elite. Big sister Malia is beginning her third year at Harvard, and Sasha was reportedly accepted at Yale. I don’t think Barack and Michelle would approve of Michigan unless they were convinced she could get a first-rate education there.