<p>A friend of mine is a professor at a local university. The first week of school, she came out of her office to find a young man sobbing in the hallway. She asked him what was wrong and he told her he was just so homesick. I swear, I almost cried when she told me that. I wanted to go over to the school and find this kid and bring him home. He said he had talked to his parents but that it seemed that everyone came to school with friends already and he didn’t know how to fit in. She brought him into her office and made sure he got an appointment the next day with the counseling office, but I thought about how desperate he had to feel to sit and cry in the hallway outside faculty offices. I guess it was a better place than in front of the other students.</p>