Michigan State University, known locally as State, is a sprawling campus in East Lansing marked by a series of roads that wind into each other like irrigation channels. On the drive to the school, green plains dot the landscape and the backs of passing cars and trucks almost universally announce their collegiate loyalty in green and white.
When Selena Brennan and I arrive on a sunny day in mid-May, the bustle of the spring semester has ended, but students wearing backpacks still fill the sidewalks. Selena has just finished up her freshman year at MSU—enough time to know her way around.