A young woman stands at an intersection and slowly looks up. She knows that her entire future is right there in front of her. The college across the street was the portal to a new life filled with hopes she had carried with her since she was old enough to think about tomorrow. Unfortunately, those hopes were beginning to fade. College offered her the world but she didn't know where she was headed. She needed to find her focus, to find her path through college and into life. She didn't realize that taking advantage of school didn't just mean passing every class with an A and getting on the dean's list every semester. She didn't realize that she had to look beyond the classroom, beyond the books, beyond the lectures. The feature stories in this collection were written during my most productive time in college. Looking back on them, I realized they were perfect illustrations of how someone can make the most of their time in school, find their path, make a difference, learn what happiness can be and learn what it means to survive college and life with a smile.