Books: I am Charlotte Simmons

By Tom Wolf

Let me expound on this a bit. Really the essence of all the college peer pressure summed up:

"What was it, this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a prodigy, take the place of all that? She shuddered with a feeling she couldn't have put a name to. It was the congenital human fear of isolation."