Well Peter Hessler writes like this. By the way we all know American higher education is often interspersed around the US, so Pittsburgh is actually a nice medi

Well Peter Hessler writes like this. By the way we all know American higher education is often interspersed around the US, so Pittsburgh is actually a nice median -- not a college town but far from a big city like Chicago/NYC. The mental journey Hessler describes rings true to me, a Chinese student in the US.