In Chapter 5 of The Help, Skeeter speaks about her time at Ole Miss, which is a nickname for the University of Mississippi. She says that while her friends were out drinking rum and Cokes at parties and putting on corsages, she was studying and writing stories, poems, letters, and other pieces. She dreamt of having dates with football players, but her "real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read" (page 59). Later in the chapter, Skeeter says that she did not attend her graduation ceremony from Ole Miss (page 68). Most of her friends had already gotten married, and she was one of the few women in her crowd who actually graduated from college. She headed home from school with a sophomore who was about to get married. The other woman carried her wedding dress with her, but Skeeter's most prized possession was her typewriter. After graduating, she hoped to get a job in publishing rather than to simply get married like her friends.
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