"I do feel a little old and weird being here," Silber said, observing the teenagers around her. "You want to tell them what to do and see but no matter where you go to college, it's just what you make of it."

A former journalism major and reporter at The Daily Collegian, Silber now works in New York City writing for a financial newsletter. It's not her dream job, she said, but she soon hopes to move up in the magazine industry. Silber added that although she loves the city, something about State College has always soothed her.

"There's just no pressure in the air here," she said. "You don't get that in the city. It's like you have 10,000 pounds on your shoulders."

The tour comes to an end, but Silber's day is far from over. After a free brunch provided by the university at Findlay Commons in East Halls, she and her cousin head downtown for shopping. Then it's off to an apartment party and a few socials with Silber's old sorority to give Fisher a taste of Penn State greek life.

Silber spends the night at the Phyrst, 111 1/2 E. Beaver Ave., with her cousin safely back at East Halls with some friends -- or so she hopes.

"She's mature for her age, she'll be okay," Silber said, sipping on a drink while glancing at the musical ramblings of the Phyrst Phamily.

The leap to the job world was scarier for Silber than the one from high school to college.

"When you come to college, even if you don't know anyone at all, people were just waiting to be your friend," Silber said. "It isn't like that at all in the real world."

Although she still looks fondly upon her education at Penn State, there are some things that just can't be taught to students in a classroom, she said.

"There are certain things you just can't be prepared for," she said,"like cold calling PR [public relations] people and having them yell at you and say they'll never talk to your publication again or that they're going to sue you. It can be scary."

After losing a close game of pool by scratching on the eight ball, Silber calls some friends and says she's off to the All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St.

She misses these kinds of nights greatly, but knows that life moves on.

"Sometimes, I really do miss this place and wish I could stay forever," she said. "But now that I'm out in the world, the most important thing I've learned is that you shouldn't work toward an ideal job or work. To be happy, you've got to work toward an ideal kind of life."