Welcome to the Finding Your Place podcast - a series about the college experience made by college students for college students.

College is an entirely new way of life, and that can mean that home can take on a different meaning after you've started college. In the eighth episode, our FYP producers take their recorders home, giving us a few of the sights and sounds of home. But the focus of the episode is a story told by Faculty Producer Dave Engen. Engen reflects on the tensions of being caught between two worlds in college: the world of the professional middle class that college was preparing him to join and the working-class community he was raised in.

Music composed and performed by Marcus Bagala from his 2018 album, Materials. Used with permission. Please support his work at www.marcusbagala.com.

The Finding Your Place Podcast Series has been created with the support of Minnesota State "Shark Tank" grant funding for innovation in higher education. Many thanks also to our colleagues and mentors at Century College, Minnesota State University Mankato, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Minnesota Public Radio.