The Edit: You Up? College in the Age of Tinder

Plus: How do you navigate sex in the "grey zone"? View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Monday, February 26, 2018 [NYTimes.com »]( Danielle Chenette [On Campus]( [You Up? College in the Age of Tinder]( By PHOEBE LETT Some found love; others learned valuable lessons about time stamps. ADVERTISEMENT Trending on Social [Michele Barrack hugged her daughter Samara, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 17 this month.]( Justin Gilliland for The New York Times [Outspoken and Precocious, Florida Students Struggle With Loss When the Cameras Turn Off]( By JACK HEALY Even as they raise millions of dollars and plan nationwide rallies to stop gun violence, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School struggle with nightmares. [Danai Gurira as Okoye in “Black Panther.” The film has earned about $704 million worldwide and has yet to open in China or Japan.]( Marvel/Disney [‘Black Panther’ Crosses $700 Million Globally, Annihilating Newcomers]( By BROOKS BARNES “Black Panther” demonstrated strong holding power at the domestic box office, taking in $108 million in its second weekend. Competing films struggled. HOW ARE WE DOING? We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [newsletters@nytimes.com](mailto:newsletters@nytimes.com?subject=The%20Edit%20Newsletter%20Feedback). LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here](. Areas of Study Doug Mills/The New York Times Physical Education [How to Get Started With Olympic Winter Sports]( By TALYA MINSBERG Inspired by the Olympics? People of all skill levels can get into winter sports like figure skating, bobsledding and, yes, even curling. Here’s how. [Morgan Richardson, 27, near her office in Chicago. “I’m just being responsible,” she said of saving for retirement. “I have a Roth I.R.A. and I put the maximum in it annually that I can.”]( Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Finance [Millennials Are Saving for the Future, if They Can Afford To]( By ZACH WICHTER A group of people in their 20s discussed retirement (some expect to continue working) and their financial plans (some lack direction and employee benefits). [A video that said David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, was a paid actor became a No. 1 trending video on YouTube this week.]( Saul Martinez for The New York Times Science and Technology [Facebook and Google Struggle to Squelch ‘Crisis Actor’ Posts]( By JACK NICAS AND SHEERA FRENKEL The tech companies vowed this week to stamp out conspiracy videos and misinformation on the Parkland, Fla., shooting. So far, they are falling short. [“The Girl in the Spotlight,” an intensive, two-week study of Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” using new exploratory technologies, begins Monday at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague.]( Michel deGroot for The New York Times Art History [Uncovering the Secrets of the ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’]( By NINA SIEGAL Researchers in The Hague will use technology borrowed from medicine to find the answers to lingering questions about Vermeer’s 1665 masterpiece. [Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the N.R.A., has called the video game Bulletstorm part of a “corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.”]( Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Media Studies [Trump Blames Video Games for Mass Shootings. Researchers Disagree.]( By MAYA SALAM AND LIAM STACK “I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts,” the president said on Thursday. Joan Wong Education [The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’]( By MOLLY WORTHEN Colleges should stop trivializing the transmission of knowledge. ADVERTISEMENT Illustration by Tomi Um Adulting [Can I Use My Dad’s Connections to Get an Internship?]( By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on reaping the benefits of nepotism and confronting an abusive man on the subway. Illustration by Franziska Barczyk ICYMI [Navigating Sex in the ‘Gray Zone’]( We’re seeking college students’ stories: How do you navigate consent for sexual intimacy in relationships and encounters? How have you navigated the so-called “gray zone”? Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's The Edit newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2018 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018