In case you didn't know, fashion brand Bebe was one of those "cool kid" brands in the early 2000s. Wearing a crystal-embossed "Bebe" logo on a white baby T-shirt was a teenage status symbol — and now ...

The year was 2001. It was the summer before freshman year of high school, and I was attending a weeklong program called “study skills,” aimed at easing kids into the rigorous curriculum of a college ...