Maybe your professor would grade/comment/tear apart some of the logic that vw's brother is using.

No doubt! I just...I try to understand where he's coming from, then he says stuff like that!

vw, I don't really know what your brother is like, but for some people the first year at law school is humbling. Everyone in law school was at the top of their class and has been told they're smart all their lives. But the math dictates that 90% of them will no longer be the top 10%. I actually find it really interesting to see how the dynamics of a class changes after the first set of grades come out. I hope he finds some people there who challenge and engage him intellectually, and don't just exchange a lot of hot air (because there are always those people, too, who think the professors know nothing and don't appreciate their smarts).

I got 100.

Congrats! That's fantastic.

Must... find... more... essay... motivation...

Yeah, I imagine it will be.

I took out what I really wanted to reply to him in that e-mail. He applied to George Washington, Northwestern, Harvard, and one other place other than the state college where he is going. The only place he even heard back from was George Washington.

So, he's going to the state college...has accepted a scholarship and financial aid. The guy talks a nice talk but does not walk the walk...

(because there are always those people, too, who think the professors know nothing and don't appreciate their smarts).

Heh-- replace "professors" with agents and/or editors and you have much of publishing in a nutshell.

I imagine the agents & editors pretty much handle them the same why I do when they end up in my office, "No, I won't change your grade/my decision." Elaborating any more than that isn't generally worth my time, unfortunately.

So, he's going to the state college...has accepted a scholarship and financial aid. The guy talks a nice talk but does not walk the walk...

I wonder who he's going to thank for making all that more available in this economy?

I wonder who he's going to thank for making all that more available in this economy?

He's going to thank himself, because he's a good citizen who has paid his taxes and is therefore deserving of the subsidy. It's the subsidies that go to all the people who somehow don't deserve them that are the problem. (vw, give me the smackdown any time here for seeming to put thoughts in your brother's head)

No, you're fine, Sparky. That is how he would probably answer.

Oh, Sparky! I need your snail-mail addy. I have a leetle something to send!

Totally unrelated, I am SO excited. I have an appointment with the owner of a boutique in my neighborhood on Wednesday. She wants to see some of my crochet designs and consider selling them in the shop. The fact that she'll even meet with me is just so exciting. I mean, she'll probably say no, but still! A meeting! About my crochet designs!