Leifur only knocks my emery board off the cedar chest. I think he wants me to reach my fully taloned potential.

JFC -- Harvard just announced its capital campaign goal, and it's $6.5 billion. With a B.

I got my email from Drew last night (I am a Harvard affiliate at the moment, which amuses me.) Harvard already has more money by FAR than any other university - more money than they can responsibly spend, even! Maybe they'll give it all to the SNAP program and feed the poor? (Or, you know, not.)

Ah ha ha. At least they have good financial aid. (I wish all high-achieving low-income kids knew to apply to the fanciest schools possible, because there is so much aid possible.)

Timelies all!

Nova frequently knocks things off of desks or nighttables. We refer to it as testing gravity. (Or "making sure we paid the gravity bill" which I got elsenet.)

The thing is, those high-achieveing low-income kids who do get into Harvard have a hard row to hoe even if they get a full ride. They are often underprepared academically, through no fault of their own but through the fault of public schools unable to challenge them sufficiently. (I attended Choate, and my freshman year of college at Bryn Mawr was easier than my senior year of high school.) And the social disconnect is HUGE. There were Prep-for-Prep kids at Choate and they had a lot of support and a cohort and it was still really hard for them. Heck sometimes it was hard for me, and my father is a doctor and my mother taught at Choate. When it seems like everyone is talking about which Caribbean island is the best, and you spent spring break at home...

Oh, absolutely. Maybe a bigger school is easier? My freshman year college roommate was Prep-for-Prep at Andover, and she did OK. Of course, she found a cohort to the extent that she couldn't talk to me for a big chunk of the year, due to her sorority's pledging rules.

But I don't know how much more manageable a mid-range school would be, anyway, and a full ride is better than not.

Always keeping in mind, I know basically nothing about education!

CANADA. Seriously. Travelling is harder for some people than others, but I would at least recommend checking to see if the status quo of international top 20 university cheaper than state school still exists. Even if you're into the top 50 on par with state school cost for foreign students, it's worth a look. Consider the drinking age!

Mycroft is a knocker-over of things, which we've named after the meme: [link]

Probably a poor choice, because it occasionally leads us to ask him "Mikey, why did you fuck that particular thing?" in front of other humans.

Also, holy crap the madness at the mall in Nairobi.