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...Sometimes, the Dunster House salad bar is overwhelming simply because it has too many options. So when it came to picking a college, I was surprised by how easily I made my decision. I’m the first Moore to go to college; my parents had no Opal Mehta-esque plan for how I would get into Harvard (or get a life for that matter). And until senior year, I had no Ivy League ambitions and was set on the idea of going to a women’s college. But from the moment I stepped on campus during...
...Sure, the book, cumbersomely titled “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” provides Future Great American Novelists’ jealous bitterness some vindication. “Opal Mehta” is, as my friend Leon Neyfakh ’07 wrote in Fifteen Minutes last month, “a fairy tale, more or less,” and a lot of its details are as unconvincing and unfelt as pre-Pixar Disney...
...Even Opal, the novel’s richest character—a type-A high school senior who reveals early on that Harvard admission has been her destiny “since birth”—sometimes comes across more like the villain in an unreasonable and terrifying nightmare than an actual person...
Thus, we have Jeremy Schacter, a 5’6” member of the Chemistry Club afflicted not just with “flaming carroty-orange hair” but also “a bad case of acne”; Devon Schwartz, a jock who tells Opal she can call him “the Schwartzmeister”; and Jeff Akel, the dreamy, Princeton-bound student body president whose teeth are “so white they could have been in a Crest commercial...
...that’s a huge privacy violation!” Opal exclaims...