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...ease with rejection is somewhat of an anomaly. While rejection has had little effect on Maats’ self-esteem, for students like Peter??a senior chemistry concentrator who spoke with FM on the condition that his real name not be revealed—rejection has become a constant source of embarrassment and shame. Sitting in a booth at the Hong Kong Restaurant—his raised bowl of egg drop soup steaming up his glasses—he bitterly recounts his many failures: graduate school admissions, fellowships and consulting jobs...
...high school, Peter??class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
...also might have inspired the character of Jimmy Fallon, Peter??s teenage son, who is applying to Harvard as his father scours the campus for the old Shakespeare quarto. By the book’s epilogue, Jimmy Fallon is a freshman in Hollis—Dan Martin’s former dorm...
...their efforts were hardly subtle. Eminent cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a rather frank editorial cartoon, entitled “The American River Ganges,” published in May 8, 1875 in Harper’s Magazine. Cast in the distance of Nast’s drawing, St. Peter??s Basilica is a gilded structure across the river from which alligators (decked out in priestly collars) approach the shores of America. There, a crumbling public school, with an upside-down American flag, is depicted. The shore is lined with schoolchildren, who have been dropped off the side...
...Brown’s Adom Crew earned player of the year honors after leading the league in five statistical categories, including scoring. Crew will lead the Ivy Champion Bears (10-3-3, 6-0-1 Ivy) against St. Peter??s (17-4-2) on Saturday...