Word: schrefer
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...Glamorous Disasters” by Eliot J. Schrefer ’01, Noah is one of these tutors. A recent Princeton graduate with over $80,000 owed in loans, Noah has the lucrative job—it pays $395 dollars an hour—of teaching SAT strategies to the denizens of Park Avenue. But is tutoring miniature millionaires with drug addictions easy? Well yes, it actually is. As Mr. Thayer, the father of Noah’s two students puts it, “All you do is teach seventh-grade math to eleventh-graders...You?...
Though these two teenagers are painted vividly, they also seem to be very boring people who don’t show any character growth. At first I took this to be a failing on the author’s part, but upon reflection, Schrefer has accurately depicted the bland personalities of many who want for nothing (except higher SAT scores...
Glamorous Disasters By Eliot J. Schrefer '01 Simon & Schuster...