{"id":773,"date":"2006-11-30T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2006-11-30T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:56:00","slug":"sweaty-jocks-and-pet-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Sweaty jocks and pet death"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw an ad in The New Yorker<\/em> for someone who will help your high-school student to write that dreaded college admissions essay<\/p>\n

With that in mind, here from my own school’s alumni magazine is an Admissions Department insider’s view of that genre.<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder why they admitted me, though. As I recall, I wrote part of an essay, became frustrated, cut it off abruptly, and made up the balance by including some of my “brilliant” high-school poetry. Maybe they had a “rebellious poet” slot open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw an ad in The New Yorker for someone who will help your high-school student to write that dreaded college admissions essay With that in mind, here from my own school’s alumni magazine is an Admissions Department insider’s view of that genre. I wonder why they admitted me, though. As I recall, I wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ct","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9456,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9456","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":0},"title":"Witchy Cultural Tourists Do Exist","author":"Chas S. 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Ocker\u2019s book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, Jay Finney, chief marketing officer of the big Peabody Essex Museum, tells Ocker that \u201ccultural tourists\u201d who visit the museum are a different crowd than those who come to Salem for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"art\"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=35","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":1},"title":"‘Sacred’ but not ‘Religious’","author":"Chas S. 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If his black lipstick and red eye makeup were causing a genuine distraction\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=205","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":3},"title":"\"Are you ready to get\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Are you ready to get your Jesus on?\" is a line from Saved, a new high-school comedy set in a private Christian school, and it's already being denounced predictably as \"extremely offensive\" from that quarter. National Public Radio's Bob Mondello's audio review is here. 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