>Curate your entire life to be appealing to a bunch of humanities majors who couldn't get a job other than reading admissions apps. Seconded. Your comment brou

>Curate your entire life to be appealing to a bunch of humanities majors who couldn't get a job other than reading admissions apps. Seconded. Your comment brought me back to having a moment of extreme cringe about when you remember randomly something your older self realize was incredibly immature or stupid when you are in middle school (e.g., "lying to show off to peers on the school bus and thinking you got away with it when it was obvious to everyone else and even yourself now how stupid you were"). I bought completely into the whole "liberal arts" marketing sold by "elite" American college brochures and hung onto the words of admissions officers during tours as they were the gatekeepers of "knowledge" and "enlightenment"; now I realize I was hoodwinked and looked so stupid like I was trying to look cool with Abercrombie & Fitch in middle school. Fast forward 12 years later, now that people whose personal life and flaws I am aware of now have taken posts as diversity officers and admissions officers; I realize what a sham everything is. Not to say that everyone in college admissions is pretentious and superficial but how it's like the marketing dept of a major corporation trying to increase their conversion rate. >I am also scornful of America's culture of self-congratulation Yes unfortunately it never ends. The fakery continues beyond undergrad to ... MBA, Young Ivy Mixers. But I shouldn't be so cynical and negative about some people, should at least give them credit for staying such a "trooper".