<p>Well, one of my class valedictorians, going to Yale and accepted to Harvard, Amherst (early write), Williams (early write), and Pomona (no rejections, actually), asked me how many state schools were in the Illinois system. I started explaining the system to her…until she asked how the Chicago campus figured into the system. I continued rambling, comparing it to one of the CA state schools…until I realized she had been ********ting her support for my decision for the past month and in fact didn’t know anything about Chicago. I asked her if UPenn was a state school. She said of course not. I said, good to know you, of all people, are more ignorant than I could have imagined, in the sense that she had the gall to lie to me. And I’ve known her for 10 years. Whatever, I’m out of here.</p>