<p>SwatGrad, aren’t you writing in Los Angeles? The entertainment community is small, and we all know each other, especially all us Wes alums in it.</p>
<p>When I was choosing college and sorting through my acceptances, I narrowed it down to Wesleyan and Swarthmore. On my final visits to each place, I have to say, I was overwhelmed by the per student endowment opportunities at Swarthmore, but just really found Swat students’ self-imposed, dramatic, academic misery not so fun.</p>
<p>I guess had I gone to Swat, I could have spent a year or so after graduation talking about how hard, but fulfilling the academics were, and about how smart I must be to have graduated from there, and, oh, did I mention that huge endowment? But out in the real world, most people haven’t heard of Swarthmore or Wesleyan or peers with whom we claim to compete or their endowments; no one really cares.</p>
<p>Let’s ponder more jinxes; a great use of time.</p>