“Yet for the last few years, it’s felt like the normal, inquisitive, relatively unfiltered teenager of the early 2000’s [when the author was applying to Harvard] has been replaced by dozens of little Russell Wilsons. Gone are the hard edges and the unintentional flashes of personality that made it seem like I was actually getting something accomplished in the course of (most) of these interviews.”
- Essay author
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
- Cicero