Questions to ask admissions counselor

MWolf
Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:37:21 +0000

It reminds me of a joke:

Back in Eastern Europe, in the shtetles (small market towns where Jews were forced to live in the Russian Empire), marriage was arranged by a matchmaker, and part of the job was to prepare and introduce the potential couple, so that they could meet each other and form opinions.

The boy was having trouble.

“What should I talk about?” he asked the matchmaker. “Well, it is polite to ask and talk about family” was the response.

“And then what?” the boy asked. “Well” said the matchmaker, “you are young and thinking of marriage, so you should talk about love”.

“And then what?” the boy asks again. “Well, if family and love aren’t enough, start talking about philosophy” says the matchmaker.

So the boy and girl are introduced, they’re sitting next to each other, in silence. Then the boy remembers “Ah! I should ask about family”.

He turns to the girl, and blurts out “do you have a brother”. She blurts back “no”.

He thinks, “well I guess now I should talk about love”. He turns to her again and blurts “do you love lokshen (noodles)?”. The girls again blurts out “no”.

“OK”, he thinks, “I’ve covered family and love. what was next?”

He turns to her and asks, “so, if you had a brother, do you think that he would love lokshen?”