<p>Let’s get off the election post-mortems and think up famous quotes suitable for college-related occasions. I’ll start:</p>
<p>Frats: timeo danaos et dona ferentes (I fear Greeks bearing gifts–translator’s note: beer kegs)
Harvard-Yale game: In vino veritas.
Application deadlines: The readiness is all.
Financial Aid Office: Ask and Ye shalt receive.
The Application essay: I sent a letter to my love.</p>
<p>more please.</p>
<p>Collecting the recs, transcripts, etc–it takes a village…
Researching colleges–look before you leap
Early rolling acceptance–a bird in hand…
Can I get in with these grades–2 B’s or not 2 B’s (groan, sorry)</p>
<p>nearly everything: When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.</p>
<p>Garland:</p>
<p>I love the 2Bs!</p>
<p>On making the decision:</p>
<p>We will choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them - Kahlil Gibran</p>
<p>On turning down merit aid (ROFL):</p>
<p>What man wants is simply independent choice. Whatever that may cost and whereever that may lead. - Fyodor Dostoevsky</p>
<p>On transferring:</p>
<p>I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on. - Steven Sondheim</p>
<p>Freshman Class:</p>
<p>“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”
J.R.R. Tolkien</p>
<p>On SAT prep:
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On HYSM selectivity:<br>
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On Coachs admission promises to recruited athletes:
I never said most of the things I said. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On public vs. private:
I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On your chances:
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On fit:
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On waitlists:
It ain’t over till it’s over. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On application deadlines:
It gets late early out there. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On questions about binding ED:
It’s like deja-vu, all over again. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On HYP:
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>Byerly on Harvard:
We have deep depth. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On SAT score cancellation:
We made too many wrong mistakes. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On how to use CC:
You can observe a lot by just watching. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On the parent café:
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>Also on Parent café:
There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell 'em. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>On life:
You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>And my personal favorite on everything:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra</p>
<p>drb, if you don’t already have Yogi Berra’s book WHEN YOU COME TO A FORK IN THE ROAD, TAKE IT!, you have to read it. I’m such a fan of his. I love the way you adapted his quotes. They really are good for all occasions.</p>
<p>I hope it’s okay that I add a political one in lieu of the Senate change this afternoon (if not please remove it):
“I’d rather be the Yankee catcher than the president.”
Yogi Berra</p>
<p>“Standardized tests are the worst way of measuring performance except all the other ways.” – adapted from Winston Churchill</p>
<p>On college in general:</p>
<p>"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. </p>
<p>"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. </p>
<p>"The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. </p>
<p>"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. </p>
<p>"All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. </p>
<p>"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. </p>
<p>"Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. </p>
<p>"There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. "</p>
<p>“There is no remembrance of former things”</p>
<p>except by development offices seeking alumni donations.</p>
<p>On thoughtlessly-chosen Safety Schools:</p>
<p>“I wouldn’t want to be a member of a club that would have me for a member” Woody Allen</p>
<p>Groucho, SBmom, Grouco.</p>
<p>Groucho, SBmom, Grouco.</p>
<p>ok, Groucho via Woody.</p>
<p>Students’ View of Grade Inflation: If it’s broke, don’t fix it.</p>
<p>That coed with the legs who sat in front of you in in English 101: “She would make a bishop kick in a stained-glass window.”</p>