<p>George Mason University.</p>
<p>I spoke with an admissions representative from that school in the fall of my junior year, at a college fair. It was actually going quite well at first. I have an aunt that teaches at the university and family in the area, so I was initially more interested in it than most of the other colleges I saw. I liked what I was hearing about academics and student life, and I was thinking “Maybe this could be a really cool safety…”</p>
<p>And then we got to talking about sports. I mentioned that I’m not at all athletic, but I’m a huge basketball fan. She then proceeded to brag about (as if I needed reminding) GMU’s win over UConn to get into the Final Four that previous spring.</p>
<p>The idiot was right in the middle of Connecticut! She’d just heard that I was a basketball fan! What was she thinking, that I’d be psyched to hear yet again how that school had beaten my favorite team ever? I was totally ready to overlook the athletic thing completely and look into the school further, but I was offended, and stunned that someone trying to represent a school could make a blunder like that. Needless to say, I didn’t spend much time looking over George Mason’s literature after I got home.</p>