We're stumped--son needs help.

<p>Justin, I mean well but seem to be making matters worse. </p>

<p>I wasn’t claiming that you flunked out of Cornell–didn’t mean that AT ALL. I just meant that since I mangled your story, I’m glad I reported things a bit more positively than reality than worse than reality. If I were Justin, I’d rather have people thinking Justin graduated from Youngstown with a 3.7 cum gpa in engineering than thinking that after transferring from Cornell to Youngstown Justin flunked out of Youngstown. I’m embarrassed that I messed up the facts of your experience, but not as embarrassed as I’d be if I’d painted a worse rather than rosier picture of the actual outcome. Make sense now? That’s really all I meant.</p>

<p>I wasn’t trying to be snide…HONEST!!!</p>