That was the weirdest thing! Someone said it on the podcast, I wanna say it was the Stanford medical school prof who was like, people study biology and engineering and chemistry for decades before having a true scientific breakthrough but this person studies a year and change in undergrad but is suddenly a…

Thanks to your boring-ass comment I now know that Taco Bell hot sauce has zero calories (holy shit) and a ton of sodium so I’m going to literally drink it going forward. Take your star. 

Agreed on the hoops, but I watched this while eating an unusually large sandwich and it seemed, idk, adorable? Like a child that has a really nice relationship with their parent?

Have you... been to Hattiesburg??? 

If your solution is “she should move to Hattiesburg, MS and work at a truck stop for $7.75 an hour” then you’re not basing your stance in reality and we have nothing to talk about. You’re solving nothing. 

Surely you can understand why someone who grew up super wealthy would not be keen on trading that in for even 100K in Los Angeles, right? You’re thinking like yourself, not a sheltered child of millionaires. 

One of the most surprising revelations from this is that the Jez commentariat thinks that influencers make a lot of money. Even the ones with major brand sponsorships aren’t making as much as you think, plus the expense of maintaining that lifestyle is enormous. She’s a child. If her parents weren’t controlling her in…

Is this Booker thing really common knowledge? I guess I haven’t spent time in DC in a long time but I feel super out of the loop for not knowing. 

+1 to your counterpoint. 

1. They didn’t fabricate information (maybe), but they did massage the hell out of the facts, hired coaches and writers to polish up applications, etc. It’s not fake, but it ain’t exactly real, either

Does it though? How is this different from my classmates’ parents endowing a scholarship to get their little angel in? Or pressuring the dean of admission, through wealthy donor alums, to let your kid in?

Oh please. All the sanctimonious bullshit I’ve read here the last couple of days about her must mean that the Jez commentariat is exclusively made up of urchins who had to claw their way to college instead of what it is, which is mostly middle class white people who have benefitted their whole lives from white…

You seem really angry. Are you ok?

LOL. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Mistake. 

If you’re from the LA/SoCal area, you’d apply to USC as a safety. It’s not as competitive as Yale, but it admits under 18% of applicants, making it pretty selective.

It’s not the cash cow you think it is, she isn’t Kendall Jenner. Plus, when you’re accustomed to a certain lifestyle, you don’t want that taken away. Poor little rich girl, etc, but her reasoning is real to *her*. 

Oh man, I thought Mex was a typo for “ex”. You still sound like a bitter, mediocre white dude. 

You can still feel some empathy towards her as a teenager without feeling sorry for her. But “my parents made me” isn’t an uncommon refrain for college students. Hell, I spent two years as a physics major to make my dad happy. 

Of course. She’s not a victim. 

You’re right. She’s the first person on earth to submit to what her parents wanted for her as a teenager. The FIRST.