<p>It was extremely poorly written, it had no purpose I could discern, and no, dcmom3, I can't begin to parse what that last part meant, though it manages to act like it thinks it means something.</p>
<p>Ohio_mom, YES--sounds like a very familiar character! That sort of thing is why everything this year is bringing tears to my eyes at the thought of his not being around next year. How did we get so lucky?</p>
<p>Agreed. Didn't realize The Post was so hard up for articles.</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>maybe she wanted to make sure that her son got into the Washington Ivy Singles Social Club in hopes that he would "marry well".. I just wonder who will place the lily on her chest if he marries a beauty school drop out?</p>
<p>Maybe the family fortunes aren't what they once were and he NEEDS to marry well.</p>
<p>Curmudgeon: great summary. However, I don't think that Charlemagne would have made it into a top school, or even a third-tier one. Terrible writer; would have been shot down on the essays; not a good GPA. Of course, if they looked at his potential ....</p>
<p>You're missing the athletic hook, dadofsam. Division one jousting team.</p>
<p>This one's so bad, it doesn't even merit comment!</p>
<p>One of the Post's saving graces, in this instance, is having Jay Mathews as the higher ed columnist <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/columns/classstruggles/%5B/url%5D">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/columns/classstruggles/</a>. At least his columns contain information mixed with humor (sometimes self-deprecating). The other saving grace is having the best comics section in the country, thanks to the demise of The Washington Star. ;-)</p>
<p>curmudgeon:</p>
<p>Well done. If Mini were responding, he'd say that jousting trumps fencing as an SES "tip." Definitely would have gotten Charlemagne into HYP and A and W, but not into S, or, for that matter, Chicago. BUT, he could have pretended to belong to the Frankfurt school and that would have trumped jousting at Chicago.</p>
<p>Ugh. What an article. Who thinks that the kid is really happy, or just happy to be away from Mom?</p>
<p>Wow. Imagine if she HADN'T made "personal peace" with the question of prestige in life? Then she'd REALLY be stressed out. . .</p>