<p>If you haven't seen the comics today, I recommend Doonesbury -- the college selection commentary made me smile.</p>
<p>I got a chuckle out of it, too. I could picture my son in the last frame, based on our phone conversation of Friday where he sounded generally happy, but a trifle shellshocked.</p>
<p>Here's a link. But I'm not sure it's the one you meant: <a href="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html</a></p>
<p>Yes, that's the one. Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>No doubt that Walden is the Bizarro MIT.</p>
<p>Walden is the slacker school in the first panels; The last panel shows the other school (which sounds like Caltech or MIT.)</p>
<p>I went back and looked until I found the older cartoons dealing w/college issues. Alex IS at MIT (not Caltech) in the last panel; the other panels are at Walden...</p>
<p>Do I detect a possible transfer? I could easily envision Alex running Walden!</p>
<p>How strange.. I read that strip with a chuckle this morning, and now I see that our local newspaper omitted the first 2 panels. Not that they were particularly important, but I didn't realize I was getting an abridged edition.</p>
<p>Oh, thanks for the explanation. I'd forgotten Alex was going to MIT and just didn't get the reference at ALL! Now I'll have to send the link to my son, who will send back a rant about the required courses that he hates....</p>
<p>Somehow I've always thought that Alex is going to end up at Walden. Maybe she can transform the place.</p>
<p>"Alex IS at MIT (not Caltech) in the last panel; the other panels are at Walden..."</p>
<p>When did she decide? Last I saw MIT had flunked her trick question and Caltech had passed it.</p>
<p>^^Trudeau left it up to an on-line public vote, and MIT won when real MIT students hacked in and electronically stuffed the ballot box.</p>
<p>So I sent the link to son, with EXACTLY the consequences I predicted, including the rant! Isn't it sad, when your kids are that predictable?</p>
<p>Actually, it was Cornell that passed the trick question, which Alex would have preferred to attend.</p>
<p>Really Cornell? My mind is going!</p>
<p>Today's Doonesbury was even better than yesterday's I thought. The panicked call about the work being impossible...</p>
<p>And then, after dad talks her through it, she's off the phone without another word! Priceless!</p>
<p>Does anyone here remember the Joanie-in-law-school series? She and I went to law school "together" and sometimes looking forward to reading Doonesbury in the midst of all that work and tension was truly the highlight of my day!</p>
<p>Today's strip was the perfect example of the oh so common "dump call"!!</p>
<p>And Alex's Phone Dependency continues <a href="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060916%5B/url%5D">http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060916</a>.<br>
Almost makes a Mother of Son, who rarely gets calls for any reason, begin to think she's one of the lucky ones.</p>