The Gatekeepers

A month ago, a friend from my old, smelly days in Little Rock contacted me about the work she was doing in the Peace Corps — she wanted me to talk via Skype to some of the teens she worked with about applying to American colleges and universities. I jumped at the opportunity, as it combines talking about myself with earnest international youngsters (my two favorite things). I did that interview this morning, and had just as much fun as I’d hoped, but here are a list of questions that at age 26, experiencing typical quarterlife/media industry-adajacent/underpaid/overworked/underdated malaise that can really get you melancholy:

  • “What is in a good college application?”
  • “How much leisure time did you have in college?”
  • “If you spent so much time at the student paper, why aren’t you a writer?”
  • “Will you go to graduate school?”
  • “How did you pay for college?”
  • “Did this help you find a job?”
  • “Are there companies that partner with your college to guarantee you a job?”
  • “Are you happy with your life?”
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  1. pricee said: Just reading those questions make me want to cry.
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