Open Thread

Lech – I wasn’t rude & obviously listened to input from the client but I was pretty adamant about my recommendations. I told the one client I had problems w/ that he was hiring me for my expertise & if he disagreed he was silly to pay me the big bucks & he should get someone else who just parroted what he said. (He kept me on & hired me again the following year.)

BHScott, you just sound like a snobby nerd with an inferiority complex… congrats! you fit in quite well in brownstone brooklyn!

*rob*

Has this been posted yet? The rents are too damn low!!

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110106/REAL_ESTATE/110109930#

By jessibaby on January 6, 2011 9:57 AM
It’s my understanding that basically all the prep school parents write their kids college essays. Why don’t the colleges make the kids sign honor codes with their applications?

I don’t know about this, but my guess is that it’s not the parents writing the essays but paid consultants.

Someone willing to have someone else write his/her essay is going to sign on the dotted line about an honor code. No problem!

Things must really be different today. I went to prep school, and we all wrote our own college essays. I’m sure they were reviewed and critiqued by our college advisors. But the work was all our own. Which makes sense since the single most important thing that we were taught at my prep school was how to write and how to edit our own writing.

One of the best excercises I ever recall was a joint English-History class on the Roaring 20s. We were assigned to write 6-page papers. The professors collected them, and then passed them back to us, with the new assignment of editing our papers down to no more than 1-page each. And, for the rest of the semester, we were not allowed to submit any paper longer than a page.

We also had to sign a pledge of honor on every paper and exam that we had neither given nor received assistance.