ivy
wow - one month blows by. just goes to show you how easy it is to fall off the wagon. once you allow the weakness to take over, it’s a snowball effect. the 10:00 am tickler on the calendar hasn’t been working this summer, since that happens to be the time where everyone is finally in work mode, so stuff starts to happen. I think I’ll have to try an earlier time.
topic to get me going again was this dude. 5 years from Poland, he gets into every single Ivy league school (MIT turned him down.) doesn’t say if he goes to a private school, but he does pretty much imply the school itself wasn’t that tough compared to the gulag he was in before.
now, contrary to some beliefs, this is not the goal for the baby - not the sole goal anyway. there’s a lot of life to live after college, and being accepted into a bunch of ivys becomes irrelevant on day 1 of whichever school you go to. we’re looking for ways to prep her for life, and hopefully success and greatness throughout. one side effect of working for the P, is seeing more than a few wasted $500,000 educations (k-college).
however, that’s not the amazing thing about the article. the amazing thing, is that some editor thought that this pronunciation guide - Lukasz Zbylut (pronounced Loo-KASH Zbeh-LOOT) - was going to clear anything up. maybe I is not properly edukatid enough to know how to pronounce ‘ZBEH.’
see - public school sucks.