When my father and I are alone together, we are always alone in the car. Sealed in a moving metal bubble, we talk uncomfortably about cars and whether or not turning right into the farthest lane is legal. He doesn’t say much when he’s not scolding me. I think he feels awkward, maybe slow around his seventeen year old American teenager. In his more inebriated moments, he will call me downstairs to the kitchen, sometimes in the early...

“I’ve enjoyed this whole college application process so far,” said No One, Ever, smiling manically. “I really like the introspection it prompts,” said No One, Ever’s cousin, Absolutely Nobody in the Entire World. His left eye twitches like it’s doing a tap dance. “Yeah, it’s been a joy to realize I haven’t done much in my 17 years on this planet that has affected anything in a positive way,” said Absolutely Nobody in the Entire World�...

I would love to have had more time to make this look better. It's really clumsy, relying on the punch from one line to carry it through.

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I'm told that if you're transferring to an Ivy, it's very...

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