A friend was asked to write a recommendation for his daughter who is applying to Yale. Worth a read.
Dear ,
I am unwilling to write a letter of recommendation in support of your daughter's application to Yale. I no longer do that. It is not that I don't believe that
re that nyt article: you should, in fact, lose friends for being a zionist. nobody is obligated to hang out with you ever, especially not after learning that you think the unimaginable horrors being perpetrated against palestinians are ok or in any way justified. cry about it!
no adult christmas can ever match the feeling of being eleven, getting a stack of meg cabot novels, and spending all day lying on your stomach on a blow-up mattress, reading and quietly eating cheese sticks