is there a secret st. john& #39;s rule says you must never say you went to st. john& #39;s, only to & #39;a great books college& #39;, same as Harvard people used to delicately say they went to school "in Cambridge"
is it really so scandalous to admit to it
is it really so scandalous to admit to it
please be advised I did not go to St. John& #39;s, although there was a long period of my life when everybody who heard I& #39;d been in Classics grad school told me the long story of how they wished they& #39;d gone to St. John& #39;s.
(I do not wish I& #39;d gone to St. Johns. I did once, but not now)
(I do not wish I& #39;d gone to St. Johns. I did once, but not now)
when I was of an age to apply, to get in you had to explain to them the meaning of plato& #39;s allegory of the cave. & I could not in good conscience do this because I believed my understanding of plato was imperfect. so I had a nervous fit and went to art school by mistake. briefly
"I could not write this essay because, though I am well able to reproduce the accepted interpretation of the text in my own words, I cannot ethically pretend to an understanding which remains obscure to me & is not yet my own possession" --a good excuse more students should use