The Overachievers
If you are a person who went to high school with me, or knows a lot of people who went to high school with me, you need to read The Overachievers. Even just go into a bookstore and read the first couple chapters. I'm on page 25, and I cry after every section.
Alexandra Robbins graduated from the same place I went - and even though so far I think her sample is skewed toward the cross-section of intelligent and popular (ignorng, say, the Trekkie geeks on the third floor), the simple fact that when she talks about the newspaper, the principal's moronic graduation speeches, the way the building looks like a freakin' Nordstrom. . . it just brings back everything I felt and thought during those three years.
If you're reading it too, tell me! I really want to talk about it, and I haven't totally formed an opinion yet.
Alexandra Robbins graduated from the same place I went - and even though so far I think her sample is skewed toward the cross-section of intelligent and popular (ignorng, say, the Trekkie geeks on the third floor), the simple fact that when she talks about the newspaper, the principal's moronic graduation speeches, the way the building looks like a freakin' Nordstrom. . . it just brings back everything I felt and thought during those three years.
If you're reading it too, tell me! I really want to talk about it, and I haven't totally formed an opinion yet.