Had a surprising email come in some months back, and got permission from the sender-inner to post it here on the blahg. This person’s outcome is not typical. Here’s what they said: Hello essay snark, Application season got a little crazy and had an interesting twist at the end. I did not apply to any [...]

(Apparently we’re very fond of that particular title for a blahg post.) It’s still May, so that means more mining of commencement speech material… Last weekend, Dean Bruner at Darden gave a perhaps more dean-ly speech than the ones about “risk” that have been percolating around at other bschools. He talked about the perennial graduate [...]