7. You don't know the cultural codes at Yale, are very earnest, nerdy. See sign saying exam is destroy & you believe it.
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8. Everyone else figures out the joke before you do. And in memory you don't want to remember being the goat, so you turn tale around.
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9. Place like Yale, rich in "traditions" & lore, is much easier to navigate if your dad & granddad went there than if your a scholarship kid
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10. Current struggles over dorm rules & Halloween make much more sense if you realize same dynamic at work of "tradition" vs minority kids
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11. Carson's tendency to embellish stories to the point of fabulation is troubling, but the human story of his struggles worth sympathy
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12. Same with current Yale students -- who many are so quick to dismiss as PC crybaby bullies. There's a human story at the core there too.
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@StephenMarche Thinking more on it, I've often been accused of being too empathetic with Rob Ford.
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