The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

