My sweetie pie did a year at Dartmouth before hopping it to a more household-name university that begins with the letter H. (Hint: We're victimized by our winters, they victimize their Summers.)
Anyway, she just sent me this email with a note attached saying that the following was so gobsmackingly, ridiculously pretentious, it deserved its very own blog post. That it does. Instances of insufferable shittiness have been redacted to protect the guilty:
Greetings, I'm setting up a new social group which I think might interest some of the people on this list. I'm calling it "The Argument Club," and the basic idea is that it's a grown-up equivalent to those glorious wide-ranging 4-hour dining hall conversations we all used to have in college. Having been out for a few years, I find that's probably the thing I miss most about life at Harvard, and as I'm not privileged to work at a place where I'm surrounded by smart people, it's not an easy thing for me to reproduce here in New York. I imagine that there are lots of others out there feeling the same way, so I figure if a bunch of us get together in a similarly conversation-friendly setting (but without the congealed Turkey Tetrazini) we might end up with a pretty good substitute. The exact what/where/when will depend on how many people express an interest, but at least initially we'd probably be doing this in a coffee shop or something similar. I'm imposing two requirements to join, both of which I believe are satisfied by most of people on this list: 1) Be an Ivy League grad. Yes, a $150,000 education does not necessarily correlate with intelligence, but as crude metrics go it's a lot better than asking people to submit SAT scores, and "Ivy Plus" gets you into a bunch of silly debates about US News rankings and so forth. 2) Be under 30. Not trying to be ageist here, but the comfort level in stranger-arranging groups like this tends to be a lot higher when everyone's within a few years of each other. Like everything else about this group, both of these requirements are subject to debate, but I'm keeping them in place for the moment at least. Anyway, if you think this sounds like an interesting idea, you can sign up for the mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to [redacted]@[redacted].com . Happy Week-Containing-The-First-Day-Of-Spring,
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