who me? if i were writing the script, ala oj simpson
- jack's university would have 20k students
- jack would often study with three sisters living in his apartment building, being the good guy that he always would be
- sister figures would be good for jack in college, as they would allow him to study in library without appearing a nerd
and he would have enhanced opportunities to meet girlfriends of women friends so as to engage with dates without expending too much effort
besides, the girls would be invariably wholesomely nice and could cook well
- one of the girls, say nancy, after hearing jack's dire story, would ask, "who is your TA (teaching assistant, he who also grades the exams of students in his twice-weekly recitation sessions)?"
jack: i do not know, never attended recitation sessions
nancy: go find out
jack would be quick and nimble, and return to answer, with a name
nancy: oh, that's my new boyfriend
nothing more would be said on the subject for 5 weeks, until final exam study week, when jack would get sincerely worried, and then, one fine day ...
nancy: jack, do not leave any answers blank on your final exam
jack would have said nothing, for what can he possibly say?
between the final and graduation day, jack would not dare to find out his exam score
jack would only know he must have gotten an A+ that he probably / most likely did not deserve on the crucial and yet senseless final exam only at the time when his name was called and he marched on stage to receive his diplomas
that is how i would write the script, and the moral of the story is "be lucky", the lesson, "be good", and
the take-away, "tell people about your difficulties, for you might just be good enough to get lucky, and beat the odds that there are 8,000 other girls you could have told your troubles to, and any one of them could have been the new girlfriend of any of the perhaps 20 teaching assistant to whom you could have been assigned to at the beginning of the course of which you had never attended the lectures and had skipped out on all the recitation sessions"
it is best to not ask for help, but sweet when help is offered.
so, i hope jack be good, quick, nimble, astute, and very extremely lucky. |
