Thursday, April 1, 2004

SMILE AND GRIN AT THE CHANGE ALL AROUND: Am stunned today. Producers from Real Interactive Live television saw the thread on this weblog, and it looks like they're not joking.

For One On-the-fence Lucky Student, the dream of an ivy-league-level education will become a reality.

Believe it or not: the producers have contacted me, and they are serious about putting together a reality series in which twelve high school seniors will compete for one slot at one of America's most prestigious universities -- or, if they're not available, Bucknell.

Seriously, a school with a perceived hipness deficiency like The University of Chicago, MIT, Cornell University or Grinnell College (commonly referred to as "Cornell West") would be foolish to say no.

Each week, the students will be competing in a variety of challenges designed to test their fitness for college. In week one, it's a science test -- give them a pack of index cards, some paper clips and a roll of scotch tape, and see who can best design a contraption which will protect a raw egg from a three-story plunge. Future weeks will feature competition in parliamentary debate, swimming tests, conceptual art, drinking with the women's rugby team and writing self-righteous letters to student newspapers.

Every week, one student gets "the thin envelope," and the speech, "Sorry, you're just not [Our School] material. You'll just have to attend your safety school." In the end, only one matriculant-in-waiting will prevail.

Today's a happy day.

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