Oh, man. Talk about an easy one to fix. Bless the students who come to me and say, "my essay is done! I'm ready to turn it in!" I read it over, and while the ideas may be good, there are spelling errors and grammatical mistakes all over the place. Colleges care about...
Mr. Hogan taught me that reading wasn’t enough: I needed to internalize and take good notes. Mrs. Mac let me cry on her shoulder in the hallway. She made choir and orchestra a safe place to be myself. Mrs. Anastacio gave me my first B. She looked me square in the eye...
When I was a sophomore at Yale, my acting professor Toni Dorfman looked at the class over the top of her Hogwarts-level spectacles and said, “every director should be forced to act in a play at least once a year. That way they will remember what it feels like to be...