Picasso does Quixote.

"I doubt Picasso ever imagined his sketch ending up on a blog about college admissions."

Earlier in the evening, I noticed today is the birthday of the long-deceased Grantland Rice.  Not likely a name that rings a bell for most folks, but one forever etched in my mind for two reasons.  One, he was a member of my college fraternity–one of those useless facts only fraternity guys hold onto.  Two, as a college football fan, he’s the author of perhaps the most famous passage in the annals of American sportswriting.  About a game between Army and Notre Dame in 1924:

“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.”

Hyperbole?  Absolutely.  Poetry?  I think so.

I’m kicking off this blog with no expectation that anyone will remember my words a good 85 years down the road.  But I hope a few of them will stick around just long enough to give you a few good thoughts to chew on, an occasional laugh and, yes, there’ll be a little tilting at windmills.  My intentions are humble though.  I just want to share some of my thoughts about the world of college admissions.  Take a little bit of the edge off the process for some of you, add a little more insight for others.  Some days might see many posts, and some weeks none.  But one thing I can promise you, no Biblical allusions.  Mr. Rice has already put that horse out to pasture.