The Academy

by Elin Hilderbrand

Very cerebral kids didn’t tend to do well at the school, which was aggressively social. The Head of School before Audre used to brag that they were cultivating Tiffin students to be sought-after guests at cocktail parties, though Audre sometimes worried they were raising the next generation of douchebags.

Boys are judged for what they do. Girls are judged for how they look doing it.

“It’s better to be yourself and have no friends than to be like your friends and have no self.”

limerence. It means “an intense desire for someone, marked by intrusive thoughts and a desire for a relationship and reciprocation.”

Taylor Swift had ‘business’ in Tokyo, she was on tour, and she made it to Vegas to watch her boyfriend play in the Super Bowl.”

Which is such a disadvantage! You don’t realize how challenging it is to be a normal suburban kid, how am I supposed to stand out?