"Why are all the rich kids sitting together in the cafeteria?"

Wednesday, cigarette #1
Outside the computer lab, 10:15am

Housemate Dara hits the nail on the head:

I often wonder if the reason that Yale’s mainstream culture seems so upper-class to some isn’t because it reflects most students’ backgrounds, but rather because students who do have these pedigrees offer a pattern that the rest of us — who had no idea of what to expect when we got here — can follow. It’s not that middle-class students are forced to conform; it’s that we’re given the opportunity to become the sophisticates we imagined ourselves to be.

Read the whole thing here.