DAVID R. writes:

I have appreciated your blogs for about a year now. I am not sure I understand your distaste for pizza fully, as you have written several times about it. The photo of “the sleeping woman in subway with pizza sliding to its zero-mechanical state” made my day and I am glad you mentioned it in your blog.

I post this link about a high school senior admitted to Yale after writing an essay on pizza. Imagine getting into Yale based upon a Papa John’s (no less) pizza!

So much for the Ivies.

Laura writes:

Thank you.

Are we surprised that Yale is pushing the Pizza Industrial Complex?

Not at all.

From the article:

When high school senior Carolina Williams from Brentwood, Tennessee, had to write a short essay on her college application to Yale University about what she loves to do, she jotted down the first thing that came to mind — ordering Papa John’s Pizza.

“As soon as I saw the prompt that said, ‘Write about what you love to do,’ that was the literally the first thing that came to mind because I just love to order pizza so much,” Williams, 18, told AL.com.

The articulate 200-word essay caught the Ivy League school’s attention.

“Accepting those warm cardboard boxes at my front door is second nature to me, but I will always love ordering pizza because of the way eight slices of something so ordinary are able to evoke feelings of independence, consolation and joy,” part of the essay reads.

Imagine if lovely (and poetic!) Carolina had written about the delicious meals her mother had made for her — and the prayers her family said around the dinner table — rather than about those repulsive greasy boxes.

She would be attending Podunk Community College instead.

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