[WaxProlix]

I actually sort of agree; it comes out that he did, in fact, get in to a number of schools and he concedes that even if he'd gotten into one of his desired schools he would still have written something like this.

It might make sense to do this kind of thing as a personal reflection or inducement to growth, but the article itself makes the author seem mostly self-aggrandizing and smug.

But I was a real shit -- probably worse, honestly -- at 18, so who am I to judge the form that this reflection takes?