Week 4 Theme 2

A dialogue between one leader and several others.

“Is he worth looking at?”

“Well, he spent his time, um… volunteering in Africa.”

“But his essay sounds too… precious. He learned a lot, but, uh, what exactly?

“Okay, so no. Next.”

“This one’s a... what do you call them? Mathletes? Application says she’s won some national awards.”

“Female, too.”

“Rare breed. Keep her in.”

“Get this, this one set the state high school pole vault record.”

“Yeah, but look at his grades.”

“Keep him in.”

“We don’t have a pole vault team, do we?”

“No, seriously, his grades are crap.”

“Keep him in.”

“The next one’s a less obscure athlete.”

“I thought we prided ourselves on recruiting athletes who were also scholars.”

“Shut up. We’re keeping him in. Now tell me about the next athlete.”

“Nationally ranked chess boxing champion. Chess rating’s 2180.”

“What’s chess boxing?”

“You said he was an athlete.”

“2^nd in his weight division with the World Chess Boxing Organization.”

“There’s a World Chess Boxing Organization?”

“You didn’t answer my question.”

“You didn’t ask a question. You just said ‘You said he’s an ATHLETE.’”

“You didn’t answer my question either.”

“Chess boxing is where you, um, alternate rounds of chess and boxing, and the first to get a checkmate, sorry, the first to get either a checkmate or a knockout wins.”

“That’s not a sport. That’s just weird.”

“He’s a warrior scholar.”

“This isn’t 1700.”

“Smart, fit, interesting interests, we should at least keep him in the running.”

“Fine.”