It's got gorgeous music, a beautiful love story, and it's the Broadway debut of my brilliant classmate Will Connolly.
It holds appeal for parents who, like me, have a certain image of what college should be: one-on-one interaction with brilliant yet accessible faculty, late-night debates with bright classmates.
Here my status seemed like a downer to artistic classmates and brilliant professors who never brought it up.
Ponzi already had a criminal record in Italy when he arrived in North America at 15. Kreuger, identified by his Swedish classmates as "brilliant," reveled in his ability to cheat on examinations.
Jill's classmate Muley Wills, brilliant and resourceful, spends his time working on animated movies made to impress Jill, with whom he's in love.
Shortly after graduating from Harvard Law School, in 1978, where he served as a model for an intense and brilliant character in his classmate Scott Turow's book "One L," Chertoff was hired as an Assistant United States Attorney in Manhattan.
It was all going so well: I was 16, holding my own at a brilliant school, popular with my classmates, captain of the netball, tennis and lacrosse teams, chair of the debating society.
I'm thinking, for example, of Sigrid Nunez's fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, a dark, brilliant tale centred on two college classmates in the 1960s.
"He played football and was a brilliant dancer," one of his former classmates said, recalling the rebel leader's days at Odek primary.
Trotter, a black man who was raised in Boston, was a brilliant student; he was a Harvard classmate of W. E. B. Du Bois and the university's first black member of Phi Beta Kappa.
