Lads
Chapter One
1.
ALL GOOD THINGS
What i wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and that’s what I got. A liberal arts education had provided me with many valuable lessons: Do not attempt to take the determinant of a nonsymmetrical matrix. Do not carry a balance on your credit card. Do not enroll in two consecutive semesters of any course taught by Joyce Carol Oates. Do not mistake two hundred and fifty years of consistency for proud tradition. And do not, under any circumstances, tell a girl that you’re attracted to her unless you’re absolutely certain that she reciprocates those feelings, and even then, do not do so unless she’s already confessed as much to you first. But only some of these lessons would prove useful outside the classroom, and I desperately needed to find out which.
The days leading up to graduation had been a flurry of activity, of neglecting to say good-bye to the people I hoped to stay in touch with, of constantly crossing paths with the people I prayed never to see again, and of trying to cram all my possessions into four equal-size cardboard boxes. And then it was over. Hours before ... read full excerpt from Lads ebook
