So this is what it's like to come from money... whole 'nother world. The paragraphs about how a "gap year" is not a privilege mostly enjoyed by the elite, and mental contortions therein, are so painful to read.

> Although I appreciated my parents’ support, I also recognized the extent to which it had become detrimental. Their attempts to eliminate any possibility of real failure had guaranteed its own kind of failure.

So you rejected it after your enlightening "gap year," right? Right?