[Rick Pitino] argued that the press is the best...

“ [Rick Pitino] argued that the press is the best chance an underdog has of being competitive with stronger teams, and I think his record proves the case. That Providence team he took to the Final Four in 1984 has to have been just about the least talented team EVER to reach that level. ”

Malcom Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point)

May 13 2009

About me

I got the nickname "99th Percentile" from my college buddies when we joined the Mug Club at our on-campus bar. We got to name one another's mugs; the intent was to embarrass your friends by exploiting a flaw in their personality. I was studying (I use the term loosely) for the LSAT at the time and spent the better part of three months bragging that I was going to ace the test. Unfortunately, I couldn't live up to the name my friends chose. I only scored in the 98th percentile. I may never live down the humiliation.

I graduated college this past May and decided to take a year off between college and law school. For the time being, this blog will be dedicated to sharing my adventures over the next several months; among them, trying to support myself by playing poker at Foxwoods casino, any progress I may or may not make on the novel I may or may not end up writing, playing drums in a band for the first time in a few years, and, of course, the results of this whole law school thing.

The 99th Percentile