Welcome to the "Ed Harrison Forgiveness Tour," the first in a series of entries which has me coming to terms and ceasing long-term grudges of which, in most cases, the target is unaware.
Today I am going to officially forgive the two schools which rejected me as an undergraduate — Georgetown University and the University of Virginia (waitlisted, actually).
GU, UVa, everything is cool.
(This came up the other night when I was doing my NCAA brackets — I dutifully started to pick against Georgetown, because, well, "I hate Georgetown." GU is to GW as BC is to BU. Lots of bad feelings between the non-denomintational urban school and the more selective Jesuit neighbor. In my case, I think it was purely because they rejected me. Anyway, I actually like some of the players on GU — particularly Roy Hibbert — as well as John Thompson III, and it is cool to watch the old Ewing tapes from the early 1980s. And if I hadn’t gone to GW, I wouldn’t have met my wife, wouldn’t have my boys, etc. So hell, it was more than half my life ago. It’s time to move on. I have GU going to the Final 4 and I’m OK with it.)
