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Chemistry Lessons

I’ve long straddled the dividing line between the horse world and the higher educational world and, as such, have frequently had to devise analogies and metaphors in order to “translate” equestrian sport into decidedly “non-horsey” terms for outsiders.  (Remind me one of these days to blog about a particularly ingenious analogy I came up with to put intercollegiate equestrian language into football terms for two assistant coaches – who later became rabid equestrian fans.)

Recently, I’m having more and more conversations with parents and students about what (exactly) the meaning of school “fit” is – how is it defined, how one recognizes when it’s right, etc. – and it wasn’t until I took my gelding out for a snowy hack that the appropriate “horse-to-higher-ed” analogy for college fit sprang to mind:

 It’s all chemistry.  Read More