Intellectual Fakers

While visiting the Stanford campus this weekend, I was reminded of Azia Kim, the girl who was able to fool dozens of people pretending to be a Stanford student for almost a full school year. For this feat, she apparently merits this Facebook fan page as well as, it is rumored, a book and TV deal. Do we prize fakers more than those with authentic merits? Or are we simply enthralled by people this brazen? I am one of a million Stanford rejects, but somehow I was able to rebuild my life and move on...