to thine own self be true...

Many years ago, an ambitious young student who didn’t look like much applied to USC, the film program and was rejected on the grounds that “the candidate fails to demonstrate the appropriate level of rigorous creativity required for a program of this caliber”. So the kid went to another school. 


He did okay, and he’s a good sport…every year he sends a check to USC, a donation. On the memo line of every check he sends, he makes a note…”it could have been more”. USC takes it stride, and cashes the checks. In the lobby of the USC Cinema Arts Building, they have a copy of the kid’s rejection letter and one of the checks, displayed under glass. 
Oh. Who signed the check?….Steven Spielberg.