05-31-2014, 08:46 PM
I read the email excerpts. He was an 18 year old frat brother who was feeling his oats for the first time. I have zero problem with what he did - then. I would never have done any of those things including the drugs and alcohol and I had every chance when I was recruited to join a fraternity as a freshman. Not my cup of tea, I was a jock and, peripherally, part of the anti-war movement (only an attendee, never an organizer or an activist.) Not all that different from Speigel though in that hot women were my top priority with similar to his results - zero. He is now an ancient 23 and is very regretful of his actions as an 18 year old. A lifetime ago to him. Anyway, he seems to have been more talk than action, trying to desperately build up his image and ego and play down his perhaps unattractive nerdiness. Easy to lie in an email about what you have done, harder on his ego even now to deny the same.
My son is 21 and has had mandatory (by his university) sessions on how to behave towards others, especially the opposite sex. He was 17 at the time. Not something I had nor perhaps did Speigel. In high school in one of my son's classes he was asked to write about what he wanted to achieve for the year. One top goal was to find a girlfriend. He was unsuccessful and to this day has never been on a date. Some things never change...
A bigger deal, as an 18 year old, is screwing his friend, Reggie Brown, out of any equity in SnapChat.
My son is 21 and has had mandatory (by his university) sessions on how to behave towards others, especially the opposite sex. He was 17 at the time. Not something I had nor perhaps did Speigel. In high school in one of my son's classes he was asked to write about what he wanted to achieve for the year. One top goal was to find a girlfriend. He was unsuccessful and to this day has never been on a date. Some things never change...
A bigger deal, as an 18 year old, is screwing his friend, Reggie Brown, out of any equity in SnapChat.