admission
Original: admission on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (a woman with gray hair and glasses, seen from behind): Welcome to your college admissions interview.
Young man (red-haired, in a red shirt): What are the criteria for entry?
Panel 2:
Interviewer (now shown seated, an older man with gray hair, round glasses, and a suit — the depicted interviewer's appearance shifts between panels): Well, tests can be gamed. Grades are inflated. Essays are easy to cheat.
Panel 3:
Young man: So what do you do?
Interviewer: We let anyone in, teach classes as we see fit, take no attendance, and assign no grades.
Panel 4:
Interviewer: If you feel you're not getting anything out of it, you're free to leave.
Panel 5:
Young man: What's the catch?
Interviewer: We don't give out any credentials at the end.
Panel 6:
Young man (now angry, leaning forward and pointing): You have wasted my time, sir.
Votey:
Young man (in a speech bubble): Can I get a certificate of interview completion?
Interviewer (a woman with gray hair and glasses, seen from behind): Welcome to your college admissions interview.
Young man (red-haired, in a red shirt): What are the criteria for entry?
Panel 2:
Interviewer (now shown seated, an older man with gray hair, round glasses, and a suit — the depicted interviewer's appearance shifts between panels): Well, tests can be gamed. Grades are inflated. Essays are easy to cheat.
Panel 3:
Young man: So what do you do?
Interviewer: We let anyone in, teach classes as we see fit, take no attendance, and assign no grades.
Panel 4:
Interviewer: If you feel you're not getting anything out of it, you're free to leave.
Panel 5:
Young man: What's the catch?
Interviewer: We don't give out any credentials at the end.
Panel 6:
Young man (now angry, leaning forward and pointing): You have wasted my time, sir.
Votey:
Young man (in a speech bubble): Can I get a certificate of interview completion?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired young man in a red shirt sits across from a college admissions interviewer (drawn as a gray-haired person in glasses and a suit). The interviewer says: "Welcome to your college admissions interview." The young man asks, "What are the criteria for entry?" The interviewer explains that tests can be gamed, grades are inflated, and essays are easy to cheat. Asked what they do instead, the interviewer says, "We let anyone in, teach classes as we see fit, take no attendance, and assign no grades. If you feel you're not getting anything out of it, you're free to leave." The young man asks, "What's the catch?" The interviewer replies, "We don't give out any credentials at the end." In the final panel the young man, now furious and pointing his finger, snaps: "You have wasted my time, sir." The joke skewers students who only value education for the credential. Votey (aftercomic): the young man, in a speech bubble next to a head sprouting flame-like hair, asks, "Can I get a certificate of interview completion?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.