Despite 11)penning a few humor columns for the school paper, he was subsequently rejected from a creative-writing class because of what he was told were weak sample submissions.

• 虽然他曾为校刊撰写过一些幽默专栏，但后来报读一个创意写作班时却被拒之门外，得到的解释是，他提交的作品样本较为逊色。