Don't know how to play this game...

I spent my afternoon editing medical school statements.

In the midst of my editing, the woman sitting beside me asked for my help. Could I edit her email to a professor, since it was in English? I said yes, of course. I think I was wearing my English major perfume today.

So I went through the email and perfected the grammar, added capitalization, and improved the vocabulary. I was, however, a little surprised at the condition of the email: she was an intern at a large U.S. hospital in a state with a certain huge and well respected medical school that might start with an M. She was emailing a professor at Mayo, explaining that she wanted to do an away rotation there in order to better her chances of landing a fellowship. She was doing this on the advice of her mentor.....whom, I suspect, is a colleague of the researcher at Mayo.

It's all about whom you know.