I asked some clarifying questions to see if I understood where his brother was coming from. B made it clear that it is *B's idea* to encourage his brother to transfer to a different school.
I told him my ideas for schools... and then one by one mentioned different things about each one. One of the schools I thought of is actually a girls' school, that I think has a handful of guys who enroll there, and we joked about how that could be really good for C... even if was a tiny college. B made a joke about how those guys must be working so hard, and I joked back that they wouldn't have any time to do their homework. B asked me to send him a list of the schools.
One particular school, Oberlin, gives students credit for independent projects that they do over winter break. I told B how a friend of mine got credit for doing sleep deprivation experiments on himself, trying to see how many days of sleeplessness he'd need to endure before starting to hallucinate. B started telling me again about the hellish flight home from CA he told me about last week... how he started seeing things out of the corners of his eyes, and would fall asleep and not know how long he'd been asleep, and was unable to focus his eyes when he was trying to talk to people because his eyes were so tired. I almost said, "your beautiful eyes...??" but the moment passed before I could work up the guts to say it.
