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...Duke, Stanford and Columbia universities rounded out the top five. Stanford tumbled from second to fourth; Princeton fell from eighth to 20th. Yale was nudged from seventh to eighth, with nearly $225 million...
...Brimley. There was also some very ratty luck with relationships. My smarts did not qualify me to manage my love life in the same way that sonar does not qualify a porpoise to drive a bus. So there I was, over-fibered and under-loved, and I thought of Stanford. Sweet, beautiful Stanford. At Stanford the weather is always warm and the women don't mind oatmeal breath. I've never even visited Stanford, but in the depths of that first-year winter, I thought it must be paradise...
Flash forward to senior year, and many of us are still talking about Stanford. And Duke. And state schools. Where we could have gone, would have enjoyed it more. Should have given them a second thought four years ago, or even three or two years ago. Of course, now that my day is scheduled around three-hour naps, junk food consumption and Nintendo baseball, that seems like the right idea. "Harvard doesn't teach you anything special," I say now, bits of Twinkie in my hair. "I should have gone someplace where I could have had fun." This party envy...
...States" was about halfway up the ladder. I don't remember how I used to read books or look or even read a newspaper. The very way I think has been changed by the last four years. That's not to say that it wouldn't have changed at Stanford, but to wish I'd attended Stanford instead is to wish away the topmost layer of myself. That's easy enough on Cher's butt, but pretty damn difficult on my psyche...
Altogether, Harvard finished eighth in the National Wrestling Coaches Association Top 25 Division I Academic Teams. Princeton, Stanford and Brown claimed the top three spots, respectively...