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Princeton vs. Stanford |
| Message Name: |
Princeton=Baked Alaska |
| Date Posted: |
01/20/2000 |
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i'm very tempted to say bad things to you, but i realize that i'm better than that...
i respect all schools while holding a cherished pride for mine. Stanford is great. Yale is great. MIT, Harvard, Amherst, Swarthmore.. you name it. I've met, or could meet fascinating and intellectual people at all these institutions.
What bugs me is the fact that you can so nonchalantly denigrate a school that has produced so many scholars and nobel laureates. Who are you to demean all the hard work, pressure, and stress i underwent to get in here? who are you? i'm sick of punks like you who have no idea what it's like, badmouthing something you obviously don't understand.. this woman needs advice, not inane and meaningless comments like yours.. grow up. |
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I hear your concerns, but they are unfounded. I agree with Thunderstorm in that Princeton is yesterday's news. Did you read in the N.Y. Times today about Yale investing $500 in its science physical plant? & that Harvard has just built a new comp sci building? And that Stanford has a new sci and engineering complex? Sorry to offend you, but all Princeton has is decay and the glory of the 50's and 60's. It is a relic of a university and certain not a *leading* research university. It's like Baked Alaska--a once trendy dish that's now just a relic of another era. The only thing Princeton has over places like Penn and Cornell is its powerful-but old!-alumni network. Once that era passes on, it's just down, down, down for Princeton's star. I wish it weren't so, but the administration is displaying the textbook example of resting on its laurels.
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