Originally Posted by deacongirl
Originally Posted by Bostonian
People form social networks in college and sometimes find spouses there, as Princeton graduate Susan Patton recently wrote about. Part of the reason to send my children to an elite college, if they get in, is to meet future members of the elite and children of the current elite. For actual learning there is EPGY smile.

Susan Patton. I am sure her sons were thrilled with what she wrote. Yes, intellectual peers make good friends and spouses. You don't have to go to Princeton to find them.

No, just graduate programs, as a general rule. wink

I have chosen irrelevancy, I suspect. Not only that, I've done so rather willfully. Well, that may just be a personal thing related to my personality, though; I tend to do most things fairly willfully. As a life philosophy, "Ohhhh yeah?? You're not the boss of me" has few things to recommend it, however.



Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.