Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
So you're saying that the most important relationship of all is with....

Victory er--destiny, then? cool

Not destiny, so much as a kind of transcendent glory that radiates from within.

There are so few of these colleges that there's almost no point in "ranking" per se.

They simply "are."

When you are in the presence of such a student, you can tell if it is one of these colleges because you are filled with an overwhelming sense of awe.

Whereas other students simply fill you with a sense of dustiness and perhaps tarnished brass.

Copying this to send to my mom. Who keeps taking dd14 to Princeton every time she visits.