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"Kid who got in to every Ivy League school is going to the University of Alabama — and it's a brilliant decision"

http://www.businessinsider.com/rona...-school-for-university-of-alabama-2015-5

He is getting a full ride in an honors program. Seems like a great decision to me ...

Yes, but you lose the aura of greater glory that the more splendid institutions impart.

And such glory cannot be purchased...it can only be granted through the arm of the sovereign institutions themselves.

Harvard...Yale...these are where the glory is added.

In the other, lesser places, those places where the proletariat walks, you are likely to sink into the mire and be lost forever while others stand athwart history and lead us into the gleaming tomorrow.

So you're saying that the most important relationship of all is with....





Victory er--destiny, then?

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.

Oh, I'm filled with an overwhelming sense of something, all right.



I must say, Jon, not much makes me literally burst out laughing to the point of tears, but that post did the job. I thank you.

Me too...my mom didn't see the humour though...:)

As long as every trip involves a visit to the Bent Spoon it isn't all bad :-)