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[quote author=Stymie link=topic=12483.msg123940#msg123940 date=1439221348]
90+% of Stanford footballers are never going to even sniff the NFL.  The "40-year" question breaks down to:

"Do you really want to run a Lexus dealership in Akron/Mobile/Pasadena/etc. or do you want to spend the rest of your life trying to help change (even a tiny toty part of) the world?"

Is there something wrong with running a Lexus dealership anywhere?  The problem escapes me.
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Stymie is just beating on Ohio State, Alabama and U$€. and/or UCLA recruits.  That attitude drives me nuts, btw. There are plenty of Stanford grads who do not spend their lives trying to change whatever a "tiny toty" part of the world is; just as there are plenty of Alabama grads (including footballers) who do significant things with their lives.  And to quote Judge Smales: The world needs Lexuses (Lexi sounds stupid to me) too you know.  Ask John Elway.

Reading between Yvonne's lines in the OP, which isn't hard to do, I'm wondering if she isn't questioning the purported 40-year decision (not sure what "commitment" means) based on her own experience.  I read her comparison to what she might have received from SJSU, and truth be told, you don't need to go to Stanford to hear someone like Jimmy Carter speak.  He lectured once a week or so for the single Poli Sci class I took at Tech, and this was during Reagan's first term.  Actually he was quite good.

Stanford has not cornered the market on good professors, students, classes, books, etc, etc. They really don't have top secret knowledge about the key to life.  Although perhaps that information was doled out at one of those 8:00 classes I learned to zombie through.....Dammit.

Frankly, I think you are all selling yourselves short a little bit.  Sure Stanford changed most of you and for the better it seems.  But you all did most of that yourselves. Except Hulk it seems. He was doomed otherwise ;)

Needle with the thread win for honesty.

[jacketree]

[quote author=Stymie link=topic=12483.msg123940#msg123940 date=1439221348]
90+% of Stanford footballers are never going to even sniff the NFL.  The "40-year" question breaks down to:

"Do you really want to run a Lexus dealership in Akron/Mobile/Pasadena/etc. or do you want to spend the rest of your life trying to help change (even a tiny toty part of) the world?"

Is there something wrong with running a Lexus dealership anywhere?  The problem escapes me.
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Stymie is just beating on Ohio State, Alabama and U$€. and/or UCLA recruits.  That attitude drives me nuts, btw. There are plenty of Stanford grads who do not spend their lives trying to change whatever a "tiny toty" part of the world is; just as there are plenty of Alabama grads (including footballers) who do significant things with their lives.  And to quote Judge Smales: The world needs Lexuses (Lexi sounds stupid to me) too you know.  Ask John Elway.

Reading between Yvonne's lines in the OP, which isn't hard to do, I'm wondering if she isn't questioning the purported 40-year decision (not sure what "commitment" means) based on her own experience.  I read her comparison to what she might have received from SJSU, and truth be told, you don't need to go to Stanford to hear someone like Jimmy Carter speak.  He lectured once a week or so for the single Poli Sci class I took at Tech, and this was during Reagan's first term.  Actually he was quite good.

Stanford has not cornered the market on good professors, students, classes, books, etc, etc. They really don't have top secret knowledge about the key to life.  Although perhaps that information was doled out at one of those 8:00 classes I learned to zombie through.....Dammit.

Frankly, I think you are all selling yourselves short a little bit.  Sure Stanford changed most of you and for the better it seems.  But you all did most of that yourselves. Except Hulk it seems. He was doomed otherwise ;)

Needle with the thread win for honesty.