08-30-2016, 11:43 AM
(08-30-2016, 11:21 AM)CTcard link Wrote:I am afraid that it looks like you went to school a long time ago.
These days, with Stanford having the well publicized lowest admissions rate in the country and typically topping surveys as the #1 dream school of high school kids, there aren't many outside of south-western Connecticut confusing Stanford with Stamford. (And not really in south-western Connecticut, where Stanford is very much a top dream-school) .
A long time ago? I was at Stanford from 1980-85. Well, yeah, that was a long time ago.
Stanford a dream school? Not so much in Manhattan, Kansas.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)