[dabigv13]

Football for sure but only about 55 people in the Bay Area care (and less care about men's hoops) but today's SFGate headliner focuses on the mental health resources of the U.

My pet peeve is that if you are only admitting genius/go-getters you have a core problem. How about admitting a few just "A" students that have a life outside of traveling teams, piano lessons, chess club, school government and Model UN? Kids who study but watch TV, hang out, go fishing, work on a car, bag groceries or read trash fiction. Just to diversify the student body in other ways besides race and ethnicity.

I worked bagging groceries in high school and worked on cars (and at Stanford was able to finagle some garage space from the solar car club with some friends to work on our cars). I don't think that my presence did anything for overall mental health at Stanford though. And kids who bag groceries and work on their cars are probably just as likely to have mental health problems as anyone else I would guess.

[dabigv13]

Football for sure but only about 55 people in the Bay Area care (and less care about men's hoops) but today's SFGate headliner focuses on the mental health resources of the U.

My pet peeve is that if you are only admitting genius/go-getters you have a core problem. How about admitting a few just "A" students that have a life outside of traveling teams, piano lessons, chess club, school government and Model UN? Kids who study but watch TV, hang out, go fishing, work on a car, bag groceries or read trash fiction. Just to diversify the student body in other ways besides race and ethnicity.

I worked bagging groceries in high school and worked on cars (and at Stanford was able to finagle some garage space from the solar car club with some friends to work on our cars). I don't think that my presence did anything for overall mental health at Stanford though. And kids who bag groceries and work on their cars are probably just as likely to have mental health problems as anyone else I would guess.