[Bruce Wang]

Jon lived in the same frosh dorm as me.  He's a great guy and the most well rounded intellect (Math & English major) of any person I met at Stanford.  He features in one of my favrorite stories from The Farm.  The first real class in the economics major is Intro to Microeconomics and it came in three flavors: 51P (easy-no calculus), 51Q (hard-with calculus) and 51A (insane).  He asked me if I wanted to take 51A with him because it sounded "fun". I demurred, too embarassed to admit that I got in off the waiting list and only because Loma Prieta shock the campus the year before.  The story kept getting better first when he won the John Bates Clark medal (awarded to the best economist under the age of 40, and considered harder to get than the Nobel), then when he became Chair of the Econ dept, and then Dean of the GSB.  And now the University President!

That story gets relayed and continued from his perspective.  I didn't even make it to the first day.

https://poetsandquants.com/2022/12/29/de...-business/

I am excited for Stanford that he's taken on this challenge.  He's a Stanford person through and through and went there when Stanford was a fun place to go to school, full of people who took ideas seriously but not themselves too seriously.

[Bruce Wang]

Jon lived in the same frosh dorm as me.  He's a great guy and the most well rounded intellect (Math & English major) of any person I met at Stanford.  He features in one of my favrorite stories from The Farm.  The first real class in the economics major is Intro to Microeconomics and it came in three flavors: 51P (easy-no calculus), 51Q (hard-with calculus) and 51A (insane).  He asked me if I wanted to take 51A with him because it sounded "fun". I demurred, too embarassed to admit that I got in off the waiting list and only because Loma Prieta shock the campus the year before.  The story kept getting better first when he won the John Bates Clark medal (awarded to the best economist under the age of 40, and considered harder to get than the Nobel), then when he became Chair of the Econ dept, and then Dean of the GSB.  And now the University President!

That story gets relayed and continued from his perspective.  I didn't even make it to the first day.

https://poetsandquants.com/2022/12/29/de...-business/

I am excited for Stanford that he's taken on this challenge.  He's a Stanford person through and through and went there when Stanford was a fun place to go to school, full of people who took ideas seriously but not themselves too seriously.