06-25-2026, 02:43 PM
(06-25-2026, 01:21 PM)PVTree Wrote: I was one of the younger students in my class (graduated HS at 17 and Stanford at 21) and was frequently one of the shortest people amongst my classmates growing up. Thankfully, with time, I grew to be of average height, but I did not like being one of the smaller boys.
I skipped second grade and entered Stanford at 17 1/2. But I made up for it by taking 5 years to graduate (I did earn two completely unrelated degrees during that time).
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)