If you were going to college today, where would you go if you could go anywhere?

[Anonymous]

I'd have to go with Berkeley, Stanford MIT or Princeton - they are the hands-down US hot spots for exciting, innovative thinkers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yale or Stanford. I went to Harvard.

Same here. I think I'd pick Yale.

What is wrong with Harvard?

I'm the original Yale or Stanford poster. I think Harvard does a crappy job with undergraduate education. The people I know who went to Yale seem to have had more interaction with famous faculty and are just more interesting people. Stanford because I love the west coast. My best friends went to ucla and Berkeley but sadly the UCs arent what they used to be.

[Anonymous]

why is princeton so popular in this thread?

poor race relations, eating club elitism, snobbiness, grade deflation....there are lot of P alums not happy with the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I had fun while I was in college. Instead I got an engineering degree and then started working full time while attending GT law at night. I feel like I missed the light of day until I walked away from it all at age 40. No regrets, just some "what ifs?".

Did you retire?

Yes! Fortunately DH was happy to have one sane person at home.

Did you practice patent law?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd have to go with Berkeley, Stanford MIT or Princeton - they are the hands-down US hot spots for exciting, innovative thinkers.

Princeton? Berkeley?

[Anonymous]

Wellesley
Second Choice - Stanford

[Anonymous]

Went to Princeton, but turned down Williams (seemed too remote). Would love to turn back the hands of time and see what Williams would have been like.

[Anonymous]

Smith or Brown

I was accepted into both, but had to take a full ride at my Midwestern state school. I can't begin to imagine how different my life would be.

[Anonymous]

oh yes, Brown!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why is princeton so popular in this thread?

poor race relations, eating club elitism, snobbiness, grade deflation....there are lot of P alums not happy with the school.

Princeton is well known for having just about the most loyal alumni out there.

http://www.zencollegelife.com/10-colleges-with-incredibly-loyal-alumni/

Granted, some of that is due to the fact that the alumni office will track you down to the end of the earth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish I had fun while I was in college. Instead I got an engineering degree and then started working full time while attending GT law at night. I feel like I missed the light of day until I walked away from it all at age 40. No regrets, just some "what ifs?".

Did you retire?

Yes! Fortunately DH was happy to have one sane person at home.

Did you practice patent law?

Yes, all before the ITC. But I know lots of patent attorneys.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish I had fun while I was in college. Instead I got an engineering degree and then started working full time while attending GT law at night. I feel like I missed the light of day until I walked away from it all at age 40. No regrets, just some "what ifs?".

Did you retire?

Yes! Fortunately DH was happy to have one sane person at home.

Did you practice patent law?

Yes, all before the ITC. But I know lots of patent attorneys.

We're you a litigator in private practice?

[Anonymous]

Where I went GW! Had an amazing experience then went onto Johns Hopkins for graduate, loved the school..the area not so much.

Stanford would be a close second, weather being a big draw.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish I had fun while I was in college. Instead I got an engineering degree and then started working full time while attending GT law at night. I feel like I missed the light of day until I walked away from it all at age 40. No regrets, just some "what ifs?".

Did you retire?

Yes! Fortunately DH was happy to have one sane person at home.

Did you practice patent law?

Yes, all before the ITC. But I know lots of patent attorneys.

Are you my brother?

[Anonymous]

Where I went both times. Conn College undergrad (met my future husband there) and had the best four years of my life and then onto Harvard Law.

If I had to choose a different path, guess it would have been Stanford or USC. That California lifestyle is definitely alluring.