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The students who run tours have always been boring. I found people at my elite college who interesting, with weird little passions and interests that made spending time with them fun, but I only went to one college.

I do wonder where this is coming from
[quote]This is not to suggest that other universities are some sort of utopia, but there is some sense of excitement and even creativity there that just feels different from the lifeless hierarchy-obsession of more elite places.[/quote]

You describe seeing boring kids on tours at Stanford and Duke, where are you saying you've observed this "excitement and creativity"? What does that actually look like that's different from the elite colleges?[/quote]

I think my kids were relaying their general impression of people other than the tour guides.  I think the general lack of excitement and creativity is difficult to explain but may just be a function of overscheduling.  It's very hard for people to just sit around and hang out when their whole lives they have been overscheduled in very particular ways.  Even intellectual curiosity takes a backseat.  A friend's daughter spoke of "majoring in extracurricular activities" at Harvard, like "comping" and writing for the Crimson.  Her description of it sounded vaguely familiar to working your way up the hierarchy at a top corporation.  Not a bad thing, necessarily, but worth noting.  [/quote]

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