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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once you get out of areas where everyone is obsessed with prestige and comparing themselves with everyone else, your life gets vastly better. Go to a good school, live in a moderate-sized city with real people, and quietly be a big fish in a smaller pond with little pressure to constantly compete with others. It’s heavenly. [/quote]

I did this for a while, and I hated it. I hated being a big fish in a small pond because I felt there wasn’t any room for me to grow.

The key for me is that I never feel like I’m competing against others. I’m only ever competing against myself. What I like about competitive places is that they usually provide opportunities to try all kinds of things, because they attract an expansive energy. I like swimming in an ocean, not a pond, because there is just so much more to see.[/quote]

I get this for preferring universities to LACs. What’s odd about the American college system, though, is that the so-called “ocean” is broken up into small ponds, while most of the schools you are deriding as “ponds” are many times larger. People could be forgiven for thinking there is “more to see” and more “expansive energy” at NYU than at Dartmouth. [/quote]

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