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Reply to "I find it annoying when people get on here and say it really doesn't matter where your kid goes"
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[quote=Anonymous]As I said to my daughter this morning, the thing about Harvard is it's full of people who freak out who have been competing for so long that's all they know. Do any of you think a cocktail party full of high-achievers is a fun place to be? Because I have been to many and I would like to point out it is not. A focus on zero-sum competition and rank, agonizing over the difference between a 1540 Sat and an 1580... Packing a "well-rounded" resume with a focus on creating a polished 18 year old product... Everything about that process creates deeply confirmist little worker bees. Who are also boring. Learning, real academic learning, the pursuit of real knowledge, is about research and debate. It's not competitive, and it is its own reward. I'm still not sure where the college that caters to those kind of students is, and I'm not sure my daughter is one of those students. But I'd like to find it. [/quote]
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