Anonymous wrote:These read very inside joke-y to me. Satire. Some are serious but really, common sense people...obviously many of these are purposely ridiculous. These are the some of the most recent ones:

"After college, he plans on going to law school so he can fight for puppies!!!!!!!"

"After college he plans on being a good person."

"After college, he plans on heading to Wall Street and cornering the frozen concentrated orange juice market."

"After college, he hopes to post Family Guy clips on TikTok for a living."

"After college, he hopes to build robots and take over the world."

"After school, he hopes to live as a sherpa in the Himalayan Mountains with his pet yak, Jean Jacques."

"After college, he plans on exploring the American frontier on his horse."

"After college, he hopes to dig a hole to China and fix the traffic on GW and Canal."

"After college, he hopes to be a trophy husband and a stay-at-home dad."

"After college, he hopes to fly jets and fight bad guys like Tom Cruise."

"After college, he plans on attending dental school and learning kung fu from Master Shifu so he can become the next dragon warrior."

"After college, he plans on beginning a coconut empire."

Student studying economics: "After college, he plans on returning home to industrialize Tenleytown."

"After college, he intends on harvesting maple syrup professionally and starting a moose grooming company."

"After college, he hopes to become a genius billionaire philanthropist."

"After college he looks forward to starting a clandestine black box organization along with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]."

"After college, he plans on becoming a famous pirate."

"After college he wants to hop around with the kangaroos down under in Australia."

"After college he is going to escape the matrix and live on an undisclosed mountain."

"He hopes to break into the fast food scene as a Taco Bell product tester after college."

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love my kids’ schools (not Gonzaga) but don’t talk about or post obsessively about them. To me it is weird for parents to have their identities wired so hard to their kids’ high school.

Then exactly what I said, it’s on you. those are your feelings. No need to make fun of people who have a different approach than you. Wouldn’t that be a lesson you teach your children?

But practically an entire school’s worth of families behave in this fashion at GZ. People say they have drank the kool aid for a reason. It’s not personal, PP, it is a common observation.

I should say, I feel like an anomaly at time as a GZ parent. The school is great, just like many others in our area! For example, my DDs school, which has many of the same families who I should note, don’t behave this way for that school.

I am a huge ultra of my undergrad. I loved it. I donate money. I go to games in almost any sport whenever I can. I watch them on tv. I have all the swag. It’s fun and a hobby. I even, OMG, have a magnet on my car. it’s not my entire personality but it’s definitely a part. I would begrudge someone who loved their kid’s high school. You’re really kind of mean about it.

Totally different. It’s normal to love your undergrad (maybe even be mildly obsessed) where you spent four years of your life as a young adult and earned your degree. It’s not normal to have those same strong feelings towards your child’s high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love my kids’ schools (not Gonzaga) but don’t talk about or post obsessively about them. To me it is weird for parents to have their identities wired so hard to their kids’ high school.

Then exactly what I said, it’s on you. those are your feelings. No need to make fun of people who have a different approach than you. Wouldn’t that be a lesson you teach your children?

But practically an entire school’s worth of families behave in this fashion at GZ. People say they have drank the kool aid for a reason. It’s not personal, PP, it is a common observation.

I should say, I feel like an anomaly at time as a GZ parent. The school is great, just like many others in our area! For example, my DDs school, which has many of the same families who I should note, don’t behave this way for that school.

I am a huge ultra of my undergrad. I loved it. I donate money. I go to games in almost any sport whenever I can. I watch them on tv. I have all the swag. It’s fun and a hobby. I even, OMG, have a magnet on my car. it’s not my entire personality but it’s definitely a part. I would begrudge someone who loved their kid’s high school. You’re really kind of mean about it.

Totally different. It’s normal to love your undergrad (maybe even be mildly obsessed) where you spent four years of your life as a young adult and earned your degree. It’s not normal to have those same strong feelings towards your child’s high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love my kids’ schools (not Gonzaga) but don’t talk about or post obsessively about them. To me it is weird for parents to have their identities wired so hard to their kids’ high school.

Then exactly what I said, it’s on you. those are your feelings. No need to make fun of people who have a different approach than you. Wouldn’t that be a lesson you teach your children?

But practically an entire school’s worth of families behave in this fashion at GZ. People say they have drank the kool aid for a reason. It’s not personal, PP, it is a common observation.

I should say, I feel like an anomaly at time as a GZ parent. The school is great, just like many others in our area! For example, my DDs school, which has many of the same families who I should note, don’t behave this way for that school.

I am a huge ultra of my undergrad. I loved it. I donate money. I go to games in almost any sport whenever I can. I watch them on tv. I have all the swag. It’s fun and a hobby. I even, OMG, have a magnet on my car. it’s not my entire personality but it’s definitely a part. I would begrudge someone who loved their kid’s high school. You’re really kind of mean about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love my kids’ schools (not Gonzaga) but don’t talk about or post obsessively about them. To me it is weird for parents to have their identities wired so hard to their kids’ high school.

Then exactly what I said, it’s on you. those are your feelings. No need to make fun of people who have a different approach than you. Wouldn’t that be a lesson you teach your children?

But practically an entire school’s worth of families behave in this fashion at GZ. People say they have drank the kool aid for a reason. It’s not personal, PP, it is a common observation.

I should say, I feel like an anomaly at time as a GZ parent. The school is great, just like many others in our area! For example, my DDs school, which has many of the same families who I should note, don’t behave this way for that school.

Anonymous wrote:So I have been following the college announcement Instagrams of several potential schools for a son, and I am curious about the Gonzaga one. An extraordinarily high percentage of the boys seem to be going into finance/business/economics and the accompanying goal statement (admittedly it is a jokey thing) is something to the effect of "I want to be rich". There isn't generally a whole lot about service or Men for Others or wanting to make the world a better place (although there is for some). Gonzaga is obviously a big school with a huge and very diverse alumni base, but how would people say the service mission of the school plays out for young men after they leave the school or later in life? I would add that the choice of majors and stated life goals for the other schools' college Instagrams are more diverse and more ... high-minded I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love my kids’ schools (not Gonzaga) but don’t talk about or post obsessively about them. To me it is weird for parents to have their identities wired so hard to their kids’ high school.

Then exactly what I said, it’s on you. those are your feelings. No need to make fun of people who have a different approach than you. Wouldn’t that be a lesson you teach your children?