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[Coronita]

[quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

But she didnt appear to make the triton top 10 famous people. Evelyn Lin still the best and on top, no pun intended …..and she didnt need to spend her dads time and money to go to harvard to have her own successful business. And now, shes retired , married with one kid… early 30ies….

What an incredible entrepreneur that did it all by herself without the help of her parent, single father dad that was poor! so much respect for her!

I might have support one of her royalty businesses pay per view….for the hard work she put into it. Her brand is so well known, its international…

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

The truth is, if you can’t pay cash for tuition comfortably, and you or your kid go into debt for a name school, you’re a dumbass. Obviously tuition is pocket change for flyer. But I wouldn’t even let my kids apply to an ivy for fear they’d get in.

[sdrealtor]

interesting thing is that out of the close to 100 kids from my high school class that went to Ivy League schools by far the least successful ones went to Harvard. Those mostly got in as legacies or familial connections. The ones that went to Princeton and Penn were far and away more successful. True story

[scaredyclassic]

Any young parent saving money for college is probably acting stupidly. Cheap schools all the way.

[Coronita]

[quote=Coronita][quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

But she didnt appear to make the triton top 10 famous people. Evelyn Lin still the best and on top, no pun intended …..and she didnt need to spend her dads time and money to go to harvard to have her own successful business. And now, shes retired , married with one kid… early 30ies….

What an incredible entrepreneur that did it all by herself without the help of her parent, single father dad that was poor! so much respect for her!

I might have support one of her royalty businesses pay per view….for the hard work she put into it. Her brand is so well known, its international…[/quote]

Come to think about it… There definitely was an equal opportunity to be famous. When I was in college, I remember Playboy visited our campus to do a special issue… “The Women of the Ivy Leagues”….

There was a huge line in the off campus bookstore wrapped around the building of people interviewing…And they were hitting each of the Ivy League campuses… I think Harvard was the next one on the list, according to my classmate that went to the interview. Really nice and pretty blond from connecticut. Her dad was supposedly a big real estate developer. I asked her dad knew what she was doing, and she said “hell no”…lol

[flyer]

No, thanks. Just posting wrt our kids University experience as several others have.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flyer]No, thanks. Just posting wrt our kids University experience as several others have.[/quote]

The university experience today for the majority is life crushing debt assumed for foolish reasons.

Lately I’ve been feeling like a ridiculous failure, given my headstart in life. Schools guarantee nothing. I’m fairly pathetic compared to classmates. Just paying off my student loans in late 50s is kind of a sign of being a true idiotic loser.

[flyer]

Agree. Definitely not worth it on that basis.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flyer]Agree. Definitely not worth it on that basis.[/quote]

Things that are only worth it if someone else pays are kinda by definition not worth it.
.fuck Harvard .

On the Brite side at least my loans won’t be deducted from my social security check

[flyer]

Don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a great family, a great career and a great life. Just enjoy it.

[scaredyclassic]

It is difficult in our status oriented society to not compare outcomes.

When in that mode, it is clear I have failed grotesquely.

It was only through extreme frugality and very lucky timing that I ended up with a nice house.

Even then there was a brush with loan defaults and bankruptcy on the path from graduate to home-loan owner.

Maybe I’ve been lying to myself. Maybe I don’t want to ride a bicycle. Maybe I’m just a fearful poor guy. I’ve tried to make a virtue out of my frugality, which might be just a positive spin on failure.

Onecan be a failure and still enjoy the general wreckage of it all.

[sdrealtor]

[quote=flyer]No, thanks. Just posting wrt our kids University experience as several others have.[/quote]

Ummmm……NOOOO! We were posting specifically about UCSD

And pornstars

[scaredyclassic]

From my mom’s point of view, I think not sending kids to ivy school with cash is a sign of failure. Kind of is, really. For my class expectations

[flyer]

“It is difficult in our status oriented society to not compare outcomes.” Agree, and yet, even with the history you mentioned that seems to haunt you, you can choose to break free of all of that and realize those things are no longer your reality, and no longer control your destiny. When you fully accept that the past does not need to control your future, I think you’ll find a greater sense of peace. Anyway, JMHO.

Hope everyone has a nice long weekend.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=flyer]No, thanks. Just posting wrt our kids University experience as several others have.[/quote]

Ummmm……NOOOO! We were posting specifically about UCSD

And pornstars[/quote]

I think SDSU may be the tougher school to get into this year. They’re neck and neck admissions rate wise. SDSU is cheaper though, so the smarter kids go there.

Maybe I’d prefer golf if I could afford it. But no, all I have is this shitty hackysack.

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