Corporate-Educational Complex
Apr 22, 2024If the universities are the temples, the corporations are its priests....
jarins
do we play the game, or does it play us?
Trials of Admission
Apr 1, 2024All tribes have trials. We just call ours college admissions....
The Art of Bullshit
Mar 21, 2024What we learned at Stanford – what we really learned – was how to bullshit. This is so much more than simply making things up. It’s an elevated form of psychological man...
Groupthink & Elite Culture
Mar 18, 2024My whole life, I’ve been something of an outsider. Growing up, I never had more than a handful of friends. I wasn’t an outcast. People didn’t make an effort to exclude me...
What Colleges Really Teach
Mar 14, 2024I returned to Stanford, intent on understanding this world that I had been so wrong about. While at Chicago, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that I’d run away from s...
Truth of Academia
Mar 11, 2024Faith in something doesn’t collapse all at once. It erodes in bits and chunks, like icebergs breaking off the coast of Antarctica. At Stanford, my faith in the way of th...
Orientation Week
Mar 1, 2024When I arrived at Stanford, I thought I’d meet the best and the brightest. That was not what I found....
Initiation Night
Feb 27, 2024The chanting began a little before midnight....
Princeton, the Temple
May 3, 2023Stepping inside the temple gates of Princeton University, I felt an ancient feeling, as the world melted away....