McKinsey Comes to Town
Apr 15, 2024Senior year, McKinsey and Goldman Sachs came calling. They didn't come through the usual channels that companies approached Stanford. They didn't show up at the c...
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Diverse Conformity
Apr 11, 2024Stanford trumpets its diversity. But it's really the conformity that matters....
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...
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...
Leaving Stanford
Mar 7, 2024None of this was what I expected. Looking back, it seems naive to say it, but the truth is that I believed truly that I would find a group of peers at Stanford, who cared...
The Ducks of Stanford University
Mar 4, 2024Why did the kids I met at Stanford pretend to be perfect?...
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....