Yeah, reading CC, I feel that students don’t appreciate how hard it is. I went Stanford and obviously was a top student in HS. I thought I worked hard in HS. Ha. Yeah, right. You go from top of the pack to middle and the workload is so heavy.
And the part about not mentioning where you went to school. Yep. I went to school in the “'Bay Area” all through my 20s and 30s. Sometime in my late 40s, I got old enough and far enough removed from my 20s, that I started saying where I went to school. For a research project at work, I was looking up the educational background of scientists by looking up their CVs. It was not usual for a scientist to not list their undergraduate institution on their CV, but if it was dropped, it was always the case that they went to Harvard or Princeton. I’d dig into the acknowledgements in their PhD thesis or look up papers they wrote as an undergrad to figure out their undergrad if they left it off.