<p>I’m also a Stanford grad, ez, and I’m not the only one in my family.</p>
<p>The problem with Stanford when I was there was not the quality of the faculty or the graduate students. It was the fact that hardly any undergraduates had much interest in academics, and that mainstream undergraduate culture was pretty anti-intellectual. It was an unbelievable place for any undergraduate who raised his or her hand to get involved in the intellectual life of the university, because there was NO competition from other undergraduates for a place at the table. </p>
<p>The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.</p>