<p>Pizzagirl: I’m not a native Californian and I’ve never seen the big deal. (I’m also on the Stanford side of the bay and therefore lean a bit more that way.) On the other hand, the people who seem to be going on about it as a “national university” aren’t Californians either. My teasing was mostly that so many other people were making such a big deal about something that seems sort of like “Yeah, it’s nice, but very impersonal and with many caveats” to me.</p>