I can’t tell if this is a repost or was cited in something posted recently, but I could have sworn last I read about this, they had a snippet about how one of t

I can’t tell if this is a repost or was cited in something posted recently, but I could have sworn last I read about this, they had a snippet about how one of the many weird rituals Stanford had involves running up and kissing strangers? That’s the kind of thing I wish one of the folks I know on the faculty had warned me about before I spent a summer in Palo Alto. Speaking as someone who didn’t go to a school with any of the cutesy crap in the OP, and last read about the institution when someone had to yank a rapist off some lady, I’m not very sympathetic. I tried very hard to get in someplace without an athletics program to avoid west coast equivalent of Dartmouth style shenanigans… then got into neither and quit my PhD after realizing it wasn’t going to end unless I excused and ignored a litany of abusive and illegal behavior. I feel bad for folks who JUST put on an unauthorized costume but… I saw so much shit passing through when interning in the Bay I don’t have any sympathy for the party people of Palo Alto - most of them should be sent to the nuthouse. (And not a bar.)