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it's stunning to me how the Bay Area / startup scene culture has become such an extension of Stanford culture. And that seems to be almost entirely due to netwo
by jes5199 11y ago
it's stunning to me how the Bay Area / startup scene culture has become such an extension of Stanford culture. And that seems to be almost entirely due to network effects- it's not like Stanford is a particularly better education over Berkeley or Harvey-Mudd or Waterloo or Indiana U (which is my list of where the truly great programmers I know have attended), and none of those are really more that a few percentage points better than any decent program at any of the thousands of colleges and universities in the world
- song 11y agoI went to an top ranked university (so called Grande Ecole) in my country. Since I graduated, I've never really had a use for the prestige of my university. Of course, part of the reason is that I've worked almost exclusively abroad and there nobody knows that my university is well ranked but I strongly believe that what really matters in the end is the actual skills you have and not where the diploma comes from. I find it sad when kids waste their childhood because their parents push them to got to the one perfect ivy league school. I don't think it's beneficial for a kid to choose extracurricular activities based on how the admission committee will look at them. I also do not believe in hours of homework that prevent the kid from having time to assuage his natural curiosity and to have fun.
- bsder 11y agoStanford is actually worse than Berkeley from the point of view of actual education. I have interviewed scores of both Berkeley and Stanford engineering students, and the Berkeley students have beaten the Stanford students every single time. It wasn't even close.