[Leica] Harvard tuition

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

These are laudable goals for your child, but let me tell you
my roomate's story. Very bright guy from Long Island, dad
had a dental practice, etc.

After end of freshman year, my buddy announces
he was going to study history and become a history professor.
All four of us planned to be professors, but he's the only
one who took the plunge.  Well, his parents nearly disowned
him. It was a real crisis. They sent him there to "become a
lawyer."

The way I interpreted things was that it only worked out in
the end because their beach house got washed into the sea
and his father had a complete nervous breakdown - so I
guess somewhere in all that mess, some priorities got shifted
around.  That roomate is now, in fact, a professor.

The remaining three of us all studied philosophy. Mark
went on to get an MFA and is a starving artist photographer
in NYC.  Jamie and I eventually went into businesss, but the
tech startup rough and ready kind. No white shoe lifestyles
for us.

We all were real nerds in our way, got good marks, etc.
But, none of us made all *that* much money, and two of
us have made relatively none at all.

*Plenty* of grads do go off to law school, med school,
biz school and enter the establishment. Sure. But plenty
don't.

Harvard is worth going to just because it's cool :-)

Scott


Frank Filippone wrote:

>Don, I must agree that you have posted all GOOD reasons to send your kid to 
>Harvard.....  Mine may not have been good reasons, but
>to launch a kid into a career, he needs an edge.  Name brand schools 
>provide that edge.  The fact that he gets a good education,
>well, he can get a good education at Podunk U as well..... It is what the 
>kid does with the challenges that count.
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>Frank Filippone
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