My wife's 25th reunion at Yale was this past weekend, and we took the kids.
I still have such mixed feelings about Yale, 24 years after I graduated from graduate school there. I did spend nine years there, and a lot of who I am now developed there.
I had wonderful opportunities there, learned a lot, made some really good friends. I was also face-to-face with a lot of privileged people, had to deal with an awful lot of hubris.
The resentments of being a scholarship student among trust-fund students still burn in me, and I'm not proud of that. If anything, it's pushed me to work harder at my job, to exemplify that it's what you do and not who you are born as that matters most. Such a chip on my shoulder.
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