The Stanford Obsession
By patrickn10 on May 28, 2008 in amusing
And Stanford University sounds like, and it is an amazing institution that many students around the world aspire to attend.
But, how far would anyone go to fulfil their college obsessions?
That was all I could say after I read this article.
Very recently, an impostor was found within the Stanford University campus, passing herself as a student and lived on the campus for eight months.
No detail was given on the article about why this young woman pulled off such a strange stunt. The article went on about the this serious security breach and how things could have gone horribly wrong if this impostor was dangerous. At Virginia Tech, a member of the school went onto kill as many as 30. Imagine what this woman could have done if she was able to evade suspicion and live on the campus for 8 months? The worst-case scenario is something not many would want to imagine.
So it’s great food for thought. Why in the world, would she want to live in an university that she didn’t belong to? I don’t think anyone is able to deduce anything with the current details given by the Associated Press.
As an upcoming junior at high school, studying in Korea I couldn’t help but to think about the ‘typical’ Korean parents and their apparent obsession with what they perceive as the ‘fine’ universities.
After all, some of the parents around here are insane enough to make any sane student deranged.
My parents are just one of a kind…
You cannot define your faith only by the name of your college.
There are still many things we need to value. Sometimes, it is best to put aside those academics, and enjoy those other things that are given to us.
stevendn10 | May 28, 2008 | Reply
Gosh, I love that final line.
Nice new look, though I loved the old one too.
Hm. I find the idea of a university closed to “the universe” it’s supposed to serve kind of strange. All the universities and occasional community colleges I attended had no guards at gates, and I think that’s the norm in US colleges.
Funnier still, I knew a very smart student who was so financially under-privileged, he lived in a VW van he parked and slept and studied in next to the college. He chose to spend his limited funds on education instead of an apartment, since he couldn’t afford both (and his parents couldn’t either). He was one of the most interesting, brilliant people I had ever known. Took showers in the school gym.
So it goes. Crazy world.
Clay Burell | May 29, 2008 | Reply