I turned down Harvard, Princeton and Stanford for Berkeley's Physics programme

aim78
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:34:45 +0000

It’s blasphemy to say, but I would have chosen Stanford. It’s not even about the prestige. It’s more about the comfort level there. In Berkeley you don’t feel very special, you feel like one of the thousands of pigs trying to feed out of the trough. But being a Graduate is much different. Berkeley is a much more eclectic city than Palo Alto and you feel very special as a Grad student walking among the insect Undergrads.