Stanford Course for freshman

carlman
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:32:02 +0000

Strong suggestion: Calm down on all the units. You’ll drive yourself crazy, and in the end only graduate a little sooner with a lower GPA – having not taken away everything you could have from your courses. Why do you want to leave so soon? Grad school won’t be nearly as much fun.

High-achieving kids are conditioned in high school to do too much in order to look good and get into a top school. It worked for you; congratulations! But don’t confuse that with the rest of your life. And trust me – Stanford will come up with difficult work for you to do in science and engineering classes. Sooner than you think.