<p>Trollnyc, as someone who had every chance to attend Stanford let me tell you that the seriousness of intellectual inquiry, among most undergraduates, at Stanford, is as superficial as Ms. Pelosi’s botoxed visage. It is a bloody joke. If Yahoo and Google are what passes for serious intellectual inquiry on your part, then no wonder you have a hard time stomaching Chicago. Stanford has pockets of great strength, engineering and physical sciences in particular. Students in these fields are at least serious as to their training, even if most are precisely bound to that education as “training” template. There are schools adept at producing trained “professionals”, such as Stanford, and there are schools, not many, which actually force their students to think hard as to what are the aims and means of education, such as Chicago. You find that obnoxious. Well, of course you do.</p>