<p>If you’re smart, aggressive, and take advantage of your opportunities, you’re going to get a pretty darn good education at University of Montana. And by the same token, you can go to HYP et al., drink too much, spend weeks playing World of Warcraft, skip classes, and completely **** away an opportunity that many people would give an arm and a leg for. </p>
<p>Any school, regardless of its resources and reputation, is going to pay dividends that relate directly to how much effort you invest in your education. Even with the vaunted HYP Old Boy networks, those will help you out if you take the initiative to reach out to your fellow alumni. I’m always shocked at Harvard and Princeton to hear alumni insisting that the universities do more to help them with their careers, only to discover that they haven’t even taken the time to explore the resources already available to them. No employer anywhere is going to seek you out and offer you a job simply because of where you went to school.</p>