I guess you're not married. It was very important to my wife that my son go to an Ivy. He was for it too so I got outvoted. I'd say the school was not good for him, but I'm sure he shares some of the blame. He did come back a lot more left than when he started.
As for me going there, I love it because I get to straighten out some of what goes on there. For example, in a "global warming" class the professor compared the incidence of solar radiation to ocean temperatures (or something like that - it's been a while). I asked how he could equate what was going on at the top of the atmosphere with something at the bottom when there was a little thing called clouds in the way. (He was very insistent that I ask questions!) And so he replied that, yeah I was right and it was an apples and oranges comparison. And twenty kids got to hear that not everything they were hearing about the data they were seeing was being properly explained. You can see another example for a class I wish I had taken in this Amazon Book Review. No Mao posters though, and surprisingly enough not even an Obama poster, though he has been a big Obama supporter. (My daughter cancels him out.)
On a serious note, as a fan of classical music, what’s your opinion of Beethoven’s Allegretto from the 7th?
I love everything about the Beethoven 7th, and the Liszt transcription too.
ML/NJ
I appreciate the reply.
I actually am married, and my kids are either out of college (one w/Master’s) or currently in. I know about the pull of the Ivies, however. In the early ‘90’s I actually visited Cornell several times in order to decide if I wanted to go to their law school. There was one (only one) prof there I liked (at least from the readings I did of his stuff).
But, God has other plans for us sometimes, so I never got to drag the entire family out to the Gorge. But, I never forgot the mystique of the challenge that the school would have been to a conservative. Congrats to you for keeping the ‘indoctrinator’ in line. Somebody’s got to keep their feet to the fire.
I’ve got to go ‘til tomorrow, but what did you think of Ithaca itself (politically left of Berkeley), as in the city itself? Expensive I suppose?