"Oh yeah, from Connecticut, his father designed houses for hedge funders and WWE guys, he would provide the wine and brie and...
"Oh yeah, from Connecticut, his father designed houses for hedge funders and WWE guys, he would provide the wine and brie and caviar when we took mushrooms and wandered the Plantations" did you go to college in a Tom Wolfe novel?
Yo when I said the other day about horses and sailing that you don’t get an Ivy League degree without learning a bit about the life experience of New England preppies?
Wolfe got an American Studies PhD at Yale
I mean you realize “acculturate you to the existing elite” is a significant part of the Ivy League. That’s why they were always bringing in recognizable names for talks and mixers after, to make you feel like you naturally belonged among them and should strive for their approval.
At graduation I joked that the 2 most important things Cornell had taught me was an accurate mental model of Manhattan neighborhoods and that real people count money with at most two significant digits