07-09-2011, 12:50 PM
RodentMaven -
  One word: Congratulations.
If I had to pick one feeling while reading about your daughter's upcoming fall? Envy.Â
(I tell this to the undergraduates when they call me for my annual Stanford Fund pledge: These are the best four years of your life. I qualify that by saying that life doesn't go downhill after that, but that you'll never have a situation when you are surrounded so closely and so intensely by so many talented, bright, fascinating and fun individuals.)
  One word: Congratulations.
If I had to pick one feeling while reading about your daughter's upcoming fall? Envy.Â
(I tell this to the undergraduates when they call me for my annual Stanford Fund pledge: These are the best four years of your life. I qualify that by saying that life doesn't go downhill after that, but that you'll never have a situation when you are surrounded so closely and so intensely by so many talented, bright, fascinating and fun individuals.)