01-16-2014, 03:17 PM
So I gather that others on this thread (oman?) had to, among other things, describe themselves in one word on their Dean-Fred-era Stanford application? Mine was "hopeful." Anybody else remember theirs?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)