[Rick Lee]

I was only once ever asked by an employer where I went to college and it was several months after I had started the job. Turns out my manager had also gone to Pitt and just wanted to know if I knew some of her friends.

I went to a prep school that was created as a feeder school for Princeton. In my dad's day, if you went to that school, you just had to call up Princeton and tell them to hold a space for you.

I think Ivy League schools are overhyped. People think Bush is an idiot and he went to Yale and Harvard. Cheney failed out of Yale TWICE. Of all the rich and successful people I know, only one went to Harvard and he did it on a basketball scholarship.

A co-worker is about to start grad school at Columbia School of Journalism. It's running her $38k per year. I just can't see the value in that, since it won't earn her a dime more as a reporter than she makes now as a commissioned salesperson. Sort of reminds me of Jon Corzine or Michael Bloomberg paying tens of millions of dollars to get a job that pays $150k a year.