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To: #Breeze who wrote (16468)	8/7/2023 11:31:12 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 27065

Yeah, Berkeley is an experience! I loved it as it is so big and complex it really teaches you to think for yourself about how to use the system to succeed. Stanford was cool also, but it is so much smaller they pretty much hold your hand as an undergraduate to help you get through. I only did some grad school there on HP's dime so it wasn't the same experience at CAL. BOTH schools are in such liberal, crazy azz political towns that I vowed I'd NEVER buy in Berkeley or Palo Alto... though the love of a woman caused me to put in an offer on an Eichler in Palo Alto she loved... Fortunately, someone bid more so my friend and broker found me a home in Los Altos, still California liberal but not nearly as crazy as Palo Alto or Berkeley. Given where I grew up, I was good at making friends "who didn't look like me" and got one of them an interview that led to a job. HP didn't have a lot of Chinese back then, even ABC, so it was quite the feather in my mentor's cap so he put me on his recruiting team at UC for about 10 years. It was so much fun to go back twice a year to put on a product show, interview students, and party... I haven't been there in decades but my GF has said in the past she wants to visit... before she got consumed with caring for her mother. Did your kids both graduate? I remember orientation lecture they said "look to your left and look to your right. Statistically one of you three won't make it to graduation." Hopefully they were the two who made it. I have two younger brothers who also went to UC schools, one graduated from Davis and the other dropped out of CAL so the statistics are about right for our family.

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