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It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.

— Mary Barra

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

— Richard Sherman

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

— Andrew Luck

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

— Victor Koo

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

— Tyler Oakley

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

— Stacey D'Erasmo

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

— Analeigh Tipton

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

— Aisha Tyler

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

— Caroline Lawrence

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

— Billy Bragg

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

— Henry Kravis