Dreaming of Stanford

**How do I do high school? How do I get into the college of my dreams? What's the point of school? Should I start drinking coffee? Recent Stanford grads Nikhil Goel and Sanjay Kannan dissect these questions and more in this provocative rethinking of the modern high school experience. Written by students, for students, Dreaming of Stanford is packed with humor, honesty, and tangible insights.** Instead of exploring their own interests or discovering who they are, today's students often blindly worship college as the be-all, end-all of life. "Ah! A 2400! Bow down!" Drawing from personal experience, as well as the journeys of every college graduate they know, Goel and Kannan challenge this mindless pursuit by deconstructing existing ideas of education and reconstructing them with clarity. Why is college not the end goal? Why are perceptions of college so skewed? Why is rebellion against authority figures as important as it is dangerous? And why do the authors ask so many questions? An invaluable resource for students, parents, and educators, this lucid manifesto lays the foundation to rethink high school and the cumbersome questions of growing up. Praise from the original Reddit post on r/ApplyingToCollege: "The insightfulness of these [71] pages is insane. I can't believe I'm reading this for fun." - RelevantDead "Gems like this are why I stick around." - x64bit, high school sophomore "I think I may have just read the work of geniuses." - yikesohmy, high school senior