It Is Still Your Shot, Sir

[摘要] IF you can tolerate your child possessing elitist inclinations and lifelong feelings of supremacy, IF your child can tolerate a lifetime of barbs and insults from the graduates of the nearby public university, and IF you have enough money not tied up in Japanese bearer bonds, maybe you want your child to receive undergraduate instruction at:> Stanford.> Huh? The Leland Stanford Junior University? What?Maybe you thought I was going to say:> Duke?Yikes! Ick. Kinda like cafeteria-grade chili. Appealing to those so inclined, but can make you unpleasant to be around. But if you can get in, you want to go, right? ’Cause you were special to start with.Maybe. Let’s be more reasonable. Maybe you want your kid to go to. . . Cal. Yeah. That would be tolerable. And less expensive. But, you counter, that would still be fat bank1 for those of us who do not live and breed in California. Perhaps there is a way to knock it down a bit without becoming house poor or living in Bakersfield. Why yes, yes there is!Golf scholarship!If such good fortune were indeed to come your way, you could entertain alternate ways of disbursing little Pixie’s2 collegiate monetary stash, if she has such a thing. She does not need to know that it is really her money and you have worked enough to desire something nice. Your wardrobe needs an overhaul, if nothing else, and that stereo system you bought in college has got to go. If you are not wealthy enough to have money earmarked for dearest Pixie’s educational odyssey, put this journal down and go drum up some business.3 If you do not have children, go find something to do with all that money you have lying around.You could indeed …

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] Campylobacter;proljev;dob