I watched the Warren Buffett documentary – and it did not address his reasons for leaving Wharton. I attended the same program, and while I knew freshman fall I wanted to leave, I had a low GPA and I was so terrified of failure that I stayed 4 more years and graduated. Some of the worst four years of my life.
The trope of the whartonite who would sell out his grandmother to make a dime was more truth than fiction.
There was harshness there. Elitism. Mediocrity and family money.
The game was rigged.
So I wonder if I had had the courage in 2006 to transfer, how different my life could’ve been.
I doubt I’d be the next Buffett.
But maybe I’d be happy and healthy.
So I ask Mr. Buffett, who will likely never read this page, did you feel as I did about that place? Is that why you left?
Laughs and Lobotomies 