BIO
A graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law, Julie Lythcott-Haims practiced law in the Bay Area for many years before returning to Stanford as an Associate Dean, and then Assistant to the President (John Hennessy). After that, she spent a decade as the Dean of Freshmen, a position she created in 2002. Almost 20,000 undergraduates matriculated on her watch, and in 2010 she received the university’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award. To her students she was affectionately known as “Dean Julie.”
So I guess it was ok and fitting for her to chase the stanford/harvard dream but would be way too pressure packed for mere mortals. Kind of lost me already right there. I will pass on her sage advice and continue to follow my own conscience and values.