[flaubere]

I'm sure there are lots of bright people who are coasting at either Stanford or Google. If that's your goal, you might well achieve it. But at the same time, there are people who are going to be vastly more successful than that. The ones who revolutionize whole fields.

[Asymmetryk]

shouldn't everyone attending a top school be decidedly coasting along in some way about their education, so they can optimise preferred areas?