Codie Sanchez

He's like, first of all, you're never going to get in touch with that person.

They're not going to devote any time to you.

But secondly, that's not helpful to you.

What you want is someone who's one step ahead of you.

So you can actually kind of grow with your mentor, right?

And they're much, they have just been through what you are about to go through.

So their advice is actually current and useful.

I thought that was a really interesting point you made.

Well, it's not even just time.

People ask me about how to get started in journalism.

I got started in journalism in the 1980s.

I don't know anything about what it means to start in journalism now, right?

I've just, it's a completely different landscape.

And I think the same is true in all manner of professions.

It's just not, you need someone who has experienced what you're about to experience.

we've gotten carried away with what we perceive to be the reputational importance of attending a particular institution.

And the key variable in the quality of your college education is you, it's not the college.

So if I took the top

100 colleges in the United States, like if I take a top 150, we take the top 100.

For an undergraduate degree, there are the quality of the resources, faculty resources available to students are roughly equivalent.