After three years at Brown, I just can\'t help but regret why I chose a middle Ivy League instead of a top research institution that has a comparable undergraduate program. Probably I got caught up with comparing myself with other fellow high school friends, and was anxious for an Ivy League education, whatever that means to various people. Probably brainwashed with the elitist crap that the teachers and parents (perhaps) crammed in our heads. In the adult world, grad-school prestige is far more respected than where you went as an undergrad, even if you went to HYPS. Second, I probably chose Brown because its classes seemed admittedly easier than the supposed grade deflation which swayed me away from the U of Chicago. Although I was confident with English, I really wasn\'t sure whether I would be able to do well at a college in the US. But once there, Brown really sinks the academic rigor when one tries to pursue it; everybody plays and nobody really has any serious focus (unless you\'re bound for law or med school, in which students are very ferocious as in any other top undergrad institution). I found myself shunning away from real academic challenges while strangely feeling inferior when taking easy courses, which made me lose all of my academic drive (that I had too much of when in high school). That\'s part of the reason I chose Philosophy as a minor; to be CHALLENGED. Third, Brown is just shit when it comes to name recognition among most Korean adults and professionals (except maybe those in the corporate world), thereby making students like me just, sad. 

(crying over the 200 thousand dollars I paid for attending a school whose name is the same as the color of all of its builidings.)