From the submitted blog post: "third, that I understood how ridiculous it was to say that I had no money. Out-of-state tuition at the University of Virginia is almost $50,000 per year, and my scholarship alone put me in the world’s top 1% of earners."

I liked the point in the blog post that a United States student at a decent university with full financial support for studies is, by that fact alone, basically in the top 1 percent of the world in income. When I went overseas (to Taiwan in early 1982), it was also to gain perspective on another country and another level of income, and to get out of my narrow American rut. I would go back there (or to many other places outside the United States) in a heartbeat.