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I'm one of those people who doesn't believe he's anything special, and none of the people around me as I was growing up seemed to think so either. So I went first to a community college and then to a California state university. And I passed with all A's in my sleep, and out in the business world I realized I was a deeper thinker than most people around me (one of the reasons nobody thought I was anything special when I was younger was because they were looking for superficial answers to questions, and I always tried for the deep answer. They didn't get it, and I never understood why.
Anyway, I could probably have gone to a name college had I had more support. But I have no regrets; I'm not incredibly ambitious for my own sake, and I've found about 50 percent of the work I've done worthwhile.
On the big/small college thing: I went to a state college with 25000 people, which seems big; but it was a commuter school with only about 2000 people living on campus and maybe another 2000 in the surrounding neighborhood. So there was an inner community that really did know each other really well. I'd walk across campus and say hi to 5 or 10 people along the way. So when you're considering large vs. small, remember that a lot of large commuter universities actually do contain tight little communities within them.
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