穿白色耐克鞋的神秘學生

穿白色耐克鞋的神秘學生

Late one spring afternoon last year, a mystery man sat in the back of a creative-writing seminar at Stanford. Evidently a student, he was much older than anyone else in the room. He was wearing a black blazer and white Nikes. He said his name was Phil.

As the days passed, the man's identity gradually came into focus. The instructor 'made several vague allusions to Phil taking off in his private jet,' recalls Andre Lyon, an English major enrolled in the class. And tales about Michael Jordan found their way into the man's literary discourse.

After a couple of weeks, a rumor began to circulate that the old dude in the Nikes was Philip H. Knight, the billionaire founder of the world's largest sportswear company.
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Gosh, do you know how far it is, from Ohio to Standford?
Stanford is in California, and Ohio, I did not know until i see the map, is by the Great Lakes, which means he has to almost travel across whole America for writing classes.
I feel respect and jealousy for him at the same time.
It's ever nice to live one's own life in one's own favorite way.