Why are Harvard people so arrogant?

[Anonymous]

Maybe because they are ugly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.

I have a friend who went there for undergrad, and he hated it. He said the people he was around were all so snobby. He wasn't rich and had to work as a pizza delivery guy to help pay for college. I know there are people who go there who are not rich, so maybe it was just the people in his major.

Did he major in Art History or something like that?

[Anonymous]

I know several writers from Harvard - none are arrogant.

[Anonymous]

DD graduated from Harvard Medical School. The last thing on earth that she is is arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:harvard college is massively overrated. i know at least a dozen people who transferred to other schools because the experience was so bad.

I have a friend who went there for undergrad, and he hated it. He said the people he was around were all so snobby. He wasn't rich and had to work as a pizza delivery guy to help pay for college. I know there are people who go there who are not rich, so maybe it was just the people in his major.

Did he major in Art History or something like that?

nope, pre law. Went onto a great law school, not Harvard. He couldn't get away fast enough.

[Anonymous]

I went for a proctology exam. As I was being prepped on the table, I noticed the doctor's Harvard degree framed on the wall. Oh good! I thought. He really knows a--h--es.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's part of their brand at this point. You don't hear[/b] Yalies talking about how they can't drop the "Y Bomb" in conversation,[b] but it seems like at freshman orientation Harvard kids are instructed to be careful not to scare the normies with their exceptionalism.

Just laugh at them and keep it moving.

Omg, Yale’s are the worst. This woman we went to grad school with dropped the Yale bomb nonstop and it was so excruciating. And professionally, she is very normal - of intelligence , work rate and creativity. Totally average. And yet it continues.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in, but once you are in, hard to fail out even if you do poorly.

same for stanford. They don't want to mess up their average GPA, so they let students retake classes over and over until they get a high grade they let them drop a class the day before finals if they are failing. My public no name univ. would never allow that.

The public universities used to do that, it’s bummer now that they don’t. The theory was that since they let ‘anyone ‘ in you should have as many tries as you need to pass. Ah, the good old days...

[Anonymous]

I certainly have worked with and know many smart, interesting and lovely people who have gone to Harvard, BUT every single person I have met who I find truly obnoxious, difficult or with an overly inflated sense of self, also went to Harvard.

Admittedly and fortunately that not many people, and there may be some confirmation bias at work, but I really can't think of anyone I really dislike who went to a school other than Harvard. Just my anecdotal experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find they are the most quick of any school in the nation to work the word Harvard into a sentence.

Or to wear that stupid burnt red sweatshirt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's part of their brand at this point. You don't hear[/b] Yalies talking about how they can't drop the "Y Bomb" in conversation,[b] but it seems like at freshman orientation Harvard kids are instructed to be careful not to scare the normies with their exceptionalism.

Just laugh at them and keep it moving.

Omg, Yale’s are the worst. This woman we went to grad school with dropped the Yale bomb nonstop and it was so excruciating. And professionally, she is very normal - of intelligence , work rate and creativity. Totally average. And yet it continues.

To the last person who told me that they had gone to college "in New Haven" I replied, "Southern Connecticut State?"

[Anonymous]

Harvard Law grad here. I never tell people unless really pressed into it.

There are two kinds of us...the ones who drop it the first chance they get, and the other type who never drops it.

The reason for both behaviors is the same: Once known, it affects the way people interact with you.

I don't like people assuming I'm smart, rich, arrogant or connected. I hope they will think I'm smart by dealing with me.

I did drop it once. Once, in the first few seconds of my first conversation with someone, she dropped the undergrad on me and I thought, screw this BS, so I dropped the law school back on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's why DD picked Yale over Harvard, and couldn't be happier with her choice!

Just tell her to watch those Halloween costumes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard Law grad here. I never tell people unless really pressed into it.

There are two kinds of us...the ones who drop it the first chance they get, and the other type who never drops it.

The reason for both behaviors is the same: Once known, it affects the way people interact with you.

I don't like people assuming I'm smart, rich, arrogant or connected. I hope they will think I'm smart by dealing with me.

I did drop it once. Once, in the first few seconds of my first conversation with someone, she dropped the undergrad on me and I thought, screw this BS, so I dropped the law school back on her.

I thought there were two types: Those who say "Harvard Law School" and those who say "The Harvard Law School."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard Law grad here. I never tell people unless really pressed into it.

There are two kinds of us...the ones who drop it the first chance they get, and the other type who never drops it.

The reason for both behaviors is the same: Once known, it affects the way people interact with you.

I don't like people assuming I'm smart, rich, arrogant or connected. I hope they will think I'm smart by dealing with me.

I did drop it once. Once, in the first few seconds of my first conversation with someone, she dropped the undergrad on me and I thought, screw this BS, so I dropped the law school back on her.

I know a couple of people who went to Harvard. Knowing this doesn't change the way I interact with them because they aren't arrogant to begin with.

I know a woman who went to Stanford, and she is arrogant.