Why are some posters here in the college forum so nasty?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

Because high academic achievers are NEVER good looking or sexually voracious, right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

thank you, for an enormous laugh.

You should watch the movie, Revenge of the Nerds. The plot is something along the line of academic nerds who couldn't get laid in HS or in college becoming more successful in life than jocks who had all the girls in HS and in college. Hence the title, Revenge of the Nerds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your child is 10+ years away from college. I don't know what types of questions you are asking but it could be that some posters think that you are jumping the gun a bit. Your child is young and there is no guarantee that your kid will even want to go to college. It's possible that your questions come off as a bit "trollish" and that some of the posters think that is your way of making fun of their own angst?

100% this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

Because high academic achievers are NEVER good looking or sexually voracious, right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

thank you, for an enormous laugh.

You should watch the movie, Revenge of the Nerds. The plot is something along the line of academic nerds who couldn't get laid in HS or in college becoming more successful in life than jocks who had all the girls in HS and in college. Hence the title, Revenge of the Nerds.

IME, that's one of those things that sounds really nice in theory and certain people loooove to trot out, especially on the Internet, but doesn't play out in real life as often as some would like you to think. Kind of like how as a kid I thought quicksand was going to be a way bigger issue than it actually ended up being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

This gave me a good chuckle - thanks!

a lot of good responses (psychology) in this thread. If you see mean, ad hominem, aggressive, useless rants - report them - it will help improve the forum for the rest of us. The 'broken glass' theory of Rudy Guiliani seems to work here as well (i.e. if you see broken glass in the neighborhood, bad behavior is more likely, so keep the glass from being broken).

And keep in mind what the ultimate objective of sending kids to school (and parenting) is: for them to learn to be kind, caring, competent people who are curious, honest and hard working.

Definitely agree with this. A lot of the rudeness come from parents here who may pay lip service to this but ultimately think the only thing that really matters is that enough people have heard of the college and would be jealous that you/your kids go there.

[Anonymous]

There are many posters who went to no-name U and have dedicated there lives to ensuring that their child doesn’t endure the same fate. Those are the over-invested, status-obsessed posters that are intolerably rude on this forum.

[Anonymous]

I think there are maybe 5 mentally ill posters who troll this forum, the private school forum, and the fashion forum. They need to get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are maybe 5 mentally ill posters who troll this forum, the private school forum, and the fashion forum. They need to get a life.

Only five??

[Anonymous]

Having gone through it, the college process is challenging
A “good” college means nothing if it is not a good fit for their child. As parents, you know your kid.
Having said that, there is one school in our area where we would never send any of our kids. I have never met anyone, not one person, who has gone to Georgetown that I respect. Many think it’s wonderful.
I admit I have trashed Georgetown. Sarcasm can be nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having gone through it, the college process is challenging
A “good” college means nothing if it is not a good fit for their child. As parents, you know your kid.
Having said that, there is one school in our area where we would never send any of our kids. I have never met anyone, not one person, who has gone to Georgetown that I respect. Many think it’s wonderful.
I admit I have trashed Georgetown. Sarcasm can be nasty.

So that’s a good example of what’s wrong. All schools have both jerks and wonderful people who attended. Why malign a college because you met one of the jerks? My mother went to Georgetown. I’m sure some posters went to Georgetown. And some posters kids go there now. Does it make you somehow feel better to trash a school and its students and alums?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

This gave me a good chuckle - thanks!

a lot of good responses (psychology) in this thread. If you see mean, ad hominem, aggressive, useless rants - report them - it will help improve the forum for the rest of us. The 'broken glass' theory of Rudy Guiliani seems to work here as well (i.e. if you see broken glass in the neighborhood, bad behavior is more likely, so keep the glass from being broken).

And keep in mind what the ultimate objective of sending kids to school (and parenting) is: for them to learn to be kind, caring, competent people who are curious, honest and hard working.

Definitely agree with this. A lot of the rudeness come from parents here who may pay lip service to this but ultimately think the only thing that really matters is that enough people have heard of the college and would be jealous that you/your kids go there.

What in the world? (Now I'm going to come off sounding rude). I"m not paying $68k a year for my kid to be "kind, caring, competent people ... etc." DC is already all those things. College isn;t going t teach you those things That's ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

This gave me a good chuckle - thanks!

a lot of good responses (psychology) in this thread. If you see mean, ad hominem, aggressive, useless rants - report them - it will help improve the forum for the rest of us. The 'broken glass' theory of Rudy Guiliani seems to work here as well (i.e. if you see broken glass in the neighborhood, bad behavior is more likely, so keep the glass from being broken).

And keep in mind what the ultimate objective of sending kids to school (and parenting) is: for them to learn to be kind, caring, competent people who are curious, honest and hard working.

Definitely agree with this. A lot of the rudeness come from parents here who may pay lip service to this but ultimately think the only thing that really matters is that enough people have heard of the college and would be jealous that you/your kids go there.

What in the world? (Now I'm going to come off sounding rude). I"m not paying $68k a year for my kid to be "kind, caring, competent people ... etc." DC is already all those things. College isn;t going t teach you those things That's ridiculous.

+1 billion

If you haven’t managed to instill those values in your kids for the 18+ years they lived at home, 4 years at any school isn’t going to do it.

[Anonymous]

They are nasty online because this is the only place they can be nasty and get away with it. If they were nasty in the real world, there would be consequences. Besides sometimes being nasty is a guilty pleasure. It feels good to vent and just tell it like it is with no filter.

[Anonymous]

I like to make fun of the UMD & UVA boosters. Their crazy posts are too hard to resist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

This gave me a good chuckle - thanks!

a lot of good responses (psychology) in this thread. If you see mean, ad hominem, aggressive, useless rants - report them - it will help improve the forum for the rest of us. The 'broken glass' theory of Rudy Guiliani seems to work here as well (i.e. if you see broken glass in the neighborhood, bad behavior is more likely, so keep the glass from being broken).

And keep in mind what the ultimate objective of sending kids to school (and parenting) is: for them to learn to be kind, caring, competent people who are curious, honest and hard working.

Definitely agree with this. A lot of the rudeness come from parents here who may pay lip service to this but ultimately think the only thing that really matters is that enough people have heard of the college and would be jealous that you/your kids go there.

What in the world? (Now I'm going to come off sounding rude). I"m not paying $68k a year for my kid to be "kind, caring, competent people ... etc." DC is already all those things. College isn;t going t teach you those things That's ridiculous.

+1 billion

If you haven’t managed to instill those values in your kids for the 18+ years they lived at home, 4 years at any school isn’t going to do it.

+1000

Is that learned in elementary/middle school? They should have that stuff down before even HS.

[Anonymous]

^isn’t