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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]How annoyed would you be by this habit? Is this something that you try to gently discourage your spouse from doing?

To be clear, my wife went to a mid-career Harvard masters program that has virtually no admissions standards -- if you are willing to pay $50K, you are in, as far as I can tell, regardless of your prior achievements (or lack thereof). Some people in this particular program didn't even go to college, according to an article that the WSJ published a few years ago about Ivy League masters programs. So this isn't exactly a challenging program. The program did her absolutely no good in the job market. She is currently unemployed, and has been for many years.

Each time she mentions that she is a Harvard alum, I cringe, not only because I think it is in poor taste, but because I think the people she is talking to see right through this act. She isn't a skilled speaker, nor is she well-read. So intellectually, her contribution to a conversation is minimal. My wife has many good qualities, but this particular part of her behavior strikes me as gauche. [/quote]

Hahaha.  If you didn't specify that this is your wife, I would have thought you were talking about a guy we know (not well) and see a lot during the summer because of swim team.  He also did one of those programs that was like 12 weeks but tells EVERYONE that he went to Harvard and wears the t-shirt just about every day.  People talk about him and laugh but he put himself in that position because he is so in everyone's face about Harvard.  If he said nothing no one would care where he went to school.  I personally think he is just extremely insecure.

Do your wife a favor and tell her it is not a good look.
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Lol I know someone who does this with a one week yale program. [/quote]

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