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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll say it again: Get new friends, OP. And get tougher with your relatives. Don't let them get away with riling you up over your alma mater. They know you are sensitive about it, so that's where they attack you. Start wearing Indiana sweaters, pins, hats, whatever. Be proud of your alma mater, OP.

I went to an Ivy and DH went to a completely no-name school. DH has done far better than I have financially. No one has ever asked where we went to school, but I imagine they'd guess he went to the Ivy and I went to the no-name.

In the end, it doesn't matter. I took some classes at a community college, and met amazing, brilliant people, much smarter than my Ivy-born and bred friends. These people didn't come from money, most were second generation Americans, the first in their family to go to college, and most worked full time jobs and went to school at night. I've never met a more hard-working and smarter group of people.

People who sneer at where you went to college are ignorant. Let go of them as friends, and keep your nasty relations at arms length. Be proud of who you are and what you accomplished, OP. And let that chip fall off your shoulder and don't think about it ever again. [/quote]
Well said![/quote]

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