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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have literally never heard of anyone not liking it. [/quote]

Hi, nice to meet you, Anonymous!

“Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.”
― Michael Chabon, [i]The Mysteries of Pittsburgh[/i]

I have an MA from Georgetown from the early '90s. (Terminal master's, so don't think it was some compassionate thing on the way to a PhD and I'm some bitter one.) I don't know that I actually hate anything, but I did not enjoy my program at Georgetown and really wanted nothing to do with the place after I left.

I remember some student calling me for a donation many years ago (the alumni development office used to hound pretty regularly and hard), and I told the kid that, yeah, I didn't really look fondly on my time there, and no I wasn't interested in making a donation. Then the dude asked whether I would donate even just $5 because it wasn't only how much alumni donated that counted in the rankings but also the alumni participation rate. I laughed and said no again and that I would be increasing my yearly contribution to my undergrad going forward instead of giving anything to Georgetown (which I did).

I then got in touch whatever office was in charge of contact information and told them that I wanted all my contact information removed so that nobody from Georgetown could find me again. Seemed to work. Haven't heard from the since then. That was cathartic.

Now we did look into their summer programs for my high schoolers and toured the campus (over Christmas, not an official tour) last time I was in the DMV, in part to prove to the universe that I'm not a complete ass and can recognize that just because Georgetown wasn't the right fit for me that it isn't a bad fit everybody. But my current senior wasn't interested in applying there.

Oh, and since moving from the DMV to the midwest 25+ years ago I have encountered exactly one other Georgetown grad that I know of (a former coworker of my wife). I don't think he and I have ever spoken about Georgetown (he and my wife have).[/quote]

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