Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 22:58     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
I find most people on this board to be obnoxious and very strangely obsessed with college, even decades after it's f'ing over already. But the 3 people I've been friends with who went to Harvard were incredibly humble, hard-working, genuinely wonderful people.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 22:55     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
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, 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 [b]college "in New Haven" I replied, "Southern Connecticut State?"


bless their hearts, they are trying...but they will never be us no matter how much they want to.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 22:52     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
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.


Yalies are funny. It is a mixture of haughtiness with a whiff of insecurity cause Yale aint Harvard.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 22:49     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
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.


This is kind of BS, Harvard has a 97-98% retention rate, and people who dont return usually drop out or take time off to pursue their projects.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 20:04     Subject: Re:Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wait, are you talking about all the people here in D.C. who "went to school in Boston?"



That always cracks me up. 1) Harvard is in Cambridge, 2) There are 53 colleges in the Boston area. For normal people, you are just being vague, not subtle.

Now the people who say "I went to school in New Haven" -- that's old school obnoxiousness.


Of the people I know who went to the top schools, they don't usually say Cambridge or New Haven, but they will instead say what area. ie: Boston, instead of Cambridge. OP, the people I know who went to Harvard are really down to earth and successful. You definitely don't learn where they went to school the first time you meet them - especially if it is the top law schools or PhD programs or professional programs! They don't have anything to prove to anyone, least of all, a stranger. One of the many reasons why, when I meet cocky people from this area, I just assume they are poseurs - because the people I know who went to the (truly) great schools don't act like a-holes, IRL. Think about it, if you really are all that, you don't have to go around advertising it, in any form - whether it is being an a-hole, or something else.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 19:58     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:This thread is one of the most stupid ever.

I am from London and its like hearing an ignorant Londoner saying "Why are all Americans so fat and stupid?"

See how I did that?



Yeah.. and we think, "why can't Londoner's learn to speak English properly?"
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 19:54     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
This thread is one of the most stupid ever.

I am from London and its like hearing an ignorant Londoner saying "Why are all Americans so fat and stupid?"

See how I did that?

Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 19:26     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote: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.


similar experience. i work with someone who mentions he went to harvard in conservation at least twice a week. (this is someone who went there more than two decades ago.) I also know only two people my age (40s) who still use their college email addresses as their personal email, and guess what school they went to?
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 19:20     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in, but once you are in, hard to fail out even if you do poorly.


Very true!!! So the ones who got n due to $$$$, connections, athletic, reap the benefit of the name.....
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 19:18     Subject: Re:Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:Some theories:

1) Harvard is a huge school. It claims more than 370,000 alumni, who are overrepresented in DC. So you meet more Harvard alumni than alumni from most other big schools.

2) You probably interact with a lot of Harvard people, some who name drop and some who don't. The ones who name drop tend to act like, well, name droppers. The others are less likely to, but you don't associate them with Harvard.

3) Confirmation bias; you are more likely to notice and remember Harvard jerks than jerks from other schools or regular people from Harvard because of the preexisting reputation.

- Harvard (grad school) alumni who tries not to mention it.

369,999 jerks

Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 18:58     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
I never mention it to people. While I was going there (graduate school), my boyfriend at the time would mention that we were Harvard students to anyone/everyone we came across- it was embarrassing.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 18:53     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Bullshit. Harvard doesn't have a pre-law major.

I don't know his exact major, but it was a prelaw type. He went onto a law grad school.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 18:48     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Bullshit. Harvard doesn't have a pre-law major.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 18:44     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
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.



It's supposed to be crimson.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2018 18:18     Subject: Why are Harvard people so arrogant?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Pre-law isn't a major at Harvard.