# Get accepted to Harvard for being smart, get kicked out for being stupid
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285 "2017-06-06T18:26:12Z")
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### Author:  [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285/101 "2017-06-08T04:10:50Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> I make no special effort to hide who I am. A simple google search should be enough to find my name. But I’ll save everyone the trouble and point out that my username here (and pretty much everywhere else online) is my first initial and last name. It only looks obscure because my last name is unusual. Anyway, you only need to google if you want to know my first name.
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> I’ve been following the rule I cited about what to post online for 30-some years now, ever since I got on USENET.
That’s great. How about people you talk to? You frisk them for recording devices?
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285/102 "2017-06-08T09:45:45Z")
> [@Marci\_Al](#):
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> Is Harvard saying it cant reform that kind of behavior off the bud?
No, they’re saying “It’s not our _job_” to “reform” anyone.
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> Harvard should know that adolescent, especially male, brains aren’t fully formed until they are in their early 20’s at best.
:rolleyes:
that doesn’t mean they’re still children.
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### Author:  [@Marci\_Al](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285/103 "2017-06-08T23:03:17Z")
All kinds of liberal or conservative crap they can inculcate but discreetness in expressing one’s self is beyond them. Like I said earlier, private universities are profitable businesses. Everything else is illusion.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-accepted-to-harvard-for-being-smart-get-kicked-out-for-being-stupid/788285/104 "2017-06-08T23:57:37Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> I make no special effort to hide who I am. A simple google search should be enough to find my name. But I’ll save everyone the trouble and point out that my username here (and pretty much everywhere else online) is my first initial and last name. It only looks obscure because my last name is unusual. Anyway, you only need to google if you want to know my first name.
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> I’ve been following the rule I cited about what to post online for 30-some years now, ever since I got on USENET.
I’m pretty much the same way. I don’t say anything here or anywhere on the Internet that I wouldn’t say in public. But, then again, I’m very open with my details. Anybody can figure out who I am pretty easily. Pretty sure I’ve even stated it on the board at several points. To be sure, I’m this way with most of my friends, too, even pre-Internet public shaming.
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