So I had to go to a doctor the other day, a specialist, and within the first two minutes(!!!) he mentioned he went to Harvard.
About five minutes later, he was talking about how he knew all about my condition as “I studied it at Harvard.”
OK, dude, I get it…you went to Harvard. I have a boner now because you are so intelligent and rich and knowledgeable because, well, you went to Harvard!
I guess I should bend down, kiss your shoes and thank the gods that I am so lucky to have a doctor who went to Harvard!
BTW, I graduated from SIU, in CARBONDALE…oh yes, THAT Carbondale…yessiree…the one in Illinois, SIU, in CARBONDALE!
Chew on that one, doc.
I get like this when people start going on about how old their family is and how far back they can trace their ancestors. I always feel like responding with “of course, my lot spontaneously generated at the back of someone’s fridge last Tuesday afternoon”.
In my experience grads from Harvard are insufferable. I’ve also not been impressed by them as employees (could be bias on my part). Did I mention I went to UVA? Did you know that Thomas Jefferson designed UVA and oversaw the construction… hey, where are you going?
On a smaller scale, I get that attitude from people who went to Penn State. I, of course, went to a lowly second-tier state university, and was therefore unworthy of Penn State. Never mind the fact that I didn’t even bother to apply to Penn State, not because I’m unworthy or anything, but because my second-tier college had what I wanted and it was cheaper.
Fuck the Penn Staters. If they want to relive their glory days in State College, let 'em.
Now now Robin, you know that Penn State is, at least in their opinions, a much higher quality school than any other university in Pennsylvania, including U Penn.
I’ve even heard that if you cut a Penn State alum’s arm, the blood comes out nittany blue.
(Did I mention that I went to Pitt, the ‘state affiliated’ but not state owned university?)
Of course Penn State is superior to any other university in Pennsylvania, and maybe in the whole world! How could I be so silly as to think otherwise!
I just wish they’d STFU about it and let us peons have our delusions of adequacy. After all, we’re lucky we got into college at all, because y’know, if we were truly deserving of a college education, we’d’ve gone to Penn State.
(Note to Penn Staters: The above is sarcasm. PSU is a fine school in most respects. I’m talking about the attitude of superiority.)
Did I mention I went to Shippensburg? A tiny little school no one outside PA has ever heard of, except people in Green Bay?
At a party once, I once met an insufferable little twit who informed me that he’d studied “at Harvard, in Massachussetts.” Really, the one in Massachussetts? Not the one in Oklahoma? Fascinating. Yeah, yeah, I went to a small college, where I studied English Lit. He’s better educated, and possibly more intelligent, than me. Still a dick, though.
I know a Harvard alum who thinks it is tacky to keep mentioning the Harvard thing all the time … so instead she constantly refers to “Cambridge” as in “When I was in Cambridge …” or “I remember back in Cambridge …” or “One thing about Cambridge is that …”
It could be worse. I just found out that my doctor went to the American Medical School of the Caribbean. I think I would rather have a Harvard-educated asshole.
The fact that you managed to graduate from SIU before you drank yourself to death is no small accomplishment.
I had hand surgery a month ago. Told the doc and the OR staff that I had multiple engineering degrees, and I’d appreciate it if they didn’t dumb down the conversation on my behalf.
My wife’s knee surgeon went to Notre Dame, and I grew up near South Bend, so he gets no slack from me, despite his catchphrase, “I’m the surgeon.”
I don’t like the Harvard graduate braggers either. I went to Dartmouth for grad school and the former Harvard types were always going on and on about it. Look, Dartmouth is one of the select eight schools permanently looked into the eternal coalition that is the Ivy League too. The Dartmouth campus looks a little like Harvard’s except it is much prettier. Dartmouth students, including me at one time, are generally much more attractive that Harvard students and there is much less of the self-destructive liberal vibe.
I used to work near Harvard and took walks across its campus almost every day. It was nice but it was no Dartmouth. The student body is large too, much larger than Dartmouth’s so I don’t know how selective than can be or how they can make education accessible to that many students. I won’t go so far to call it a diploma mill but almost anyone with perfect SAT scores, grades, and the ability to speak three languages and play 4 instruments can just walk onto campus and never receive less than a B- no matter what they do.
I don’t hate Harvard grads overall though. They are generally better than average at remembering my dinner order.
