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This might be the first time I have seen someone from an Ivy league college not mention the name (intentionally). Why not just say X/Y/Z?
by mrtron 11y ago
This might be the first time I have seen someone from an Ivy league college not mention the name (intentionally). Why not just say X/Y/Z?
- elbigbad 11y agoI don't think specifying exactly which school, or even which "group of three" schools is really germane to the point being made. Probably "Ivy League" wasn't even especially relevant, but is a way to quickly state what probably was relevant, a "top school."
- LanceH 11y agoDon't they say that it is always Penn when they don't mention the school?
- douche 11y agoIt's not something I like to trumpet out. I dealt with enough toolbags at said institution of higher learning who tended to have little personality beyond exclaiming how they got a 2400 on the SAT, that they were the valedictorian of their class, how hard corporate recruiting was, and how sick it was that they got that internship at McKinsey, or Bridgewater. Also white-trash Yankee hillbillies are rare enough at these sorts of places that I might as well give up any pretenses of online anonymity if I said specifically which one it was.
- 7402 11y agoIt's not uncommon for people who went to Harvard to avoid mentioning it right away, because of the way it can derail conversations or create weird expectations. (It's sometimes referrred to as, "Dropping the H-bomb.") [1] http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/28/not_easy_for_harvard_grads_to_say_they_went_there/ http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012... [2] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-who-went-to-Harvard-sometimes-say-I-went-to-school-in-Boston-when-asked-where-they-went-to-college https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-who-went-to-Harvard-some...