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That is unfortunately true. There is this old joke: Q: How do you know someone is from MIT {Stanford, Havard, ...}? A: He tells you.
by catzaa 17y ago
That is unfortunately true.
There is this old joke:
Q: How do you know someone is from MIT {Stanford, Havard, ...}?
A: He tells you.
- scott_s 17y agoYour joke makes the opposite claim that he does at the end of his post. With no data either way, I guess we all default to our biases.
- jhancock 17y agoThe refined version for those from Harvard is: Q: Where did you go to school? A: Boston. Q: uhh, where in Boston? A: Harvard. They make you draw it out of them. I have found at least three types of people that respond in this manner: 1 - The person that was raised elite since birth and really doesn't care at all what you think about him. So him dragging it out is him avoiding the question and hoping you'll learn not to pry. 2 - The person that is tired of being identified with this standard questioning. So him dragging it out is somewhere in the middle. He can use it to his advantage when needed but for the most part doesn't want to be identified in this way. 3 - The snob.
- pgbovine 17y agothe motivation for people i know to do that is less disingenuous ... 4 - if you say that you went to Harvard (or another well-known university), lots of people automatically cringe and think "ugh this guy must be a snob!", so if you're really not a snob, then the reason for avoiding specifics is so that people don't pre-judge upon first impressions. the responses to my article sort of exemplifies this phenomenon. lots of readers didn't like how i 'name-dropped' where i attended school ... i was mentioning where i went to school because it's relevant for the point i'm making in my article, not merely to show off or brag. oftentimes i don't tell people where i went to school because i don't want to automatically be viewed as a snob on first impressions.