<p>Hi everyone! What are some really funny things parents do or say? I saw this thread from YEARS ago on College Confidential and wanted to bring it back! It had to do with Asian parents, but I wanted to open it up to everybody! </p>
<p>I love my parents and sometimes they say the funniest things and it cracks me up. These are not stereotypes, merely commonalities. I bet everyone else has some stories or statements theyd like to share. This is solely for laughs for everyone and to hear some stories. Im Asian myself =)</p>
<p>Just remember, it doesnt HAVE to be about studying .it can be anything. Let's share! These were from the thread from 2004 haha. </p>
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Today my mom called Tufts University "that dou fu university". Yes...Tofu University. I wish I were kidding.
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Piguant77</p>
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Chen</p>
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HYPSM: You have honored this family well </p>
<p>Penn: You have disgraced the family going to penn state </p>
<p>Brown: What is this brown, no school can be good if named after a color </p>
<p>Columbia: You are not going outside the country for you education </p>
<p>Georgetown: You got accepted to a city? </p>
<p>U of Chicago: I will not let my child attend a public university </p>
<p>Northwestern: What?, you got accepted to a direction, what a disgrace to the family honor </p>
<p>AW or S: who has ever heard of (Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore) back home, you better start learning to wash dishes </p>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon: What kind of fruit is that? </p>
<p>Vanderbilt: Who-built? I don't know anything Vander did do be famous. </p>
<p>WUSTL: Where is St. Louis is it even part of the united states? Who is this "washington" </p>
<p>Rice: I will not let my child attend a cuilinary school, you will be a honorable scientist, not a chef </p>
<p>Wake Forest: What can you learn from a forest, I want my child to go to a university </p>
<p>Reed:They are sending us acceptance letters becasue you are such a disgrace that they think you need to learn how to READ </p>
<p>Colgate: Toothbrush making school is not a place I will send MY child </p>
<p>And I'm sure there's plenty more
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- Gameguy56</p>
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Mom: A B+ in calc ap?!? aaaiiiyahh!!! penn state (she means upenn) wont even let you use bathroom!! </p>
<p>Dad: You are such a failure and disgrace to this family! Look at cousin Eugene, I bet he's going to get into Harvard
Me: Dad, Eugene locks himself in his room and studies all day, he has no friends, hes a loser
Dad: YOU ARE A LOSER!!! YOU CAN'T EVEN SCORE A 1500 ON SAT!!
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- Fhmamii</p>
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" If don't study now, you will end up at sleeping in the cardboard box in the future."
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- SammyWu</p>
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Behindthemyth: Omg, my dad said the same thing: "I will 'break the iron pot and sell the iron'(translation--a old chinese phrase meaning that one will sell everything one owns), or even 'sell my blood' if you get into Hahvard---"Ha Fu" (in chinese)..." </p>
<p>so, I dont know, I'm not sure I want to go to Harvard if my parents have to sell their blood. But I think they are just talking :P ---just another part of their College Talk...lol
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- Sharshar</p>
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yeah, my mom compares 'math skills' of students in America, to taiwan/china/japan...and to her own schooling </p>
<p>"I learned algebra in elementary school" </p>
<p>maybe i'm exaggerating. maybe not. i can't remember what she said exactly, but it's something ridiculous like that. </p>
<p>"in japan, kids learn calculus in middle school" lol
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- L0serchild99</p>