<p>How many of you dream of going to harvard to wear that shiny sweatshirt outside in front of the public or have that big bumper sticker Class of "" so everyone can see how important you are?</p>
<p>Or perhaps wear a nice, white Harvard lacrosse jersey with your sizzling body and go to the gym to show people your looks and your body for the ladies or guys to approach you and say.</p>
<p>Or is it for.. "Oh yeah, my son, he's a sophmore at Harvard.." ..."Wow, thats amazing" ...lady sitting next to her.. "Yeah, my son is doing really well at University of Idaho"...I suppose this makes you feel good.</p>
<p>Or even for the hot chick to come up to you and say "wow, you go to harvard, I guess youll be rich.. take me away with you"</p>
<p>The unwritten rule is that a Harvard t-shirt or sweatshirt cannot be worn outside of Cambridge by a true Harvard student. It is seen as unseemly bragging.</p>
<p>LMAO!
There are so many tourists and Harvardwannabes wearing Harvard shirts that my experience has been that no one assumes that a person wearing a Harvard shirt goes there. </p>
<p>When I was a student there, my mom used to avoid telling my college to bragging parents of students going to less competitive colleges. Mom would listen politely and enthusiastically to the other parents and say nothing about me. </p>
<p>The other parents felt good. Mom felt good because she let the other parents feel great about their kids. </p>
<p>As for being approached at the gym, if anyone approaches you and you're wearing a Harvard shirt, they're likely to say,
"Do you know where the bathroom is?"
"Are you finished with that machine?"</p>
<p>"But really, one begins to wonder whether the cure might be worse than the disease. After all, the victims of Harvard Syndrome, tiresome though they may be, arent really hurting anyone. They have insulated themselves from reality, true, but only because reality is too disheartening to bear. If we cure them, we leave them with nothing to hold onto, no support in the wide world save the hard, cold truth about their real relationship to us and to our university....be they Tufties or MITers, Elis or Princetonians, Shakespeares Cassius put it best: 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.'"</p>
<p>After reading this article, I really have to side with Hanna's assessment of this guy. I mean COME ON!!</p>
<p>I think that what you will find if you are admitted to Harvard is that you quickly become embarassed to tell people where you're going to college. There's no clear way in dealing with the unavoidable response "Oh, that's great! You must be really smart then!" What does one say to that? "Yes, I am really smart, actually"--you can't say that because it sounds like you're bragging. "No, I don't know about how smart I am!"--you can't say that either because you're essentially saying, "No, you're just really average."</p>
<p>My line of the past few months in responding to those inquiring of my college choice has been, "Oh, I'm going to school in Boston." Only when they press on do I admit that I am indeed going to Harvard. </p>
<p>After I got in EA and became the instant object of congratulations around me, I would brush off the achievement, saying simply, "Yeah, mostly it's just nice to have the decision out of the way and feel settled."</p>
<p>And then the sweatshirt issue...after I got in last December, I wore my Harvard sweatshirt to school a few times. I ALWAYS got comments about it. One of my friends joked that it must be that I couldn't afford other sweatshirts, even when I wore the Harvard sweatshirt only once every few weeks (I jested back that he was right, I could not...given the exorbitant tuition prices).</p>
<p>Anyways, everyone should go read the first Q/A on the correct way to tell people you go to Harvard--I thought it was cute.</p>
<p>The same thing (sort of) with Yale. After EA decisions they sent out these shirts with a gigantic blue Y on the back that you could see from hundreds of feet away...I got lots of comments for wearing it, so I only did it twice. Byerly would have gotten a big kick out of those shirts.</p>
<p>And yea, the attention that you get after being accepted into a prestigious college is definitely embarassing unless you have an oversized ego.</p>
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think that what you will find if you are admitted to Harvard is that you quickly become embarassed to tell people where you're going to college. There's no clear way in dealing with the unavoidable response "Oh, that's great! You must be really smart then!" What does one say to that? "Yes, I am really smart, actually"--you can't say that because it sounds like you're bragging. "No, I don't know about how smart I am!"--you can't say that either because you're essentially saying, "No, you're just really average."</p>
<p>My line of the past few months in responding to those inquiring of my college choice has been, "Oh, I'm going to school in Boston." Only when they press on do I admit that I am indeed going to Harvard.
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<p>Haha, yeah. The whole thing always ends up being really awkward. On the one hand, you're excited and proud because of where you're going, like almost anyone who's going to college; on the other hand, if you show how excited you are, people tend to assume that you're some Harvard snob. At the same time, if you try to be modest, people sometimes think you're overmodest. You can't win. I don't think I have a 'harvard snob' bone in my body, so it tends to get awkward. Many of my friends didn't even know I was smart. When I told one of my friends, she said, 'Wait . . . you're smart? Really? I didn't know that.' </p>
<p>When I went to Disney on a band trip two or so months ago, my group of friends would tell every Disney employee they could find all the Ivies that I got into. They even made a song. It was extremely embarassing. I don't really like to talk about myself; but when I do, I'm more compelled to tell people what I do and what I'm passionate about, rather than where I'm going, because I don't define myself by where I'm spending the next four years.</p>
<p>Away from school my daughter mostly wears old t-shirts that have the name of her freshman dorm or new ones that have the name of her House. I guess that way her fellow Harvardians might acknowledge her, but most folks won't catch the reference.</p>
<p>YO, dem thugs be frontin g, holler back dawg, I iz right, aight, booyakasha, rickkkkk james, ahhh skeet skeet skeet...........................................I love when these people rock Harvard</p>