<p>The bulldog is certainly an unrelenting Harvard basher. It is surprising that he utilizes so little energy simple extolling the virtues of his alma mater. </p>
<p>He has always struck me as the archtype of the yalie lamented in the Daily News story previously cited: almost incapable of characterizing his school except relative to Harvard, and inclined, reflexively, to feel that the best way to boost the Blue is to castigate the Crimson!</p>
<p>so you're not going to reply to the substance of my post, just personally attack me. I thought I was actually being quite fair in my posts and the issue of burgeoning crime in cambridge is a real problem - you do it injustice by margnializing any report of a crime problem as the result of a tainted Harvard Crimson. Any hostility you perceived was surely from your over-sensitive feelings of pride towards your alma mater. </p>
<p>An old man, lambasting other posters when he sniffs anything negative said about harvard on a college admissions website does not strike me as the archetypal harvard alum. But I guess you have proved me wrong.</p>
<p>I guess I won't respond in kind, but just let the nature and value of my contributions here - as opposed to yours - speak for themselves.</p>
<p>What, exactly, is the value of your contribution?</p>
<p>I'm not sure citing flawed data and meaningless rankings is really all that important.</p>
<p>And interjecting your piece for Harvard even when it's "Yale versus Princeton" or other debates...</p>
<p>well that can't be valuable at all.</p>
<p>It is intriguing that a dedicated Stanford guy such as yourself spends so much time of the Harvard page - usually sniping.</p>
<p>Is this a Stanford version of "Yale syndrome" ? ie, making yourself feel better about your choice by running down "the competition"?</p>
<p>Stanford is an excellent school, and such an approach should hardly be necessary.</p>
<p>Well the Harvard pages is where all the great debates and slugfests take place. And as one who relishes debate, well, this is the place to be. </p>
<p>I don't really feel any need to run down the competition, unlike a certain other frequent poster on CC.</p>
<p>to be fair, you spend a fair amount of time on "the competition's" pages, too, byerly. in fact, 12 of your last 25 posts were made on the princeton, stanford, and yale pages.</p>
<p>Well, since fairness is in vogue, perhaps we should note that 16 of YOUR last 25 posts have been on the Harvard or Yale pages!</p>
<p>Lately, you only seem to return "home" to expound on the "Eating Clubs"!</p>
<p>the difference is, i didn't criticize someone for doing what i, myself, do.</p>
<p>Hypocrisy runs endemic on these boards, f.scottie. </p>
<p>It's largely irrelevant where people post. The Harvard board is where the debates are, and I don't take much of an interest in reading Stanford SCEA essays.</p>
<p>You are certainly welcome on the more lively Harvard board - both of you!</p>
<p>Your personal attacks and bizarre stalker-style tactics, however, aren't.</p>
<p>Actually I noticed that a large part of both the Princeton and Harvard boards go back and forth alot. A large part of that I think is their applications are so similar, what works for one as far as those questions go usually works for another.</p>
<p>What "attacks" are you referring to?</p>
<p>As for your "blog" and the views about college admissions you express there, let me remind you ONCE MORE:</p>
<p>YOU posted the link to the blog YOURSELF!</p>
<p>Frankly, I find the whole idea of "blogs" somewhat presumptuous - the idea that everyone in cyberspace needs to know one's musings about this and that.</p>
<p>But be that as it may, if you view these as "private" musings rather than "public" musings, why the blazes did you - </p>
<p>(1) set up an internet "blog" in the first place? and</p>
<p>(2) then post a link to it under your name on the CC site?</p>
<p>I think you're being a little bit inconsistent, here, don't you agree?</p>
<p>Oh, but was it REALLY NECESSARY to post links to it on a CC thread?</p>
<p>It is irrelevant whether you consider them "presumptuous" because frankly, no-one, including me, cares what you think about blogs. </p>
<p>If you cared to examine the CC Terms of Service, you'll find it violates several of the prohibitions. Congratulations, Byerly!</p>
<p>Don't you have better things to do than backtrack through 30-40 posts to find the sentences you wanted from some 18-year-old Stanford freshman's LJ?</p>
<p>You posted the link to your "homepage" on CC yourself, as noted. Its still there! If you don't want people to read it, why did you post it? What "sentences" are you talking about?</p>
<p>The ones you cited.</p>
<p>Oh, right, the thread was deleted.</p>
<p>That was my own fault, I suppose.</p>
<p>Okay, that's enough.</p>