Has Princeton made your head big yet?

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<p>So that it is ready to be filled with knowledge this upcoming fall?</p>

<p>No, seriously, do you secretly feel at times that you're superior to society? Call me an ******* for saying this, but it's like, sorry, can't deal with you, I'm going to Princeton. For example, an ugly, stupid, annoying druggie chick is interested in you, and you're just thinkin' pshhh, someone inform her that I'm going to Princeton.</p>

<p>Or, when you're at a concert and someone takes your seat, and you just wanna shove them aside and say, "move out of my way, you un-educated low life."</p>

<p>I'm prepared to be flamed for starting this thread. But if you can relate to this, express your feelings, even if you don't go to Pton, but an equivalent school.</p>

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<p>Okay, well… I have to admit that whenever my school’s security guard targeted me for doing nothing else but trying to find a quiet place to study in the school (I really don’t know what he thought I was going to do - I’m a very small Asian girl with glasses who carries a lot of books around), I had an urge to blow up at him and tell him that I have the hardest courseload in the school and was one of two students in my district to get into Harvard, so would he please just let me study in peace? I say Harvard and not Princeton because Harvard carries a bit more cache in my area. But yeah… I never actually did this, thank god!</p>

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<p>yes, i have to admit, i do feel that way sometimes. when people act like know-it-alls, i have the urge to point out that they’re only going to some lowly xyz school. i really think everybody has felt/thought that way, but very very few express it openly to other people’s faces. i think that will subside once we hit campus.</p>

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<p>I don’t feel that way at all, and I feel that anyone who does don’t belong I’m pton. I only feel that I’m lucky to get in, and if you’re truly smart, you’ll realize that everyone is smart. Besides, you’re not the top of the world (harvard mit Stanford Yale). Seeing how many threads you have started, it seems you’re way too excited about this than you should be. All I can tell you is open your eyes; it’ll help you a lot at pton</p>

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<p>Whoa now ChairmanGuo, stop kowtowing to the competition.</p>

<p>And stridegumisbest, how in the world are students at Princeton supposed to act superior because of their school when we all go to the same school? Although, I will admit that people in engineering and/or the hard sciences are sometimes inclined to sneer at humanities and social science majors. A similarly superior attitude is also displayed at times by “un-hooked” kids who visibly prioritize academics towards all sorts of people who are “less deserving” of Princeton either 1) because of the boost said people received during the admissions process (athletes, legacies, blacks, Hispanics) or 2) because said people engage in activities that “have no place” at an academic institution such as Princeton (joining frats/sororities, frequenting the eating clubs, partying hard, doing recreational drugs, taking easy classes, etc).</p>

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<p>I got into all of HYPSM, ahem. <em>applause</em> Yeah, that’s happened to me alot, physicshobo!</p>

<p>ray, I was talking about Princeton student vs. society at large, not Princeton student vs. Princeton student.</p>

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<p>So, you derive joy from looking down the tip of your nose at plebians?</p>

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<p>Aw, that’s not a good attitude to have. </p>

<p>My thoughts on this topic:</p>

<p>Getting into a few highly ranked schools simply reinforced my belief that nothing but mostly accidental circumstance separates me from those who - for whatever reason - are unable to finish out their high school career in a successful fashion. I’m further humbled by the knowledge that I will be entering the presence of some of the most brilliant people of my generation. I do recall being chased down in the hallways for not having a pass on the last day of school; however, going to a HYPSM (or similarly ranked) school does not exempt you from simple rules and common courtesy.</p>

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<p>I definitely agree with you, but at the same time I think it’s extremely conceited. Some of it may be true…just be nice. It is better to make friends than enemies.</p>

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<p>^Excellent point. And hubris doesn’t really take you anywhere, unless you internalize it and apply it constructively.</p>

<p>…</p>

<p>Nah, that’s bullcrap. Just be humble, bro. You have no more inherent value than any of those other folk you consider somewhat inferior because they’re not going to Princeton.</p>

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<p>Besides, there are some people who think of Princeton as being a place like this:</p>

<p>[Princeton</a> University - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Princeton_University]Princeton”>http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Princeton_University)</p>

<p>Not so high and mighty now, eh? :p</p>

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<p>I don’t scream to everyone that I’m going to Princeton and tell them to move out of my way.
Who would do that?</p>

<p>But that IS how I feel. I would’t act on my feelings. It’s all in my head, thus the “big head” part.</p>

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<p>^Fix yo’ self. Bad thoughts eventually translate into actions.</p>

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<p>lol, i feel ya iCalculus. Proles aint got nuthin on us</p>

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<p>ksarmand, you’re going to Harvard, fix yo’ self!</p>

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<p>^But my head doesn’t need deflating. :p</p>

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<p>Neither do my future grades at Princeton.</p>

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I loled so hard at that second sentence! Mr.Mrs./Righteous was befuddled for a moment.
But yeah, like that happened to me too</p>

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<p>“Neither do my future grades at Princeton.”</p>

<p>You say that now…</p>

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<p>Psh…Goldman sachs would disagree with you iCalculus. Lloyd Blankfein and I both seem to think that only Harvard and Whartonites should have a superiority-complex. Though, if you have a particular affinity for parks, pseudo-frats (also known as eating clubs), and grade deflation, I suppose you may indeed take some pride in Princeton.</p>