<p>Alas, “Dorm Life” met its end after two seasons…</p>
<p>Wow, I’m having a really hard time waiting for Harvard’s decision. I feel so very… impatient! Haha. Am I the only one who feels this way?</p>
<p>^haha we all r…but 2000 apps and 12 spots… come on haha… im just looking every second for an email for an interview… but really not expecting anything…</p>
<p>Do interviews mean you have a shot a Harvard?</p>
<p>See pages 11 through 13 of this thread.</p>
<p>oh gosh i am so nervous. no way ill get in.</p>
<p>How will you guys react if you get in? I think for a minute or so, my body will lose all motor functions and just start oozing things out of every orifice. Then I’ll go streaking.</p>
<p>Getting accepted to Harvard (in steps!):</p>
<p>1- See Acceptance</p>
<p>2- Feel dizzy, nauseated, weak</p>
<p>3- Full on heart attack</p>
<p>4- Die</p>
<p>5- Give spot to someone else</p>
<p>^Awww, altruism at its finest. At your funeral I’ll yell out, “Myocardial infraction caused by not enough crimson to his heart!!!”</p>
<p>@Cordova If you check out last years thread, you will see that the people who got interviews were either accepted or waitlisted. Taking so few applicants, there are not going to interview based on proximity and availability. It would be a waste of their time.</p>
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<p>…back to lurking.</p>
<p>My brain read it as “infarction” the first time. That reminds me…</p>
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<p>Hey how’s it going guys. I’ve been reading all your posts and it’s a little helpful for me to read that there are many others who have their eyes set on this impossible task. It has been quite the process and I’m just as excited as you guys to find out my decision.</p>
<p>Impossible task, indeed. There is no Harvard. The mythical school of our dreams merely serves to keep all our egos in check. </p>
<p>It isn’t real…</p>
<p>^I agree, the Harvard here on earth “exists” only in that it is a shadow of a more perfect form in heaven. </p>
<p>Ontological jibber jabber aside, hope y’all have a good weekend. I gotta head back to the UC Transfer thread, I have a front row seat to all of the hysterics. :-)</p>
<p>@chasethecarrot - after reading your post I felt absolutely obliged to make a carrot and stick joke about Harvard, but I did indeed resist!</p>
<p>How many of you have visited Harvard? The last time I went there was my freshman year of highschool and I still remember it so vividly. I know the school really is a pipe dream for transfers, but it’s far too sweet of a temptation to resist.</p>
<p>haha ok everyone really has to chill… its getting weird how obsessed people our with Harvard… its a great school no doubt…but its just a stepping stool to the real world… once ur 40… no one cares about where you went to school… its what have you accomplished… no doubt i would love to be admitted to and would be insanely excited… but lets not make flowery poetry about it haha- just weird…</p>
<p>Who’s composing flowery poetry? Maybe you’re just confusing poetry with well written prose. :P</p>
<p>And when you’re 40 and are in a field related to academia or research, it absolutely matters where you went to school.</p>
<p>Has anyone applying this year received an interview?</p>
<p>Assuming that at 40 you’ve been out of school for at least a decade, what you’ve done in that decade matters incredibly more than where you went to school. Of course your alma mater will have some impact on your opportunities after leaving school; but far less of an impact than what comes from within.</p>
<p>Think of it this way: There are far more opportunities in the world to make a huge impact; to do something respected and rewarding; to be rich and famous, if you like, than could ever be taken up only by individuals who have attended Harvard or any other very prestigious university. Sure, you hear about plenty of famous people who went to these schools, but there’s a lot of confirmation bias at work. You’re less likely to be aware of an influential person’s alma mater when it’s less prestigious, and less likely to remember it even when you are aware.</p>
<p>It would be silly to argue that these schools have nothing to offer; they have a lot to offer! But there are tons of less prestigious schools that have just as much to offer, only without the name recognition. About which the above individual with the procedurally-generated name is correct in their implication of relative irrelevancy.</p>