<p>I actually am not attacking you - unless you view posting your age as an attack. If so I'll delete it.</p>
<p>You well understand what constitutes ad hominem attacks, and you have been warned in the past about your propensity to engage in them. Stick to the topic.</p>
<p>No, not getting into Harvard EA didn't change my sentiments about any school. I still respect Harvard, and always will. It's a great school in an even greater city, and has opened doors for many of America's most influential businessmen, politicians, educators, litigators, and doctors that come from humble backgrounds. I never applied to Yale, and never really thought very highly of it in the first place(as far it being the right school for me, I recognize that Yale is respected highly amongst employers and is one of the most difficult schools to gain admission into). </p>
<p>In case you hadn't noticed, I was joking for the most part, and while I did subtly share my opinion on your university, I was just trying to state that Byerly is a veteran on these boards and has been involved in many threads comparing Harvard and Yale. I like Byerly because he doesn't take any garbage from yalies who constantly like to talk about why your school is really number one in the country, and why "schools at the bottom of the ivy leagues" like mine are a joke compared to them. Byerly doesn't go into the Yale forums trying to create trouble, he just replys to pompous threads where you constantly feel the need to pamper yourselves with reasons why Yale is so great. It is harder to get into Yale than Penn, ok, I said it- but does that really make it necessary for half of you to come into our forums and complain that my school isn't really the 4th best in the country just because of a 5-10 percent difference in its acceptance rate and your schools?(or for that matter, the more "distinguished" faculty, as if every American working at McDonalds knows who Harold Bloom is). But anyways, seeing as Byerly was clearly outnumbered in this argument, I thought I'd come in and thank him for standing up to you guys. To those of you who don't come into the Penn forums and continually bash our school and others, I apologize. I have 6 friends who go to yale, and they all are some of the nicest people I've met in my life. This post is not directed toward you, but towards the ones I mentioned above. Harvard students don't feel the need to make fun of lower ranked schools, and I wish the insecure ones at Yale could just stop and be happy that they attend such a great school.</p>
<p>even if it is 2nd best :) (that was for you byerly)</p>
<p>"Byerly doesn't go into the Yale forums trying to create trouble"</p>
<p>I think you mean "does." And by "Yale" I think you mean Princeton (most of the time, anyway).</p>
<p>But either way, Byerly's supercilious Scalia-style style of engaging everyone and everything often confuses students, as seen on this board. That being said, I like debating with him. I only wish he would concede points once in awhile. </p>
<p>I never realized the Penn board was so full of haters. Hate the college-admissions game, not the playa! However, we all have the right to come onto the boards of colleges we are not attending or are not applying early to and say whatever we want provided its within the CC guidelines. Byerly and everyone else has that right, and I can engage who I want.</p>
<p>Good alliteration!</p>
<p>Byerly: are you an admissions officer at Harvard? What was your major when you were a student?</p>
<p>Just a simple, supercilious citizen, eternity_hope.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Just a simple, supercilious citizen, eternity_hope.</p> </blockquote>
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<p>You're a bit more than that Byerly.</p>
<p>I think some of you misunderstand Byerly's motivation. </p>
<p>This topic may have started out as a joke, (albeit an unfunny one coupled with an incendiary, confrontational subject title) and Byerly, in the spirit of the thread, responded with a funny analogy to counter it. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, many people viewed his post differently, and this thread devolved into a mudslinging, melee affair with such fighting words as "elitism" being freely bandied about.</p>
<p>Murphy's Law has once again been obeyed, especially concerning Yale vs. Harvard college message board topics.</p>
<p>Thank you for the compliment, Byerly. I didn't mean to have two "styles" but alliteration, in the words of an old English teacher, is "the best way to put words together," especially when you don't intend it. </p>
<p>When we're debating Harvard versus Yale, the very nature of the topic is somewhat elitist.</p>
<p>Guys,</p>
<p>I KNOW that Byerly is kidding around. If I had truly bad intentions, I would have said something a lot more serious to Byerly. Instead, all I did was back up a PB analogy - I saw this as a wonderful opportunity to practice my satirical skills. </p>
<p>In the writer's world; writing about the simplest things is the most difficult. Indeed, there have been essays written on things like "pens" or "rocks" or "taking a shower" that have been fabulous and beautifully satirical. I saw this as an opportunity on my behalf to try it; that's why I typed up a 1 page essay on the PB logic flaw - THE PURPOSE OF THE ESSAY WAS SATIRE.</p>
<p>So go back and read my post on "Drop the PB analogy" on this thread. Read it thoroughly and if you don't think any part of it is funny; then I have failed you as a writer.</p>
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<p>that, or u have a tough crowd</p>
<p>It's not easy to write passionately about something so frivolous as a peanut butter. Most people can't inject feeling into the simplistic writing issues of life. To take something as minute as peanut butter and breathe life into the topic is quite a feat. Although I wouldn't say that eternity's post has brought the silly peanut butter topic to life itself; I feel that it does a good job in keeping a somewhat passionate and convincing tone. The fact that he's able to take a topic as apathetic as peanut butter and express an appreciable amount of zeal through his writing is what makes it funny and different from your average peanut butter story. </p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>CrimsonBulldog, it was a very dishonorable and disgraceful an act for you to bring up Byerly's age just so you could get him back. Even after he asked you to delete your post, you purposely wrote on your following post, "unless you view posting your age as an attack" in order further rub it in. You knew that he wouldn't say anything because it was such a sensitive issue and that's exactly why you followed up with that quote. Considering that you had to lower yourself to such a base level in order to get even with an opponent on an online forum makes you quite pathetic. </p>
<p>Furthermore, your indirect insult towards Byerly was a lot more serious than than anything else on this thread. This makes you hypocritical in addition to being pathetic. Why? Considering you blamed eternity for being so serious and taking a peanut butter logic to face, you did an even worse job in exploiting Byerly for no reason and making the situation even worse. I think you resemble the Duke and Cornell trolls a lot more than you resemble people at Yale. Unlike you, the typical Yalie usually shows a little more imagination and maturity. You are a disgrace to Yale.</p>
<p>What's wrong with Cornell and Duke :confused:</p>
<p>This is so pointless. Everyone needs to shut up right now or I am going to freak out and kill everyone.</p>
<p>though I would love nothing more than to argue with byerly, I think that bringing up his personal stuff and exploiting him is very crude and low. </p>
<p>"I actually am not attacking you - unless you view posting your age as an attack." </p>
<p>Crimson you should have just removed the damn post like he told you to and instead, like a smart ass, you ask him whether he finds it insulting that you exploited him with his personal bckground. If you did that to me I'd want to kick your ass. Especially if you later asked me in frontof everybody if i found it offensive or not.</p>
<p>"We hold these truths to be self evident ..."</p>
<p><a href="http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?ica9cn18gdqg%5B/url%5D">http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?ica9cn18gdqg</a></p>
<p>Your artpad painting is too sloppy Byerly.</p>
<p>Its a lot tougher with a touchpad rather than a mouse. Just try it sometime. In any event, the message is clear!</p>