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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:45 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit Sadly, this is from an admitted student (admission standards??) regarding HLS v. YLS:
"Are we not friendly here or something? It was a pretty simple decision for me. Have you been to New Haven? Someone has already said it blows. That's an understatement. This may seem trivial, but if your choice is between two relatively equal schools, one of which, lets face it, is in one of the best towns in the country and the other is one that is based in a slum, you might want to consider it. Moreover, even though the schools have their relative strengths and weaknesses, Yale has always been the redheaded Ivy League stepchild to Harvard. Its Harvard. How many books have they written about Yale? How many movies are filmed about Yale? And whats all this about the school being huge? My high school was bigger than Harvard Law and I knew everyone there and often wished there were more to choose from. Also, don't buy this bullshit about Harvard people being evil meanies while Yale students are little angels, fluttering about the campus with truth, justice, equality, fairplay, and friendship bubbling up in their heart. I'm pretty sure the type of people who go to Harvard and Yale are very similiar, and on a personal note, the one person I know at Yale is a total bitch. Basically I think it comes down to this. If you want to be a law professor and want a slight edge despite the cultural downside, go to Yale. In any other case, Harvard is the place to be." |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:46 PM Author: Angry Love Of Her Life People Who Are Hurt he probably got waitlisted by yls (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856771) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:46 PM Author: beady-eyed adulterous idea he suggested principal's office What's wrong with this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856772) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:53 PM Author: aphrodisiac ruddy theater stage pisswyrm I think all of this is pretty true, except for the "books and movies" stuff, which is stupid, and the final sentence, which underestimates the advantages of Yale (and its significant edge in academia *and* firm hiring). But he's right about Yale's location, and he's right that the differences between the people at the two schools are usually overstated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856824) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:02 PM Author: lemon diverse step-uncle's house New Haven isn't the most exciting city on the planet, but it's not really a "slum" either. The grading system is a legitimate plus as well.
That said, Harvard has its own advantages, and any admit to either of these fine schools who has THIS much of a chip on his/her shoulder about the distinctions is clearly suffering from some problems with insecurity. |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:32 PM Author: maniacal primrose house This guy is hilarious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857706) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:36 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort *cries* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857733) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:38 PM Author: maniacal primrose house clearly, people like this make harvard "the place to be"
go as long as you can without speaking to or making eye contact with any other law students: if you can make it to your 3L year without any personal interaction, you should be okay. |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:39 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort i intend to spend my time molesting innocent ug hockey players
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:40 PM Author: maniacal primrose house this is probably the best way of approaching the situation. also, drink a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857775) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:40 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort well, nu-DUH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857778) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:40 PM Author: maniacal primrose house during class, i meant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857781) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:41 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort thats why i got an opaque water bottle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857788) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:42 PM Author: maniacal primrose house there is no need for an opaque bottle: you should be drinking straight grey goose or goldschlager from a transparent nalgene bottle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#857802) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:45 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort i cant drink the sclager anymore...and sometimes i might want the coke for caffiene, rum and coke
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:27 AM Author: Coiffed exciting piazza round eye Fuck that guy. Rory Gilmore goes to Yale <3. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#859088) |
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Date: July 7th, 2004 1:59 PM Author: Dashing locus codepig look at it this way, you have built-in entertainment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#902864) |
Date: June 30th, 2004 8:47 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort oh good god. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856774) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:48 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit Sadly, this is only the beginning of the type of material that is on there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856782) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:49 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort is this the yahoo group? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856788) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:50 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit yes..it's looking like a long 3 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856797) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:50 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort and you have now confirmed why i am avoiding it like the plague. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856805) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:51 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit Indeed, for my sanity I should take myself off of it right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856813) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:51 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort if you are like me, you will just scare yourself more. edit: just saw your 3 long years comment. i feel the same way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856816) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:53 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit It's the type of people that are attracted to the school. Unfortunately YLS (or SLS for that matter) wasn't an option for me! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856826) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:54 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort me, either. i am excited for boston (the sox, at least, obviously) and i think having the decent hockey team will be fun...but...scared, scared, scared for both my sanity and social life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856835) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:56 PM Author: maize fantasy-prone pit Yeah, I think Boston has potential to be cool. I hope I can meet some people from other schools... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856850) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 8:58 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort I have a few good friends already living in the city, which helps. I just pray that the class is big, there must be fun people... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#856858) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:01 AM Author: fighting gaped reading party yeah, if it weren't for the great hockey in boston, this message board would make me really begin to regret my decision to go to h over s. at least you two seem cool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860967) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:07 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort Hey! I have been posting random messages to you about that Bruins pass! I would love to get in on somethng like that. How much is it? How does it work?
Yall seem reassuring, but I am still scared as hell. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:31 AM Author: fighting gaped reading party hey there - i'll look into the passes to the hockey games. they usually sell season tickets first and then they offer packages where you can buy 5, 10, or 20 games at a discount. i'll keep you posted.
i'm seriously concerned about the people on the message board, though. most of them have affirmed the stereotype of a harvard law student. when i went out to visit stanford, everyone seemed so much cooler. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:36 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort How did you pick HLS?
I was scared at the admitted weekend and the board just confirms it.
Wanna play hooky for three years? We can do Sox games in the spring, Pats in the fall, Bruins in the winter. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:35 PM Author: fighting gaped reading party HLS was a lot closer to friends and family than SLS. I also want to end up on the east coast. My fin aid package from H was also more generous and I just couldn't turn it down. I actually didn't go to admit weekend, but I've heard mixed things. Hooky sounds like a great idea. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#863656) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:07 AM Author: 180 church Subject: fun I think all the fighting is hilarious. Particularly from the chick who admitted that she called her friends about the Southern guy who made jokes about Yale. I mean, if you think about it, there are about 15 people who regularly post to the thing, and of those folks, 5 or 6 are the ones that send out angry posts. So I think its hardly representative. And is it any worse that XOXO? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861061) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:09 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort prolly not. i just wont even look anymore. i dont need to psyche myself out even more!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861091) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:14 AM Author: 180 church Subject: I wouldn't worry I think prison rules apply here for some people. A few of the more dogmatic types want to kick someone's ass as a first impression so everyone knows they're tough. But I really think that once we arrive, fall into our sections, and see each other on a daily basis folks will moderate their tone when discussing sensitive issues. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861159) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:15 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort From your lips. The next three years have me petrified. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861166) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:16 AM Author: 180 church Subject: says you three years from now, you'll be speaking at our graduation after finishing at the top of our class... ;P |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:20 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort a. that will never happen.
b. i still wont have any friends. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:21 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space a. it will when zito donates a bunch of cash to the university to inflate your grades
b. who needs friends when there is alchohol (and for you sports). |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:25 AM Author: 180 church Subject: at least miss america 2003 will be there with us. I think shotgun rules apply here, so arrive early so you can call it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861306) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:26 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861327) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:27 AM Author: 180 church Subject: no lie She's in our class. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861343) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:33 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space Where you around during the whole PR thing about the hottest HLS 1L (cant remember her name) and the email ent to the section to stop discussing her online?
I guess we now know who the hottest 1L will be next year.
How do you know about this btw? |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:38 AM Author: 180 church Subject: believe it or not EDIT: Plus, it makes me feel like Kramer... poise! poise!
EDIT II: I got to see the alleged hot girl during the admitted weekend as well. Not so hot. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:15 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space I love how one guy bragged about being a prick, and liking the fact that other people were pricks too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861171) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:18 AM Author: 180 church Subject: he's been one of the more consistently amusing posters. he's the one thinking about going to stanford right? I think he went to my UG.
I also liked how the Yale guy used the word "jeremiad" and "ice cream" in the same sentence. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:20 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space seriously though, the guy who said how he loves the fact that everyone on the yale board is like victoria should seek help. A smiley face here and there is cool, but she can smother you sometimes with her joy. I think we might have scared her off the message boaerd though... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861249) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:22 AM Author: 180 church Subject: no, she's just watching a Veggietale DVD to recharge her nice batteries. She'll be back to speed in no time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861270) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:32 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space the scary thing is, she is exactly the same in person (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861404) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:39 AM Author: 180 church Subject: yeah cough (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861477) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:12 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space the funniest thing is how everyone is always missing each others point and jumping on them to insult them.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861121) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:14 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort and this just scared me more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861162) |
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Date: June 30th, 2004 10:42 PM Author: Elite swashbuckling gaming laptop You guys are the most self-righteous pricks I've ever encountered.
Look at bateman: "This post is so pretentious. maybe I should avoid Harvard"
Yeah right. You know you're still going to Harvard despite the kinds of people that are there. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:23 AM Author: lavender famous landscape painting You obviously haven't "encountered" many mathematicians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#859054) |
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Date: July 7th, 2004 1:49 PM Author: Dashing locus codepig lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#902766) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 10:36 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort Point. Make a point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860620) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 12:48 AM Author: lavender famous landscape painting BT, you forgot to mention that YLS has lockers.
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:31 PM Author: lemon diverse step-uncle's house Good point. And spicy chicken sandwiches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#863602) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 10:35 AM Author: useless business firm sweet tailpipe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860608) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:50 AM Author: hilarious motley cuckoldry There is no class rank at Harvard. There hasn't been class rank at Harvard in a generation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861616) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:31 PM Author: useless business firm sweet tailpipe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#862806) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 10:49 AM Author: Cerebral home old irish cottage They let you say "bullshit"? That's awesome. The stupid GULC one is censored. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860777) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 10:50 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort Well, look at this place. Is is any wonder? 20-something run wild with free reins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860796) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 10:50 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space its an unafilliated message board on yahoo, not the real one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#860802) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:05 AM Author: Cerebral home old irish cottage Ah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861027) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:06 AM Author: Cerebral home old irish cottage Haha. On the GULC board there's actually a thread where people list (or hint at) the words they can and can't use. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861042) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:17 AM Author: Iridescent potus range why don't you post something stupid and non-law school related like "do you think the improvements in EA Sports Baseball 2004 were better than the 2003 Edition? i like the accurate pitch system" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861195) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:18 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space people do this too... Much of the discussion involves movies, cogars, alchohol, etc... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861203) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:20 AM Author: Iridescent potus range did you mean to say cigars or perhaps cougars? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861241) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:21 AM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort RRRROWR! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861260) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:22 AM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space cigars. My typing skills suck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861272) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:24 AM Author: Iridescent potus range i would hope that anyone who goes to HLS aspires to something more than a Mercury Cougar. Why don't you chime in with some crap about how much you love Vantages, Dorals and Kools. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861297) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:32 PM Author: lemon diverse step-uncle's house We used to have ten page fights about cougars back in the day on admit message boards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#863618) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:48 AM Author: pale jew bosox girl, it really is not so bad at harvard. The section system works out well, and i have no doubt you will find 10 people you like in your section that you will hang out with while you are at school. Everybody else seemed to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861583) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:34 PM Author: rose marvelous brethren resort I hope. Thanks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#863643) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 11:52 AM Author: hilarious motley cuckoldry For heaven's sake, don't worry! If you want to be happy and have a social life at HLS, you WILL. Don't let three assholes on some internet board convince you that 550 other people in the class are all the same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#861635) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:27 PM Author: Kink-friendly Grizzly Travel Guidebook Hell Subject: Oh dear... Perhaps message boards should be outlawed. I am the notorious prick who is glad to meet other pricks, and who is apparently less notorious then Brett, who is a Republican, and hence probably the product of a bad upbringing, and should be forgiven for his sins (his post on the HLS board started this all)...
I came here looking for Stanford students, but this is fascinating... is it worse to be one of the 5 or 6 people on that board who are probably wackos, or to come to another board to talk about those wackos and how much you dread the next 3 years because there can't possibly be anyone cool in a class of 550.
The real reason I'm still considering Harvard is because in a class of 550, you're going to meet everyone, and diversity is always a strength, even if it that means a diverse variety of assholes. People you dislike can often challenge you, if you let them... or, as another poster on the HLS board rejoined, quoting Winston Churchill (I'm paraphrasing):
"You have enemies? Good. It means that somewhere, sometime in your life, you have stood up for something." |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 1:29 PM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space dont let it bother you...
It was pretty inappropriate for someone to put that post over here.
As a fellow prick, Its a pleasure to meet you. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:27 PM Author: 180 church Subject: and as I've said before, I find your posts uniformly amusing. If B and V are to be the mascots, then you can be the team announcer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#863557) |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 3:06 PM Author: Kink-friendly Grizzly Travel Guidebook Hell Subject: As long as I amuse the other Hoyas... That's really all I'm here to do...
Where the hell are the Stanford students? They have an unlisted Yahoo board by rumor, but I can't seem to find them elsewhere...
Stanford students and Harvard professors. Can't seem to get a word with either... not sure which bothers me more. |
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Date: July 1st, 2004 2:52 PM Author: Lascivious Cyan Mediation Subject: SLS students Dear Notorious P.R.I.C.K. (yes, I'm joking),
You might want to ask Faye Deal for an invite to the SLS class of 2007 message board. It's not especially busy (it has less than 150 messages), but it'll give you a sense of the type of people that will be in our class.
Good luck with your decision, BL |
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Date: July 6th, 2004 3:09 PM Author: Cowardly National Security Agency Legend Subject: Please!!! I am sick and tired of hearing people who are going to Harvard complaining about the quality of people. Never say everyone when you are included in the group and the statement does not apply to you. I went to the first admitt weekend, and I met a lot of great people, funny people, and crazy people. And I didn't meet anyone stuck up or anything like the stereotypical "Harvard" student. I have come to this conclusion: the world is what you make it. You find what you are looking for. If you expect to meet rude people and have no friends when you attend school, you won't. However, I strongly believe that Harvard will be, for me, a great time and full of great people. Because that is what I am looking for, I have already begun to find it! (I talk to one student I met at admitt weekend via telephone on a regular basis.) If you make sure it isn't you who is really stuck up, you should be alright... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#895360) |
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Date: July 6th, 2004 4:03 PM Author: chocolate vibrant antidepressant drug space I think that everyone realizes what you are saying is true, but people all have their own reasons why they wont admit this. Sometimes its a defense mechanism for the times when people get all crazy when you tell them your going to hls. so you pretend your miserable there. A lot of students actually do this. The director of admissions at HLS told me he sees students doing it all the time, and he hates it because it gives HLS a bad name.
Ive already met a bunch of cool people who will be at HLS. Im sure that the majority of hte people there will be totally normal, with a few assholes thrown in for good measure. |
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Date: July 6th, 2004 4:13 PM Author: mauve whorehouse Harvard will be fun...you'll be a student...it's like a three-year vacation...
i knew very few people 1L year (excluding exam time) who didn't enjoy being there...just don't get caught up in all the hype and go crazy studying rather than enjoying yourself...do what you have to do to do well and enjoy being 24 (or however old you are) |
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Date: July 7th, 2004 12:56 PM Author: fighting gaped reading party that's a really good post and makes a lot of sense. i needed someone to write that. thanks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=51924&forum_id=2#902267) |