Dartmouth or Princeton?

meltingsnow
Mon, 02 May 2005 06:15:14 +0000

Devil May Cry, agreed, I also believe the decision here is pretty clear-cut. As the OP said, (in a very non-prestige-whoring fashion) “I liked both schools but have a slight preference for Dartmouth.”

Perhaps not utterly clear-cut, as you seem to believe, but you are obviously correct in believing the better choice here, for this person, is Dartmouth based on his own feeling for the two schools.

Fountain, you owned this one! I agree with you, to many people think their opinion should out-weight the “impressions” and feelings of others here. Clearly, Dartmouth is the place to go if you prefer your feeling or opinions to be respected and given the weight and space they deserve.

There are, however, other schools–in and out of the Ivy League–that are filled with self-identifying “elite” people who always feel that they know something that you don’t (hence, the arrogance attached to their feeling that they are elite…no need to mention names).

There are also people who are simply obnoxious; they are always the loudest and most offensive people at every party they attend and are in especially rare form when they are crashing a party where they don’t seem to fit in. The problem is: you want to be patient and hope they go away, but the fact is they just tend to get louder and more obnoxious the longer you indulge them, while waiting for their sense of dignity to kick in (no need to mention names).