Dartmouth or Princeton?

FountainSiren
Sun, 01 May 2005 11:37:51 +0000

Pimpdaddy1 tells G-unit:

“I do warn against making decisions on your perceptions of the student body as all of these colleges have large diverse student bodies and your impression could more than likely be based on chance encounters.”

That is to say, unlike pimpdaddy’s impressions of same; as, s/he believes his/her impressions to be superior to others impressions (as his/her long account of his/her impressions of the two student bodies testifies to); because, unless s/he has done research and been published on the subject of Dartmouth v Princeton (or graduated from both, or is secretly President Wright) he/she is basing his/her opinion on “impressions”–like most of us, and as impressions go, none of them tend to be objectively superior to any other impressions (check out Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ for a more philosophical analysis on the subject).

For a different take, we could refer to Hemmingway’s view of impressions/opinions in his book, For Whom the Bell Tolls: “opinions are like a s s holes, everybody’s got them and they all stink” thus, simultaneously rendering all opinions to be of the same order and odor.

edit: for the record, I have not gone on to Princeton’s board and refered to you as “an idiot” as you feel free to do here in the Dartmouth forum and apparently in the Princeton forum also. I don’t know, it just seems tasteless and lacking in certain virtues and graces, but obviously not to everyone. BTW, we all appreciate your describing our school for us in our own forum, your “impressions” are invaluable…we needed that.