Harvard or Yale??

nceph
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:00:48 +0000

My impression, filtered through the eyes of my H senior D, is that Y students put a lot more effort into trying to make sure people know they can party hard (or at least harder than those at H do). I think that fits with their efforts to appear more relaxed. The social scene at H seems more than ample for my highly social D, but she says her friends and acquaintances at Y seem very competitive towards H on that issue. She has no interest in that aspect of the H/Y rivalry.

I will say that “oppressive” is not a word that would ever find its way into my D’s list of adjectives to describe her experience at H. Not even a little.