Note to CCers about Duke

John117
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:52:20 +0000

Hello everyone.

Recently on CC, I have just realized how many CCers bash Duke and the Duke CC “Homer-Dukes” who bash other schools.
Based on a recent poll conducted by myself, I see that a disturbing amount of people hate Duke for some unexplained reason.
Actually I believe the reason is because of the Homer-Dukes who mindlessly promote Duke over the expense of other great schools such as Brown, Columbia, Amherts, etc…even Harvard.

I want to apologize on their behalf. I’m really sorry about these stupid people claiming Duke to be better than Harvard, if they exist. I personally do have school spirit. I LOVE Duke. But I won’t bash other schools for it. And if a CC student is planning a career on engineering, I would 100% advocate him to choose MIT or Cornell over Duke.
If you look at my post history, I am a very reasonable person at best. The only times I give aggressive answers is when people randomly hate on Duke and bash it.

For one, I really have no need to prove Duke’s greatness. It is a great and prestigious school in America. I’m not going to argue that its better than Columbia or Berkeley or Yale, and I want you all to recognize this and leave it at that. Why? Because these are PEER schools of Duke. Peer = friends. You don’t say one friend is better than the other, because that isn’t true friendship. That’s arrogance and contempt.
Prestige-wise, Yale is probably better than UCLA. But that doesn’t mean Yale is a better school. It just means that one of your friends is popular, and the other is a bit introverted. Being popular doesn’t make you any better in life–that reasoning is SO HIGH SCHOOL. I mean do you ever try to hang out more often with your school’s USAMO/Intel Finalist winner over the 3.4 GPA average student? IF you you say yes, then you’re beyond repair.

So, anyway, going back to my previous argument. Please stop bashing Duke. It’s all I ask. From time to time, you may meet these “Homer-Dukes” (not pointing out names), but please don’t debunk Duke. Have fun debunking them.
Besides, its been a while since I’ve personally seen these Homers myself here at CC.

Whenever you see a Duke vs Stanford thread, stop saying “Duke sux, go stanford cuz its HYPSM” because that’s just ridiculous. Stanford and Duke are America’s top universities. Its time you give reasonable answers that concern money, department, social life, atmosphere, etc.

Thanks, everyone.