@marvin100 said “Amherst is Donald Trump because he likes and totally misinterprets the movie Citizen Kane about William Randolph Hearst whose name sounds like 'herst.”
I’ll get you for this, you @#@*$&&# heheh
Carnegie Mellon - not sure of the make, but it’s from Avis. “We try harder”
Harvard is Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester from MAS*H
Yale is Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Princeton is Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons
MIT is Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory
Columbia is Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City
UChicago is Cliff Claven from Cheers
Stanford is Johnny “Sweep the Leg” Lawrence from Karate Kid
UPenn is Gordon Gekko from Wall Street
Dartmouth is Greg Marmalard from Animal House
Brown is Ferris Bueller
Cornell is Andy Bernard from the Office
Amherst and Williams are Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter
Cal Tech is Napoleon Dynamite
Duke is Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore
Johns Hopkins is Dr. Frankenstein
wheeee
@circuitrider what exactly do you mean by, “Pomona is a volkswagon pulling four zipcars?”
Each car represents one of the 5 Claremont Colleges.
@circuitrider lol I get that… but why a Volkswagen?
Kalamazoo is Rick
St. Olaf is Morty
UCLA is Bart
Ole Miss is Lisa
Florida State is Maggie
Penn State is Marge
UVA is Homer
UT-Austin is Ned Flanders
THE Ohio State University is Principal Skinner
U Mich is Milhouse Van Houten
USC is Lenny Leonard
UC Davis is Waylon Smithers
UMass-Amherst is Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Fordham is Moe Szyslak
Rutgers is Barney Gumble
UNC is Clancy Wiggum
Arizona State is Krusty the Clown
UVM is Jimbo Jones
University of Oregon is Edna Krabappel
UNLV is Helen Lovejoy
Wisconsin is Nelson Muntz
SUNY is Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby
University of Maryland is Sideshow Bob
UCSD is Cletus Spuckler
McGill is Groundskeeper Willie
Carleton is Poochie
Haverford is Sideshow Mel
Bryn Mawr is Lurleen Lumpkin
Skidmore is Lionel Hutz
Vassar is Professor John Frink
Harvey Mudd is Disco Stu
Whitman is Kent Brockman
UCSC is Selma Bouvier
Mt. Holyoke is Superintendent “Supernintendo” Chalmers
Brown is Comic Book Guy
American is Lunchlady Doris
Deep Springs is Gil Gunderson
Occidental is Dewey Largo
Claremont McKenna is Martin Prince
It was a toss between that and a Fiat. Volkswagen just sounded funnier. )
Johns Hopkins is the doctor with the neatest (hand)writing.
Duke is the jock with the weird last name who goes to NYC to work in Finance and bring southern charm to those yankee heathens.
Northwestern is the economist-playwright who is picked last on the playground and plots revenge over a game of D&D.
Dress code for gents
Harvard - tweed, light blue button down oxford, silk crimson pochette
Princeton – orange / green bow tie, tight pink pants , white loafers
Yale – horn rimmed glasses , even if enjoying 20/20 eye sight
UChicago – who cares; we are above all that !
Columbia, black jacket, black turtleneck, black pants, black sock, black shoes. DId I mention black ?
MIT – … seriously ?
CalTech – speedos with checkered shirt and calculator
Dartmouth – tight green pants and pink Oxford
Cornell – stretch pants to deal with campus topography
Brown – red Harem pants
Stanford – shirtless and tights.
PENN – anything Ralph Lauren and Prada
Brown…red harem pants, lol, never saw that on campus in the late 70s-early 80s or during son’s recent years. Brown – tshirt, jeans, doc martens or adidas sneaker. It’s still my husband’s downtime uniform all these years later, and my son’s too.
@Chrchill But I agree with all your other descriptions 
The kids at Caltech are wearing cargo shorts, sandals and t-shirts with nerdy sayings.
@Cobrat - “From the dozens of Brown alums and friends I’ve known…including many HS classmates, only a tiny handful didn’t fit the genteel version of the artsy radical progressive quirky type in some way. This includes recent graduates and current students.”
Of the hundreds (possibly thousands) of Brown alums and students I’ve known and now know, only a tiny handful fit the genteel version of the artsy radical progressive quirky type in some way. This includes recent graduates and current students.
Stop taking the fun out of this thread by defending the schools you like.
Make fun of your school and everyone else’s.
@ThankYouforHelp Agreed! Our nation has lost its sense of humor about nearly everything. Its a Yuuuuuge problem,. So sad.
@marvin100 : Re #138
That sucks, all of it. Just sucks.
Oberlin -
(pre-2003)Creative aspiring artists, literary authors, scholars, scientists, musicians, and radical progressive activists of a neo-hippie vibe who feels even the Green Party is too right wing and will launch campus-wide protests over nearly everything that’s “too conservative/establishment”. Leftier than thou circular firing squad criticisms among students and campus-wide protests were our equivalent of competitive contact sports…and we can be quite vicious…especially with those who agree with us on 99% of everything.
If there’s any exhibition of aftereffects of vices, we’re much more likely to be stoned or tripping than drunk. Especially considering alcohol was regarded as the vice for the “establishment”/“bourgeois capitalist tools”/“old fogies” by most of the campus student body.
(post-2003) Creative aspiring artists, literary authors, scholars, scientists, musicians, and nominally progressive activists who have become much more mainstream politically(Green Party and Democrats are acceptable now), can’t seem to get it together to launch campus-wide protests, and are willing to be much more accepting of the establishment(i.e. Going into Ibanking/Corporate America is no longer seen nearly as an evil form of “selling out” among this group of Obie alums as it was in my graduating class and before).
Much more obsessed with fashion and putting up a snotty pretentious attitude detested by many which is a reason why it has become infamous as a haven for hipsters after the early '00s. They certainly seem much more fashion conscious than the Obies of my undergrad years and before.
Vice palette has expanded to the point now craft beers and PBR(only if inbibed “ironically”) are now acceptable.
While the circular firing squad criticisms still happens, it’s nowhere near the viciousness or as politically radical as it was when I was an undergrad or moreso in previous generations.
Cornell: stretch pants? Definitely not. Good walking shoes, Brooks Brothers sweaters, and a good warm ski jacket