<p>Moonshine’s behind the tractor; help yerselfs!</p>
<p>This is the best thread in a whole long time. I agree about Stanford being out of the picture- it’s just a little too bay area, politically on the wrong side of the street for most snobs. They even have people who take public transportation there!</p>
<p>We have friends who learned English at school but did not speak it much until the H was moved here for a job. One day I commented how busy they were these last few weeks, going to all kinds functions. “Oh, yes.” she replied, “We are so popular”. </p>
<p>It’s the nuance that is often missed.</p>
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<p>Yes, we visited all three and sad part is that my DD wants to attend MIT which is the least favorable in my opinion. She is not like me and is very down to the earth which is what bothers me.</p>
<p>cpt, look at my posts 25 and 30. I tried to stop it before it got worse. I saw it coming…I really did , but then…they got testy and well, it was just waaay too much fun to stick a pin in the hot air balloon.</p>
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<p>Just make sure that your kid isn’t the one wearing the red uniform. Ensign Jones, why don’t you go check behind that big rock?</p>
<p>She is not like me and is very down to the earth which is what bothers me. </p>
<p>Hmmmm. It looks like it may remain fun for a while. ;)</p>
<p>OP you do know that “down to earth” is a compliment, not a pejorative (negative, insult, derisive remark)?</p>
<p>be glad your daughter is not like you. . .let her be her. being down to earth is the best of compliments.</p>
<p>btw, i hope you’re getting a laugh out of this thread, too.</p>
<p>Rolling on the floor laughing. Out loud. Laughing so hard I might have pee’d my pants. </p>
<p>You can’t make this stuff up!!! The couch is full, so I am gonna just stay here on the floor with the peanut shells and pour me a glass of something and take it all in. Keep 'em coming, because I could use the laughs.</p>
<p>btw, i hope you’re getting a laugh out of this thread, too. </p>
<p>I would certainly hope so. They are working hard enough. ;)</p>
<p>If OP’s D has the same attitude as her mom, she will be equally disliked wherever she goes. ;)</p>
<p>Geez, all this talk about peeing, scratching, and rolling around on the floor has really changed my perception of all of you! That’s it, D is applying to Princeton as a transfer to be BFF’s with the OP’s D! Yay!..ROOMIES!!!</p>
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<p>Oh dear, I thought humility was a treasured trait in every culture… nothing to do with misunderstanding or missing the nuances now, I think.</p>
<p>So in your opinion, ARPMom2009, MIT is beneath your daughter why? </p>
<p>I wonder if those could be a new application question? </p>
<p>Tell us why you feel attending MIT would be slumming?</p>
<p>What traits do you have as a person to making others feel worthless and inferior? In what ways have you demonstrated this ability to make other miserable and cry?</p>
<p>How did you earn your way into the Mean Girls Club? It is a requirement for those fancy EATIN’ clubs here at Princeton.</p>
<p>And your parents, do you feel they have contributed adequately to your obvious “snob” appeal? If yes, then how?</p>
<p>Now yall thinkin Kat’s boy is just a hoot, and those that know him will swear on their grand diddy’s grave that he is all that has been said and so very, very much more.</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>But he’s all mine and I love that stinky boy til my heart hurts.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>And no curm we don’t have a crik no more, those good-for-nothin’ dogs drank it dry</p>
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<p>I’m pretty darm serious. First I don’t like DD going to a tech school. Second I don’t like boys who are stressed out about making money becuase they have not seen it.</p>
<p>These comments are getting more and more mysterious. MIT a “tech school”? Boys who “have not seen” money? I guess that means “boys who do not come from money”? Translate, please.</p>
<p>Whoo-eee. I’d like to be a fly on the wall on move-in day at the final choice. I’m rooting for the down-to-earth D. And please pass the Pepto Bismol.</p>
<p>arpmom2009–to whatever extent you are serious, you are also misguided.</p>
<p>Boy, oh boy… oh boy…</p>
<p>OP: I think you’ll find that it’s the people who have money who are most stressed about keeping it. I’m sure money is pretty far down on MIT kids’ lists of things to stress about.</p>
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<p>Oh, the horror, the HORROR of going to MIT.</p>
<p>In which case I’ll suggest that you not attend that school, but let your D attend the school SHE wants to go to, since she, after all, is the student.</p>
<p>I bought a great big bag of rarefied air last weekend and am taking a great big gulp right now (well, actually it was a helium-filled balloon, but geek_son has assured me that’s the epitome of coolth 
). So this qualifies me to give a definitive answer on where to find the most snobbish kids to hobnob with in college.</p>
<p>The answer is…
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<p>… Barrett Honors College, at ASU. I mean, they got their own compound so they wouldn’t have to sleep in the same square footage as the common fokes. Sign up your daughter right now… it’s even more perfect now that the scholarship money is all gone… you can buy her a t-shirt that says, “I had enough money to pay full freight at this prestigious college where only the little people get scholarships.” Trust me, the snobs will swarm to rub her elbows!</p>