The Thoughts Thread (Triple T)

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>ok on harvard’s thread i have favorite song quotes goin. here, i gotta represent the silverscreen. shoot out your favorite quotes from a movie, young and old, crappy and wonderful.</p>

<p>let me begin:</p>

<p>“i bet if i suggested a game of Quidditch he’d cum in his pants.” – role models
“toga, toga!” – animal house
“i still remember the war.” “oh, yeah?” “yeah. remember waking up to the sound of bombs dropping and children screaming.” “oh, you were in vietnam?” “no. grenada.” “didn’t that, like, last only…twelve hours?” – anger management.</p>

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<p>Harvard likes
13
(
|(2x)dx
)
10
…with young boys.</p>

<p>(Integral of 2x, eval from 10 to 13)</p>

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<p>Harvard, from Latin root ‘here-’ meaning sticky (cf. “adhere”), affixed is the root ‘ver-’, true (cf. veritas, veritable, verily), and a shortened root ‘dem-’, meaning people ( cf. democracy, demagogue, etc)</p>

<p>(Notice how the voiced consonant d, is assimilated into a dental stop, due to the action of the vocalic r)</p>

<p>In the historical sense, the word would’ve occurred simply as Hervertum, but around the time of Seneca, words that did not occur in citation form became subject to ablaut and reduction, giving us Harvert.</p>

<p>In languages with a stricter Germanic heritage, such as English, Grimm’s Law tells us that:</p>

<p>1.Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops change into voiceless fricatives.</p>

<p>2.Proto-Indo-European voiced stops become voiceless stops.</p>

<p>3.Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives; ultimately, in most Germanic languages these voiced fricatives become voiced stops.</p>

<p>Rule 3 alters our form from Harvert to our modern form</p>

<p>Harvard.</p>

<p>Which is still analyzable as “Truly sticky people”.</p>

<p>(I apologize to any actual linguists, philologists, comparative literature historians, Classics studies majors, and ESPECIALLY any phoneticists that are reading this)</p>

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<p>c-hope, thanks for the info, one would never assume the veritas about harvard’s name. i must admit, i still kind of like harvard’s motto better than yale though. i mean harvard’s is plain and simple: truth. that’s what we want.</p>

<p>yale’s is cleverly unoriginal: truth and light. however, the light – which could be interpreted as divine help – is a good contribution. according to spirtitualists (most), the truth can only get one so far, help from a higher being is the second part to success. but i think yale’s motto should have just been straight up “lux.” light. because, as it is right now, it just sounds too harvard-y.</p>

<p>but i still love yale. to me, it’s better than harvard. but i love harvard too. i think it’s better than yale.</p>

<p>very interesting thread indeed c-hope.</p>

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<p>The etymology I provided is a complete joke.</p>

<p>However, the sentiment is what rings true; same goes for my joke about Harvard enjoying adventurous sexual positions with underaged males.</p>

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<p>in essence, you are then personifying harvard. one thing i don’t like about harvard – similar to as important as the one thing i didn’t like about yale – is that harvard no mascot. i mean w.t.f.? i asked my broski about this and he said “we have our imagination.” i slapped him after that. yale’s bulldog is the stuff of ages.</p>

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<p>Yeah…I mean…Cornell is officially the “Big Red”, but they have an alternatively Badass/cuddly Big Red Bear</p>

<p>Dartmouth is officially the “Big Green” (or something like that), but they came up with Keggy the Keg.</p>

<p>And Harvard is A-OK with being the Crimson. ***</p>

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<p>SAT’s tomorrow. hell yea.</p>

<p>dude, send your prayers this way. i have to go balls to the wall. because if not a 1600 tomorrow, or anything better than a 1450 min, i should officially give up any hopes for the ivy.</p>

<p>pray for me crew. c-hope, you get me.</p>

<p>-tp of cc</p>

<p>ps. any formulas or something i should toss into the calculator? any tips/tricks? i should post this on the SAT section, but for real.</p>

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<p>Good luck, T.P! I’ve been done since November, muhahaha! </p>

<p>Don’t worry about the score you need to get, that’ll just make it worse. And don’t take PB &J for the breaks- it’s messy. PB& banana is much better! </p>

<p>I’ll think of you tommorow, maybe. I’ll be on a movie set, so maybe not. Good luck, though! You’ll do awesome!</p>

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<p>I prayed, prophet.</p>

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<p>god bless you.</p>

<p>thanks all. i must say, it didn’t go as planned but i don’t really care right now. we all should just pray a little harder for good results in april.</p>

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<p>Ummm, sorry I am new to this. I just wanted to ask a quick question about Yale. Say I know someone in the Skulls and Bones Club (like an alumni) very well; if say Yale’s admissions committee had a S&B member on it, should I tell my friend to advocate for me?</p>

<p>I don’t even know if there is an S&B member on the adcom but should I try? And are you guys nervous at all about all of this or no?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>If you know someone in that society, you should keep it to yourself.</p>

<p>It’s a secret.</p>

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<p>So we should pray for a good curve, TP? (just remember, results often come back better than expected. And CC is very often wrong!)</p>

<p>Still nothing from Yale…anyone else?</p>

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<p>nothing from yale – currently with a ginger ale in hand, i’m checking the scale. can a brother bail me out, get me out, and let me out of this application mess. but don’t let the stress get to your head and leave an impression in your digression. i’m contemplating my college choices, lots of noises from the crowds outside of my home. i’m the man of the hour in my small-mini city, they wanna know if i’m going to the ivyies, getting all silly.</p>

<p>but i’m chilled. no frills can leave me satisfied. shrek, screw the tension and become bonafied.</p>

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<p>Lol. Okay prophet. I will try to become “bonafied.” Haha. No but seriously, thanks for that.</p>

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<p>i’m coming out so you better get this party started.</p>

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<p>^Is that Pink? I vaguely remember that from the 90’s…</p>

<p>Is it that music video where it’s mostly black and white, and at one point she’s on a waveboat? And there’s this stupid heavy breathing effect in the chorus?</p>

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<p>lmao, the heavy breathing effect. that stuff is more popular than high-hats nowadays.</p>

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<p>so i have a random question.
would u guys say being afghan (idk if im a under-represented minority or not) helps my chances of acceptance?
i have no idea whether it will help or hurt me…</p>