<p>“As my kids say, Don’t be a hater.”</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay, you’re awesome on so many levels haha!</p>
<p>“you do wear a shirt with a college logo you should behave yourself however. When visiting Newgrange megolith tomb in Ireland there was a fellow there with a Harvard sweatshirt in our tour group who was a real jerk. Not too impressive.”</p>
<p>I must admit that I am a much better driver now that my Mount Holyoke decal is up on my back window haha.</p>
<p>I wear my MHC sweatshirt because I’m proud of myself and my college. Also, I usually don’t like dressing up and it is convenient (and very comfy!!!). </p>
<p>I don’t think that there is anything wrong with showing college pride. If it makes the person happy, good! My college doesn’t have the name recognition of HYP, so I doubt that anyone would be cranky in my case, but I still (according to some friends) GLOW when I talk about my college. I talk about it pretty often, I must admit. I love my school, and showing that in little ways makes me happy!</p>
<p>My H has been seen in a lot of logo-wear since our son was accepted at his alma mater–some not-so-subtle lobbying on his part. He meets a lot of alumni that way. I wear an oversized shirt from my school at the gym sometimes, as a warning to younger alumnae (like you, flowers & 3am’s!) of what that freshman weight gain can become if you don’t watch out.</p>
<p>I used to have a Cal sweater that I wore everyday, but I can’t find it now 
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<p>I just saw my D’s pictures from the SC snow … several kids were wearing hoodies from other colleges in the pictures! They like their school, but they still wear shirts from other colleges. BTW, southern kids sure know how to have fun in the snow! D has gone sledding every winter with her friends, but she said it was even more fun to do it in a couple inches of snow in Greenville with kids who rarely get that opportunity!</p>
<p>My older sister is attending graduate school at Harvard University, and she has bought me maybe a few Harvard t shirts and sweatshirts. I only wear them when I’m feeling really casual, but I’m definitely not trying to…I don’t know…brag about my sister or something. I wear them because my sister bought them for me and because I’m proud! She went to Mount Holyoke College as an undergraduate and I wear the t shirts she got for me from that school as well! At the end of the day, it’s just a t shirt, and if they want to brag, then who really cares?</p>
<p>Why is this thread still alive?</p>
<p>XD</p>
<p>pshhh i got rejected from Yale and I still wear my YALE sweatshirt! It was actually a gift from a friend, but i just like it. It’s really warm. People look at me funny/are nicer to me when I wear it, which is kind of sad and simultaneously hilarious.</p>
<p>But the second I actually get in somewhere (if…), I’m going to buy a T-shirt. And wear it proudly. My brother goes to CU Boulder and I’m very proud of him, so I always wear Boulder stuff even though I’m not even applying.</p>
<p>My daughter’s both went to a local summer camp called Camp Unique. They handed out sweatshirts to the boarders. For a few years their sweatshirts were the forest green ones with CU on the front. :-)</p>
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<p>Becasue the guy who started the thread apparently thought that which T-shirts other people wear was an issue of cosmic importance.</p>
<p>I stopped wearing my Cornell logo’d stuff the day my S was rejected by them(I’m an alum). My younger son then bought some Cornell stuff online and wears it every day to HS, just to bust his brother’s chops.</p>
<p>To the OP - I think your screen name, HIsOverrated, gives away a huge bias on your part. Seriously, get over yourself. So you have issues with Harvard. Doesn’t mean other people can’t wear Harvard shirts. Geez, how jealous/bitter can you be? People around here wear college stuff all the time. Sometimes because they went there, sometimes because they root for that sports team. DS has shirts from his college, and a hat from Clemson because his grandfather went there and he likes their sports teams. He also has a Red Sox hat. Big deal. Grow up.</p>
<p>What’s the big deal? I agree with the 1st replier… if the guy had worn a state college shirt, you wouldn’t even have noticed. Are you just jealous? Can’t someone be proud of the college they went to? If I got into Harvard, I wouldn’t flaunt it, but I wouldn’t hide it either. </p>
<p>People also wear them because they have family that went there, or visited there themselves.</p>
<p>Dude, OP…You need to chill out.</p>
<p>OP–did you actually get the T-shirt with your IQ on it?</p>
<p>“To the OP - I think your screen name, HIsOverrated, gives away a huge bias on your part. Seriously, get over yourself. So you have issues with Harvard”</p>
<p>FYI, the OP’s user name is HSisOverrated.</p>
<p>I didn’t see this thread the first time around, but I’d just like to say that my alma mater, Rice, makes me feel warm and fuzzy every time I think about it, and wearing my worn-to-heck Rice sweatshirt makes me feel like I’m diving headfirst into a vat full of happy pink marshmallows. Anything Owls. I have hats. I have shirts. I have a license plate frame. I’m crazy in-love with that campus, those professors, those students, and that experience, and darned if anybody’s going to hush me up, even five years out. I have a pennant in my cubicle.</p>
<p>It’s love. Might be pride. Don’t think it’s elitism; I didn’t apply anywhere else, though I had the litany of overachiever resume points that possibly could’ve gotten me into somewhere higher-ranked, but I didn’t want to go anywhere else. I visited, I fell in love with the school, and I didn’t magically stop loving it when I graduated.</p>
<p>I’ve found Boston College sweatshirts and t-shirts at the local Marshalls before. Perhaps people buy branded U-wear these because they got a great price on it. You don’t necessarily have to go there to get clothes at a great price.</p>
<p>I have an Intel T-Shirt that I got at a trade show. I’ve never worked for Intel. I’ve seen others with Microsoft T-Shirts that they’ve given out at shows. One company gave my 8 T-Shirts which I wear to work quite frequently. No big deal.</p>
<p>I have shirts from Maryland (my alma mater and S’s current school), Frostburg State (oldest D’s alma mater) and Tennessee (younger D’s school). I also have shirts from Bowdoin (took an ap training there once), Boise St., Northern Arizona, just because it’s either that or shirts for dirty hippie bands.</p>
<p>I have a lot of those two. Numerous GD shirts, Phish, moe. Gov’t Mule, Railroad Earth, Donna the Buffalo.</p>
<p>lol, I didn’t apply to any of the College related apparel I own. I have a lot of Illinois stuff because I live next to the campus, I have some UWisconsin stuff (parents alma mater), Dakota State University (cousin goes there), Ball State (2 cousin’s go there). Needless to say, me DSU and Ball State stuff always get people asking me if I am going there, etc, etc.</p>
<p>I won’t wear apparel to any college I applied to until I find out where I’m going.</p>