What do YOU love about Harvard?

[ksarmand]

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The use of the conditional mood makes the sentence read as if you’re expressing an opinion or hypothetical rather than a fact.

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<p>Yes, I was expressing an opinion. I’m not too sure why you thought my statement was meant to be read as a fact - perhaps this is just another manifestation of the pitfalls of using the internet as a means of communication. The portion you found objectionable could also be read as “you might want to consider…”</p>

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All jokes aside, ignore the haters, mifune.

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<p>:confused:</p>

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I do, however, insist that people accept and appreciate the diversity of personalities.

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<p>:confused:</p>

<p>There’s so much here that makes no sense whatsoever.</p>

[Lobzz]

<p>@happysunshine: I wasn’t referring to ksarmand, but rather all the other people who’ve been scrutinizing every single word typed by mifune.</p>

[mifune]

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@Lobzz

You can rub the Pulitzer/Nobel in their faces in a few years

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<p>That almost surely won’t happen during my lifetime, but thanks. </p>

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@ksarmand

Yes, I was expressing an opinion.

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<p>Oh, sorry, then I was misapprehending your intent (mostly due to ambiguity over which mode of communication you were referencing).</p>

[jlee526]

<p>wait, is mifune famous around the harvard campus?</p>

[jbubbles123]

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That almost surely won’t happen during my lifetime, but thanks.

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<p>Haha, I beg to differ! I’m sure you will. One thing that’s forsure is that you will surely go on to do big things in life.</p>

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wait, is mifune famous around the harvard campus?

Not sure, but he’s famous on CC. Everyone knows him on here.</p>

[xrCalico23]

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uhh… just out of curiosity, your interesting vocabulary and fine writing on an informal forum is sort of funny, but is that the way you usually talk?

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<p>Yes, he speaks very well, but it never stood out to me as very strange or anything. </p>

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i mean, it’s quite obvious that you’re brilliant, but try to loosen up a a little. dont be so annoyed at others. i mean, calling your classmates “dolts” and “gorillas” seem a little extreme when they are merely doing what typical college students do.

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<p>Erh, I was pretty sure those statements were meant to induce a tone of humor… I’m surprised people took the words literally.</p>

[mifune]

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@jlee526

wait, is mifune famous around the harvard campus?

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<p>Certainly not. My reputation is absolutely negligible in comparison to those of the many spectacular academics and individuals here.</p>

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@jbubbles123

Not sure, but he’s famous on CC. Everyone knows him on here.

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<p>On my dormitory floor, I am acquainted with eight individuals who had employed College Confidential as a resource for standardized testing preparations and in the college search and selection process.* Most had encountered my username previously. But given that most members restrict their activity to a few select forums of interest or relevance, it’s quite inconceivable for any single individual to be pervasively recognized. I, too, only utilize a select portion of this website and my posts are no longer that abundant.</p>

<p>*I’m fairly certain that none of them use College Confidential any longer. Many have proceeded on to public message boards that are more suitably in accordance with future vocational or educational goals (Student Doctor Network, LawVibe.com, or the like). Once happily situated in college, many will find that College Confidential’s relevance substantially diminishes, unless for use as a social outlet, general charity, or to disrupt daily monotony.</p>

[Lobzz]

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Once happily situated in college, many will find that College Confidential’s relevance substantially diminishes, unless for use as a social outlet, general charity, or to disrupt daily monotony.

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<p>Heresy…</p>

[cornetking222]

<p>It’s in the heart of Cambridge and everyone there is amazing.</p>

[wasslion]

<p>Would you want to go to Harvard if it were not ranked number one? If it had the rep of a state school?</p>

[silverturtle]

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@wasslion

Would you want to go to Harvard if it were not ranked number one? If it had the rep of a state school?

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<p>Questions like this cannot be so cleanly posed. If Harvard were to have a lesser reputation, this would be associated with changes in the factors, such as academic and student-body quality, that influence schools’ reputations. Often, students are attracted to a school with an outstanding reputation not because of the resultant prestige but because of the indicative value of that reputation.</p>

[silverturtle]

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@mifune

I find that a cappella features nothing more than a bundle of monotonous musical performances that largely dissatisfies my ears. Of course, my musical preferences are distinct from those of others and some students find it to be a pleasant social and performing arts diversion, but I shudder at how prevalently entrenched these organizations manage to become in the college musical culture.</p>

<p>But even more irritatingly, there is this musical troupe rife with talentless, immature dolts who perform outside my dormitory on sporadic intervals. A few days ago, at 3:43 A.M., they sang and strummed perhaps the most asinine song I had ever heard. I am awake at that time roughly 95% of the time so I was perhaps slightly shy of a perfect 10 on a scale of annoyance. I’m not sure if they’re arrantly intoxicated but their performances are more uniformly embarrassing then the combined efforts of ten wounded gorillas.</p>

<p>Perhaps my most fruitful experience with Harvard’s musical groups thus far has been the marching band’s serving as an alarm clock. I had accidentally slept in until 4:00 P.M. and nearly missed a rather important laboratory session.

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<p>It sounds as though you would benefit from my sending some additional Sokolov videos. :)</p>

[LastYearsMan]

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Actually, the neighboring individuals are courteous, sophisticated people but during weekend evenings, they regularly depart. The black sheep of the dormitory gravitate toward my floor for whatever reason, often resulting in an overbearing influx of inanity. </p>

<p>To offer another anecdote, two weeks ago, twelve people held a soccer match in the ten-by-twenty-foot common area of my floor. It sounded like a theatrical re-enactment of Gettysburg.

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<p>I found you, Ignatius J. Reilly!</p>

[GOPTexas]

<p>Nothing, it’s garbage. </p>

<p>Yale #1</p>

[daiviko]

<p>I can’t speak for myself, but I know that my friend got into Harvard and all he put in the additional information section of the Harvard supplement was “I want to go to Harvard because my ex girlfriend goes there”.</p>

[kaira07]

<p>^did he REALLY do that?</p>

[mickjagger]

<p>^I would like to know also. If you think about it, that is a very unique answer… and it shows a jokey side that is quite rare in the utter seriousness with which people compose the subject matter of their essays.</p>

[kaira07]

<p>Yeah I don’t think i’d ever be gutsy enough to risk it.</p>

[glassesarechic]

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If you think about it, that is a very unique answer… and it shows a jokey side that is quite rare in the utter seriousness with which people compose the subject matter of their essays.

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<p>There are many ways to be unique without coming across as immature. It reflects a sense of humor in the way that your mom jokes do–“jokey,” sure, but not particularly funny.</p>