YALE - Harvard w/o the depression

booyaksha
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:03:37 +0000

There are many threads on this. As a student, I’ve experienced firsthand just how much I and other Yalies LOOVE their experiences.

I also know many Harvard students, and I actually think they are generally less enthused. One of my H friends complains about being a Freshman boy in the social scene there. Another girl said that many Harvard students “feel privileged just to be there, and that makes them less demanding about getting the most out of their college years or demanding things from the administration.”

As for academic competition, it is present at both Yale and Harvard. At Yale, the competition exists, but it is very individualistic; many care about their GPAs, but they will always share notes and help their peers learn material. I can’t speak for Harvard.

As for suicide and depression, I don’t really know about Harvard but I haven’t heard of anything here. This article – http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27924 – is the most radical event I’ve heard of, and those students didn’t leave Yale b/c they h8d it; they left for a week essentially to be Romantics and they came back.