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more about #shutupcollege more comments → Beau Nerd: [redacted] is secretly fapping to this letter, since he doesn't show much emotion anyways. more » Novaload: Wow, we need a Spam clean up in aisle 20. And thereafter. more » BearDownCBears: P.S. Can I get a letter of rec? more » BadUncle: If that's what passes for writing at Harvard, I'm relieved the school rejected me. The anger certainly eclipses any coherent message. And wtf is the "... more » RollsRoyceRevenge: While I am always happy Acrostic poems to see Nothing here’s poetical Keep trying, sayeth me Egregious in grammar Replete with malaprops, this attem... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Hey Harvard guy - If you're making an acrostic, the first letter shouldn't actually contain the message you're trying to spell out. Y eah A nd I L... more » SybilDisobedience: I said hot damn. This redefines "scorched earth" letter, as far as I'm concerned. What entertaining vitriol! more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: because no one wants to work for an organization that lacks any humanistic qualities or fun. I don't think "humanistic" means what you think it means. more » DennyCrane: The Aristocrats! more » Clare: more » Sir Winston Thriller: Homophobia, misogyny, bitterness, hyperbole, self-centered venting. Go Harvard! So--the letter writers are pretty much angling for jobs at NRO or Poli... more » TheBusinessGuy: I think they largely cut and pasted the Gourmet staff's note to Chuck Townsend. more » lobstr: Interesting to note the Ivy League-scale pretense in that letter is duly countered with lots of grammar errors, improper usage of possessives and a fe... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: They don't seem very nice or all that promising or humanoid. I'd rather read the work of an Alexis Bledsoe-type (is there such a thing?) from a place... more » SarahHeartburn: I hear Pennysaver is hiring. more » -
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Staff Tension at Harvard Newspaper Explodes into Epic, Graphic Scorched-Earth Email
A group of disgruntled staffers at heralded Harvard rag The Crimson said good-bye to the outgoing leadership with a group email that includes the phrases "epically unpopular," "forever-flaccid penis," and "group-fisting." More » -
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Court: Columbia Lies, Is Dumb
An appeals court ruled that Columbia University can't use eminent domain to grab property it wants for its expansion just by calling its neighborhood "blighted." The judges pointed out: Columbia is so freaking shady. More » -
#trendwatch
Community College Admission Now Aspirational
Thanks to the recession-era glut of job-seekers, Starbucks barista jobs now require a postgraduate degree. But you shouldn't worry about that, because you can no longer even get into community college. More » -
#irony
Eliot Spitzer will deliver a lecture on ethics at Harvard's Center for Ethics this afternoon. $20 anyone who manages to utter Ashley Dupre near an open mic. -
#recessionomics
You Have a Future in Garbage
The Way We Live Now: Absolutely fabulous, thank you very much! When you said "we," you were referring to well-timed Ford investors and university presidents, correct? Oh, you mean everyone. They're all in the garbage business, one way or another. More » -
#higherlearning
New Teen Craze: 'Responsible Decisionmaking'
God damn teenagers: they're going to (community) college in record numbers. Also they're finishing high school in record numbers, because why not? More » -
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Harvard Students Now Living How They Imagine Poor People Must Live
Oh oh oh, merry Christmas, it's a semi-credulous story in the New York Times about Harvard students and deprivation. Our nation's greatest treasures (Harvard students) are quite literally going to die, from poverty! More » -
#shutupcollege
College Kids Miss The Point, As Usual
Oh look, the black cartoonist Keith Knight dared to draw a black guy in a noose in this recent K Chronicles strip, and now "Students at a western Pennsylvanian school are outraged." Shut up, Slippery Rock University. More » -
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#food
Are America's College Kids Healthy Enough to Make Several Trips to the Buffet Line?
For the sake of fitness, American college students are being asked to waddle back to their all-you-can-eat cafeteria buffets each time they want a new plateful of hot ham-n-cheese sandwiches and ranch dressing-laden iceberg lettuce. Too much to ask? More » -
#shutupcollege
The Ten Types of Harvard Wannabes
William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's dean of admissions, is taking questions on the New York Times' website. So far, 788 queries have been submitted. What do these questions tell us about American higher education? That it can make you crazy, times ten. More » -
#bestandbrightest
Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students
Harvard Medical School tried to tell its own students they couldn't speak to the (scary) media without the school's official permission. Shut up, college—literally! Haha. No we did not go to Harvard, why? Luckily! More » -
#classwar
Rich Homeowners vs. Raucous College Kids in Sexxxy Stereotype Fight
You learn something new every day: Second-string NYC borough Queens is home to one of the city's "wealthiest communities!" Furthermore, the laughably stereotypical residents of this community are locked in a laughably stereotypical class war with laughably stereotypical college kids. More » -
#what
Tucker Max Eaten by Alligators
Oh look, a student at the University of Florida totally liked Tucker Max's movie. Probably because Tucker has irrefutable photographic evidence that he hooked up with Tim Tebow, right on the football field. A commenter sums up the situation best: More » -
#shutupcollege
Blood Art Sex Magik Too Hot For Yale
Yale art major Aliza Shvarts induced many throwups amongst people who read about her induced-abortion art project last year. But she also induced, uh, Yale not letting somebody have a blood drive, for art? Something something, "meaning." Yale! More » -
#whocares
College Rankings Totally Made Up
Listicle publication Forbes says that the US Military Academy, of all places, is "America's Best College." Is that even allowed? Competitor listicle publication the Princeton Review has struck back with its own outrageously outside-the-box college ranking listicle items! More » -
#fakejobs
Scams We Wish We Thought Of: College Admission Counseling
The spectrum of Fake Ass Jobs extends from jobs that are totally useless and made up (branding consultants, "generational consultants") to, on the other end, jobs that sound useful, but are actually borderline-criminal scams. Hello, "Independent College Counselor"! More » -
#shutupcollege
Columbia Journalism School: Den of Filth
Ah, Columbia J-School, the antiquated educational institution where the young and naive go to chase their crazy Woodward and Bernstein dreams. Sadly, the students there are an unsanitary horde of crumb-infested vagabonds, according to a school memo forwarded to us. More » -
#science
College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways
College: where drunk kids are guinea pigs for social science. The funnest college-kid studies involve race, because they make everyone uncomfortable! Now comes a new study of interracial college roommates that proves we're all terrible. A racial breakdown:
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#math
College: Waste of Time
Just like my high school history teacher told us, skipping college and getting a damn job instead is the smartest economic thing you could possibly do. Someone has proven it, using mathematics! More » -
#recessionomics
Help Save College Students From The Dangerous Outside World!
The Way We Live Now: For the children. Well, for the kids. Well, for the college kids. They're kids, really. They need protection from this cruel, dirty world. And when the colleges go broke? Where will the kids go? More »
