What Harvard students are really like under all those layers of presidential potential. Information straight from the source of this prestigious institution.
I went to a cheap ass uni in west london to study engineering. Visited mates who studied in Cambridge. Was wearing a smart coat. Went to order a round of drinks. As I got to the end of the order, I got a load of abuse off people at the bar about being a stuck up cambridge uni twat spending daddies money. I told them I studied in the asshole of west london, funded myself through uni by working for three years before, started bottom of the class and worked damn hard to get near the top. I finished by suggesting they stop blaming everyone else for their shitty life and go do something about it. My hands were shaking so much on the way back I spilled a bit of beer, but I felt a lot, lot better.
+Michelle Liu ASian tourists turn off a lot of otherwise PC people. They run around snapping pictures of everything and are very bossy. At least that's the scuttlebutt. When I was a kid American tourists had a bad reputation and deserved it.
My second cousin's dad's sister's daughter went to Harvard. She majored in art and got a job days after she graduated as a Business person. Goes to show you could major in aliens and still get a good job if you go to Harvard.
Actually, you're all wrong. People who get into schools like Harvard and Yale are people who have AMAZING work ethics. No matter how talented you may be, if you're lazy, eventually someone who's worked harder and has acquired the SKILLS will surpass you. I'd rather have great work ethics than be intelligent and lazy.
Nessa X Well at some degree you are right but, there is a certain point to where intelligence matters. If you have crazy good work ethics, your social skills and the ability to interact with others could (and also might not be) be very low. And thats what is going to get you a successful company or job or an important business deal. Sure, academics matters but social skills is whats gonna get you far.
I highly disagree that people with very good work ethics lack in social skills. Work ethics doesn't need to apply to just research and paperwork, work ethics is the principle that hard work that will lead to a reward. If, say, you want to be President of the US, not only will you need a top Univeristy degree from a school like Harvard, for example, you'll need to work on your social skills to get good connections to better your chances of becoming President.
On the point when people ask you where you go to school. I now get it while a professor i met in Ghana told me he teaches in Boston, few blocks from MIT and then I said Harvard and then he said YES. I didn't understand why he didn't just go straight to tell me.
In my professional circle, I meet many Harvard graduates who perpetuate the stereotype that you have acted out so well in this video. My first name evokes another stereotype. It actually alienates me from those Harvard graduates who share the same identifiable ancestry with me. I have always had respect for Harvard, but these people that I refer to dull the shine. Their last names always seem to be hyphenated with Harvard.
I am thinking of making a documentary movie about Harvard. I find the title '' Our Pee is Prestigious as Fuck'' to be quite arresting. I hope you will not mind if I use it. It will of course be for the explicit version of the film. The clean, family friendly version will have an alternate title. I would appreciate some title suggestions for the clean version.
- how students got in - how students look like geeks - students are pretentious - no one gets out - they're all afraid of sexuality This has to be explained? There's more, but I don't want to embarrass you.
And this absolutely beyond reasonable doubt happens in engineering school or in any other school, as per your "non-embarrassing-to-me" point of view? And the parody of it implies...? What? Discouragement from joining said school(s)?
PaulIvanish okay, so a stereotype occurs when someone assumes that just because a certain behavior occurs, that it is the exclusive behavior that exists in a defined group. these types of people exist at harvard, but they do not define every single student. i am a STEM student, and i don't fit these stereotypes. some of my friends do. again, this stereotype is therefore false because i do not fit it. simple. as for your "discouragement" inquiry, no. this is satire. it's a joke. don't take it too seriously.
John O'MEARA Okay buddy boy, look here: this video is about a parody. It's not a teaching excerpt. It's not a documentary. It's not life-experience taped for shows to others. It's not even an analogy. It is a parody, and this is true whether you want to admit it or not. And it is not a very good parody either. It's a rather weak and poor one. It makes judgmental situations come up and the comedy is lost there. Is this my opinion of it? Yes. Does that necessitate someone like you coming along and typing this: " This has to be explained? There's more, but I don't want to embarrass you. " to me? No, that was unneeded. Now, I am willing to admit I'm being a bit passive-aggressive here, and I'm sorry for that. The reason for my passive-aggressiveness is on account of the stereotyping done here in the video and on the bad quality of the parody TOGETHER, not isolated. I stumbled upon the video watching other rather more serious videos about college (from TYT University channel) and perhaps I took some granted liberties in expecting something better. That's my bad. But your "I don't want to embarrass you" comment is more than just passive-aggressive; it's hostile. And that is just shitty. It's shitty because regardless of my tone, it's not an action that deserves your kind of retort. Gauging tone is not a 100% accurate activity via text, and my tone wasn't 100% serious to begin with. That much I can assure. Now I never attempted to re-define the concept of "stereotype". My earlier reply was to show some discontent. I'm sorry that you felt like you were being attacked or perhaps invalidated, of sorts. I'm sorry but I don't see a reason to abandon my previous position. I similarly don't see a reason to define and attempt at "enlightening" me as to your conceptualization of a stereotype, anymore than I have a way to validate your fit in these stereotypes as portrayed in the video. Are you a STEM alumnus? I don't know. Are your friends a good fit for the stereotypes portrayed? I don't know. And that's where that gets stuck and it stays stuck since it doesn't surpass my standard of evidence. Thus, I remain somewhat skeptical of what you type. It could be the case that I was a student at an engineering school at one point, and I was portrayed in the stereotypes, inaccurately. Did you think about that? It could be that I was an engineering student at one point, and yet none of these stereotypes applied to me. Did you think about that statistical universe? Maybe I just went in another direction in college, and I still dislike the video's portrayals. Gave that some thought? Maybe I didn't go to college at all! Did you consider any or all of those possibilities? So the video's summoning of Harvard seems a little to the point, but mostly not to the point. It does seem irrelevant that you mentioned Harvard. So what is it about Harvard? Why not Yale? Why not the U of Tokyo? Why not the National University in Kenya? Is there an attempt at a standard being made? Is it just engineering perhaps? I've heard plenty of those jokes. Is that what's happening here? Don't know. Don't really care at this point. But know that I'm not the type to buy this entire "My U > Your U" attempt, IF that is even the direction where you attempted to take this (and I don't know that it is). I have no beef with you, but in the end I have to type: Sorry. No deal. My "discouragement inquiry" point stands: this video is bad and the stereotypes shown are badly portrayed, such that at times I don't know that a point about a stereotype in the video is being made at all. I stand by my stance and the seriousness I portrayed is not the seriousness you end up suggesting I don't take here.
"The skunk was black." "No it wasn't. It was white." "No. I saw it, and it was black." "But I saw it and it had white fur." "But its fur was black!" "No! It was white!" See where I'm going with this?
WOW! You're so funny! Haven't laughed like that in a while... :) I go to Princeton and I can really relate to some of the things you're saying here. Just wondering.. are you in class of 2015? What do you study? I'd love to see more of your videos(after I'm done with of all the current ones that is). And who knows.. maybe I'll be the one to take Princeton to the same internet sarcasm platform :) You're awesome! keep posting!
Lol, I don't believe it until I see it for myself. THey might not be pretentious to eachother, but definitly that way to everyone who DOESN'T go there.
i don't think thats fair. innocent until proven guilty. not the other way around. people still have this skewed idea of harvard in their minds. it is so much more diverse now in every way.
***** are you even serious? I don't feel the need to explain anything to you because you are clearly ignorant. but if you need any type of proof, here are some statistics. As you can see harvard is 50% white and 50% anything else. I go here. I walk around campus everyday. I meet new people everyday of every race and every socioeconomic standing. And even though I owe you no more explanation, in my dorm room alone, we have an asian girl, a black girl, and two european girls. Both of which english wasn't their first language. So you can't talk to me about harvard not being diverse. www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg06_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=444 Show less
JenB303 I wasn't directing this at race at all. I actually don't agree that being white at Harvard has to do with the pretentious attitude at all. You can be any race and be that way. However, it might now be as "skewed" as many people put it out there as, it still has a pretentious "ivy-league" attitude associated with it. I mean, I don't doubt that I would even be that way if I went there. People like to feel special and flaunt it, it is just the way things are.
***** Harvard students "never think about people who are suffering from poverty?" They never "strive to make the world a better place??" Here's a handful of famous, influential Harvard alumni who worked hard to build a better world: Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, Al Gore, Ben Bernanke, John F. Kennedy... just to name a few. Harvard has a total seven Nobel Peace prize winners on its list of alumni. I find it interesting that you called JenB303 a liar, but then when she refuted you with facts, you completely ignored them. You can legitimately criticize certain things about Harvard, like the legacy system, but when you start making up your own statistics and change the subject when you're proven factually wrong, you just look ignorant.
Um..I don't really care how the students are and if any of you guys do, it better be because you either go there or are applying there because if you don't even have the grades to get in, then what Havard does is Havard's business and the kids who choose to go there can make there own decisions without you. I'm sure that if they went through so much trouble to get in that have put a lot of thought into all the things that you guys are saying. (Btw- I don't go to Harvard I go to ASU but I do believe that it's a good school and I would never put it down just because of it's high standards. I'll just take there students as a challenge in the real world when i'm looking for a job.) :)
Girl, You need to meet people at local community where people can love you regardless of whether or not you go to Harvard. Please communicate your fellow members of your school and develop friendships with them. Also, develop friendships from other schools. Also, this video log will seriously hurt you in terms of finding a job. However, most likely, HR will not have the time to look at your RU-vid during the interview.
Harvard Yale Princeton all three Universities primarily admitt privileged White kids from wealthy affluent households and they don't even have to be super smart. You also have the White students who get in through alumni association. Now if your are from middle class or working class you have to be super smart.
+Nathan JAHJA I think what this person meant, is that most kids that attend north-eastern prep schools 'expect' to get into some sort of ivy league university. Honestly, its a real standard there, because the ivy league schools are really like a feeder school to that particular prep school. I went to a top notch private school in Philadelphia for elementary school, and getting accepted to PENN was considered a norm. When I moved to Atlanta for high school, getting accepted to PENN was a dream for most students in the top 10% of my class.
Students from upscale privileged households have priority and they do not have to be super smart. A former president who went to Harvard was d average and he was admitted through alumni association.
Guys, stop criticizing her. I've seen a lot of corrections and a lot of rude and sarcastic comments. Honestly, don't be mad because she is more successful than you :)
3rd language. He also knew Korean. And that's my point. You need more than grades and test scores. She probably won some Math competitions, or does some sport, or something extra. You still need the grades, but my point is that she is smarter than it seems.
I lived in DC for a few years. Yeah, tourists suck. Tourists at the Mall walk right out in front of cars as if the magic protection of our Fore Fathers would shield them from disaster. "Well, I cain't dah! This is our nation's capital!"
Whats wrong with nice Universities/Colleges? Just because they have a posh accent which I prefer to any other and can speak properly, whats even worse is that you made a whole video on them, thats sad...
