Not a funny post but interesting perspectives from my friend at Harvard:
GreatMIB1 (3:59:04 PM): im happy in my graduate program...mostly
GreatMIB1 (3:59:13 PM): but i wonder if another one wouldn't have actually fit better
GreatMIB1 (3:59:27 PM): still...im here now, im making the best of it....the bad stuff will always be there
GreatMIB1 (3:59:43 PM): if i had gone to duke i would have wondered if i should have chosen the more prestigious one
ckaka121025 (3:59:56 PM): yea, but I think you'll make the best out of it
ckaka121025 (4:00:01 PM): ... come on it's harvard
GreatMIB1 (4:00:18 PM): oh totally
ckaka121025 (4:00:21 PM): so awesome
GreatMIB1 (4:00:22 PM): but there are some radical things wrong w it
ckaka121025 (4:00:23 PM): I get to brag to people
GreatMIB1 (4:00:29 PM): they are ridiculously sexist still
ckaka121025 (4:00:33 PM): yea I could imagine
ckaka121025 (4:00:46 PM): the whole aura I got from east coast
GreatMIB1 (4:00:58 PM): there are labs i want to work in and ive been refused because i am a woman in science and "one day you will want a baby so why should i waste my time training you sicence if u will just leave it for a family"
ckaka121025 (4:01:02 PM): was very ... traditional and difficult to weave new patterns in
GreatMIB1 (4:02:16 PM): ya
GreatMIB1 (4:02:40 PM): the fact that i am dating a post doc in my lab is not viewed as "well 2 ppl who liked each other got together
GreatMIB1 (4:02:49 PM): but as "she is trying to climb the ladder cause thats what women do
GreatMIB1 (4:02:51 PM): "
ckaka121025 (4:17:01 PM): eeh
ckaka121025 (4:17:07 PM): that's truly sad
ckaka121025 (4:17:09 PM): and regressive
GreatMIB1 (4:18:40 PM): eh
GreatMIB1 (4:19:03 PM): but ya...harvard is great but its just another school w its own issues once u're here
GreatMIB1 (4:19:12 PM): though they do a damn good job at keeping up an amazing reputation
ckaka121025 (4:20:10 PM): money money money, money money!
GreatMIB1 (4:21:08 PM): haha true
GreatMIB1 (4:21:21 PM): apparently the only organisation in the world that has more money than harvard is the vatican
GreatMIB1 (4:21:24 PM): crazy huh
ckaka121025 (4:21:34 PM): -jaw drops-
ckaka121025 (4:21:36 PM): wow.
GreatMIB1 (4:21:52 PM): i know...basically they like to say that the only thing that has more money is god
ckaka121025 (4:22:17 PM): whatever happened to their motto?
ckaka121025 (4:22:21 PM): something veritas?
ckaka121025 (4:22:24 PM): something about truth?
ckaka121025 (4:22:29 PM): light and truth?
GreatMIB1 (4:22:56 PM): Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae
GreatMIB1 (4:22:59 PM): Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae
GreatMIB1 (4:23:06 PM): sorry truth for christ and the church
GreatMIB1 (4:23:08 PM): thats the first one
ckaka121025 (4:23:11 PM): gotcha
GreatMIB1 (4:23:14 PM): now its just enlightment and truch
GreatMIB1 (4:23:19 PM): they got rid of the christ bit
ckaka121025 (4:23:23 PM): ah...