"people are going to think this is what yale is like."
it may be the most unintentionally ironic statement i've ever seen.
"it's not about creating an intellectual space, it's about creating a home."
what this really suggests is entitlement. you get this from students that have never received a B, consider themselves a part of an intellectual elite and look at a school as a kind of a club. they fail to realize that they coasted through school less on their intelligence and more on the mediocrity of the curriculum. what's lacking is actually a concept of work.
stated otherwise, that's a spoiled brat.
polymath7
+jessica "it may be the most unintentionally ironic statement i've ever seen. "
Pardon me, but "may be"? Can you name three others that even come close? This is not a rhetorical question.
jessica
+polymath7 i think it's asking me a little much to be able to definitely state that anything is the most anything that i've ever experienced.
i'm not going to sit here for hours and rack my brain. but, i had a 12 year-old little sister at one point. i'm sure i could come up with something.
polymath7
+jessica That's kind of the point though, you'd have to rack your brain. I racked mine for several minutes, and came up with nothing. Nothing...
edit: I had a cousin who once belligerently said, "I don't give a fuck what 'apathy' means" -but he was nine years old, and that's still not as egregious as this.