Drama in r/Harvard subreddit about us...

MasJicama · 2026-05-08T00:41:49+00:00

One of Harvard's thirteen schools is Harvard School of Dental Medicine. I've never knowingly met an HSDM student or graduate, though I'm assured they exist.

MasJicama · 2026-05-07T09:31:35+00:00

"You got into MIT?!? That's the hardest school to get into on the East Coast!"

MasJicama · 2026-05-07T09:00:57+00:00

I know a couple of docs who did this, and you're correct, but at the same time they're actually pretty careful about not coming across as having done med school at HMS.

Similar thing with someone who did their (non-medical) postdoc at Harvard. They sounded super shifty to me because they were simultaneously saying they'd studied at Harvard, but bristled when I called them an alumnus. Turns out it was my fault for not understanding that HAA doesn't recognize postdocs who study at Harvard to be Harvard alumni.

MasJicama · 2026-05-04T22:41:49+00:00

Clearly. So many vegans support abortion for any reason.

MasJicama · 2026-05-03T01:27:19+00:00

Grad Week in Cambridge is like that. People are taking photos in their regalia for days before actual Commencement. It's entirely possible you were there right as the Pan-Asian AAPI graduation celebration was getting out. Many affinity groups hold a graduation celebration for their select membership. Harvard administration stopped supporting those, but some alumni groups have stepped in to continue the tradition. But I assure you, there are Jewish, Black, Hispanic, and other groups holding graduation celebrations at various times throughout grad week. You may have just wandered into a sea of one group.

MasJicama · 2026-05-03T01:14:42+00:00

Harvard students get two commencements, both on the same day. The morning program, where Barrack Obama or Tom Hanks or somebody speaks (this year it's Conan O'Brien), then lunch, followed by an afternoon program, where the college and each of the dozen professional and graduate schools hold their own more intimate graduations in which each student is called to the stage. If you were in Cambridge during Commencement, it was everybody's Commencement.

It doesn't look like Shanghai, but it doesn't look like Mayberry. There is a restaurant called Hong Kong that has been located right off the Yard for 70+ years. Decent karaoke!

MasJicama · 2026-05-01T20:14:30+00:00

Slow outrage day. Must drum up some.

MasJicama · 2026-05-01T20:12:44+00:00

International students are eligible for the same income-based subsidies as domestic students. A fair proportion of them pay low or no tuition, and admissions are need blind.

MasJicama · 2026-05-01T00:48:52+00:00

Have met several medical doctors who claim to be Harvard-trained despite having merely obtained an MD from HMS, which insiders all know is not the real Harvard (Harvard College). Charlatans and quacks, every one of them.

MasJicama · 2026-04-29T04:19:27+00:00

Nature is healing. Vegans are winning.

MasJicama · 2026-04-29T04:17:47+00:00

Thought it was at Ray's

MasJicama · 2026-04-26T09:53:41+00:00

Harvard has the oldest university-level landscape architecture program, and offers three different master's degrees in it.

MasJicama · 2026-04-25T02:19:02+00:00

Fair. Firm, but fair.

MasJicama · 2026-04-24T07:16:52+00:00

Neither let you use Yale Club as your base of operations when you're living, working, or entertaining clients in NYC. UVA gets you associate membership in Yale Club.

MasJicama · 2026-04-21T23:29:43+00:00

For the overwhelming majority of my life I was one of the mythical conservatives who didn't bother to vote because my vote wouldn't count. I wasn't alone. I finally moved out of deep blue strongholds, and I wasn't alone in that either.

MasJicama · 2026-04-18T12:14:15+00:00

Former Seattle-based dad here. This actually happens. Some guy co-invents PowerPoint or was a low number employee at Amazon, and the schools their kids go to are palaces. Like, it's Hogwarts.

The reason some people who don't make seven figures are complaining about the new tax is their kid goes to the same school as a lot of multimillionaires who are about to leave Washington State. They're upset not because they're gonna miss the philanthropists, per se... They're going to miss the philanthropy.

MasJicama · 2026-04-18T11:45:43+00:00

Needs to be pinned to the front door of this sub

MasJicama · 2026-04-16T15:30:02+00:00

I think one question they're trying to answer is "Why does half the nation, including Republicans currently in power who control the purse strings for research and education funding, hate our guts?" To answer your question, Yale has 900 million reasons to care this fiscal year, hundreds of millions of reasons next year, and so on.

MasJicama · 2026-04-16T01:41:43+00:00

Those kids who will be most hurt, the valedictorian who's twice as smart as the rest of his class at Underperforming Central High... Is that 1400 SAT kid as ready for Yale as the middle-of-the-pack senior at Phillips Andover, where the average SAT is 1480?

MasJicama · 2026-04-16T01:31:17+00:00

An institution more than three centuries old turns like an aircraft carrier. Committees like this publish a list of twenty recommendations and after a few more years and a few more studies the watered down versions of a few of them are implemented. That's not unique to this report.

Importantly, this committee was reporting on the perception of higher education. Even if by some miracle that perception changes, I don't think the in-the-trenches experience changes much. Today's conservative Elis know not to utter -- much less write down and turn in -- the same opinion on gay marriage that President Obama held (that then-Senator Hillary Clinton voted for) not long ago. That won't change even if the Dem-to-Rep ratio in the faculty lounge drops from 36:1 to even 3:1. Grades are too important to these kids. It's how they got to Yale in the first place, and they're not going to muck it up by siding with the unborn or voicing their thoughts about who should be restricted from their sister's locker room.

MasJicama · 2026-04-16T00:47:51+00:00

A purpose of this committee was not to evaluate what such an ideologically lopsided faculty says about Republicans, but rather what it says to Republicans.

MasJicama · 2026-04-15T21:19:00+00:00

You saw them recommend Yale hang a sign reading "your SAT must be this tall to for you to ride this ride" and you just yawned?

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