1.) they know other people think it’s a brag, and it’s low class to brag about your accomplishments. Like how a vegan can’t wait to tell you they’re a vegan.
2.) They grow tired of the response they get most of the time, “oh wow Harvard? You must be like really smart then right?”
No, it’s just some weird culture thing that pervades the campus. There’s a thing called ‘dropping the H-Bomb’ which refers to the tendency of Harvard students to tell you they went to Harvard. This started to be seen as poor etiquette, so people started saying they ‘go to school in Cambridge’ or that they ‘went to H’. It’s much more tongue in cheek these days, but it can still be very annoying when you’re at the Brown v Harvard football game and some dude tells you he goes to school in Boston as though it’s smartest pun in the world
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I think there’s a lot of reasons:
1.) they know other people think it’s a brag, and it’s low class to brag about your accomplishments. Like how a vegan can’t wait to tell you they’re a vegan.
2.) They grow tired of the response they get most of the time, “oh wow Harvard? You must be like really smart then right?”
3.) They don’t want to appear elitist
No, it’s just some weird culture thing that pervades the campus. There’s a thing called ‘dropping the H-Bomb’ which refers to the tendency of Harvard students to tell you they went to Harvard. This started to be seen as poor etiquette, so people started saying they ‘go to school in Cambridge’ or that they ‘went to H’. It’s much more tongue in cheek these days, but it can still be very annoying when you’re at the Brown v Harvard football game and some dude tells you he goes to school in Boston as though it’s smartest pun in the world
LOL. I work in engineering so when someone says they went to school in Boston, I’m like “Harvard or MIT”?