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| Thu, 08-02-2007 - 12:43pm |
Asks me about "daddy's trust fund" because I went to BU, I'm going to flip out. To all you MA residents, is this really such a well-known stereotype?? I was raised in such a blue-collar family, first-generation college student, the like and I LOVED it there and met some of the best, friendliest, most intelligent people I know.

I'm doing my master's at BU, and my uncle was giving me a really hard time. He kept asking why I didn't go to UMass like my dad, and I kept saying that it didn't have the degree program that I wanted. He then said,'well, I'm trying to save your father some money'. To which my dad (love him!) said, 'I'm not paying.' Just ticks me off.
I chalk it up to jealousy of ignorance. Either way, doesn't reflect well on the person making the comments. I'll have to tell y'all the truck story sometime.
~Heather~
No, it doesn't reflect well upon the asker...so then I don't really care what the person thinks of me, but I'm tired of having to justify myself and give a disclaimer: "I went to BU BUT I'm not a snot." It's irritating. The business school kids pulling up in their Benzes and Burberry scarves don't help much, though.
Oh God, Harvard...I have some stories about them, haha. :) In truth, not so many, but I work down the street, so we deal with them often. Usually they're pretty good, honestly. I was thinking about applying to the art history PhD program, but ehh...I'm not so sure I could do that part-time.
BU, really? I miss it...obviously undergrad is a different experience, but what campus there is (it's the only kind I'm used to) is great and the professors are amazing. I think I only had two I didn't like, one was a visitng professor for psych 101 (I didn't care much) and one for an art history class....the sweetest man in the world, but he'd just show slides and tell us what they were. The only truly boring art history class I ever took. Anyway, they have this rep of "the most expensive college"...A, it's probably by about five dollars since all private schools of the same caliber cost basically the same and B, the financial aid is really fantastic, for undergrads, anyway. Let me know if you decide to go. :)
Believe it or not, I get the same kind of flak for my high school - and it was a public school. Many of the students drove BMWs, so we all got a bad rap for being snobby rich kids, and most of us weren't by a long shot. It was a good school, and I feel lucky for the education I received there.
I say, be proud of your education and don't apologize to anyone for where you went to school. If it weren't a good school, people wouldn't feel the need to be so jealous and try to cut you down. I would say something like, "BU is a good school. I worked hard to get there and I take my education very seriously - I don't take it for granted at all."
If they continue to feel the need to be snippy with you, then that's their problem.
AJ, enjoying life with C.