On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist?
I am indeed headed to Yale, but as a 'research scholar' (whatever that means) and not as a student. I'm not sure they'd admit me in as a student. > I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they > are at Harvard, they say "Cambridge"...if at Stanford, they say, > "California"...if Yale, it's "New Haven"...someone even told me he's going > to "Alameda County", I am not kidding....why is this? Are these people > afraid of the evil eye, or of envy....? Haha. It might also be that they're afraid of their friends who're already in those places. At one point in a chat with a friend in Yale I used "Yale" as a geographic designator, but she insisted on using Yale as a university designator and New Haven as a geographic designator. Perhaps that rubbed off?
