LEAVE ME ALONE!

November 2, 2014

Harvard Art Museums ad on a public train:

I visited Harvard during my senior year in high school, when I was thinking about where I might want to apply. 

I didn't like it.  It had a cold feeling to it, and everything and everyone that I saw or heard during the group tour gave off the feeling that everyone wants to go to Harvard, Harvard knows it, a few applicants are fortunate enough to get in, and even they aren't good enough to be there.

That was in 1990.  Four years later, there was a student murder-suicide at Harvard.   

What, Harvard, and the rest of the Ivy League?  You don't mind my mentioning that, do you?  I thought you were all about reminding the world of people's pasts that can't be changed.

You can stop ridiculing me, Harvard; I'll NEVER apply to one of your schools, not as long as I live.

Incidentally, when I was in high school, Cornell was notorious for its student suicide rate.  One Google search of the term "Cornell suicide" shows how little things have changed.

What's the Ivy League attitude?  "People should be grateful they got the chance to die because of us?"  Or is the attitude "We're such important places that nobody cares how many people we kill?"

Copyright L. Kochman, November 2, 2014 @ 1:34 p.m.