On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist? > > 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....? > Since thread-jacking is what we do on Silk, this reminded me of my favorite story along these lines. Many years ago, after I had finished my first year of law school at a well known law school in Cambridge, I had returned "home" to Bangalore to visit my parents. When I arrived from the airport, there was some friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend type person who was visiting my parents, and he engaged me in conversation: Visitor: "So, where in the U.S. do you live?" Me: "In Boston." Visitor: "In the city itself?" Me: "No, actually I live across the river in a neighboring town." Visitor: "Oh? Which one?" Me: "In Cambridge." Visitor, his face lighting up: "Cambridge?? That's where MIT is, isn't it???" My MIT friends in particular love that story ....
