Oh god...I felt my IQ drop a level after reading his complaint...I'm gonna go lie down, my head hurts.

Looks like the thread got deleted?

Meh, though. The internet is full of "smart" people who coasted on their smartness instead of working and getting into good schools. It's just sour grapes and not really worth worrying about.

That was swift and awesome, did I do that? It's just so deflating to work hard and then a healthy slice of the general public looks down upon you. It's real, and I hear it around me a lot now that it catches my ear.

I wouldn't call ED a "healthy slice of the general public".

I wouldn't either.
But the real low point was bringing in G.W.Bush.
Especially as Bush is a Yale-Product.

Aside from that, the whole thread reeks of jealousy by some basement dwellers,
that never had seen a decent school from inside.

That's no healthy slice... Forums, even the good ones, are usually full of worthless trolls and those that think they know everything.

And who, in fact, no nothing.

Sounds like a major case of Dunning-Kruger effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_Effect

TL;DR version:
Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

1. tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.

the same people who currently give people fat-fried burgers at mcdonalds, and everyday daydream of getting a better job but didn't have the smarts to get a job in highschool or even apply for a schollarship because they were to lazy and thought school was "stupid"

Jealous people :/

The thread is gone... dang.

I will have to admit that I actually have wondered how long it will be until I get my own page on ED, just because I'm a furry artist.

You could write one.

I could... but I'm banned from the site. I actually became an editor for the site once, but I only did it to remove someone's personal information that was posted on one article. However, I didn't bother to follow the editing rules and I got kicked off mere hours after joining.

I think you have to piss off some other big-name furry first. I bet almost anything that most of the articles on furries are written by other furries who got butthurt over something or other.

I've suspected that also. Either that, or some furries that enjoy poking fun at themselves.

People can say what they want about me. I have the ability to detach.

That being said. I wish I could go to the school you are going to. I cannot because I do not have the passion you do to drive me to it or through it.

Wow, they're really reaching to get mad at people. LOOKIT THAT FURRY GETTING AN EDUCATION AT A PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGE! THATS SOMEHOW BAD AND MAKES HIM DUMB AND A SICK FUCK! And yet perpetuating this "strange kind of masturbation" of scouring the internet for people to hate, is not weird or sick at all.

There are plenty of people deserving of scrutiny right now, leagues more deserving than furries. People actually doing things that are like BAD.

ED I feel like takes all the stupid from youtube commenters, and gives them a place to discuss. :P

A wise man once told me, 'To have a group against you means you are doing something right.'

Amen to that!

I love just how fast that thread you linked was assaulted by furries. They managed to take over the page after about five posts.

But seriously:

1. WTF is the point of Furry Pride, it's a goddamned hobby/fetish. Not a political party!

2. Why would being furry have any impact on one's ability to do a successful degree?

No one got that I implied press secretary Robert Gates is a furry

Haters gonna hate. I'll go with what anubis said above.

Wow, the fact that that forum exists points to a lot of people who need more hobbies, a job, or their internet unplugged. I would never take a word said on a forum like that as truth or an actual opinion. Someone going to Harvard really shouldn't either. x3 You got in on your own merits, let them be jealous on the internet.

Hey, you are famous (:

Yay Internet.

Considering some of what I've seen, this is like someone flicking your earlobe. For once, not many people could agree with the poster's obviously biased opinion, and not many wanted to reply.

I just keep in mind that anything you put on the Internet can be used against you, so I try not to give people ammo. Then again, they took a relatively tame journal of yours and spun it around, so best to just say "fuck it" and keep on ivying that league!

That particular poster likes overplaying really dumb little things. My threads are the best.

wow...it seems the dumbs in ED are jealous of a normal thing like studying in an university. I guess the creator of that thread is just jealous because maybe obtained bad notes in his high school.
Just put your sunglasses and don't give the attention they'll never deserve.

I love how one group goes on about how all furies are under 18 while the other insists their all over 30.

Clearly shows they don't know what the fuck their talking about at all since the age range I've run into is even more diverse than that.

Hey bro that thread got me to watch you, be glad of that. Furfaggotry forums suck anyway, all EDiots know Dramatic Personae is where the real circlejerking fun is at :P. But still, I know you severely disagree, but Ivy League schools are overrated at the undergraduate level. There's an article I'd like you to read that I have to find about a man who works for a company in which students hire him to write papers for them. The level of corruption is beyond belief.

I don't have much respect for the administrative staff of any college, even prestigious colleges. Let's just say their sense of ethics, in many cases, is bought out by financial gain. The most common break in ethics occurs in the admissions department, where campus crimes are severely underreported in the name of making the college look safe. My professor from this semester is one of the nation's leading experts on campus crime, especially in the area of sexual assault. (He's also responsible for a branch of linguistics related to jargon, but he kind of underplays being called the sandwich man.)

Heh.
Funny how they say that you probably picked an "easy major". Architecture is a difficult enough major as it is...I shudder to think how difficult it is at Harvard. My first year prof went there for his M ARCH, after getting his B ARCH from Cornell. I need to get in touch with him again...lol
But yeah, don't let this bother you. This is good stuff, really, as jealousy like this usually means that you're doing something right.

As for having your furry pride sticker on your license plate (which I don't really sympathize with, but more power to you), then I must congratulate you; you have successfully trolled the trolls!

I don't really get exactly what they were ripping on you for, but I suppose mocking can be entirely devoid of substance. :P

I personally think it's great that you went Ivy League. I find it hard to imagine any drawbacks to doing so, and you should be proud of what you've accomplished. :)

hehehehehehe....

Well this is kind of sad. Honestly, these are people who are probably either jealous of your popularity or critique others for a living. They are probably unhappy with their lives :3
My best suggestion is to look the other way, because you know damn well how you got into Harvard, because you are intelligent. I applaud you in getting into a prestigious school.
You shouldn't let this ED forum get the best of you ;)
(Haters just be hating, that is all.)

Well, that's something you can wipe off your shoulder..

lulz, how can he be HAPPY, INTELLIGENT, and SUCCESSFUL IN EVERY WAY I'M NOT?!!! THIS CAN'T BE POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!! MOOooOOOOooM!!!

Pretty funny.

On the plus side I have't laughed that much in ages! Yeah, like putting in 100 hour work weeks and almost loosing fingers to a table saw because of lack of sleep is the "easy major"! Haters gonna hate. Might as well laugh at their stupidity and move on. Now THAT makes trolls angry.

Listening to people complain on the internet is like listening to a homeless man rant about government conspiracies;
They're annoying, they don't cover up their failures, they're not credible, and not worth listening to in the first place.

Besides, thirty years ago, these people are mostly likely to be the ones living in slummy apartments and getting wasted in front of a TV all day.

Smart people don't hang out on ED usually. I don't search myself because I'll probably get a butthurt.

Usually there are many smart people on Encyclopedia Dramatica. The sysops are usually intelligent actually. Just ignore the channer people and all is well.

The fact is the "furries" are everywhere.

Some are more open with their animal side than others, but I have met furs in all facets of life.

At the end of the day it comes down to "can person A do thier job well?"
If yes, then who the **** cares what their hobbies or orientation is.

Seriously, why do people really care about other people's private lives so much?


Hats off to you foxer. Just make sure you put ears on your cap when you graduate just to tweek the trolls. ^.^

because scociety is more snooping and peering then we used to be, we can't leave actors the hell alone because of the thrill weg te knowing about their lives...who gives a fuck?

if they would focus on their own lives maybe they could give some effort and get a decent job and move out their parents basements.

I for one am not a part of that society, and none of us have to be! :D

Cute avatar

hey thanks! :D

Do you take comissions?

They're just jealous because you're getting more tail than them. X*D~

Not sure about that one.

I tried to make a pun on the furry thing (i.e.: wearing tails in public), but i guess the joke was lost in translation yet again...

yes but tail can also mean ass/pussy/sex etc.

well, for one, you going to HARVARD, let alone an IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL that is EXPENSIVE and not every can afford it, just go with that.

alot of these commenters probably never got beyond a a highschool degree or dropped out with the excuse that it was "too hard"

not to mention some of them probably do have a degree....an online one....that companies DO NOT take seriously at all.

to them, online degrees are just peices of paper...worthless.

I applied there half jokingly and even bantered with some students at Columbia about how I shouldn't have an crumb of hope. Ironically, it was one of the few places I was accepted. I found that these schools are more interested in how well you fit their topics and research interests than how high your grades are.

Also interesting is that the only school that has ever asked about family finances was a public university in CA, lol.

Lawl

man, that seems pretty pathetic. They are really REACHING for stuff. It's like, OH, he got into Harvard.......I BET HE JUST HACKED HIMSELF INTO THE SYSTEM........ oh wait, that's pretty impressive too...... WELL, I BET HE DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF HARD CLASSES THERE! YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT! JUST 3 HARD CLASSES AND 1 EASY ONE PROBABLY. YEAH.

Hey, if the trolls even care about you, it means you're doing something right

I think its awesome

So, unless I am missing something here, ED thinks being accepted into Harvard is a negative? Is there any possible way to win with these people? If a furry cured cancer would ED then say "Only LOSERS cure cancer"?

Do I smell the stench of envy? I strongly suspect that that commenter might not have what it takes to get into Harvard, let alone not flunk out.

We all know what ED means...

People will go a long, long way to find complaint material.

Instead of bitching about something that isn't their business to begin with, why don't they just recognize for what it is; Envy, projected frustration or prejudges of a generalized stereotype. Unless any of these people actually know you to deeper extent then just your FurAffinity page or other web profile, they've got very little ground to even complain on. Internet profiles aren't very good transmitters of personality- and people in general.

Any argument that has ''probably'' and/or ''one of those'' (or anything else in that the nature of guessing or generalizing) in the sentence regarding the subject of the argument can pretty much always be ignored. It's hardly worth the effort of analyzing and responding to mentally lazy arguments.

In short; f**k them.

I look at that thread and see people who play the "OMG furries exist, we are all doomed" angle arguing with people who are openly furry. And the forum hasn't exploded yet. This is the infamous site I keep hearing about that supposedly makes /b/ look like an ancient Greek symposium? My mind is full of fuck!

First thing you have to ask is how many of the ones slamming you for being furry and in Harvard could even get into college, let alone a top rated school? All I have to say is I'm glad there are furs who better themselves, have high hopes in their career fields and work hard to be successful part of society. It really helps break away from the stigma that furs get often because there are so many that don't try and do something with themselves. I say good for you and I wish you the best of luck with your schooling and career after :)

I don't think you should be concerned with what a pile of trite losers think. Clearly they have no lives if the best thing they can think of to do is judge you based on a smattering of information interpreted people someone with an apparent chip on his shoulder. I don't comprehend what motivated all this, unless this ED guy (sorry, when I think of the acronym ED, the words that come to mind are 'Erectile Dysfunction' but whatever) is a iRL enemy of yours.

Oh, they all do that. They pick a topic to rip on and just go with it. Some more deserving than others. Obviously Harvard furry was enough for them to spin material. I'd not lose any sleep.

I only realized last week how much Maddog is in the show!

He's in any air pirate episode.

The best way to kill an ED article on forums or on the general site is simply to ignore it. Furries who don't follow the rule garner the attention of EDiots and EDitors who will go out of their way to take some time out of their day to doctor up the offending articles and find out anything they can about you to add to it. I'm glad you don't seem the type to flip out and rage when others try to put you down.

Obviously they know nothing about you. Not even your field of study. I don't know why they chose you out of all the other successful furries, and it's pathetic that they have to pick on other people to make themselves feel better about their own shortcomings.