Coming to Boston

by Will Wilkinson on March 28, 2005

I’ll be giving a talk on “Pluralism, Sympathy, and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship” or something along those lines, at the Boston University Libertarian Society’s imaginatively named Liberty Conference on Saturday April 9th. If you’ll be in Boston, or across the river among the dorks and snots, please come by. I aim to edify.

I just thought of something Boston-related that I think is funny to do. When you get in a conversation with somebody, and it gets to the “where’d you go to school phase”, and they say with excruciatingly mannered evasiveness “Oh, up in Boston,” reply, “Oh sure, Northeastern’s a really great school,” and walk away. Fun!

  • huh? I dont think that post from bude celebrity is appropriate for this blog.
  • Huh?
  • Marie
    Oh gawd Will, get *over* it! This kind of plotting reflects exactly the sort of obsessive attention for which you (usually wrongly) think they're secretly hoping. If you can't otherwise kick this out of your system, then just bloody study here for a while. If I can do it, you can. Then, you can waste time thinking about how your particular degree program stacks up to others', or how you stack up to others in your degree program. An improvement, I guess?
  • Luka Yovetich
    I *do* think that that's funny when Harvard people do that. (I'm sure there are people from other top schools that do this too.) They are almost unwilling to just say where they went to school. I sort of understand it. But this type of joke would be well worth doing!!
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