There is nothing more typical of a provincial bourgeois than to believe that their fancy local private day school has an iota of brand recognition or cachet outside their own city https://t.co/Re4kYvlJlV

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) April 17, 2021

I like doing that to people who expect to impress me for having gone to fancy schools.

Things I’ve said in real life to such hoity-toity people:

• “Cornell? Is that an agricultural school? You know, ‘corn?'”
• “Brown? Where’s that community college at? I think my mom went there.”
• “Stanford? Haven’t heard of it.”

That can be really, really fun.