{"id":49824,"date":"2024-03-06T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49824"},"modified":"2024-03-08T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:14:35","slug":"tryhardszn2024-at-least-he-picked-an-ivy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49824","title":{"rendered":"#TRYHARDSZN2024: At least he picked an Ivy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49825\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tryhardszn24_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tryhardszn24_2.jpg 560w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tryhardszn24_2-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blacknews.com\/news\/payton-pitts-18-year-old-black-student-chicago-accepted-6-ivy-league-colleges\/\">Eyeroll<\/a>: Chicago teenager accepted into six Ivy League schools among others; chooses Harvard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At first, I was about to go <a href=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/eOifa1WrOnQ\/maxresdefault.jpg\">ha-ha<\/a> about how he only got into six of the Ivy League schools, but supposedly this kid only applied to just six of them.\u00a0 For whatever reason, he did not apply to Brown or Dartmouth, and my thought is that those are the two Ivies that are probably a little too far up north in New England for a black kid from Chicago to feel any comfort at, should he have gone to either of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Still though, going six-for-six on the Ivy League schools he did apply to, yep, that\u2019s still #TRYHARDSZN2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Stanford and Morehouse were also named as schools he applied to, and were accepted into, but they do say <em>and more<\/em>, so we have no definitive number of just how many schools he applied to, and were accepted into, but it\u2019s irrelevant because he still went after 3\/4<sup>th<\/sup> of the Ivy League and that alone is enough to make any kid a mega tryhard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The thing is though, in most of these cases, a lot of these mega tryhards do what they do, because they don\u2019t have to pay for application fees, which absolves the most primary of risks of applying to college, and the worst thing that can happen to them is that simply don\u2019t get accepted.\u00a0 Otherwise, they can sit back and amass acceptance after acceptance, and if the number is impressive enough, they make the internet, and I get to call them mega tryhards, and use them as fodder for the hashtag on a personal brog that nobody reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But what I was going to say is that in most of these cases, the kids apply to a thousand schools, get accepted into 50 of them, and ultimately only go to the ones that are actually giving them a free ride.\u00a0 Sometimes, if the families of these tryhards have some money, they\u2019ll go to one of the more prestigious names they were accepted into, but in most of these cases they\u2019re really phishing for any schools that are willing to give them large scholarships, if not a free ride outright, and ultimately they usually end up going to a lesser-heralded school because free school &gt; student loan <span style=\"text-decoration-line: line-through;\">entrapment<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration-line: line-through;\">imprisonment<\/span> debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, this particular kid, has chosen to actually redeem his acceptance into Harvard, of all schools.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say that he wasn\u2019t worthy of some sort of scholarship, but usually in a lot of these mega tryhard stories, the underlying truth is that they were simply accepted, and not necessarily given any sort of incentive.\u00a0 Such details are not disclosed in this specific story, but what is explained is that he will be playing basketball for Harvard, so there\u2019s always the possibility that he\u2019s getting some degree of scholarship from one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, because he\u2019s decent at hoops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To which I actually do give this kid some credit for actually cashing in his #TRYHARDSZN2024 ticket to go to one of the most prestigious schools on the planet, and not just doing it for the cheap attention as a publicity stunt.\u00a0 Go forth, young man, and hopefully you will dominate the lesser-tier competition of Ivy League athletics, instead of getting boiled alive at a school with a real athletic program like the ACC\u2019s Stanford (lol), while gaining one of the most invaluable reputable proofs of education in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But you\u2019re still a mega tryhard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyeroll: Chicago teenager accepted into six Ivy League schools among others; chooses Harvard At first, I was about to go ha-ha about how he only got into six of the Ivy League schools, but supposedly this kid only applied to just six of them.\u00a0 For whatever reason, he did not apply to Brown or Dartmouth, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#TRYHARDSZN2024: At least he picked an Ivy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,156,58,182],"class_list":["post-49824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49826,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions\/49826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}