{"id":49914,"date":"2024-04-21T23:07:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49914"},"modified":"2024-04-27T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:07:27","slug":"tryhardszn2024-oh-the-humblebragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49914","title":{"rendered":"#TRYHARDSZN2024: Oh the humblebragging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49915 \" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/humblebragging.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/local-2\/santa-ana-high-school-student-accepted-to-15-universities\/3393158\/\">Salsa<\/a>: 17-year old Southern California girl accepted into 15 universities, among them a free ride to Harvard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As the title to this post might indicate, this #TRYHARD doesn\u2019t hesitate to throw a little bit of shade while simultaneously humblebragging about her achievement-worthy number of acceptances into many well-reputable schools.\u00a0 However, unlike a lot of tryhards out there, this one actually acknowledges the fact that she had taken a few L\u2019s in the sense that she had been waitlisted and rejected by some schools:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I didn\u2019t think I was going to get into any of the top colleges because I had been waitlisted and rejected a couple days before and also day of,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cSo, I was like, there\u2019s no way I could get into Harvard or anything like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Naturally, quotes like this are brought to you by the fact that not only did she get accepted into Harvard, but she also managed to secure a free ride as well.\u00a0 Considering her mind-bending 4.7 GPA and her extracurriculars, it shouldn\u2019t be surprising that she got in, but getting a free ride is an impressive feat in itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sometimes I think Harvard dangles free rides to kids further away, with the hopes that they don\u2019t take the bait, and they the school can still try to use it as a leverage play with donors, boosters and those who hold the purse strings to cry poor, that kids aren\u2019t taking free rides anymore because they presumably not offering up enough incentive to get kids to pick fucking <em>Harvard<\/em> among other schools in the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What I am a little curious about is what schools did turn her down, considering that aside from Harvard, some of the other schools she did get into were Brown and Columbia, two other Ivies, as well as Stanford, Duke and Berkeley and a whole bunch of Cali-based safety schools which obviously she won\u2019t be going to.\u00a0 It would be funny if it were schools like Georgia Tech or USC or Oregon State that rejected her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But the obnoxious thing about this particular #TRYHARD is how insufferably wishy-washy she\u2019s trying to sound, pretending like she\u2019s deliberating where she\u2019s going to pick, as if she were LeBron James or some highly-touted high school football recruit grandstanding some selection day show for where they want to go to school:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I didn\u2019t think I was going to get into Harvard so my dream school was Columbia and I honestly think I\u2019m preferring Harvard now, so I think I might go there instead,\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s like bitch please, not only did you get into Harvard, you got a free ride; we all know what the answer is going to be, especially if Columbia or Stanford isn\u2019t giving you a free ride so just shut the fuck up and stop humblebragging, because it\u2019s coming off as insufferable and obnoxious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If there\u2019s one thing that remains consistent between the different tiers of #TRYHARDS, it\u2019s that being tryhards always equates into being entitled to being obnoxiously humblebraggy about their accomplishments, to the degree where it seems like that\u2019s solely the reason why they applied to so many goddamn schools in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salsa: 17-year old Southern California girl accepted into 15 universities, among them a free ride to Harvard As the title to this post might indicate, this #TRYHARD doesn\u2019t hesitate to throw a little bit of shade while simultaneously humblebragging about her achievement-worthy number of acceptances into many well-reputable schools.\u00a0 However, unlike a lot of tryhards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#TRYHARDSZN2024: Oh the humblebragging<\/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":[100,83,182],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49916,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions\/49916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}