"Science Figures Out How You Become a Hipster" - Jezebel

apparently, Harvard students these days have nothing better to do than study “the Facebook pages of 200 college students over four years” (read: their friends) and ultimately determine that “students who shared similar tastes in music bonded.” 

I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT IN THE FOURTH GRADE! mostly because i only wanted to be friends with girls who liked *NSYNC and not those cootie queens who liked BSB. like duh, harvard grads. like, duh. now please return your ivy league attention to the likes of cancer, AIDS and world poverty

"Science Figures Out How You Become a Hipster" - Jezebel

apparently, Harvard students these days have nothing better to do than study “the Facebook pages of 200 college students over four years” (read: their friends) and ultimately determine that “students who shared similar tastes in music bonded.” 

I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT IN THE FOURTH GRADE! mostly because i only wanted to be friends with girls who liked *NSYNC and not those cootie queens who liked BSB. like duh, harvard grads. like, duh. now please return your ivy league attention to the likes of cancer, AIDS and world poverty

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