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That is exactly the point: pride in having succeeded at doing X using Y is not informative. It is an indulgence. "I graduated from Harvard" may be interesting to your Mom and, maybe, strangers still at Harvard, but not to us, and would be unwelcome on the HN dashboard.

If you published a thesis, that thesis topic could be interesting, but not that Harvard accepted it, unless they shouldn't have.




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