I'm writing a story about Yale students upset that a Harvard student is running a Yale Web site. FML.
If you know what those last three letters stand for, then you already have an idea how Yale students feel about this latest infiltration by the Crimson of Harvard. If you don't yet understand FML, keep reading.
Harvard freshman Jonah Varon launched College FML at the beginning of November. It started as a project with a small group of sites at Boston-area schools like Tufts, Wellesley and MIT, but quickly moved to Yale and other schools, the Yale Daily News reports. There are now sites for 26 schools.
The Web sites are simply places for students to go to complain about anything that's bothering them. Some recent posts on yalefml.com include:
"I'm too tired to work because I'm too worried about work to sleep. FML".
"Every guy I've dated here has dumped me, even the ones I never liked to begin with. FML."
So this leads me to the explanation of FML. Each entry ends with those three letters, which stand for "F**k my life."
What's upsetting Yalies so, is that someone from their dreaded rival has developed the Web site, and is running it for Yale, according to the Daily News.
The worst part for many on the New Haven campus is that many of the posts seem to be coming from Harvard itself.
Yale sophomore Charlie Jaeger is a moderator for the site, but doesn't have total control over what is posted there.
Jaeger tells the Yale Daily News that in the first month, yalefml.com had more submissions from Harvard than from Yale. Many of those postings were very anti-Yale in tone, he said.
But the numbers have evened out, and now more and more Yalies are complaining about their school rather than relying on Harvard students to do it for them.
All of which makes us say -- all together now -- FML.
