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Sweet deal. I'm going to Virginia Tech so I'll probably spend most of the Fall semester at football games. Is there anyone who went to a school with a nationally recognized sports program that regrets it because it seemed like that was all anyone cared about?

1. don't have sexual fantasies about your neighbor.
2. don't hook up with your neighbor.
3. don't say no when someone of the same gender is going to kiss you.
4. if you are naked, don't hug people.
5. keep your smurfing mouth shut in class. No one likes hearing smurf from stupid freshmen.

SpacemanSpiff wrote:

Tria wrote:

... me about JC.  "Hi, my name is Kate, I've been here 8 years, and I still haven't passed remedial math." 

One of the girls I went to CC with had taken EVERY class they offered... every class...

Wow.
We had one in the Media Communications Department that will not leave until she has finished all SIX areas of emphasis...  I don't even know what all six areas of emphasis are!!  Needless to say, I saw a picture of her in the college catalog from 2000-2001, so she's pushing 5-6 years...

vaeaglesfan wrote:

Sweet deal. I'm going to Virginia Tech so I'll probably spend most of the Fall semester at football games. Is there anyone who went to a school with a nationally recognized sports program that regrets it because it seemed like that was all anyone cared about?

I go to Texas A&M. We used to be good. Now we suck. When Reggie McNeal graduates we will suck even more.

Of course, I'm not a big football person. I don't really understand or even know how the sport works. My ex-boyfriend had to explain everything to me, repeatedly. But I went to every home game - not for the football but for the atmosphere and the fun. There is nothing like overtime games with 81,000 fans yelling and screaming and being rowdy aggies. It's great stuff.

It kind of sucks that all anyone cares about in Texas is football. All the fine arts get the shaft and generally they are the first programs to be cut. And it seems like only the atheletes get any reasonable scholarships.

But there really isn't anything I can do about it, so I'm just going to have a hell of a good time while I'm here

My high school was a big basketball school (first team to repeat as state champs since 1972, like I care). I'm a HUGE football fan and I can't wait. I literally chose Va Tech over a few other schools because of the football.

I saw how the basketball players at my high school were given special treatment and I was wondering if any of you experienced that in college and felt that it undermined the university.

I can't wait for college. Move-in day is August 19th!

weren't you excited about getting into grad school?

i have got to stop skimming...

If it's Brown, flush it down.

Anyways, leave your dorm room door open whenever you're in the room for the first few weeks and beyond. You will meet people. People won't go, whoa who lives in there? Just do it, you will be happy because of it.

Well Tria, I'm scared silly about college, but quite excited as well. Is nice that campus is only a 4 hour drive or so from our house, though, so a weekend trip after a nasty test is no biggie.

I guess having no parental imposed rules makes many quite happy, though...

keprydak wrote:

It kind of sucks that all anyone cares about in Texas is football. All the fine arts get the shaft and generally they are the first programs to be cut. And it seems like only the atheletes get any reasonable scholarships.

You'd have a different view if you attended a Texas school that had a larger vested interest in the arts like Texas Tech or Univ. of Houston.  Top Music/Art programs at both, with money to go around.

Competition? I know. I'm already planning ahead for B-school to possibly acquire a Masters of Accounting and maybe even take the CPA exam. If I end up going that route it seems so far away.

It's funny how my parents graduated from high school not even thinking about college, but I'm graduating thinking about another 5 or 6 years of school.

soulcrusher wrote:

1. don't have sexual fantasies about your neighbor.
2. don't hook up with your neighbor.

Heed this advice - floorcest = teh bad.

ConnertheCat wrote:

soulcrusher wrote:

1. don't have sexual fantasies about your neighbor.
2. don't hook up with your neighbor.

Heed this advice - floorcest = teh bad.

I dunno, it made for some fun drama on my floor. 

God, how I miss the dorms.