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PostNouveau posted:And everybody faces the Tower with the Horns up for the playing of the alma mater, even when the Tower isn't around, like in Dallas you'd all face southwest. I have never seen anyone do this
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EwokEntourage posted:I have never seen anyone do this  Maybe it's fallen off. Definitely used to do it in DKR and the Cotton Bowl back when I was going to games.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:54
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Working in higher education, I can't help but be jealous of the institutions with massive fuckoff endowments. There are a lot of institutions with relatively tiny endowments which are essentially completely tuition driven that struggle to get by. Definitely glad to see more of that massive endowment money going towards students and economic diversity.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:02
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Marxalot posted:Yeah, but if you go to A&M then you're forced to drive a lifted F250 and pretend to give a poo poo about college football for the rest of your life. F-250? What are you, a lady?  fake edit: also lol if you think they're pretending to care about college football
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PostNouveau posted:
UT traditions matter on football game days and absolutely no other time. Really, as Austin has grown over the last 20 years UT has become a smaller and smaller part of the city’s culture, so UT traditions carry even less weight than they used to.
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Panty Saluter posted:fake edit: also lol if you think they're pretending to care about college football Yeah they don't care about anything else. I'm from Bryan and I can tell you that there is nothing in CS besides things that are somehow related to A&M
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Jul 11, 2019 19:16
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Dameius posted:My buddy who was a year ahead of me did go corps and was in process of failing out of A&M due to exhaustion until leadership stepped in and made the sophmores chill the gently caress out and give people time to study and sleep without interruption. He had basically never gotten less than an A in his life until then. This is probably just my ODD/failure to socialize/bitter nerd talking, but this sort abusive nonsense you see in large swathes of society just enrages me. Eat my rear end, I'd rather be an outsider than submit to that horseshit
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Panty Saluter posted:This is probably just my ODD/failure to socialize/bitter nerd talking, but this sort abusive nonsense you see in large swathes of society just enrages me. Eat my rear end, I'd rather be an outsider than submit to that horseshit The biggest problem with poo poo like that as far as it happening at A&M is that it is basically, "what if boot camp lasted an academic year and also you had to do a full university course load on top of it," which is deeply flawed. Add on top of that a poo poo ton of crab mentality of if the upper classmen had to do it, then the fish don't get to complain, and so on.
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PostNouveau posted:There are dumb traditions at UT, like if anyone asks you the time you respond "It's (time), and OU still sucks". And everybody faces the Tower with the Horns up for the playing of the alma mater, even when the Tower isn't around, like in Dallas you'd all face southwest. i mean at OU we just went to class idk
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Jul 11, 2019 19:50
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corn in the bible posted:i mean at OU we just went to class idk You got a lotta nerve showing your face in here pal, after going to the shcool you did
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Jul 11, 2019 19:58
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if i walk on the grass do i just get yelled at or do i get physically attacked
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Jul 11, 2019 19:59
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i say swears online posted:if i walk on the grass do i just get yelled at or do i get physically attacked Depends on the grass and what tree its under
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Jul 11, 2019 19:59
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zoux posted:Depends on the grass and what tree its under Over here in DC there’s been some controversy as new (predominantly white) residents are moving next to the Howard University campus and they have been walking their dogs on the “piece of grass our school has randomly decided to call sacred”. It’s kind of become a proxy-fight for gentrification in general, but I can’t help but compare it to A&M’s ridiculousness even if the Howard kids have a better argument.
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corn in the bible posted:i mean at OU we just went to class idk 
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Don't forget this is gem from the 1990s, when it was topical: Q) What's the difference between an Aggie and a Boy Scout?
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i say swears online posted:if i walk on the grass do i just get yelled at or do i get physically attacked You will be chased with swords.
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jesus christyoutube comment posted:The senior cadet's name is Greg Hood. He was class of '81 in Squadron "Gator" 2 and he was a bit if a hero. It probably wasn't the smartest move on his part but it was his and his buddies' job as Officers of the Day to keep opposing teams off the field as all were well informed of the rule regardless of whether Kyle Field was a memorial field or not.
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It would be loving hilarious to watch a military-style band that's half taking the wrong orders. Trombones to faces, sousaphones slapping together, flutes getting bowled over. Then they just give up and leave.
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The Rice band loving owns
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PostNouveau posted:There are dumb traditions at UT, like if anyone asks you the time you respond "It's (time), and OU still sucks". And everybody faces the Tower with the Horns up for the playing of the alma mater, even when the Tower isn't around, like in Dallas you'd all face southwest. The first is a thing that lasts for freshman orientation and on UT dad facebook. I've never even heard of the second.
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Jul 11, 2019 22:45
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Sab0921 posted:The first is a thing that lasts for freshman orientation and on UT dad facebook. I've never even heard of the second. Hey man you dissing UT dad facebook?
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PostNouveau posted:Hey man you dissing UT dad facebook? UT dad facebook is one of the few things that brings me genuine joy in this world. Everyone is so happy to dress their kids in orange and post videos of them learning the hook em' sign - it's a beautiful thing.
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Jul 11, 2019 22:57
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Kunabomber posted:what happens if the kid doesn't get in If white - blame black people, sue and take to the supreme court If minority - go to UH, UTSA, or UT-Arlington, but tell people it's because they want to be close to home.
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Jul 11, 2019 23:11
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Sab0921 posted:If white - blame black people, sue and take to the supreme court Its great that UTD was forgotten about as a safety feeder school in this example.
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Jul 11, 2019 23:19
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I went to UH from '14-'17 and I'm pretty sure it was still a commuter school, I don't care how many dorms they've built
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Dameius posted:Its great that UTD was forgotten about as a safety feeder school in this example. Same with UTRGV
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I went to UH from '14-'17 and I'm pretty sure it was still a commuter school, I don't care how many dorms they've built Senator Warren, welcome
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LanceHunter posted:I mean, most Aggie jokes are just repurposed redneck jokes. Just like most of the jokes Aggies make about UT are just repurposed gay jokes. Yeah I went to Clemson and the same sort of thing was true in SC. Clemson jokes were just hurt dumb rednecks and USC (now UofSC because they were mad about always getting mistaken for SoCal lol) jokes were just about how effeminate/yuppie they supposedly were. Pretty true whenever there is a rural/urban rivalry I think. That said even though Clemson was a football-obsessed ag-school in the middle of nowhere and had a military history (my dorm room still had the gun rack for the cadets' rifles ffs) there's absolutely nothing like the A&M cult poo poo there. There is however a cow with a hole in the side of it.
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There is the story of the A&M student who was accidentally trampled to death at an UT/A&M game which pissed Aggies off so much they were basically stopped at the College Station rail stop from going to Austin to torch the entire city to the ground. That was from somewhere in the 30-50s when it happened. It was one of the pieces of lore they proudly told to prospective students about how much A&M is a cool place to join.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I went to UH from '14-'17 and I'm pretty sure it was still a commuter school, I don't care how many dorms they've built Same with UTD (Though the amount of 'commuters' who commute 30m+ has dropped like a rock last I was there. All the new kids have to stay in those dorms, though im pretty sure the occupancy of the non-freshman ones are super low)
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Dameius posted:Its great that UTD was forgotten about as a safety feeder school in this example. I thought that was UNT
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Isn’t UNT for theater nerds
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Going to A&M for grad school is a bizarre experience. It has one of the best veterinary schools in the country though, which is cool.
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Jiro posted:Same with UTRGV It will always me Pan Am to me.
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Bizarro Watt posted:Going to A&M for grad school is a bizarre experience. TEEX at A&M is like the top fire and emergency response training center in the world, they helped a lot with Harvey
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Badger of Basra posted:Isn’t UNT for theater nerds AND music nerds
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PostNouveau posted:AND music nerds Ah, Bruce Hall.
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Sab0921 posted:It will always me Pan Am to me. Pan Am was Edinburg. UTRGV is the old UTB down by Fort Brown.
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