[quote]MaximusB wrote:
The University of Southern California, graduated in '98 with a BS in Exercise Science, played football for 2 seasons, and had more fun than any one man should be allowed. Great academics, traffic, crime, and plenty of spoiled rich daddy’s girls to drool over. [/quote]
Im not sure my friends and I have collectively laughed so much as when they released UVA’s football schedule, and we played USC, and now this season we are playing at USC. I think USC won by 50 points or something last season, should be equally rough this season.[/quote]
Don’t worry, I would say you have much better than a sporting chance at winning this year with all the sanctions. Fuck em, they deserve them if they cheated the system. Even though that’s my team, I still say that. [/quote]
We could start a whole thread on this Maximus, but the NCAA’s evidence is weak at best and the sanctions are of unprecedented severity. The NCAA is the most tyrannical organization in the country. Fuck them.
[quote]Houston07 wrote:
THE University of Texas at Austin. Only going to be a junior, but it is a stereotypical Texas atmosphere. Great football, big dudes, and hot girls. Girls in the South own to be perfectly honest. I have loved my 2 years. We recently just reclaimed our throne as the number one party school…[/quote]
Arguable whether Texas is in the “South” but I agree that Southern women are pretty stellar (for women).
University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Great party school, and as mentioned before, beautiful southern women. Nothing better than Saturdays in the fall with 100,000 at the football games. Bruce Pearl and the basketball program keep things pretty interesting too. One hell of a rec center that opened up the fall I arrived. Other facilities on campus sucked ass, but they have renovated beyond belief since I finished.
I’m going into my junior year at Bowdoin College (tiny liberal arts school in Maine). The academics are tough, but I’m a nerd and I’m studying something I enjoy. Majoring in classics - not directly useful for a job, but classical philosophy + Roman history is the tits.
We have a great career planning office as well. I’m 19 and I have a paid internship working on a trading desk at a fund manager that specializes in mortgage securities. So even though you have no “job training,” with some coordinating with the career planning office and a good GPA, you can get internships and jobs just like the guy with an accounting degree or whatever.
Lots of beer drinking because there’s not much to do and the girls aren’t very good looking. I usually find one who isn’t so bad and wife her up for a semester. It’s cold and snowy. There are no frats - teams pick up the slack. The food is 1st or 2nd best in the country. Lobster cookouts, mussels, steak, etc. The rooms are all above par. Even freshmen get a common room plus bedroom. Upperclassmen campus housing is the shit.
So, academic experience is incredible and you can put yourself on the path to a very well paying job here, but if you’re looking for that American college dream experience, this isn’t the place.
There’s also a garage-style gym 10 minutes from campus. The guy who owns it is great and lets people just come in whenever for free as long as he’s not training clients.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Graduated in '83… Art Institute of Philadelphia. Associates Degree. Two years straight through, no summer off.
That place was a huge waste of time and money. Nothing I learned there has anything to do with what I do now. I’d still be a successful artist had I never gone there.
The ONLY worthy things I got from that school are a handful of great friends, and the girl who is now my wife.
I will add to say I did grow up a lot while there. Living in a West Philly ghetto for 10 months was one of the best experiences for a kid from a farm region of PA. [/quote]
Sounds like were having/had a similar experience. Where are you from? I’m also from the farm region (lancaster) and I’m attending Drexel, also west philly and probably just as ghetto.
Go to New Mexico Tech and learn how to legally blow shit up and get a degree doing it.
I went there for graduate school and it was just an awesome place to be. I was there when Jodi Foster was there filming “Contact”. “Myth Busters” have used the EMRTC for a couple episodes.
Did my undergrad at Tufts and Harvard. Definitely not worth the money ($46K a year) but I met some pretty cool people and had a couple of awesome profs. The rest of it was mediocre.