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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 5, 2009 9:52:40 GMT -5
HA. Our saxes had ΣAX shirts too. I thought they were clever.
Its a pretty solid theory. They want you to have a Baylor legacy.
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Post by Tales From Band Camp on Aug 5, 2009 14:23:43 GMT -5
Oh, you all are making me jealous with your fun college talk. ;D I miss a lot of it (the band & the massive amounts of friends!) but then there's some I don't miss (the papers & the tests). I do miss just learning about things. I'm a pretty curious person in general, so while I liked my classes, I didn't enjoy the work that went with it. ;D
FWIW, I was both in SAI and in a social sorority at Georgia (DG), and I never experienced any hazing in my social sorority. So KUguardgrl13, don't worry about your friend. I'm sure the rules now are even more strict.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Aug 5, 2009 15:42:57 GMT -5
thanks tfbc and everyone else for the advice!! i'm excited for KU band camp in a week from tomorrow!!!!!!!
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 5, 2009 22:08:15 GMT -5
The best I can figure with Baylor and the ilk's preference for early marriages is Ninja's guess of continuing the line so to speak. Baylor wants our money and if we have kids, we'll send our kids to Baylor, they'll get married, have more kids, send those kids to Baylor, etc. That's actually kind of absurd if you think of it that way (I'm saying you're right). Nepotism is a huge force... I know a girl who is going to Bucknell next year whose whole family went there. I'm sure GENERATIONS have gone there. It seems to be kind of the same thing here at OU. Then again, from what I've realized, Southeastern Ohio seems to be its own family of sorts to begin with. Most people I know at school are from very close areas, or only as far away as maybe Cincinnati or Columbus.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 5, 2009 22:58:34 GMT -5
^Thats how it works with schools like the University of Texas, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M. ENTIRE families of my friends have gone there. Its just weird... lol and then I have friends who's families went to the University of Texas, but they are going to Texas A&M (schools are huge huge HUGE rivals in case no one knows), or vice versa. Things get terse when the annual game comes around... huge "house divided" parties.
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Post by Tales From Band Camp on Aug 6, 2009 12:15:15 GMT -5
That was the case with my family - my dad, my mother, my brother, and I all graduated from the University of Georgia. UGA and everything associated with it just feels like "home" to me.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 6, 2009 19:05:46 GMT -5
I'm a second generation college go-er. My parents graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (dad) and Rutgers University (mom), and told me under no circumstances was I to go to either. So I wasn't obligated to attend any particular college which made things easier and more difficult. Still UNL will always hold my heart, at least in football... College countdown... 11 DAYS!!! (give or take?)
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Post by noxcuses on Aug 6, 2009 23:28:41 GMT -5
I hear ya on that one. I got continually frustrated with my floor (rather... my dorm)'s participation in the "college drinking" obsession last year. Now, its none of my business who drinks and who doesn't... but getting woken up at 230 in the morning AT LEAST ONE TIME A WEEK by a fire alarm because someone put a plastic bowl in the oven/burned popcorn/smoked weed/pulled the alarm because they were drunk/stoned/all of the above got a little annoying. (This got REALLY annoying when it was winter and it was cold, and/or if I had someone over. or if I was in the shower.) Oh, and the drunk people who'd wander the halls, knocking on doors trying to find someone got annoying too. I swear, my dorm had a police officer ASSIGNED to it because there were so many incidents. A cruiser practically lived outside my dorm after dark. of course... I lived in The Projects, for lack of a better term. and if JMU had a Mob, it'd be operating out of the building I lived it, what with all the drug trafficking that went on. Thank goodness I lived on the first floor. *phew* that was a good rant, and dont even get me started on my actual dorm building. That's part of the college experience. Later you'll look back at that and laugh.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Aug 7, 2009 2:41:35 GMT -5
yeah, my parents both went to IUP in Indiana, PA and I might've gone there if we hadn't moved to Minnesota. I think a lot of colleges are like that with the whole nepotism thing. i know kansas is that way. same with mizzou. i have a couple friends who're going to their parents' rivals though. my friend's mom went to North Dakota, but she's going to Minnesota (major hockey rivalry there). another friends entire family (almost) went to Penn State and her older brother is at the University of Pittsburgh (old rivalry from before Penn State went to Big 10).
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 7, 2009 8:06:11 GMT -5
I hear ya on that one. I got continually frustrated with my floor (rather... my dorm)'s participation in the "college drinking" obsession last year. Now, its none of my business who drinks and who doesn't... but getting woken up at 230 in the morning AT LEAST ONE TIME A WEEK by a fire alarm because someone put a plastic bowl in the oven/burned popcorn/smoked weed/pulled the alarm because they were drunk/stoned/all of the above got a little annoying. (This got REALLY annoying when it was winter and it was cold, and/or if I had someone over. or if I was in the shower.) Oh, and the drunk people who'd wander the halls, knocking on doors trying to find someone got annoying too. I swear, my dorm had a police officer ASSIGNED to it because there were so many incidents. A cruiser practically lived outside my dorm after dark. of course... I lived in The Projects, for lack of a better term. and if JMU had a Mob, it'd be operating out of the building I lived it, what with all the drug trafficking that went on. Thank goodness I lived on the first floor. *phew* that was a good rant, and dont even get me started on my actual dorm building. That's part of the college experience. Later you'll look back at that and laugh. ha, oh I look back and laugh now, and I've been able to for a while. It definitely made my freshman year memorable. Though i'll always blame the tri-sig girls for being loud and drunk and their noise keeping me up til 3 am when I had an Inorganic Chem final at 8 that morning. ><
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 7, 2009 9:16:37 GMT -5
^Thats how it works with schools like the University of Texas, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M. ENTIRE families of my friends have gone there. Its just weird... lol and then I have friends who's families went to the University of Texas, but they are going to Texas A&M (schools are huge huge HUGE rivals in case no one knows), or vice versa. Things get terse when the annual game comes around... huge "house divided" parties. Oh those three... At one point I was looking into A&M for grad school (before I realized that I would be fully creeped out by them) and I was told by multiple people, including my best guy friend who doesn't even go to Baylor anymore that they wouldn't stand for it. My poor fellow flute and mst minor's parents both went to A&M, they are still thinking about forcing her to transfer... and in a way, I'll have to admit, it makes sense. Baylor cut the MST major and A&M has a fairly decent program. Regardless we still whoop* them at Battle of the Brazos.** *Aggies do this weird "whoop" cheer. They scare me slightly. **Battle of the Brazos is pretty much any sports game of Baylor against A&M, for the football and basketball games we get shirts. This year our shirts said "Time for a WHOOPing" We fully trounced them.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 7, 2009 21:03:25 GMT -5
^ you have no idea how happy/excited it makes me that you go to a college in Texas. Mostly cause I actually know what you're talking about. I agree about the whoop cheer. I've been to a couple A&M games (and a couple Baylor games for that matter, but I'm a Nebraska fan... so I'm on the opposite side) and that cheer.... and the "AAAAHHHHHH GIG EM, AGGIES" freaks me out every time. Mostly its the yell leaders in their white clothes that weirds me out.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 7, 2009 22:24:29 GMT -5
No nepotism for me. My mom graduated from Duquesne, and I my dad attended IUP. There are so many great schools in PA, but I kind of just went, "Eh, lemme go out of state - FOR THE HELL OF IT!"
All the schools I looked at/got accepted to (excluding Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN) were not in my state, minus Temple in Philadephia. I just really didn't care. Indiana, Delaware, and Ohio were all game for me.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Aug 8, 2009 2:48:04 GMT -5
huh, there are a surprisingly large amount of IUP connections here. never expected that seeing as it's a small state school in practically the middle of nowhere (no offense to the people that go there). my brother and I have been the only ones in our family to break out of the Pennsylvania/Ohio college bubble.
Speaking of chants and such, it must be a Big 12 thing because Kansas has the Rock Chalk Chant. it'll be fun to see everybody else's game traditions at football and basketball games. Kansas can be kinda cheesey sometimes because our "tomahawk chop" of sorts is "waving the wheat." looks like we're not playing A&M at home this season for football. our first home game isn't even against another Big 12 school. It's against Northern Colorado.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Aug 8, 2009 19:19:01 GMT -5
That was the case with my family - my dad, my mother, my brother, and I all graduated from the University of Georgia. UGA and everything associated with it just feels like "home" to me. I think my High School BD went to UGA... Maybe you know him? Chris Cooper, plays trombone? Anyways, my band camp doesn't start till August 26. I move in the night before that. I'm getting excited. I'm getting my wisdom teeth out Monday, so hopefully I'll be able to play my clarinet before band camp. I'm sure I will but you never know.
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