re: Convince me.

Here is an honest answer and this is without reading through the 4+ pages this thread has amassed......If you want an experience where you can come to school and get wasted 5 of 7 nights in the week you can find that. That route may not keep you in Baton Rouge for a long time. Also if you want to come in a get a great education, that IMHO is vastly undervalued by the professional world, and do it with honors that is also possible. It is also possible to come here and enjoy everything that I'm sure has already been mentioned in the thread and graduate with a degree to boot. Bottom line LSU is a great experience but you have to choose which experience you want for yourself.