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Ok first and foremost, I'm from the great state of Louisiana. I don't care how hard the times have gotten there, I love Louisiana and LSU. I am VERY proud to let people know I'm from there and will defend it to any moron who try's to bad mouth it.
I agree to an extent what some people are saying on here about the Bengal Legacy scholarship. I, unfortunately, dont live in Louisiana anymore. My choice of career has taken my wife and I away from the home we love. We both desperately want to move back there one day. So we do not contribute to the state income tax anymore that helps fund the scholarships and helps keep the lights on there. So do we really all deserve to receive such a generous discount to LSU if we live out of state when my daughters get old enough to attend there, no. But as a yearly contributor to the alumni association, and still paying back loans, I do think that alumni should get a little help...maybe a 10%-25% discount on top of any merit money that is earned. My career path has put me working at universities across this nation. Each university I have worked at climbing the ladder, they had some sort of alumni discount for their children. It was small of course, but every little bit helps, especially with the rate of tuition SOARING everywhere.
What I'm most dissapointed in is other LSU grads that still live in Louisiana, bashing us who had to leave the state because of work, not because we were desperate to leave, but because we had to go were the jobs are. If I could've stayed, trust me I would have stayed and never left. I have had a couple interviews at in state universities for jobs, and finished second a few times for them. If I got offered a job back home, we would leave tomorrow to move back. So I really applaud any and all LSU grads who stay and work hard for a living and continue to help improve the quality of life there. Just don't dump on us thinking we dont give a crap about Louisiana and just want to use LSU for some scholarship for our children just so they can go where mommy and daddy went. I still hope to send my daughter, and baby #2 (find out in 4 weeks ) to LSU if they want, with or without the legacy scholarship. If they dont, then thats their choice.
Here is to ALL LSU alumni and future graduates, and to all my friends and family in Louisiana, I pray daily for things to get better down there. Especially my friends and family that work on the rigs, or in the seafood industry.
As the words to our Alma Mater read....FOREVER LSU.

This is so spot on and no one has a comment about it. It truly disgusts me to hear these in state alumni/students/whatever talking trash about us out of state alumni. Aren't we all a part of the LSU "family"?