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re: What is up with BR area rich kids going to school at U of Alabama?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:05 pm to saderade
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:05 pm to saderade
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I don't blame anyone that goes out of state for school. I probably would have done the same if I grew up in BR. Just don't go into major debt for an undergrad degree and don't act like you are so much better because you went to Bama or Ole Miss. My Bama friends aren't like this at all and didn't have any good friends that went to Ole Miss.
Agreed... Leaved the state, even if it's just a semester. Matter of fact, take a year off and travel the country, South America, or Europe, and learn shite people with college degrees, 2.5 children and grand children will never learn. Learn about life, but jeezum, don't go to Bama, and Ole Miss and think you're experiencing the world. It's the same thing you left.
Try leaving for someplace out of your comfort zone and away from the umbilical cord's reach and expose yourself to the rest of the world outside the region. Here's one for you. Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Let's see. Snow boarding in the winter, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and cave exploring in the summer, living in a cool arse town away from your comfort zone, and fairly relative tuition. Combined with a pretty relative cost of living, you may never move back.
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Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:08 pm to cgrand
oic.
LSU and Texas A&M
Im not bothered. Its a message board where people discuss and give their opinions.
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where'd you go to school, just out of curiosity?
LSU and Texas A&M
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you sure seem to be bothered by something that doesn't affect you in the least...
Im not bothered. Its a message board where people discuss and give their opinions.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:16 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Agreed... Leaved the state, even if it's just a semester. Matter of fact, take a year off and travel the country, South America, or Europe, and learn shite people with college degrees, 2.5 children and grand children will never learn. Learn about life, but jeezum, don't go to Bama, and Ole Miss and think you're experiencing the world. It's the same thing you left. Try leaving for someplace out of your comfort zone and away from the umbilical cord's reach and expose yourself to the rest of the world outside the region.
That's the irony of this thread. People thinking that going out of state to a neighboring state constitutes getting away. The places they inhabit in each school are the same as the places they inhabit in the places they just left. There is very little cultural difference in the move anywhere across the south, in my opinion, having lived in BR and Ttown for the last ten years and not originally being from the South. Because they are so closely related, minuscule differences seem large when in fact they are not.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:22 pm to Wario Balotelli
"Getting away" in this context has nothing to do with cultural differences. It's about new friends, new people, new experiences. Going somewhere where no one knows you or expects anything of you.
The people in Baton Rouge may be just like the people in Tuscaloosa in a generalized anthropological and cultural sense. But as individuals, they are different people.
The people in Baton Rouge may be just like the people in Tuscaloosa in a generalized anthropological and cultural sense. But as individuals, they are different people.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:26 pm to LSUGrad9295
Seems as if there's not as much institutional hostility to the Greek system there as opposed to LSU.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:26 pm to Deactived
I'm a little confused by the OP. Is it really that unusual for a wealthy student to go out of state to a large university be it Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, FSU, Auburn, Kentucky, etc. etc?
I had a very wealthy college friend from Charlotte, NC when I was at Alabama. She dated and eventually married one of my frat brothers who was also from out of state. She went to Alabama because she liked the campus, her major, and the Greek scene and basically a lot of the reasons wealthy students go to SEC schools. Point being that because her dad was the founder of a large casual restaurant chain and worth nearly 9 figures it didn't really matter where she went because she could afford to go to a school for whatever simple reasons she wanted to. It's no less crazy for a wealthy NOLA student to got to Alabama than a wealthy Dallas student to got to Ole Miss or LSU. I don't understand the bewilderment of the OP.
I had a very wealthy college friend from Charlotte, NC when I was at Alabama. She dated and eventually married one of my frat brothers who was also from out of state. She went to Alabama because she liked the campus, her major, and the Greek scene and basically a lot of the reasons wealthy students go to SEC schools. Point being that because her dad was the founder of a large casual restaurant chain and worth nearly 9 figures it didn't really matter where she went because she could afford to go to a school for whatever simple reasons she wanted to. It's no less crazy for a wealthy NOLA student to got to Alabama than a wealthy Dallas student to got to Ole Miss or LSU. I don't understand the bewilderment of the OP.
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:27 pm to genro
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"Getting away" in this context has nothing to do with cultural differences. It's about new friends, new people, new experiences. Going somewhere where no one knows you or expects anything of you.
Sure. It's more about finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, which is a common human tendency.
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But as individuals, they are different people.
Haha. No shite.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:29 pm to Wario Balotelli
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That's the irony of this thread. People thinking that going out of state to a neighboring state constitutes getting away. The places they inhabit in each school are the same as the places they inhabit in the places they just left. There is very little cultural difference in the move anywhere across the south, in my opinion, having lived in BR and Ttown for the last ten years and not originally being from the South. Because they are so closely related, minuscule differences seem large when in fact they are not.
Exactly, and most of these kids have never traveled outside the region in their life, vacation with mom and dad in Destin and think the world revolves around this particular spot on the planet. Truth is, almost all will never leave and continue to think the exact same way relative to what they expose themselves to, and so they end up making big distinctions between various parts of the same region like BR, Oxford, and Tuscaloosa. Honestly, the only distinguishable deviation from the rest of the South in the South is New Orleans, because of the culture differences from French Catholic to say Scots Irish Protestant dominating the rest of the South, but still there's a whole other world out there that most of these young people will never be exposed to.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:32 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:This post makes no sense and is totally irrelevantin the context of this thread.
Exactly, and most of these kids have never traveled outside the region in their life, vacation with mom and dad in Destin and think the world revolves around this particular spot on the planet. Truth is, almost all will never leave and continue to think the exact same way relative to what they expose themselves to, and so they end up making big distinctions between various parts of the same region like BR, Oxford, and Tuscaloosa. Honestly, the only distinguishable deviation from the rest of the South in the South is New Orleans, because of the culture differences from French Catholic to say Scots Irish Protestant dominating the rest of the South, but still there's a whole other world out there that most of these young people will never be exposed to.
So yeah, these kids are limiting themselves and have a narrow worldview. Great. How would that be better if they stayed in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:34 pm to genro
*Irrelevant in
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:36 pm to genro
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This post makes no sense and is totally irrelevantin the context of this thread.
Mike gonna Mike
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:37 pm to Mike da Tigah
Are you one of those people on this site who thinks that New Orleans, South Louisiana, Memphis, and MAYBE Savannah are the only places in the South that have any culture?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:39 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Truth is, almost all will never leave and continue to think the exact same way relative to what they expose themselves to, and so they end up making big distinctions between various parts of the same region like BR, Oxford, and Tuscaloosa. Honestly, the only distinguishable deviation from the rest of the South in the South is New Orleans, because of the culture differences from French Catholic to say Scots Irish Protestant dominating the rest of the South, but still there's a whole other world out there that most of these young people will never be exposed to.
I agree completely. I laugh when people say that these towns are great college towns. I've been on college campuses most of my working life, and BR and Ttown are two of the worst. I haven't spent enough time in Oxford to make an accurate assessment. Athens is a great college town. Amherst is a great college town. Berkeley is a great college town. Cambridge is a great college town. Boulder is a great college town. I could go on and list way better "college towns."
The areas around UofA and LSU are nice, but the towns and cities they are situated in are awful. Absolutely fricking awful.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:39 pm to Govt Tide
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Are you one of those people on this site who thinks that New Orleans, South Louisiana, Memphis, and MAYBE Savannah are the only places in the South that have any culture?
subtract south louisiana, memphis, and Savannah and...yes
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:40 pm to genro
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This post makes no sense and is totally irrelevantin the context of this thread.
So yeah, these kids are limiting themselves and have a narrow worldview. Great. How would that be better if they stayed in Baton Rouge?
Like I said... Travel out of state and see life or you'll be like this guy.
Read the words in context with what the poster and I were discussing. That being, if you want to leave the state for school in order to experience life, then maybe doing it away from the same thing you already know is better than going to Tuscaloosa or Oxford.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:40 pm to Wario Balotelli
what makes a good college town?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:41 pm to Wario Balotelli
quote:if they're absolutely fricking awful, how would you describe Montgomery? Or Detroit for that matter?
The areas around UofA and LSU are nice, but the towns and cities they are situated in are awful. Absolutely fricking awful.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:44 pm to ForeverLSU02
I've heard that it is easy to get into Bama.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:44 pm to genro
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how would you describe Montgomery?
fricking awful. Way worse than any capital city I've ever visited. I would kill myself if I was ever stuck in this city.
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Or Detroit for that matter?
What the frick kind of question is this? This is a massive shithole.
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