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wis75 · 12-03-2007, 02:30 AM

You need to spend a week in winter at IU. Just made a 500 mile (one way, an all day drive) trip to SE Indiana, and have lived in Indy eons ago- you need to experience the small town in the middle of nowhere with ice, slippery, near freezing conditions every day-need to travel to a big city to get to an airport to either coast... CT is a 2 day drive, don't see any connection to anywhere in the Midwest (Think- to us San Francisco and San Diego are really close, like an hour apart, right?). I might understand if you were crazy about basketball, but of all the Big Ten schools I can't see why you would get hung up on IU for other sports. You have lousy reasons for going into such debt, there are many schools that can give you a good education in business- there is always grad school. If IU comes through with scholarship money it can be an excellent option, presuming you still love southern Indiana after spending time there in its worst season (also remember midwesterners always say it's the humidity, not the heat, that makes the weather miserable in summer).

Your gut is immature. No school is perfect. You only know the school from the media- get a reality check. PS, if you really want to be a Hoosier, go live in Indiana for awhile- be prepared for some culture shock.

12-03-2007, 02:30 AM	#40
wis75 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: wisconsin Posts: 2,586	You need to spend a week in winter at IU. Just made a 500 mile (one way, an all day drive) trip to SE Indiana, and have lived in Indy eons ago- you need to experience the small town in the middle of nowhere with ice, slippery, near freezing conditions every day-need to travel to a big city to get to an airport to either coast... CT is a 2 day drive, don't see any connection to anywhere in the Midwest (Think- to us San Francisco and San Diego are really close, like an hour apart, right?). I might understand if you were crazy about basketball, but of all the Big Ten schools I can't see why you would get hung up on IU for other sports. You have lousy reasons for going into such debt, there are many schools that can give you a good education in business- there is always grad school. If IU comes through with scholarship money it can be an excellent option, presuming you still love southern Indiana after spending time there in its worst season (also remember midwesterners always say it's the humidity, not the heat, that makes the weather miserable in summer). Your gut is immature. No school is perfect. You only know the school from the media- get a reality check. PS, if you really want to be a Hoosier, go live in Indiana for awhile- be prepared for some culture shock. Last edited by wis75; 12-03-2007 at 02:35 AM.
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