Do you love your alma mater?

Bigmacattack
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:52:48 +0000

No love for Michigan, my alma mater, and the alma mater of my spouse. My emotion is closer to resentment.

When these daughters were little, they wore Maize & Blue and were forced to listen to me explain again and again how Michigan used to beat Ohio State. However, once I started researching colleges a few years ago for DD1, I was floored to learn how much Michigan now charges for OOS students (We’re OOS). Ran the numbers, and realized that we could not afford to send either daughter there even after 18 years of saving for each, on a good middle class salary but one that won’t get any financial aid. I told DD1 she couldn’t even apply, why bother.

So I broke up with Michigan, chucked out the flag, don’t watch their football team anymore, alumni magazine goes in the trash, etc. I don’t regret my break up at all, they brought this on themselves by adopting a business model that may be what they need to do to work with their state government and stay afloat, but which has certainly turned off two of its alums.