<p>^ seriously, texaspg? And you’re packing heat??! Okay, a gentle entry for a Houston BBQ virgin would be the original Goode Co. on Kirby in West U. </p>
<p>xiggi and MOWC, how did y’all miss the memo?! You have to spike a Collins fruitcake!</p>
<p>tiredofsnow, after flying 24+ hours home from a month in Australia this fall (sorry, your spring), we headed straight to our fav Tex-Mex. I feel for you!</p>
<p>Surprisingly, we can get decent enough TexMex here- not as good as Texas, but we can get our fix. What we really miss is good Chinese food. Even Waco had good Chinese food.</p>
<p>So, what do we think of a suburban Detroit valedictorian who turns down Harvard, Yale, and Rice because she wants to be near the kolaches and the Tex-Mex?</p>
<p>Txartemis - I don’t pack either but considering it. Btw, I just saw an odd commercial - Nolan Ryan advertising beef for Kroger named after himself (he was on a ranch herding cows riding a horse!).</p>
<p>Someone said this on TV - There are 41000 chinese restaurants in the US: more than McDonalds+Burger King+Wendys combined.</p>
<p>I’m currently a freshman in the honors program at Baylor (although admittedly already accepted and transferring to UMich for next semester), and want to say that the majority of my friends here turned down top 20 schools for Baylor for financial (national merit full ride) and/or religious reasons. The majority probably fall into the religious category. Typically they’re top of their class with good test scores, but are from a southern, conservative area and the pretty generous merit aid helps seal the deal. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>I went to a “liberal” college in order to be “open-minded” and question my own assumptions. What I personally found out is that I graduated believing the same things I believed going in and paid a hefty price to do so. I also felt forced to regurgitate the liberal line the college took on term papers and exams if I wanted a good grade. That’s not exactly thinking for yourself but I needed those good grades for Grad school. The one class I worked my butt off in, backed up everything I wrote, read additional materials and cited every source, dotted every I and crossed every T was my only B in 4 years of undergrad. I was also told by the Prof I really deserved a C in the class because my work reflected a conservative viewpoint that was “detrimental to our society”. And most people consider me a moderate!</p>
<p>This thread has really “growed me up” as a CC poster. I got involved in my first serious CC fight (I didn’t know how treacherous the terrain could be in the Kingdom of Snark :D). And, there: My first smilie. Now I find I have become the sort of person who does forensic analysis of CC posts.</p>
<p>Reading redeye41’s post, I was curious where she went to college where she was forced to “regurgitate” a liberal line. I’d have been skeptical that such a thing were possible anywhere (fine, I’m na</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s necessarily inconsistent that she could have both enjoyed herself and had to “toe the company line” for grades. It’s not the first time conservative students have posted they couldn’t write what they really felt.</p>
<p>hotdogseller - #429 - Thank you for posting. Would you be comfortable telling us why you are transferring? And discussing what you see as possible (if any) differences in campus culture at Baylor and UMich?</p>
<p>TXArtemis #396 - Thank you for the response and link, very informative. </p>
<p>Maybe she will get her fill of Tex-Mex and decide she needs pizza for grad school?</p>
<p>Tiredofsnow, D1 (born and raised in Texas) is finishing her fourth year of school in NC. Her roommates have spent all four years trying to convert her to the vinegar-based BBQ. She (and another roommate from Georgia) have not been convinced. Luckily, she can still get “real” BBQ sauce, even in eastern NC. :D</p>
<p>TiredofSnow, don’t even get me STARTED about what is not available in Angola!!!
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<p>I just returned from 6 weeks in the US (Houston/New Orleans) and I definitely got my fill of Tex-Mex. Never made it to Lupe’s but I think I hit every other place! We have a pretty decent Chinese place in Angola -but no Tex-Mex.</p>
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<p>Fair enough. I suppose it’s possible for these two statements to be consistent. But I can’t imagine enjoying myself immensely at a school where I felt I had to buy the “company line” to succeed. Can you? Really? I do think it’s odd that she would not express dismay that her child wished to go to the same academically oppressive school if that was indeed her experience. But, then again, we do not control our children, as I’ve discovered to my chagrin (it took me long enough, my D would say).</p>
<p>redeye,
I don’t dispute your experience; in fact, it sounds similar to my D’s (altho’ obviously I can only state my impression since I didn’t go there). They went into their “NE god-less liberal” colleges as conservatives, and one has come out just as conservative (she has a political-type job now); the other is still in the “crock pot.” Yes, they may have had to regurgitate the prof’s liberal viewpoint (haven’t we all?), but I don’t see being required to argue an opposing viewpoint as a bad thing, but maybe this is because I have a little background in debate and legal argument. In those settings, you must argue what you are assigned, not necessarily what you believe.</p>
<p>My point is that going to a college that forces you to think about things differently than you already do, broadens your knowledge and understanding of how the world works and how other people think. Are there people who think it is better to spend 4 years having your personal viewpoint confirmed?</p>