Going on a trip in early June to U South Carolina, Furman, Wake Forest, Clemson and Richmond - anyone got any hate for them?
My S19 has a plan, “live in South Carolina, work part time as an Orthodontist, fly fish.” I think it’s brilliant.
Can we please go back to hating. Such a satisfying thread normally. Otherwise I am stuck spending the day dreaming up ways to avoid my parent’s Blackberry Manishewitz (@old_parent got that right – last year they brought a case of it.)
I’ll take the bait! I think WF is underwhelming from an attractiveness standpoint. Winston-Salem itself is a very pretty city, but the campus was just meh. Very 1950s colonial. Didn’t do a tour there, just walked through.
Bucking the spirit of the thread, Greenville where Furman is located in one cool little city! Don’t know the college so can’t throw shade.
My dad would say fly fishing in Utah and Idaho is much better!! And we all now NC is better than SC in pretty much all areas.
@cleoforshort We are headed to Columbia next week. I’ll let you know 
I have been to Clemson before - I know it’s a very good school and there are lots of good things about it, but it is in the middle of nowhere and we just didn’t like it, aside from the Clocktower. Can’t throw any shade at Richmond - love it.
I like S19’s life strategy!
I hate any university where the students make symbolic hand signs. UT Austin springs to mind. They fold their middle two fingers and thumb into their palm, leaving two fingers pointing up, which is supposed to look like a longhorn cow. How idiotic. What are you, in a gang?? Also, burnt orange is the worst school color imaginable – other than pink, I guess, but I don’t know of any pink universities.
I also hate universities with stupid slogans, like USC and “Fight On!!” Really, do you want to hear “Fight On!!” over and over, for four years??
There are worse slogans than “Fight On” – I mean “Gig Em”? Really? It’s something to do with frog hunting with a pronged spear. :)) And, Texas A&M has a thumbs up hand sign to go with that.
Bonus dumb A&M phrase: “Hullabaloo caneck caneck”
Plus “Saw Varsity’s Horns Off”, “Beat the h*** out of t.u.”, “teasip” and other chants and slang aimed at UT Austin, which doesn’t even acknowledge A&M as its main rival.
Nothing is worse, in my opinion, than the Penn State slogan: “We Are.” I have an irrational hate for it.
“I don’t know of any pink universities.”
The resurrected Sweet Briar College Vixens wear pink and green.
“Can we please go back to hating. Such a satisfying thread normally.”
Not sure that’s possible. It’s a very thin skinned readership right now. Suggest it’s a good idea to throw away junk mail and you’re just one of the callous ogres out to lure innocents to their bloodbath. Suggest there are a plethora of Special Snowflakes at college and every. single. parent of a SS will explain why their particular child would DIE if denied their support snake and lecture you for being so insensitive. Suggest you didn’t like a particular college and supporters of that college will immediately let you know how you’re just a hater because you couldn’t get in…
Thinking this thread needs a trigger warning.
@Ynotgo Totally agree. TAMU has an inferiority complex, and its slogans are just as stupid. Plenty of shade to throw at TAMU too:
Standing up during the entirety of home football games (the “twelfth man tradition”) and holding your knees for cheers aka “yells” (the “hump it tradition”) are shake-your-head dumb.
“Going on a trip in early June to U South Carolina, Furman, Wake Forest, Clemson and Richmond - anyone got any hate for them?”
I believe that tour is known as The Full Madras. Hope you like Lily Pulitzer, Southern Tides, and sweating. Good BBQ though.
@northwesty If you like vinegar & mustard! Yuck! If you want good BBQ you got to go to Kansas City! LOL
There are many rooms in my father’s mansion. I like em all. Especially burnt ends…
@northwesty Madras is my favorite color.
A friend’s young PhD relative has U Chicago and MIT math credentials and still found trouble finding a job after a fellowship. Not going to an uber elite school is not the end of the world. Plus there simply is not enough room at all of them combined for the top, gifted students. No wonder people say it is the student, not the institution that determines the path.
“Hard work” can mean a student is doing more than lazy peers to keep up with them- they have more ability.
“I just don’t get the intellectuals @ Chicago thing. All the kids I know who go there are grinds. They all work hard but intellectual they are not.”
SPOT ON.
Another pink university for you…University of North Dakota. Original colors were pink and green, but later it was decided the pink wasn’t intimidating enough for athletic team apparel. Now pink is one of their secondary colors, only used for ceremonial purposes.
Thank you for allowing me to finally use this piece of information gleaned from my parents’ World Book Encyclopedia set. I’ve been waiting over 40 years to share this info.
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How about “Boiler Up!” for a fun phrase. S18 is considering Purdue.
Or how about the lamest collegiate songs…
The Good Old Song by UVa - who sings a re-worded Auld Lang Syne at a football game?
Gotta go with @marlowe1 on this.
Of course UChi was better back in the dangerous days of where fun went to die. Only the best/brightest/bravest would enroll back then. Now it is just a gentrified bunch of poseurs eating avocado toast. Basically, Duke with bad weather and bad basketball. Sad!
Hey you kids, get off my lawn!