A&M

[Stef the Pef]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Nothing.

If you are thinking about gonig there, don't. Texas, TCU, and SMU should be your options if you are wanting to stay within the state.

Seconded whole-heartedly (although I'd add Baylor to the list...because...I'm a little biased).

But don't join the A&M cult.

Unless you have a thing for sheep in the Biblical sense.

Then you might be a perfect fit there. But I digress.

[sigmadiva]

As a member of the Texas A&M 'cult', I deeply crushed by your comments, NOT!!!

But, seriously, TAMU is the best quality education you can receive for your buck. Also, our class ring is recognized and respected the world over. When people notice my Aggie ring, I get better service, and once, I got out of a ticket.


GIG 'EM!!!!!

[shinerbock]

I agree, gig em. In Scott Van Pelt's phrasing, I lost my virginity to Ga Tech, Auburn is my wife, and TAMU is my mistress.

[LPIDelta]

^^^^^Someone obviously drank the maroon and white Kool Aid

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

As a member of the Texas A&M 'cult', I deeply crushed by your comments, NOT!!!

But, seriously, TAMU is the best quality education you can receive for your buck. Also, our class ring is recognized and respected the world over. When people notice my Aggie ring, I get better service, and once, I got out of a ticket.


GIG 'EM!!!!!

I get out of tickets by telling people who my dad is.

........I kid, I kid.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by greeky31

What is good at A&M?

I hear that aggies can drink a lot, but when I visited my fraternity there, it was easy to out drink them. I'm not sure if that's a good thing for me. School spirit I suppose. They used to have the bonfire, which in my opinion was a waste of wood. I read somewhere that they could build a small subdivision with all of that wood. Build some poor people homes. Just like the rest of Texas, A&M has pretty girls.

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

Also, our class ring is recognized and respected the world over. When people notice my Aggie ring, I get better service, and once, I got out of a ticket.

When I travel to Europe and people here my Texas accent, do you know what they do? They put their horns up.

Originally Posted by macallan25

I get out of tickets by telling people who my dad is.

Whos the pops? I'm sure you don't want to say though, which is fine. The days when we had a representative in the family…

Originally Posted by AggieSigmaNu361

Baylor?

Baylor is the fallback for kids who couldn’t get into A&M or Texas but whose Mommy and Daddy have money. If they don’t' have money, they end up at Tech or Texas State.

A&M is the fallback for kids who couldn't get into Texas.
Baylor has a nice campus, but it's located in a shitty, shitty town. Waco. I hate that we stop there on our way to and from the Texas OU game. That town spawned the Branch Davidians. -- Reason number 1 not to go to Baylor? I remember visiting friends and the chapter of my fraternity there. It was like I had stepped into an Abercrombie and Fitch commercial. I kid you not; everyone there was wearing nothing but Abercrombie and Fitch. Abercrombie and Fitch = not fratty.

[shinerbock]

Drinking reputations are never accurate. We heard so much crap from LA people the first time we went to LSU, about how much they could drink, etc...come 3am we were picking up these LSU people off the curb.

Originally Posted by Stef the Pef

Seconded whole-heartedly (although I'd add Baylor to the list...because...I'm a little biased).

But don't join the A&M cult.

Unless you have a thing for sheep in the Biblical sense.

Then you might be a perfect fit there. But I digress.

Baylor?

Baylor is the fallback for kids who coudln't get into A&M or Texas but whose Mommy and Daddy have money. If they dont' have money, they end up at Tech or Texas State.

Greek Life in Texas? t.u., SMU, A&M, TCU Tech

Education? Rice, t.u.-A&M, SMU

Overall College experience? A&M, t.u., Tech. Although I will say that the student body at A&M has become much less special and unique since Bonfire fell in '99. In 20 years those that aren't from A&M families or CTs will be just as ordinary as those hippies down in Austin.

Kitso
KS 361

[macallan25]

You have got to be kidding me. Texas A&Ms Greek Life is sub par compared to us, SMU, TCU, and even Tech. KA and some SAEs are the only bastion of frattiness that exists in College Station.

As far as education........if you want your kid to be a dorky applied sciences major.......then send him to Rice. That is the only thing going for it. Business, Law, medicine, or engineering......go to Texas.

[Stef the Pef]

Originally Posted by AggieSigmaNu361

Baylor?

Baylor is the fallback for kids who coudln't get into A&M or Texas but whose Mommy and Daddy have money. If they dont' have money, they end up at Tech or Texas State.

Greek Life in Texas? t.u., SMU, A&M, TCU Tech

Education? Rice, t.u.-A&M, SMU

Overall College experience? A&M, t.u., Tech. Although I will say that the student body at A&M has become much less special and unique since Bonfire fell in '99. In 20 years those that aren't from A&M families or CTs will be just as ordinary as those hippies down in Austin.

Kitso
KS 361

...says the former aggie.

Baylor was a first choice for me. Loved the campus, the history, and the honors program I'm in ('cause I'm a little bit of a nerd and that's how I roll).

We're smarter than the aggies and better-looking than everybody else. Never mind the fact that it's a crazy church school that's uptight about everything from drinking to dudes in the dorms. (Hey, we're loosening up...I have visiting hours everyday now! ZXAlum said she only got weekends for dudes!)


...but yeah. No way in hell would I join a cult. I take being in the cult town of Wacko over actually being in a cult any day. Plus the dudes here may be few and far between, but at least the ones who are here prefer women over sheep (sometimes men over women though...sad times for single stef the pef).

Originally Posted by Stef the Pef

...says the former aggie.

Baylor was a first choice for me. Loved the campus, the history, and the honors program I'm in ('cause I'm a little bit of a nerd and that's how I roll).

We're smarter than the aggies and better-looking than everybody else. Never mind the fact that it's a crazy church school that's uptight about everything from drinking to dudes in the dorms. (Hey, we're loosening up...I have visiting hours everyday now! ZXAlum said she only got weekends for dudes!)


...but yeah. No way in hell would I join a cult. I take being in the cult town of Wacko over actually being in a cult any day. Plus the dudes here may be few and far between, but at least the ones who are here prefer women over sheep (sometimes men over women though...sad times for single stef the pef).

Wow, the delicious irony of someone that goes to a Baptist school and is Greek throwing out the cult word. Why is A&M a cult? Our rituals? Traditions? Our school specific vocabulary? The universal bond between Aggies? All of these are charges that could be leveled at mainstream religions or even Greek Orgs.

Sheep bestiality? That's all you got? Yeah, I guess you can go to Baylor, where to blow off steam from their horrendous Athletic programs, baseball players go out killing and skinning cats for fun. Your choice

Baylor.....we're only in the Big XII cause Ann Richards was Gov. in 96

[Stef the Pef]

Hahahahaha.

At least we lose with pride. And only 40% of the campus is nutty baptist.

A&M is a cult. Period. Write it off as "school spirit" all you want, but to the rest of the world, these fellas look ridonkulous:



(well, seeing as that's the corps, perhaps the better wording would be "you have a cult and why on earth are you proud of that?!")

[AlphaSigOU]

Gig 'em!

Hay Kitso... long time no post!

[aggieAXO]

Originally Posted by AggieSigmaNu361

Baylor?

Although I will say that the student body at A&M has become much less special and unique since Bonfire fell in '99. In 20 years those that aren't from A&M families or CTs will be just as ordinary as those hippies down in Austin.

Kitso
KS 361

AMEN to this. Welcome back-are you here for good? Or just a visit? We miss you .

[shinerbock]

Helluva win for the Aggies tonight.