University Sweatshirts Question

[navane]

Originally posted by TigerLilly

navane -- That's why I'm not buying my U. of Heidelberg Tshirt until right before I leave, I dont want to get made fun of! No one wears them here, but I'll wear it back home. I've seen other exchange students wearing them, though, and the German students always laugh at them.

Well, see, the British students *do* wear university sweatshirts and t-shirts around town. I guess it's just that my professor was trying to imply that I was being a "typical gung-ho American" for buying mine so quickly.

Whatever. I set her straight!

.....Kelly

[OrigamiTulip]

UF sent me a little Albert patch/sticker in my admissions letter, but no tshirt. In fact, I didn't get or buy any UF gear until winter of my sophmore year when I bought a sweatshirt to wear to a conference.

BYU, while recruiting me, sent me a tshirt, a baseball cap, and a planner. I think they were trying to bribe me into finishing my application, which no amount of free stuff or money would have gotten me to do.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by navane
... Edited because I used a British term that most people on GC would find weird. Sorry!

Did you call it a jumper??!!

[navane]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Did you call it a jumper??!!

hahaha....yes!! I figured that GCers would start picturing me in an overall dress or something!


.....Kelly

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by navane
hahaha....yes!! I figured that GCers would start picturing me in an overall dress or something!


.....Kelly

Hahahahaha.

The benefits of having a British mother...you learn the slang/other names for things pretty quickly.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Hahahahaha.

The benefits of having a British mother...you learn the slang/other names for things pretty quickly.

I thought a "jumper" in British English referred to a sweater,not a sweatshirt.

[dzsaigirl]

No, they didn't give me a free sweatshirt. That is why they can charge 50 bucks for them at the bookstore!

I got a few free t-shirts BEFORE I was accepted. (like at those stupid recruiting weekends where they invite you there and you stay in the dorm with people, etc.) I am sure it is just a perk to lure you there.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by Taualumna
I thought a "jumper" in British English referred to a sweater,not a sweatshirt.

Nope. It can, and does refer to both.

Thats funny! i better be calling univ of arkasnsas and inq into why i didnt a sweatshirt or t shirt when i was accepted.


let me revise this yes i did get something.......a bill saying pay your tutition because were cheap!

[Munchkin03]

I didn't get a t-shirt when I was accepted to undergrad, but I did get a little sticker with the letter. My daddy put it on his car.

When I got in to grad school, I had to put down a $500 deposit. Still, no T-shirt. Just a lot of abuse and boredom.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Nope. It can, and does refer to both.

Ahhhhhh

[Sister Havana]

Indiana didn't send me a free T-shirt or sweatshirt or anything like that. They did send me a car decal though.

[hottytoddy]

We got a free t-shirt at orientation.

[AOPIHottie]

We got an UGLY t-shirt at orientation, but it was in the cost of the orientation. I think I wore mine to clean house in, cause it was an XL and really ugly. Hmm, I probably still have it in a box at my moms with the zillions of t-shirts we got my senior year of high school.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

I got a lanyard....whooo hoooo

Now, if you're accepted into the School of Education you get a nifty t-shirt...of course it's XL and ugly...and once you add it all up it costs over $10,000 for a damn shirt...