favorite thing/memories about college

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Favorite memory of college?

Having the most completely and utterly fucked up day of my life, and living to not tell about it.

[PaSucks]

Passing out in the shower for about 6 hours was probably it for me

But really, college sucks and rules at the same time. My best memories so far are hard to actually remember. I have blurry visions of heavy drinking, really loud music, lots of beer pong, girls, drunken trips to sheetz, duct tape, tipping pop machines, stealing the ping pong table from the rec room and putting it in my tiny ass dorm room, running from police, catching my RA sleeping with the old fat guy that works in the cafeteria, puking off balconies, walking past campus po with a backpack full of clinking bottles, midnight hikes to the 19th century graveyard, building kickers, case races, beer bongs, watching cops dump out my beer, playing hockey in the parking lot, 12 hour pool (billiards) sessions, crappy food, red hot and ramen noodles, the list goes on...

[Tippster]

Favorite memory of college?

Having the most completely and utterly fucked up day of my life, and living to not tell about it.

I had one of those, and am still great friends with the people I met for pretty much the first time that 24hr. period ... 18 years ago.

Also married a woman I first met in college, but not until 8 years later.

[Cornelius]

pills, thrills and belly aches.
excellent indoor herb.
days that consisted of waking up, bong rips, jazz class, disc golf, and boozin.
Fall Tour '97 and '98. phish of course. the boys could do no wrong.
and the exact scenario that started this post. waking up with a cute girl in bed, dodging class and gettin an early start on the weekend.

unfortunately there's wasn't a lot of skiin to be done in South Bend, IN but I spent my free time wisely

[ak_powder_monkey]

hmmm college sounds fun, just gotta not be to hung over to ski every day!

AKPM ----> So stoked for next year

[Franz Klammer]

- killing that Cambridge scum on the slopes of Val d'Isere
- summer afternoons playing/watching cricket in the park
- early morning football (sorry, soccer) when you're too hung-over to even put on a shirt
- endless nights in various ox college bars
- the few English girls who actually looked good, but, hey, there were plenty of French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish babes as well

Grad student life ain't the same ... but at least the US trips are much cheaper now

[stompinlines]

For anyone reading this pre-college or in college: DON"T GET A DEGREE IT IS A WASTE!!!
Live with buddies in their college house and get a decent job that will teach you about an industry or a way to make your own money without a job. College will not teach you shit about how to make money unless you want to live in a cube for 90% of your life an be beholden to someone else for your income and vitality. You can still live a fun college life, but actually get a head start on beating the rat race.
A friend of mine in college dropped out mid freshman year and got a temp job at a mortgage company. He is now a real estate millionaire and started with no money. He still partied as hard as the rest of us (using his youthful resilience to make it to work every morning) but had more cash all the time, a nicer car, and no homework or money worries.
Another friend was accepted to Harvard and instead moved to Montana to ski bum and work at Arby's. After loosing everything when his car rolled off the road with his skis on the roof he moved back to MN and got his real estate license. Now he is worth millions.

While I was working 2 jobs to pay for my degree, I couldn't save enough for an IRA deposit. If would have put $2000/year into an IRA when I was 18 - 22 I would have so much more saved for retirement that I wouldn't give a fuck what the Social Security reform was about. I'll have to hustle hard for a lot of years to catch up. Lesson: invest early and invest heavy.

Do not drink the kool-aid. Degrees do not equal security or employment or happiness. It guarantees student loan debt and the dilusion that academic acheivement will get you anywhere in life. If you want to learn something thhey teach in college, take on school as another hobby. Do not trust your future to academia. Academia offers no freedom.

end rant

Is Robert padding your wallet?

[FNG]

A few moments in time:

@3:30am in the middle of a thunderstorm.
"FNG [my actual college nickname], it's Will & Luke. I don't know what happened. We're lost in uptown and we are SO high right now! Come pick us up! We'll meet you at the McDonalds on Hennepin."

@10:30am Sunday morning.
"FNG, who's the guy on the couch?" - roomate
"I donno. I thought he was your friend." - me
[after asking the 4 other roomates, it's apparent that he's a squatter]
"Hey guy on the couch, you gotta go man." - roomate

@Deja Vu on college ID night. Conversation with the stripper who just danced for me.
"So, are you guys from around here?" - stripper
"We all go to the U." - me
"Oh that's cool. I'm still in high school." - stripper

@10:00am Sunday morning. In-bed conversation with the neighbor girl I met the night before.
"Um...so what happened last night?" - her
"I don't remember anything after you knocked on my door with that handle of Jaeger and the crate of Red Bull." - me

@9:00am Saturday morning. Homecoming.
"FNG wake up! It's homecoming bitch!" - roomate
"belrumph...fuck you, I'm sleeping in." - me
"Here's some orange juice. It'll help your hangover." - roomate
[drink]"This is a screwdriver you dick." - me
"I know, we're having a case race right now and you're on my team. Now get dressed and get your ass upstairs." - roomate

[LegoSkier]

I didn't party too hard being a geeky computer science major and all but there are a few good memories:

Freshman Year:
Watching the movie The Lost Boys projected on the side of a building on a knoll overlooking the pacific ocean while fog streamed in around the screen (this was Santa Cruz - the setting for the movie).

Freak thunderstorm and everybody streaming out of the dorms to slide on the wet grass (including a few girls sans clothes).

Panty raid on a girl in our dorm where all here bras and pantys were tied together and strung down the center stairwell.

Sophmore Year:
Living in a sweet beach house rock throwing distance from the Boardwalk amusement park.

Sitting and studying quietly and having my roommates burst in and hide in my room because they just put slits in the poppy plants of some house down the street hoping to make some opium. The guy came and knocked on our door and eventually went away. We were glad he didn't involve the athorities since we also had a closet full of pot plants at the time.

Junior Year:
Living in the Chicken Ranch - An old former chicken ranch house with 5 other guys and throwing big parties.

Said Chicken Ranch flooding when a heavy shower fell on the compacted earth of a Walgreen's construction site next door. Having a small party at the time and rushing to save all the band equipment we always had laying around our house. Calling up our land lady at 1 am and singing "Yellow Submarine" into her answering machine as the only clue her house was now a muddy mess.

[hucksquaw]

@9:00am Saturday morning. Homecoming.
"FNG wake up! It's homecoming bitch!" - roomate
"belrumph...fuck you, I'm sleeping in." - me
"Here's some orange juice. It'll help your hangover." - roomate
[drink]"This is a screwdriver you dick." - me
"I know, we're having a case race right now and you're on my team. Now get dressed and get your ass upstairs." - roomate

bwahahahaha. this reminds me of me and my buddies...

[freshie247]

I vaguely remember that time period,can you give me more of a hint?

[Elin]

For anyone reading this pre-college or in college: DON"T GET A DEGREE IT IS A WASTE!!!
Live with buddies in their college house and get a decent job that will teach you about an industry or a way to make your own money without a job. College will not teach you shit about how to make money unless you want to live in a cube for 90% of your life an be beholden to someone else for your income and vitality. You can still live a fun college life, but actually get a head start on beating the rat race.
A friend of mine in college dropped out mid freshman year and got a temp job at a mortgage company. He is now a real estate millionaire and started with no money. He still partied as hard as the rest of us (using his youthful resilience to make it to work every morning) but had more cash all the time, a nicer car, and no homework or money worries.
Another friend was accepted to Harvard and instead moved to Montana to ski bum and work at Arby's. After loosing everything when his car rolled off the road with his skis on the roof he moved back to MN and got his real estate license. Now he is worth millions.

While I was working 2 jobs to pay for my degree, I couldn't save enough for an IRA deposit. If would have put $2000/year into an IRA when I was 18 - 22 I would have so much more saved for retirement that I wouldn't give a fuck what the Social Security reform was about. I'll have to hustle hard for a lot of years to catch up. Lesson: invest early and invest heavy.

Do not drink the kool-aid. Degrees do not equal security or employment or happiness. It guarantees student loan debt and the dilusion that academic acheivement will get you anywhere in life. If you want to learn something thhey teach in college, take on school as another hobby. Do not trust your future to academia. Academia offers no freedom.

end rant

what if your dad says you have to go to college (preferably in a ski town), he'll pay for it, encourage skiing, and then wants to send you to law school/grad school after?

that's pretty sweet... it's either that or take a year off and work at the p-dog to "gain life experiences".

college really sounds pretty good to me, buddy

[A-wreck]

Tennessee Football

[PaSucks]

Tennessee Football

Oh yeah. I forgot about Pitt beating VT three years in a row, beating WVU this year, beating BC three years in a row, and losing to fricken Nebraska...

[Grange]

Too many good memories to pick just one. Some of my favorite ones were:

Drinking until 2 or 3 a.m. then playing tennis under the lights. The dorms adjacent to the courts didn't like us very much.

Thursday night's "meeting of the minds". Just an excuse to drink and or smoke with friends. We would try to get deep and talk about the universe or conspiracy theories.

House parties early in the semester. There was no easier way to pick up a woman.

The first warm spring day on campus. Hot women seemed to come out of the woodwork especially by the volleyball courts.

Taking groups of students to the local ski hill. I got free a ticket when I did this.

Overall the freedom was great. As long as I got decent grades and could pay my bills I figured the rest of the time was for having fun and I had a lot of fun. If I wanted to take off for a couple of days to bike or just party I could. No worries about calling meetings or having to call in sick. We just went.

[Mr. Negative]

college sucked.

[acostiga]

acostiga, did u go to hamilton? I lived in Carnegie last year, damn good time. Not sure about this sofa......sofas come and go...many are passed down, especially within fraternities. How old is it and who had it when you knew....i'm sure that sofa has seen some skeezy shit

hamm tech class of '99. from what i remember, the brown couch fell into the hands of an atx sister. one of the last times i was up there for an alumni weekend, maybe three years ago, the brown couch and i reconnected. while watching the back room of vt spin around me, i overheard some girl mention something about "brown couch". she took me back to the room in question, in carnegie (i think it was on the fourth floor?) mmm, utica club gold cans. i need to end this post before i slip back into an alcohol-fueled haze.

[FNG]

The first warm spring day on campus.

This is known as the girls coming back from Hot Camp.

[Platinum Pete]

what if your dad says you have to go to college (preferably in a ski town), he'll pay for it, encourage skiing, and then wants to send you to law school/grad school after?

that's pretty sweet... it's either that or take a year off and work at the p-dog to "gain life experiences".

college really sounds pretty good to me, buddy

Re-read my post. I said that people should live the college lifestyle and have the good times, but that the actual academia is a big waste (unless you really want to be a scientist or academic). My suggestion is not about the bills of college, it's about learning to make money without always relying on someone else to pay you for working. Not wasting time and money on a pursuit that gets most folks no closer to figuring out how to create financial independence.
If you want your daddy telling you what to do and paying your bills, follow your plan above and be whatever he wants to make you. Be his endentured servant and resent him when you find yourself in the same rut as so many people who followed the path of least resistance towards a meaningless career, 2.5 kids, suburban house, and just 2 weeks of vacation to ponder what went wrong and wishing he'd die so you could inherit a few bucks to pay down your credit card debt.
Or the p-dog sounds like a brilliant plan. Go with that.

[FNG]

Re-read my post. I said that people should live the college lifestyle and have the good times, but that the actual academia is a big waste (unless you really want to be a scientist or academic). My suggestion is not about the bills of college, it's about learning to make money without always relying on someone else to pay you for working. Not wasting time and money on a pursuit that gets most folks no closer to figuring out how to create financial independence.
If you want your daddy telling you what to do and paying your bills, follow your plan above and be whatever he wants to make you. Be his endentured servant and resent him when you find yourself in the same rut as so many people who followed the path of least resistance towards a meaningless career, 2.5 kids, suburban house, and just 2 weeks of vacation to ponder what went wrong and wishing he'd die so you could inherit a few bucks to pay down your credit card debt.
Or the p-dog sounds like a brilliant plan. Go with that.

HEY! The title of this thread is "favorite things/memories about college". Quit killing my buzz.

[cj001f]

HEY! The title of this thread is "favorite things/memories about college". Quit killing my buzz.

The true sign of the college graduate. reminiscing over good times that weren't really that good.

[FNG]

Pfft, I can't even spell graduwait.

[Turn Up The Gravity!]

favorite thing/memories about college

Montreal

[Tippster]

The true sign of the college graduate. reminiscing over good times that weren't really that good.

Maybe they actually were for those of us without a nutsack in our throat... unless that's your "thing."

Oh, Please... You and Platinum Pete should go have a little Superiority Party somewhere. The important things I learned at University had lttle to do with school, but everything to do with interpersonal relationships and growing into the person I am today. Most of my best friends, with whom I stay in touch almost on a daily basis, are Fraternity Brothers of mine. Go ahead and snicker, but most of us here learned fundamental lessons in College, the majority of them non-scholastic. Missing out on those for your spurious reasons of wasted time/money is pitiable, and it makes the Baby Jesus cry.

[gincognito]

M. le Turn Up the Gravity! almost has me looking forward to summer...

Sick and ashamed and happy (and which riot was that in the last pic?),
d.