favorite thing/memories about college

**road trip** · 03-01-2005, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

And last race senior year I think she only wore a bra and panties during her last run.

*I think* she only wore a bra and panties... how is this not etched in stone in your memory!!

**road trip** · 03-01-2005, 09:38 AM

Beer Pong - quite possibly the greatest game ever (in all its many forms).

And just hanging out in the Student Center between classes in April when that first warm spell came through (further elaboration not needed I hope!).

**Dexter Rutecki** · 03-01-2005, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by road trip

*I think* she only wore a bra and panties... how is this not etched in stone in your memory!!

Oh no, the bra and panties are definitely etched (mmmmm, brain etching), just can't remember whether or not it was her (she mighta just been wearing a bra and ski pants--there was a really hot girl from Yale who also undressed).
Somewhere I've got a shot (1994 shitty camera) of a girl from Tufts skiing the last race of the season topless, and she had enormous gozangas. They were flying everywhere as she turned. I remember being inside at Maple Valley and seeing her go into the bathroom, and then walk out clearly not wearing a bra. I began to applaud for her, which attracted attention, and then everyone gave her a standing ovation as she made her way outside. She looked pretty embarassed (as opposed to when she took her run), and I felt a little bad about it.
Unfortunately it was only some of the guys who completely stripped down (one naked dude almost ate it on the fastest section--cold, hard, spring snow=potential ouch on bad parts of your body), the best the girls did was topless.

edit: and someone with more time should explain to Pete that there are values to education in general that do not necessarily lead directly to a bigger paycheck (but which, may in fact, make bigger paychecks, and all sorts of other things, possible).

**sea2ski** · 03-01-2005, 03:24 PM

[QUOTE=Karl Stall]

Grateful Dead playing 20+ shows every fall 45 minutes from campus.

QUOTE]

This is so funny. I remember dating a girl when at Syracuse that said she went to school there because there were something like over 75 shows a year that were within a four hour drive of campus.

**Aldo** · 03-01-2005, 04:12 PM

study hall trips to Newark for schwag. Having a charge account at the local liquor store sophmore year. Bruno, quite possibly the first dealer in NYC to really make full use of a beeper's potential. Never going anywhere without at least first drinking a case of beer among the 4 of us regulars. Rolling with a dummy cooler of warm meister braus to divert attention to the goods in the reserve,,, Being arrested 4 or 5 times by the same officer, damn he had my #.... Being a better skier than Darian Boyle who was also on our ski team for a few years, obviously that didn't last long.... Ahh the dead shows; The Garden, Capitol theatre, Nassau, the meadowlands, the Spectrum, Hartford, Saratoga, Hershey, Providence, Springfield, Rochester, all told some 50 in those 4 years. Gooney birds, earths and the like, goddam, these are more like flashbacks than memories. Oh, we're not talking about high school?
I guess there was good reason for my dropping out.

**Dexter Rutecki** · 03-01-2005, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by Aldo

Being a better skier than Darian Boyle who was also on our ski team for a few years, obviously that didn't last long....

OK Mr. holding out on the maggots with good ski stories, let's have it.

**chaka** · 03-01-2005, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by girlski0912

I got the same degree from UCSB, I just managed to get out of there in 4 years....however when I graduated I forgot to re-claim the morals that I

forfeited per my acceptance to UC. Fucking Isla Vista...I lived on Del Playa my last year and can honestly say that there is no place like it on earth, thank god. Fond college memories include smoking TONS of weed and going to the annual 4:20 fest in the park, eating Freebirds nachos, taking Bills Bus downtown to party at Wildcat until it burnt down. Oh, and the infamous Ski Team at UCSB. That was where I really learned to drink.

Hail to the Gauchos. best fuzzy memories ever... waking up from such a state of drunkeness the night before, wondering where the bloody legion on the noggin and the bike tire treads on the shirt came from, playing detective and getting back to the scene of the crime... the 100ft long dog leg stairwell by the lagoon, now with a freshly broken railing about 75ft down, one of my shoes lying 30 ft away in a patch of ripped up grass. Wearing a wetsuit to class... Freebirds was solid, but c'mon, Tio Alberto's open from 6am to 4am... watching RedRum (local speed metal band) playing in my Del Playa appartment quad and watching a guy in the mosh pit get bumped off the 70ft cliff onto the beach below and walk away from it laughing...

**Nate Dogg** · 03-01-2005, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by road trip

Beer Pong - quite possibly the greatest game ever (in all its many forms).

Correction, the proper term is Beirut...no other subsititutes are accepted.

**Elin** · 03-01-2005, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Platinum Pete

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.

Why do you hate so much? Was college not sweet for you? Do you drive an H2 loaded up with the middle school soccer team to the championship game when you'd rather be skiing? Not everyone's life blows, man. College is pretty kick ass for most people and not everyone is conforming to "the man" by going.

**PaSucks** · 03-01-2005, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Nate Dogg

Correction, the proper term is Beirut...no other subsititutes are accepted.

You are wierd, mang. It is beer pong, and nothing other than beer pong.

**acostiga** · 03-01-2005, 08:35 PM

paddles involved?

**FNG** · 03-01-2005, 08:39 PM

Beiruit = throwing pong ball into cups.
Beer Pong = ping pong with beer cups and paddles.

Don't believe the hype.

**road trip** · 03-01-2005, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by acostiga

paddles involved?

Beer Pong = paddles involved

Beirut = the tossing variety

**Nate Dogg** · 03-01-2005, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by road trip

Beer Pong = paddles involved

Beirut = the tossing variety

Thank you for elaborating...too often have I heard the tossing variety referred to as beer pong, when clearly no "pong" is involved.

**Honc** · 03-01-2005, 09:03 PM

Getting wang mouthafied by Feb Fresh in Gonzo's room while he was downstairs partying.

Awesome.

**acostiga** · 03-01-2005, 09:38 PM

i was asking dex about his story. oops.

as for ping-pong balls and cups of beer, it's all good either way.

**Platinum Pete** · 03-01-2005, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by Elin

Why do you hate so much? Was college not sweet for you? Do you drive an H2 loaded up with the middle school soccer team to the championship game when you'd rather be skiing? Not everyone's life blows, man. College is pretty kick ass for most people and not everyone is conforming to "the man" by going.

I'm not hating, I'm suggesting you think about where that path leads and how fulfilling it might be. Grantted I made that point with harsh sarcasm, but I'd hope you can deal.
College was super fun for me, but I know I could have had an equal amount of fun, learned just as much about myself, and brought myself a lot closer to my goals if I had skipped the academic system; I'm trying to highlight that as an option for folks who may not consider it a true option. Most parents, teachers, coaches, professors, and bosses tell you that college is necessary to get by in life. That line of thinking accepts that one needs to work for most of their life to be the person they want to be. that's a narrrow line of thinking that I strongly disagree with. I'd rather be out skiing or doing whatever I want, and if I had taken a different path when I was eighteen I'd have that freedom.
College is not the worst thing that can happen to most people. Neither are Marker Bindings. I'm not suggesting that I am superior to anyone here and I resent that accusation. As for harshing anyone's mellow over recounting college glory, don't be so fragile.

**Dexter Rutecki** · 03-01-2005, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by acostiga

i was asking dex about his story. oops.

Huh? Paddles was directed toward me?
Sadly, I guess, no paddles were involved with any of the girls on other ski teams (at least not as far as I was concerned).

**cj001f** · 03-02-2005, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by Tippster

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..

I got an excellent degree that's served me well from one of the best programs in the world in my field. I also enjoyed college.

That said, I've seen the kinding of bonding you speak of from just about every group of adolescents on their own. it's not a college specific thing. I've also met far too many people who's college educations have failed them, and the money would have been better spent on 1000 cases of beer.

**Tippster** · 03-02-2005, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by cj001f

I got an excellent degree that's served me well from one of the best programs in the world in my field. I also enjoyed college.

That said, I've seen the kinding of bonding you speak of from just about every group of adolescents on their own. it's not a college specific thing. I've also met far too many people who's college educations have failed them, and the money would have been better spent on 1000 cases of beer.

Heh. Touché!

**Arnold Babar** · 03-02-2005, 01:18 PM

Existentialism, Transcendentalism, Relativity, Keynesianism, Situationism, Marxism, Taoism, Dadaism, Expressionism and a million other "isms" discussed and explained by people who actually understand and care about them, combined with weed, beer, mushrooms, and a whole medicine cabinet of other substances, taken with friends and a good dose of Nihilism, leading to some serious fun and growth and a unique learning experience that has little to do with how much money it costs or how much you will make (if you're hung up on that then you truly are under the "Man's" thumb). Ever had sex while on mushrooms, during an existential crisis, brought on by the complexities of relativity being revealed to you, through viewing a slideshow of Salvadore Dali paintings, while you were high from bong hits you took prior to reading three chapters of The Invisible Man, the night you helped your team win the conference championship in soccer then drank off a keg by a bonfire on the shore of a lake in the woods of a town that time forgot? IF YOU DON'T GO TO COLLEGE, YOU MISS OUT. If you're bitter, keep it to yourself.

**road trip** · 03-02-2005, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by acostiga

as for ping-pong balls and cups of beer, it's all good either way.

Excellent quote my man.

and my quote was meant to be all-inclusive of games involving those props

**Stu Gotz** · 03-02-2005, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Arnold Babar

Existentialism, Transcendentalism, Relativity, Keynesianism, Situationism, Marxism, Taoism, Dadaism, Expressionism and a million other "isms" discussed and explained by people who actually understand and care about them, combined with weed, beer, mushrooms, and a whole medicine cabinet of other substances, taken with friends and a good dose of Nihilism, leading to some serious fun and growth and a unique learning experience that has little to do with how much money it costs or how much you will make (if you're hung up on that then you truly are under the "Man's" thumb).

"I did have a test today. That wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European, I don't plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they're socialist? They could be fascist anarchists - that still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car. Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus and I'd still have to bum rides off of people." - Ferris Bueller

**Samwich** · 03-02-2005, 01:47 PM

I'm actually really looking forward to college. When I finished high school, college didn't seem real at all, due to the fact that I was moving to whistler. I thought that college would probably blow, and that I would be happier just skiing all my life. I still planned on going to college, but only so I could trot out some sort of degree at the age of 50 when ski bumming got a little old and hopefully land a job.
After living the life of a ski bum for a little while, I realized that I need intellectual stimulation. I've been living in an intellectual vacuum. I miss learning. Probably the most fun I've had so far this year was a 2 and a half day long avy course. Granted, this hasn't been the best year for snow, but still.
It seems like everyone finds their niche in college, and damn quick. EVERYONE i know, even if they were pretty awkward in high school, has a group of great friends to kick around with.