That's a great story! Reminds me of my graduation in Schwab Auditorium in the late 80's and champagne bottles popping the whole time. Graduates hid the champagne bottles in our long robs before entering.
If you went to college now…
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I would try to run into Joe and say...."listen...about this Second Mile thing Jerry is involved with...."
Yes haha… some here have a running thing of poking fun at former PSU Pres Eric Barron over the upcoming new art museum. It gets touted as a signature achievement from his tenure, whereas all the while Penn State struggled in academic rankings (so I’m told on here) and tuition continued to rise.
Seriously though, I don’t think I would change much. My PSU grades, especially during my first few semesters, weren’t up to par with the academic standards I had in high school… but that is because I was busy coming out of my shell and growing more socially confident. And that is by far the area in which I needed to grow the most. I went from having been a deeply shy and awkward teenager to joining a fraternity (something I never, ever could have seen myself doing) to eventually becoming President of our chapter. And yes, there were lots of drinking and ill-advised shenanigans along the way, but I also had to learn to lead a team in keeping the house budget, paying the mortgage, paying an employee (our house cook), and organizing events and meetings. I came away with interpersonal and leadership skills that simply didn’t exist within me when I arrived at PSU. And oh yes, pulled my grades up well enough to graduate With Distinction and with several good job offers in hand. All in all it was a fantastic experience.
Yeah, I’m familiar with the ongoing Art Museum/onion dip references. Didn’t know if you were serious, though. I’m sure there’s somebody who graduated from Penn State who would, in all seriousness, say they would visit the art museum.
Your high school-to-college experience isn’t too different from mine, plus I am convinced that developing my social skills while at PSU has been a tremendous asset in life, both personally and professionally. In fact, I used to joke that if I could do business in a bar, I’d be a billionaire.
Awesome. Hey, a lot of us have experienced a shift from the daily office grind to working mostly or completely at home thanks to the pandemic… perhaps we’re just one more disruptive societal event away from doing business primarily in bars!
I would have gone onto law school and studied harder but I was mostly concerned with avoiding Viet Nam at the time, which I fortunately did. It’s a long story. I had to overcome a lot of adversity. Also I would have chosen a different barber. Anyway it all worked out eventually. Smoke em if you’ve got em.
Ugh, before I was driving age, I'd ride my bike on both of these streets and hated both of them. Piketown Rd was a one-time thing. Blue Ridge was much more often and could be just as difficult. Bike lanes were definitely not a thing on any of the area's streets.
Blue Ridge Avenue made a man out of me. I had to get to the top of that monster if I wanted to get to Turkey Hill and get a coke and a candy bar.
A bike tour went down BLA once, I think it was the tour de trump. I remember watching them fly by at the bottom of the neighborhood.
Cities are way overrated. The 10% things available in a city that are not available in the suburbs either are prohibitively expensive or not the most healthy use of time. New York the city that never sleeps. PSU when the students are here is the town that never sleeps except during 8am classes.
I suppose this is germane enough.
That is significantly better than my most memorable classroom story. We had a prof that didn't show up for a class, someone went to check his office and it turns out he had passed away there from a heart attack.
... three weeks later someone notified the administration.
We reported it to the football coach
One regret I have from college is not growing my hair out. I looked like a bum anyway, I might as well have looked like a cool bum.
Quarantine finally afforded me the opportunity and it's awesome. Except for right now when hotter than hades.
Quarantine finally afforded me the opportunity and it's awesome. Except for right now when hotter than hades.
Regrets for not asking PSU cheerleader Antionette Giarratano aka Toni Tri Delt out on a date. Saw her near every day in the dining hall but couldn't muster up the courage to ask. Those of you who attended in the early 70s should know who she is. Damned she was fine then and still is!
Hmmm idk so sounds to me like flag material!!Regrets for not asking PSU cheerleader Antionette Giarratano aka Toni Tri Delt out on a date. Saw her near every day in the dining hall but couldn't muster up the courage to ask. Those of you who attended in the early 70s should know who she is. Damned she was fine then and still is!
Leave it to Penn Staters to turn any location into a makeshift Skellar.
It's clearly flag material. Thought about it but can't find a public pic from her PSU cheerleading days. I could post a recent pic but it would be inappropriate to violate her personal privacy.
I’d blow off university and go to car tuning trade school. I’d be running a Porsche race team and dd this:
You already posted her name, so what's the problem with a pic?It's clearly flag material. Thought about it but can't find a public pic from her PSU cheerleading days. I could post a recent pic but it would be inappropriate to violate her personal privacy.
If I am going back to school now, I am probably not at Penn State at the out of state price they charge now. When I went in the early 90's I only paid 4 to 5K more than the in-state students, but now it is double and I would most likely go to Maryland. Dealing with that now with my daughter who will be a senior. She wants to do Forensic Science and is applying to WVU, VCU and Towson. Unless she gets a lot of aide from the first two, she will probably be at Towson.
FYI if your daughter wants Forensic Science, Marshall university has a top ranked Forensic Science program, plus even for out of state students is very reasonable. They may even have a deal with students from Maryland to give them a tuition break as do other states that border WV, but IDK. Saying you went to MU for Forensic Science is almost like saying you went to MIT for physics, seriously.
My two oldest are in college and they went to private schools a hell of a lot cheaper than public schools would have been for them.
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