Just for fun - describe your impression of a college in a sentence

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Columbia: Yeah, um, we’re gong to occupy this building, so I’m gonna need my dining hall meals delivered to me.
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Columbia: Yeah, um, we’re gong to occupy this building, so I’m gonna need my dining hall meals delivered to me.
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Anonymous wrote:UVA: We’re too high brow to use normal college terminology


and you are too ignorant of history to understand terms like "grounds" which predated the use of "campus" used only in the U.S.


So I guess W&M, which is much older and more historic has grounds for their first years …. Oh, wait … Language evolves.


W&M used "yard".
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA: We’re too high brow to use normal college terminology


and you are too ignorant of history to understand terms like "grounds" which predated the use of "campus" used only in the U.S.


So I guess W&M, which is much older and more historic has grounds for their first years …. Oh, wait … Language evolves.


W&M used "yard".


Still uses College Yard for the area in front of the Wren.
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Georgetown: rats
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Anonymous wrote:James Madison: Just Missed UVA


this is too funny!
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA: We’re too high brow to use normal college terminology


and you are too ignorant of history to understand terms like "grounds" which predated the use of "campus" used only in the U.S.


Struck a nerve I see …


I'm a UVA grad and I thought it was funny
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Anonymous wrote:Columbia: Yeah, um, we’re gong to occupy this building, so I’m gonna need my dining hall meals delivered to me.


I like this one.
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Anonymous wrote:James Madison: Just Missed UVA


this is too funny!


JMU - Just Missed UVA has been around since the early '90s. That's what we'd say in high school!
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:James Madison: Just Missed UVA


this is too funny!


JMU - Just Missed UVA has been around since the early '90s. That's what we'd say in high school!


It was on t-shirts in the 80s. Just like Howard: Black by popular demand.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Penn State: “We’re gonna take a shower, but don’t tell Coach!”


LOL !!!!
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA: We’re too high brow to use normal college terminology


and you are too ignorant of history to understand terms like "grounds" which predated the use of "campus" used only in the U.S.


So I guess W&M, which is much older and more historic has grounds for their first years …. Oh, wait … Language evolves.


W&M used "yard".


Still uses College Yard for the area in front of the Wren.


But you really don't hear anyone call it that much. People call it a campus.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Alabama: the only acceptable response to everything is Roll Tide 🩷


Or, "not Auburn"
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Anonymous wrote:Grinnell - Conveniently located between NYC and Los Angeles


This one is great.

- Grinnellian


Isn't it actually supposed to be conveiently located between Chicago and LA?
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Anonymous wrote:Penn State = a cult (in a nice way)


Or, the largest number of alums around the country
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