People who went to crummy colleges go overboard with grad/prof college bragging?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personally I had more fun in grad school than undergrad. But I don't wear "gear" from either institution. Being all excited about your alma mater(s) is really 20-something. No more than 5 years after you graduate, you should be over it and nobody gives a shit where you went to school anyway.

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My experience in grad school was much more fulfilling and enriching, because I was older, the studies and network more meaningful, and it was that much more difficult to make the achievement being old as hell. The sacrifice was greater, and the reward felt greater. Damn right I am proud of it. I'm also proud of my daughter's activities and I wear her swag too.

Yes OP, I will wear whatever I want to wear, with pride and without fear of your misjudgment. But more likely because that is what is clean in the laundry.

Although....maybe I should start wearing swag from all the schools I attended at the same time, baseball cap from X, sweatshirt from X, while jogging and sipping out of my water bottle from Z.

That would really wet your noodle.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who went to UMD undergrad and was a huge Terps fan. Then he went into a 2 year grad program and completely switched his allegiance to Georgetown. He wore a ton of Hoyas gear and got season tickets to basketball games. It was a status move for him completely. He didn't even want to be a fan of both--only Georgetown because he thought it would help him network with a more prestigious crowd if he did.

[Anonymous]

The number of folks in n Arlington who appear to be 30 to 85 who wear college gear while out is mind boggling. Stunted development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who went to UMD undergrad and was a huge Terps fan. Then he went into a 2 year grad program and completely switched his allegiance to Georgetown. He wore a ton of Hoyas gear and got season tickets to basketball games. It was a status move for him completely. He didn't even want to be a fan of both--only Georgetown because he thought it would help him network with a more prestigious crowd if he did.

Good for him!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience in grad school was much more fulfilling and enriching, because I was older, the studies and network more meaningful, and it was that much more difficult to make the achievement being old as hell. The sacrifice was greater, and the reward felt greater. Damn right I am proud of it. I'm also proud of my daughter's activities and I wear her swag too.

Yes OP, I will wear whatever I want to wear, with pride and without fear of your misjudgment. But more likely because that is what is clean in the laundry.

Although....maybe I should start wearing swag from all the schools I attended at the same time, baseball cap from X, sweatshirt from X, while jogging and sipping out of my water bottle from Z.

That would really wet your noodle.

Or just get a sweatshirt that says Professional Student.

[Anonymous]

So here’s the deal. In the DC area, which worships top colleges, it takes balls of steel to wear gear from, say George Mason, American, JMU, Maryland, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I had more fun in grad school than undergrad. But I don't wear "gear" from either institution. Being all excited about your alma mater(s) is really 20-something. No more than 5 years after you graduate, you should be over it and nobody gives a shit where you went to school anyway.

Lol! I once dated a 50-something year old guy who had gone to Cornell thirty years prior and talked about it *constantly*.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who went to UMD undergrad and was a huge Terps fan. Then he went into a 2 year grad program and completely switched his allegiance to Georgetown. He wore a ton of Hoyas gear and got season tickets to basketball games. It was a status move for him completely. He didn't even want to be a fan of both--only Georgetown because he thought it would help him network with a more prestigious crowd if he did.

Hilarious. You think he lives in fear of people asking where he really went to college, thus teasing out non-peer background?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience in grad school was much more fulfilling and enriching, because I was older, the studies and network more meaningful, and it was that much more difficult to make the achievement being old as hell. The sacrifice was greater, and the reward felt greater. Damn right I am proud of it. I'm also proud of my daughter's activities and I wear her swag too.

Yes OP, I will wear whatever I want to wear, with pride and without fear of your misjudgment. But more likely because that is what is clean in the laundry.

Although....maybe I should start wearing swag from all the schools I attended at the same time, baseball cap from X, sweatshirt from X, while jogging and sipping out of my water bottle from Z.

That would really wet your noodle.

Or just get a sweatshirt that says Professional Student.

[Anonymous]

Can I wear a Star Fleet Academy shirt if that's the place I really relate to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who went to UMD undergrad and was a huge Terps fan. Then he went into a 2 year grad program and completely switched his allegiance to Georgetown. He wore a ton of Hoyas gear and got season tickets to basketball games. It was a status move for him completely. He didn't even want to be a fan of both--only Georgetown because he thought it would help him network with a more prestigious crowd if he did.

Hilarious. You think he lives in fear of people asking where he really went to college, thus teasing out non-peer background?

He wants to be known as a "Georgetown Guy" rather than "UMD Guy". I don't think he lives in fear of it, he just wants people to associate him with Georgetown. He just dismisses his former ties to UMD, although he was all in on that before Georgetown was in the picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So here’s the deal. In the DC area, which worships top colleges, it takes balls of steel to wear gear from, say George Mason, American, JMU, Maryland, etc.

DP. But I see people wearing this all the time. And while not top schools, they're still good schools! And I would never judge, they should wear it.

College graduates have already done more than the vast majority of Americans who don't seek any form of college education after high school.
70% of Americans do not have an undergraduate degree; 90% don't have a graduate degree. I think Census bureau data said something around <2% have post-graduate/doctoral.

I swear, DCUM user demographics are as evidential of reality as a unicorn is of utopia.

[Anonymous]

You realize you are likely outing someone OP. Really rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who went to UMD undergrad and was a huge Terps fan. Then he went into a 2 year grad program and completely switched his allegiance to Georgetown. He wore a ton of Hoyas gear and got season tickets to basketball games. It was a status move for him completely. He didn't even want to be a fan of both--only Georgetown because he thought it would help him network with a more prestigious crowd if he did.

Hilarious. You think he lives in fear of people asking where he really went to college, thus teasing out non-peer background?

He wants to be known as a "Georgetown Guy" rather than "UMD Guy". I don't think he lives in fear of it, he just wants people to associate him with Georgetown. He just dismisses his former ties to UMD, although he was all in on that before Georgetown was in the picture.

I forgot to mention that he has stayed at the same company he interned with when he was in college 20 years ago, but hasn't moved up all that much in the ranks. So it's not like his Georgetown connections have helped him become upwardly mobile.