DCUM school bias

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any connection to William & Mary, but people who haven't heard of it are a bit ignorant of American academia. It is the second oldest school in the country (Harvard was the first). If you only get your college knowledge from sports, sure, it is less famous. But it has a lot of famous alum, from Thomas Jefferson to Oscar winner Cord Jefferson.

St Johns college is the third oldest college in America and is unknown by most. It is a regional school with a little importance in American history but nothing groundbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Johns college is the third oldest college in America and is unknown by most.

Ricky Bobby famously said: "If you ain't first, you're last."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:oh no, William & Mary won’t do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any connection to William & Mary, but people who haven't heard of it are a bit ignorant of American academia. It is the second oldest school in the country (Harvard was the first). If you only get your college knowledge from sports, sure, it is less famous. But it has a lot of famous alum, from Thomas Jefferson to Oscar winner Cord Jefferson.

St Johns college is the third oldest college in America and is unknown by most. It is a regional school with a little importance in American history but nothing groundbreaking.

Yale is actually the third oldest. St. John’s was founded much later, but it absorbed a much older school. Plus, it. is very niche and I think it gets confused with the basketball-oriented St. John’s in New York.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:oh no, William & Mary won’t do

According to a PP, no one outside of Virginia knows of William & Mary, yet the Steely Dan guys, who came from NY and NJ, put it in their song "My Old School". Neither attended William & Mary. They attended Bard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any connection to William & Mary, but people who haven't heard of it are a bit ignorant of American academia. It is the second oldest school in the country (Harvard was the first). If you only get your college knowledge from sports, sure, it is less famous. But it has a lot of famous alum, from Thomas Jefferson to Oscar winner Cord Jefferson.

St Johns college is the third oldest college in America and is unknown by most. It is a regional school with a little importance in American history but nothing groundbreaking.

Yale is actually the third oldest. St. John’s was founded much later, but it absorbed a much older school. Plus, it. is very niche and I think it gets confused with the basketball-oriented St. John’s in New York.

I think of the same about William & Mary as someone not from here tbh. The only time I've ever heard about the university was a peer super into American History said it was a "very good school," but, otherwise, zilch. It has very little national presence.

[Anonymous]

Haters hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oh no, William & Mary won’t do

According to a PP, no one outside of Virginia knows of William & Mary, yet the Steely Dan guys, who came from NY and NJ, put it in their song "My Old School". Neither attended William & Mary. They attended Bard.

That's like saying Hampshire is a household name, because a Colby graduate mentioned it.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary was featured prominently in a Bob Newhart episode. WM has a fair number of writers who go to Hollywood, so references show up here and there. This is pretty funny for WM fans. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57sua2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2jHm2VC8t7cd4D10_ZJTYHkiAiH2Oc_Eezc5mNm8lF4kGNSBz71R0nXrw_aem_0rOrt5MnMiQtRVfK23YO9g

[Anonymous]

I don't know if DCUM has a lot of W&M grads, but you guys know it's okay for a decent but not great school to just be decent? W&M is a decent school, nothing spectacular to write off about it but decent. How you think about W&M is how Alabaman's think of UA btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary was featured prominently in a Bob Newhart episode. WM has a fair number of writers who go to Hollywood, so references show up here and there. This is pretty funny for WM fans. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57sua2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2jHm2VC8t7cd4D10_ZJTYHkiAiH2Oc_Eezc5mNm8lF4kGNSBz71R0nXrw_aem_0rOrt5MnMiQtRVfK23YO9g

a Bob Newhart episode you say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary was featured prominently in a Bob Newhart episode. WM has a fair number of writers who go to Hollywood, so references show up here and there. This is pretty funny for WM fans. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57sua2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2jHm2VC8t7cd4D10_ZJTYHkiAiH2Oc_Eezc5mNm8lF4kGNSBz71R0nXrw_aem_0rOrt5MnMiQtRVfK23YO9g

a Bob Newhart episode you say?

Apparently you could watch W&M play football on a Chicago TV station on Thanksgiving, so there must’ve been some national profile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary was featured prominently in a Bob Newhart episode. WM has a fair number of writers who go to Hollywood, so references show up here and there. This is pretty funny for WM fans. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57sua2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2jHm2VC8t7cd4D10_ZJTYHkiAiH2Oc_Eezc5mNm8lF4kGNSBz71R0nXrw_aem_0rOrt5MnMiQtRVfK23YO9g

a Bob Newhart episode you say?

Apparently you could watch W&M play football on a Chicago TV station on Thanksgiving, so there must’ve been some national profile.

OOOhh an unnamed Chicago TV station!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oh no, William & Mary won’t do

According to a PP, no one outside of Virginia knows of William & Mary, yet the Steely Dan guys, who came from NY and NJ, put it in their song "My Old School". Neither attended William & Mary. They attended Bard.

That's like saying Hampshire is a household name, because a Colby graduate mentioned it.

I don't remember Colby or Hampshire in any songs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if DCUM has a lot of W&M grads, but you guys know it's okay for a decent but not great school to just be decent? W&M is a decent school, nothing spectacular to write off about it but decent. How you think about W&M is how Alabaman's think of UA btw.

Well, that certainly speaks to their ignorance. And yours.