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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several Penn Staters as well and I echo what previous posters have said here already - they are good students, good at sports, like to be social and go to football games and party. Overall nice, well-rounded, average people, nothing exceptional.

[b]The only thing that I find exceptional about Penn State is the school spirit which can be a bit  nauseating sometimes.[/b][/quote]

One of the PPs you're agreeing with and I think of Penn State as like a public version of Notre Dame in this respect. [b]Students and alumni have a very "they hate us 'cause they ain't us" attitude and are obsessive about their football team and some quirks of the school that people who didn't attend... just don't care about it. But it can be interpreted as jealousy (I heard a lot of "people are jealous" comments from the Penn State families we know during the Sandusky revelations, and just -- ick)[/b]. I think people who go to Penn State or have kids there often have blinders on and assume everyone feels they way they do. But most people are indifferent to Penn State. My DH and his entire family are from PA and they don't hate Penn State or anything, but they aren't obsessed with it. They aren't mad that they didn't go.[/quote]

Bahahahaha, I am sorry the bolded just made me laugh SO HARD!! :lol: Jealous of what exactly??? LOL

Yes, there are a number of schools I'd be jealous of....Penn State is definitely not one of them! I agree with some of the previous posters - how they handled the Sandusky scandal was simply disgraceful.

Now, I can add "delusional" to my impression of Penn State people.[/quote]

Some people have trouble reading between the lines of PSU boasting.

When most people in the northeast (or Ann Arbor) boast, what they are saying is along the lines of “I’m great and you suck.”

When PSU people boast, what they are saying is something more like “You will probably never know how fortunate I feel to have gone to PSU.”[/quote]

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