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1) Do you really miss college or not?
Oh hell yeah. College represented some of the best years of my life. I miss my friends, the good times, the carefree lifestyle, everything. Most of all, I guess that I miss being young.
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2) What college do (or did; we'll use present-tense from now on) you attend? Where is it? Is it's focus more art or science or what?
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. The Engineering and Agriculture Schools at NMSU have always been considered two of the best in the nation.
3) What movie college reminds you of the one you attend:
Prbably Bonzo Goes To College, because when I was attending school there 30+ years ago all of the buildings were old ivy-covered brick and wooden structures like the ones you see in old movies. Today, the NMSU campus is very modern.
4) Would you ever join a frat or a sorority or would you take pains to avoid those people at all costs?
I had an aunt that was the House Mother for the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity at NMSU. To humor my aunt, I pledged that fraternity the first semester I was in school. I don't think I lasted six months. I hated the "Greek life-style" and didn't want any part of it.
5) Do you find yourself hanging out with "the weird people" (anyone who isn't in a frat, especially if they're way geeky)? If you hang out with the wierd people instead, would you make up a Weird Kid Frat (a la "Revenge of the Nerds")? Would it work at your school?
The student body was basically lumped into four categories when I was there. You were either a Greek, a Jock, a Cowboy (Ag School) or a GDI (Goddamn Independent). I was a GDI. Note that geeks and hippies were not categorized because they were considered to be sub-human and not worthy of any acknowledgement.
5) What's the strangest thing you ever saw at your college? What's the strangest thing that ever happened at your college? What's the strangest thing that ever happened at your college that involved you?
a. I went to school when Hippies and Psychcodelic music first came onto the scene. I saw some really strange looking people doing some really strange things.
b. There were occasional confrontations between the hippie peaceniks and the Jock-Cowboy coalition. It usually resulted in a few hippies getting the living shit beat out of them.
c. Every year NMSU would put on a Spring Rodeo for the Cowboy element. After the rodeo there was always a big CW dance. One year the band was on a flatbed trailer and the trailer was still connected to the cab of the truck. In a highly inebriated state, a friend and I got into the truck and drove off with the band. If they would have caught us, I'm pretty sure they would have killed us.
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