Where was your Alma Mater?

[eytonxav]

1968 - Louisiana State University, BS - Marketing

Go Tigers! Our son just got his MBA from LSU.

 

[haha]

I hate to say it, but I left UCSB after my freshman year and transferred to UCR because I saw too many spoiled little rich kids cheating their way through college there. I'm sure it wasn't the majority of students, but I lived with a whole bunch of them at the Trop in IV and couldn't stomach it.

Unfortunately I had never seen or even heard of UCSB until I had already graduated university. If I had, I would have had a different, much nicer alma mater.

Ha

 

[mb]

Another Gaucho - UCSB. Not on the party track, graduated with highest honors. MS from U of Illinois at shampoo-bananna (Champaigne - Urbana).

Santa Barbara definitely has a reputation as the party school in the UC system but it is the #34 ranked research university in the world according to the rankings given below and to get in these days as an undergrad you need to have pretty close to a 4.0 with a handful of AP classes.

Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[oma]

Undergrad Idaho State Univ (Pocatello) '90
Graduate: Univ of Texas Health Sci Center, San Antonio '03

 

[mh]

Santa Barbara definitely has a reputation as the party school in the UC system but it is the #34 ranked research university in the world according to the rankings given below and to get in these days as an undergrad you need to have pretty close to a 4.0 with a handful of AP classes.

Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The engineering school was pretty rigorous back in my day also. Sure there were some vacationers there, but it seemed way better than your average big football school.

 

[Rich_by_the_Bay]

My BA was from the University of Virginia.

I didn't know it was an all-men's school (at least back in the day) until I got to my dorm freshman year. Meant to talk my guidance counsellor about that, except he's long gone. Worked out in the end as future DW was at Randolph Macon down the road.

 

[jackontrack]

CUNY Queens College, BA Major in Media Studies, Business & Liberal Arts Minor

 

[nun]

My BA was from the University of Virginia.

I didn't know it was an all-men's school (at least back in the day) until I got to my dorm freshman year. Meant to talk my guidance counsellor about that, except he's long gone. Worked out in the end as future DW was at Randolph Macon down the road.

My hall of residence had men's and women's floors. It took about a month for them to become co-ed as people hooked up. Apparently this happened every year, university admin took the attitude that we were all 18 years old so could sleep with who we liked. The college only provided 1 year of accommodation, after that we had to get flats in London and commute to college....best time of my life!

 

[2soon2tell]

DFW

Geaux Tigers

 

[Jammer]

The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers(the fiercest of all burrowing creatures).

 

[Nords]

A former USNA classmate and later roommate of mine got his BS from USNA, his MBA from Harvard Business School and then an MD from Cornell Medical School.

We can only hope that someday he'll see the light, decide what he wants to be when he grows up, turn his life around, and try to live up to his potential...

 

[ItDontMeanAThing]

I hate to say it, but I left UCSB after my freshman year and transferred to UCR because I saw too many spoiled little rich kids cheating their way through college there. I'm sure it wasn't the majority of students, but I lived with a whole bunch of them at the Trop in IV and couldn't stomach it.

I saw some kids from affluent backgrounds attempting to get a degree with the minimal amount of studying and class attendance but nobody was talking about cheating. I was class of '77, I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

I have fond memories of Trop. Lived there the first year because I didn't know anybody in IV. Lived there a second year to enjoy the place's unofficial motto: "If you cant get l**d at Tropicanna Gardens, then you just can't get l**d".

 

[nun]

That's quite an education. I have always been blessed to have lived with people smarter than me. A former USNA classmate and later roommate of mine got his BS from USNA, his MBA from Harvard Business School and then an MD from Cornell Medical School.

1st and last are real qualifications. Middle one isn't that impressive, most HBS students are not that smart, anyway it's just a trade school

 

[nafddur1]

For me it was RPI.

Same here - BS (Mgt.) 1972, and ME (Mgt. Eng.) 1973. I still thank those degrees every day for helping me attain my early (full time) retirement at 49.

I started at RPI in 1968 in Naval ROTC (thanks to that Nam fiasco, in it's heyday at the time), but dropped that the day after the first lottery when my number came up in the 200's. Anyone else remember that lottery?

I also wrestled there my first two years. We were in the ECAC, and I'm pretty sure it was actually considered D1 way back then. Wrestling as a regular sport is long gone at RPI, but they do have a very good club team these days.

 

[bssc]

BSFS Georgetown University. What is a Hoya!

 

[Rich_by_the_Bay]

BSFS Georgetown University. What is a Hoya!

Isn't a Hoya like a nittany lion, only smaller?