Are you guys ready?

1982Jacket said:
You only really need to know eight words.
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I was gonna go with four.

I’m sure I’m going to hell for this but I always hated that song and I never understood why we played it. I sang along because it was the thing to do but I never got why we did it.
 
00Burdell said:
I was gonna go with four.

I’m sure I’m going to hell for this but I always hated that song and I never understood why we played it. I sang along because it was the thing to do but I never got why we did it.
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I'm the opposite. I LOVE that tradition. When I was at Tech in Ye Olden Times, it was a tough place. There weren't many women there. Like less than 15%. About 1/3 of the Freshman class never graduated. Average GPAs were low. Hard core drownproofing was still required. Required courses filled up on the regular before you could register for them, and graduating in 12 quarters (yes, it was quarters back then) wasn't even really an option for many. Ma Tech was a bitch. There was an air of gallows humor about the place. Drinking age was still 18 and a lot of us drank. A lot. I sure did. That tradition was - to me - a joyous ode to all that. It was all of us revelling in the shared misery and the shared way we coped. I was half drunk many times when we sang that, and so were my friends. And it really did "say it all."
 
1982Jacket said:
I'm the opposite. I LOVE that tradition. When I was at Tech in Ye Olden Times, it was a tough place.
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I was there in the early to mid 80s so I can relate. I hope it’s still tough but think it may have gotten a bit soft of late.

I don’t know if they still do the thing in freshman orientation where they tell the kids that the kid sitting left or right of them won’t get a GT diploma but it was certainly true when I was there.
I think of the 70+ Arch majors I started with as a freshman, fewer than 15 walked across the stage 4 years later. Still don’t know where they all ended up.
 
00Burdell said:
I was there in the early to mid 80s so I can relate. I hope it’s still tough but think it may have gotten a bit soft of late.

I don’t know if they still do the thing in freshman orientation where they tell the kids that the kid sitting left or right of them won’t get a GT diploma but it was certainly true when I was there.
I think of the 70+ Arch majors I started with as a freshman, fewer than 15 walked across the stage 4 years later. Still don’t know where they all ended up.
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Achitorture!!! I knew one of those guys. One only. And he bailed out out to South Carolina Cow College after Freshman year. So much respect for Architecture majors at Tech. Talk about living on zero sleep. I have an inappropriately large ego, but I still honestly do not believe I could have made it as an Architecture major. Huge props.
 
1982Jacket said:
Achitorture!!! I knew one of those guys. One only. And he bailed out out to South Carolina Cow College after Freshman year. So much respect for Architecture majors at Tech. Talk about living on zero sleep. I have an inappropriately large ego, but I still honestly do not believe I could have made it as an Architecture major. Huge props.
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Thank you. There were more than one occasion where I went over 72 hours without sleep. I don't recommend it. Architects would make good snipers. I think.

PM me who you knew. I was head of the student AIA for a bit so pretty much knew everybody. I ran a store inside the Arch bldg for a couple years - when the bookstore tried to shut us down, I met with the manager of the bookstore and worked out an arrangement for the bookstore to sell me stuff at wholesale that I could sell at retail at the 24/7 store I created and they bookstore agreed. So I ran a store inside the Arch bldg for 2 years for all Arch related supplies. I also got ATL Blueprint (I can't recall their exact name) to donate a blue print machine + paper so I could sell blueprints 24/7. All the money went into a pot for the GT student AIA. I got a couple nice trips out of it - one to Arizona State and one to Michigan *U. The one to Michigan was awesome. It was over Thanksgiving so Michigan set up a Thanksgiving buffet on their basketball court for all the visiting AIA regional directors. Good times. Tough times but good times.
 
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Jacketzrus said:
My first game as a freshman.

Please go away Collins.
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Let's give him 2022 to prove himself. We all have legitimate concerns but one thing I have never doubted is Collins' love for GT. His first 3 years have been a catastrophic failure. But that water is over the waterfall. Let's see what happens this fall.

A lot of guys with families and such - their job and career are on the line. I understand this is business and if we don't perform well as a program, I'm prepared to make that tough call but let's not forget that there are actual mothers and fathers and kids and careers and dreams involved.

If this season goes up in smoke then ok, we'll do what needs to be done but I'd prefer Collins and his new staff demonstrate that they can take a division I football program and do something remarkable with it. That is what all of us have a right to expect.
 
00Burdell said:
Let's give him 2022 to prove himself. We all have legitimate concerns but one thing I have never doubted is Collins' love for GT. His first 3 years have been a catastrophic failure. But that water is over the waterfall. Let's see what happens this fall.

A lot of guys with families and such - their job and career are on the line. I understand this is business and if we don't perform well as a program, I'm prepared to make that tough call but let's not forget that there are actual mothers and fathers and kids and careers and dreams involved.

If this season goes up in smoke then ok, we'll do what needs to be done but I'd prefer Collins and his new staff demonstrate that they can take a division I football program and do something remarkable with it. That is what all of us have a right to expect.
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Wise words.
 
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