Re: GT marketing and apparel sales

The next time there is the "Why does soandso hate Tech" debate and academic snobbery is mentioned, I will try to recall this.

WoW, a bit over the top. However, if more specific sweatshirts were available, I would like to have something from the "GT Physical Plant" collection. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif
 
Lets say, there is no way in hell I would ever wear a College of Computing shirt, proud of my education, but not exactly proud of my peers. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif
 
Geez, what would I have to end up wearing?

Georgia Tech via Department of Statistics, Franklin College, University of Georgia. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Athletic apparel outfitted by Oxymoronic Sportswear.
 
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Lets say, there is no way in hell I would ever wear a College of Computing shirt, proud of my education, but not exactly proud of my peers.

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I too was a CS grad, and I can tell you the social stigma that Computer Science carries will be hard to overcome for generations, I remember a cartoon on the technique that showed a young woman approaching a geeky looking guy ( skinny, pimply faced with glasses) wearing a CS T-shirt, the girl asked

"Would you like to buy tickets to the upcoming Vagina Monologues show? "

To which the CS grad replied:

-"What's a vagina?"

I tell you its tough being a CS grad, we're the nerdiest of the nerds.
 
heh, I remember that comic, its sadly, so true. I stayed away from the CoC as much as I could, took the minimum number of required CS hours and got a more rounded feel in HTS/INTA classes. Took it more as a degree in problem solving/logic than CS and its served me well thus far. Saddest thing ever was stopping in the CoC to use the facilities while walking across campus after a football game and seeing kids sitting in the lab, I gotta think that they just don't understand why GT is what it is, and coincidentally, they seem to be the ones that bitch the most about it. So many of their problems would be solved with a cold beer on a warm Tuesday morning.
 
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Saddest thing ever was stopping in the CoC to use the facilities while walking across campus after a football game and seeing kids sitting in the lab, I gotta think that they just don't understand why GT is what it is, and coincidentally, they seem to be the ones that bitch the most about it. So many of their problems would be solved with a cold beer on a warm Tuesday morning.

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As much as I would love to agree with you, I have to say a cold beer wasn't going to solve my (compile and runtime) problems, and I have to confess that as much as I tried to make room for those saturday (and thursday night) games but sometimes I just wasn't able to live with the thought that a football game potentially ruined my cs2130/2335/2340/etc etc milestone which consequently ruined my grade.

GT is about a lot of things, but in my opinion what it's most about is academics so I can't blame those that choose to sacrifice gametime for test preparation/homework/projetcs. It's the ones that don't have anything to do during gametime and still stay home to watch the ones I beef about.
 
Fair enough, Im not going to argue that academics are more important (I might argue that a couple of beers does a world of help for compile/runtime errors /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drink1.gif), but I always saw GT as being the best of both worlds, we work hard, we play hard, etc. Long nights working in front of a computer are best followed by long nights in the Highlands.

Nothing was sadder to me than the kids who were "just there to get an education", which meant they only cared about the classroom, nothing about sports/philanthropy/socializing/clubs, just like they're putting their life on hold for 4/5 years until they can get a job. All the while whining about Tech not doing enough to entertain them, and the campus sucks, and classes are too hard, etc.

I think by and large people lack balance these days. Oh well, I'll get off my /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/soapbox.gif now though... definitely out of place in the football forum, but it all blends together here anyways /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif
 
No Prob, I just wanted to represent the side of the kid who can't make the game all the time for legitimate reasons (not ultimate frisbee, or Quake, or any other BS).

By the way send you a PM RamblinPeck.
 
Excellent, excellent post Peck. The government of an emerging nation should base their mission in the world around this principle. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rockon.gif
 
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