Abbreviation Thread

<p>oooooooh thanks</p>

<p>just heard this phrase, can anyone tell me which they are?</p>

<p>oh, and BTW...</p>

<p>maybe you already did these, but:</p>

<p>CAS = college of arts and sciences
idk = I don't know
SN= screen name</p>

<p>TCE = Total College Experience</p>

<p>how could you forget URM - underrepresented minority</p>

<p>What is OP?</p>

<p>Original Poster, usually -- the person who started a thread.</p>

<p>From searching Wikipedia:

[quote]
The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III.
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As each of the member universities places a stronger emphasis on academics than athletics, this conference is sometimes referred to as the "Nerdy Nine" (even though there are now only eight members).
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Member teams:
* Brandeis University
* Carnegie Mellon University
* Case Western Reserve University
* Emory University
* New York University
* University of Chicago
* University of Rochester
* Washington University in St. Louis

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<p>mootmom, I got a laugh reading this. A fourth grade classmate is now at WUStL on the basketball team and once mentioned it, but I never got the reference.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>I just learnt OMG = Oh My God.</p>

<p>one thread requests all posters to use OMG in the message. I scratched my head for half a day and came to realize this. :}</p>

<p>whats SIR stand for?</p>

<p>"Sir, 'Sir' is a subservient word surviving from the surly days in old Serbia, when certain serfs, too ignorant to remember their lord's names, yet too servile to blaspheme them, circumvented the situation by surrogating the subservient word, sir, by which I now belatedly address a certain senior cirroped, who correctly surmised that I was syrupy enough to say sir after every word I said, sir."</p>

<p>OMG also = Omigosh (some people kinda get offended by the Oh my God version)</p>

<p>"Little Three" = Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams</p>

<p>GC = guidance counselor</p>

<p>SIR -- Statement of Intent to Register</p>

<p>What about FOB? or FoB?</p>

<p>My understanding is that FOB means "Fresh Off Boat," someone new to the US. I'm not familiar with this otherwise -- I don't know if it is considered derogatory or not.</p>

<p>I always thought FOB was "Friend of Bill" meaning Bill Clinton.</p>

<p>Why is the University of Kansas known as KU and not UK? Is it to avoid confusion with Kentucky?</p>

<p>SWAMP
Swarthmore
Williams
AMherst
Ponoma
top LACs</p>

<p>Re: FOB</p>

<p><a href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=FOB&p=dict%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=FOB&p=dict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>