<p>I'm just wondering, how many people really love their schools and have a strong sense of pride? </p>
<p>Do you occasionally showing off to your old schoolmates and tell them how prestigious your university is?</p>
<p>I can tell my friends that my school is better athletically than their silly Ivy League school...but regarding the prestigious aspect, I can't show off at all.</p>
<p>I do. </p>
<p>I love my university, I'm SO proud to be a part of it. I want everyone to know that I attend the University of Virginia, Mr. Jefferson's University! I bleed orange and blue, I support the Cavaliers in every sport, I couldn't be more obsessed with UVa succeeding and doing well in everything. I'm so loyal and in love with my institution. It has its flaws, like any university, but I stick by it all the way. A lot of other people at my school feel this way too. Support for UVa runs deep, we're proud and we say it. Some people may call us arrogant or snobby, but as ESPN's college review once said, "if you went to the school in Virginia with the most stringent admissions requirements, best overall athletic program, most beautiful campus and coeds, most successful and famous alumni, the most storied social scene, that was founded by Thomas Jefferson, and all that happened to be in what was voted the #1 city to live in in America, well you'd think you were the **** too." </p>
<p>Just the other day I was having lunch with a friend of mine who went to Dartmouth and he was telling me that Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) had gone to Dartmouth. I responded by telling him that Dr. Seuss was bitter about getting rejected from UVa and wrote the book "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" about the grouchy grinch looking down on the Whos down in Whoville (UVA students = Wahoos = Hoos = Whos) about the UVa students he was jealous of. :) Dr. Seuss later went on to become a professor at UVA, btw, along with the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Julian Bond, president of the NAACP.</p>
<p>Wa-hoo-wah!</p>
<p>I'm proud of my school. It's UNH so it's definitely not more prestigious than the Ivies, or some other schools, but I'm proud of it. Prestige isn't everything. And I love to let others know how we knocked off Dartmouth in both hockey and football this year!
Support for UNH runs deep. The majority of the state tunes in for the hockey and football games. Seems like most people own some sort of UNH clothing, and no not everyone went here. Of course UNH has it's problems, but I'm still proud of it, and have no problem with telling people I go there. I also have no problem telling people that I can't wait to go back. August 27th seems so far away right now!</p>
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<p>Of course.</p>
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<p>I tell them how awesome it is, and how much I love it, not how prestigious it is.</p>
<p>Actually that is what I meant. I did not intend to ask whether people have a superior complex or not.</p>
<p>"I'm just wondering, how many people really love their schools and have a strong sense of pride? </p>
<p>f*** yeah</p>
<p>Do you occasionally showing off to your old schoolmates and tell them how prestigious your university is?"</p>
<p>hell yeah.</p>
<p>Even though my school has its share of stupid people, I'll be loyal to it and do my best to make it the best school until I die.</p>
<p>wahoowa!</p>
<p>virginia tech sucks.</p>
<p>Absolutely! I know that Colgate has its own flaws but those are the ones I'm willing to stand by on. I loved Colgate for quite a long time in high school but was afraid of loving it for my dad's (alum) sake. Then I eventually realized that I love the school for ME and my own interests, not for anyone else. That makes my experience all so muich better and more geniune.</p>
<p>Yup- especially if the public isn't aware of it, then I get a chance to educate them first-hand how presitgous it is compared to ther schools in NYS and other LACs :) One guy even asked if it was an Ivy League, I said, "it's in its own Ivy League!"</p>
<p>I have school pride</p>
<p>... I don't really talk to my high school friends about it. Like 90% of my good high school friends go to top schools so... yea.</p>
<p>monarchsfan16, crushing your football team was one of the highlights of my fall semester. Unfortunately, it was the high point for our season, haha.</p>
<p>Ok, I don't brag at school about going to UCSD, but I do love my school and I'm proud to be a Triton.</p>
<p>._. Yea, I get the condescending look when I say I'm going to UCSD. Kind of ruins my confidence, but I still love my school.</p>
<p>I am absolutely in love with W&L and am spending the summer here in Lexington as a tour guide to share that love with high schoolers.</p>
<p>I'm pretty content with going to UCSD and I really don't see how people can look down on it.</p>
<p>Well, I'm an IB full diploma student (well, "candidate" anyways). Most of my friends happen to be IB diploma students as well. Well.
When you consider that they're going to Yale, Berkeley, or "at least" UCLA...</p>
<p>... Yea, you get the picture.</p>
<p>:( I do better than a lot of these students going to great colleges now, but my sophomore grades really effed my hs GPA up.</p>
<p>But nevertheless. I believe in there being a reason for everything, and I love going to UCSD so ... a reason for everything. :)</p>
<p>Hmm. I suppose I can see what you mean. The kids at my school who are going off to Ivy Leagues (or similar) don't see it that way though. I guess that's where our schools differ. Anyways, glad to see you're being optimistic regardless.</p>
<p>Going to a military academy, I have a very strong sense of pride in both my school and those who graduated before me. Anyone going to a military academy realizes the respect people put in them and the trust given to them for completing four of the hardest years anyone will ever face in their lives. It is why a class ring is so important at a service academy, its not just the bling, its the pride sweat and tears that goes behind that giant ring on a man's finger. Even though many midshipmen and cadets may not like the academy they attend at the time, they realize its importance once they leave and as the saying goes "Best place to be from, worst place to be at." But enough of a rant from me about something that is so different from the normal college most of you will be attending...</p>
<p>Kappa Pi Sigma</p>
<p>Wahoowa? That's so lame. UVA sucks.</p>
<p>I adore my school, but for other reasons than prestige. The world isn't all about name-dropping.</p>
<p>Aw, compgeek, do you attend Virginia Maintenance, AKA Special Tech? I'm sorry our basketball team beat you three times in a row this year. And I'm sorry we're ranked over 50 places higher than you in USNWR. And I'm sorry Marcus Vick whipped out a gun at McDonald's, just after stomping on some other football players and getting arrested for driving with marijuana...I know he's the pride of your mediocre football program, which got schooled by FSU--who we beat--at the ACC championships. It must be hard to be so inferior to UVA all the time...</p>
<p>I am still in high school but I know from experience that my school (Penn State) has tremendous school spirit. Everyone is a full and absoulute supporter of everything that Penn State is and was. This is pretty much true for about 60% of Pennsylvania residents even those that did not even go to the school.</p>
<p>Hmm our mediocre football team seemed to whip your sorry team 52-14 this year, and we won the ACC championship our first year in the conference. How did you guys finish out last year? Oh that's right, you played in the Music City Bowl.</p>
<p>A former University of Virginia football player was shot and three current players arrested Tuesday night outside a dormitory in Charlottesville.</p>
<p>Former defensive back Jamaine Winborne was shot in the leg when a dispute outside of a dorm turned violent, the Daily Progress reported.</p>
<p>University police had a warrant, charging 23-year-old Aaron Joshua Robinson also a student at UVa with malicious wounding.</p>
<p>Three other players were arrested in the incident, including next years probable starting quarterback Marques Hagans, the university said in a statement.</p>
<p>Hagans along with defensive back Brandon Lee was charged with disorderly conduct, while wide receiver Kenneth Tynes was charged with vandalism, apparently after throwing a chair through a window.</p>
<p>Every team has its bad apples my friend. And I got into both UVA and VT but I decided to go to VT for the far superior engineering program and because UVA has people like you.</p>