<p>Skoonix, another +1 for Kenyon from me.</p>
<p>Had my son not solidly known he wanted engineering, Kenyon would have certainly been in the mix.</p>
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<p>I loved my 3 years at Clemson. ACC rivalries will keep y’all busy for next 4 years.</p>
<p>poetgrl, good morning.</p>
<p>Desires may vary, but counting as OK can be influenced by prestige/credibility/impression issues. </p>
<p>FWIW, you were suggesting we block each other. Then I mentioned Ph.D. in psych and you realized there also is some overlap interest. Within about half an hour you were blessing me and urging me to carry on. I think that little dynamic in itself speaks directly what I have been trying to contribute to the discussion. And now, with the little Derrida reference, another symbol of you and I belonging to some group (that if not some form of prestige-oriented at the very least serves a differentiating function).</p>
<p>No, I was suggesting if you found MY posts so offensive YOU block me. I never intended to block you. I don’t block people.</p>
<p>That said, I’m very well educated. I knew you were well educated from your posts. But, honestly, you have one interest and mine is different.</p>
<p>It’s hillarious to me that you think I was specifically urging you to carry on.</p>
<p>but do.</p>
<p>carry on.</p>
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If you applied around the same time I did (mid 70s) we applied to the UC systenm and ranked all the schools we were willing to attend. If yuo didn’t get into your first ranked school they passed it down the line.</p>
<p>Speaking of your prior post about Reed - One of my HS classmates went to Reed. I had never heard of anyone going there. He got a degree in Math. The story I heard is that his parents went apoplectic when after graduation he turned down the offer of a steady job at Boeing to take a flyer on a relatively new and unknown computer software company in Redomnd Washington. He got more in stock benefits than pay. I hear that worked out pretty well for him.So the common wisdom may not always be correct.</p>
<p>Well we in the west are not completely above it all…we do snark behind each others backs about which kids have and do not have a medical marijuana prescription. Since they are so easy to come by…the assumption is if you don’t have one…your obviously not that smart. Now THAT is status. :eek:</p>
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<p>Okay, now there is coffee on my computer screen. I say we make this the quote of the day!</p>
<p>Since we are now all posting our credentials: I first opted out of professional school and then opted out of graduate school. Just like on CC, where I have to look up all the allusions, at dinner parties I never know what anyone is talking about. At age 57, anything I ever knew, I seem to have either misplaced or forgotten. And recently shocked a friend’s nine year old who couldn’t believe I was unpublished. This was completely outside her experience of adults. Maybe I was like Emily Dickinson, she asked. Fortunately I had heard of Dickinson though I would never claim any serious familiarity with her work.</p>
<p>poetgrl: May I ask if you pursued a career in academics? If not, why not? Because it doesn’t seem from your posts that is where you ended up. Just nosiness on my part, but maybe not too terribly off topic regarding POVs on various threads?</p>
<p>finalchild: WELCOME :):):)</p>
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<p>Frequently I hang out with some very passionate architect/designers/city planner types. They have very intense views on the split-level subject. Even more so about colonial revival. I have heard “discussions” that rival anything on this board.</p>
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That’s why we’re so lucky we have Google and Wikipedia these days. And that’s another reason for reading here, if not posting. I bet the most common clicking path for me is from CC to Google or Wiki.</p>
<p>My dad was the type of guy who could never stand it when somebody mentioned something he didn’t know about. We had several thousand books in our home growing up and several encyclopedias and dictionaries, language translation books, etc. Whenever somebody brought up something he knew nothing about he would write it down and at the first opportunity head off to the library or bookstore. He just barely lived to see some of that on the internet and I think that brought him intense joy. So I know how lucky I am to have that stuff around for me, even though I’m not anywhere near as intellectually curious as he was.</p>
<p>Sorry for the tangent.</p>
<p>^^what tangent. I ready to discuss being snarky and opinionated, and (omg) even perhaps provincial, about domestic architecture.</p>
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And of course in New Trier and Hinsdale Central and so forth, the kids were <em>always</em> looking nationwide because they had parents who likely had gone to school elsewhere.</p>
<p>Nope, Ahl, no academic career. Just curiosity and an endlessly unraveling love of literature and poetry, which remains.</p>
<p>Also, I will go on the record as being exceedingly provincial about domestic architecture. I have a strong preference for the original architecture of any area.</p>
<p>Also, for food. I am an unwavering believer that the clam chowder in Maine is better than the clam chowder in the rest of New England. You cannot budge me on this, either. People have tried. ;)</p>
<p>The information explosion from the internet, combined with increased competition for top school admission has definitely made a difference in bursting regional bubbles. When we were growing up, students didn’t need to look beyond their region and only did so for specific purposes. Thinking back, ALL my friends and acquaintances attended college in our home state except for some Mennonite kids who traveled to VA to Mennonite colleges (we had none in our state), and three friends whose parents sent them to their former home state flagship where they still had family. </p>
<p>Obviously, that has changed and keeps changing. There was an article in a local newspaper about a recent wave of athletes from our region going to the west coast for college. At D’s school, for example, there had only been a set of sisters from our state on her college team in all the history of the team before she got there. Now there’s a whole contingent. Why? Well, now kids can go to an online sports database and find out where some older competitors they competed against at nationals chose to go to college. They can then research the school and its team roster online, see how well the kid is developing, and feel comfortable choosing a school far away even though his coaches and other adults around him might be encouraging him to stay local. (Thank God D was smart and we her parents knew something about schools, because if D had listened to her high school coaches she’d be at a really awful local private now.)</p>
<p>poetgrl: Unless served in someone’s home, I won’t even eat any seafood in the NE. I’ve tried it. 
I only eat it at “home” in the south. 
Preferably at the restaurants my parents used to take me to from the time I was a toddler, because my grandmamas aren’t around to cook it for me any more.</p>
<p>You know, you can find a wonderful early vernacular farmhouse in your new location. Either with the acreage attached or move one to your acreage.</p>
<p>Was the second part of my question- Why not? - too intrusive?</p>
<p>Speaking of provincialism, and going back to something poetgrl said:</p>
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<p>But if you flip that around, a preference for KC Masterpiece over vinegar-based sauce is just bad-wrong and an affront to humanity. </p>
<p>/ sticks thumbs in belt
// waits for the Memphians and Texans to arrive</p>
<p>No. Not intrusive, ahl. I just didn’t want to.</p>
<p>ETA: SOG is, of course, correct.</p>
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as is ketchup on a hotdog. ;)</p>
<p>except in the case of brisket. Texans do brisket very well. I will give them that.</p>
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<p>I don’t know these letters. I’m looking in urban dictionary. Are you telling me to get lost/back off?</p>
<p>No. SomeOldGuy, the poster.</p>
<p>poetgrl: whew. My understand is that KCmasterpiece has absolutely nothing to do with real barbecue. I have no dog in this particular race, however.</p>
<p>Isn’t KC Masterpiece made by Clorox? And Bulls-Eye is made by Kraft.</p>
<p>Apropos of nothing, when I lived in St. Louis, I babysat for the Maull family, of Maull’s barbecue sauce fame. That was the “barbecue religion” practiced there.</p>
<p>Thread has gone OT and other members are being discussed, which is not permitted.</p>
<p>Closing thread.</p>