<p>i was truly enlightened after my kids clued me into the meaning of ‘bro’</p>
<p>Ok whatever… I didn’t intend to hijack this thing… </p>
<p>But just to further beat the minutiae a tad one last time, the lyrics are actually “Lax Bro”, which is essentially a compound word, i.e., guy that plays lacrosse. Not sure all the inferences can apply, and of course, some people just hate lacrosse players as a general rule. But even an urban dictionary doesn’t point to anything that serves to “truly enlighten” or even surprise me considering I grew up with a brother and his friends who played hockey and lacrosse at boarding school. Doesnt seem it’s changed much. </p>
<p>Of course now I might have to ask my own kid if there is some secret use of the word Bro used as a singular term that I have been peacefully unaware of all these years, but as for me, I just found the song to have a catchy musicality! Go figure. Like I said, it’s not for everyone.</p>
<p>How you score in school and the choices you make will define your person and your position within society. To be obsessed with Ivies and the top tier LAC’s will only undue the potential benefits of a great education. </p>
<p>There are a number of considerations in maintaining a position with regards to selecting a continuing educational program which augments your personal professional interests outside your competitive sports activities.</p>
<p>Choose wisely as your undergraduate years are solitary and cannot be redeemed for time nor interest.</p>
<p>Be the best that you can be and find solace in your selection for this shall be your most important decision in passing adolescence into adulthood, for I found mine with my choice and with great internal joy and the solitary solace that such discovery brings to sentient minds beset with all things great and small.</p>
<p>God Bless you ALL!</p>
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<p><scratching head=“”> Not sure I get it.</scratching></p>
<p>Correct, that is a rather broad statement. Since we express through words much that encompasses numerous positions by way of entitlement, we position ourselves often by way of rank and score, while the choices that are made defines our success or failure within historically acceptable means.</p>
<p>Being obsessed with prestige merely offends how history defines those whose works encourage long term memory against the refrain we often hear echoed in the personal victories of our own time.</p>
<p>Greatness lies in the intangibles of our cumulative creativity and productivity.</p>
<p>Education as an art refines our potential energy into meaningful service to our society and the security it provides.</p>
<p>It by no means is a guarantor of surety and the soundness we find within our exercise of a proper enterprise.</p>
<p>One gets what one hears.</p>
<p>Are you sure your name isn’t horse****? if I ever find myself in a conversation with this character will someone please take me out with an elephant gun?</p>
<p>I must say HorseRadish–you have a very interesting way of expressing yourself in prose. Sometimes I feel like I’ve just read my fortune from a cookie. Other times your posts read like they’ve been translated from another language into English using unnecessarily complex language. Is English your first language? I don’t mean to offend—I’m genuinely interested in knowing where you learned to write.</p>
<p>Urban… you completely crack me up.</p>
<p>Ok, so what about the students at each school? I have heard the Club Midd thing can turn one off from Middlebury. Does Amherst have the same thing goin on?</p>
<p>UrbanSlaughter (with an Elephant Gun):</p>
<p>Your kind words exceed all modesty and I will remit my response to your untold future, though while filled with the musings of tortured fairies, fate awaits such feckless gestures, and the Gods will smile upon you, like a statue of a supine hound waiting for foreclosure. </p>
<p>Insofar as languages are concerned, I can relate to the cognate languages whose ancestral roots are Indo-European, and thus I have a common ancestor in character and function to those great races comprising the diverse human species.</p>
<p>I was talking to a friend of mine who son attends Amherst - he really does love it, but we did note that Midd Son has more diverse friends than her son at Amherst, who tend to keep within a smaller circle. I’ve said this before, but it was again confirmed. However, i will also note that this is just one example among several various outcomes. What she said last night (and her Jr D is HUGELY interested in Midd) is that Midd is a little more sporty and Amherst a little more quirky.</p>
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<p>The “Club Midd” moniker actually stems from the look of Middlebury’s campus and the quality of the facilities. The campus has large expanses of gently rolling lawns, and the buildings are neatly placed amid groves of trees with views of the mountains in the distance. It reminds many of a holiday resort (a la Club Med). Hence the nickname “Club Midd.” Amherst’s campus is nice, but it’s more like a Sandals. ;-)</p>
<p>I meant the KIDS seem to be clubby! as in COUNTRY!
it’s ok, just not my kids type…</p>
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<p>I know what you meant. The kids who apply to Amherst are generally the same kids who apply to Williams, Dartmouth, Middlebury, etc. So to answer your question, you’ll find the same level of clubbiness (as in COUNTRY!) at all of these schools. If Middlebury isn’t your kids’ type, then in all likelihood, none of the others are either. Same goes for all the NESCAC schools (with the possible exception of Wesleyan).</p>
<p>Great, thanks for that clarification! We will figure it out for ourselves once we visit, and Wes is for sure on the list.</p>
<p>What does clubby! (as in COUNTRY!) mean?</p>
<p>Also, what does preppy mean? I think i get preppy: that means rich kid, lack of street smarts?</p>
<p>I’m picking up US college lingo, but not fast enough!</p>
<p>[Preppy</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preppy]Preppy”>Preppy - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Admittedly I am old… but when I think preppy, I think clothes and style of dress (and not a whole lot more). classic, button down, navy blazer, turtle necks, cardigan sweaters, pearls, madras and penny loafers kind of thing. As for the reference to actual intelligence (street or otherwise), never really associated that with preppy.</p>