<p>All right... I've been going to Michigan for just one semester, and I already love the place. I guess you could say that I consider it a part of myself, even my own, special university. So... When people decide to attack or poke jabs at Michigan, I naturally feel like it's my duty to protect it. However, this defending situation is inevitable for me considering I live with a brother who attends Michigan State and a father who is an alumnus of that university. I'm the only Wolverine in the house so I don't have strong allies at home (Well, besides my mom... But she didn't attend Michigan either so she also doesn't understand completely). I don't know. It just becomes taxing on one's own spirit. I don't like it when they attack my school every time I come home. It hurts a little bit because I don't like seeing my school attacked, and I know that I won't do it back to them. I know they're not trying to hurt me but only want to tick me off a little bit. What's worse is that I actually let them get to me.</p>
<p>(I'm just ranting. There's no need to yell or degrade my brother and my dad for putting me in this situation. I just needed a place to vent.)</p>
<p>The attacks/jabs are very typical of a Spartan when encountering a Wolverine. It's all related to their inferiority complex. Hands-down, U of M blows away MSU on all levels and they know it. For starters, just look at the difference in the admissions requirements for freshmen. And...how about A2 v. E. Lansing? Laughable!! You're in the driver's seat here...no need to defend. Could they just be "GREEN" with envy?</p>
<p>eh....i dig on UM cause I want it to be better. I love UM...so I give it a poke every now and then. But I, and everyone else knows, that there is no comparison, in any possible aspect between UM and that junk school in Lansing. That fact is so self-evident that it doesn't need defending.</p>
<p>Whoa! You folks take the rivalry so seriously, even family members. If I get accepted to UMich I may have a similar dilemma. Last year, (before I was doing the whole college search and had any clue about how much I'd like UMich), I visited some cousins of mine in Michigan and all four of them went to MSU. One of them was telling me how much she hates UMich. If I go they'll kick my butt =)</p>
<p>oh! and my sister's still in high school and my parents are alums of Berkeley and Harvard! dayyyyam, i love being at home because i'm always like, my school PWNS, and they're like, i know omg lol brb lyl</p>
<p>school spirit i think is like nationalism. if adequate it's pride but if excessive it'll be basically degrading all the other schools. I guess u guys r just pumped. But i would really like to see an extreme school-spiritistic jingoist that would be kind of interesting.</p>
<p>LOL. I got a good laugh at some of these responses (especially Becky's), and I honestly didn't expect to get this many. Overall (as I said in my first post), it's really not a big deal, just irritating, and I needed a place to vent. I'm not about to go degrading MSU because of it. </p>
<p>imiracle911: Yeah, that would be interesting. I haven't run into one of those people yet either.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is an MSU alum who ended up at U-M for a term because she was supposed to be at Tulane for grad school. She said is made her SKIN CRAWL to be at U-M and she was going to try to erase this term from her memory. Honestly.</p>
<p>If pressed, you can make her admit it was nice to be at one of the best public health schools in the nation, on its dime, for a term. But grudgingly.</p>
<p>We are already harassing my son. He will probably go to Univ of Mich. His dad is a life-long OSU fan, and Son had been a MSU fan for as long as we can remember. Husband says he'll send his son and his money of Michigan, but that doesn't mean he has to cheer for them!</p>