Post your Alma Mater

Bucky Badger is also pretty ridiculous:

Hi, Nadia. No, I didn't grow up in Bloomington-Normal, just did my 4 years. Must say I didn't have a lot to do with the community at large while there - IWU is pretty insular.

Did you even know IWU was there? Lots of locals don't, I hear.

Don't know I went to school at a place that had Billikens as their mascot.
[img]http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/stlo/non-sport/stlo-billikenstatue-250.jpg[/img]
Exactly what is a billiken?

My husband was teaching at ISU so we met some IWU faculty. Erm...can't say much about the non-academic community at large, I found I was better off avoiding it as much as possible...

As far as mascots, I am currently finishing a degree at U of I. Our mascot is basically a white guy dressing up in war paint and doing some sort of "indian" dance. I'm pretty sure that takes the cake in terms of bad taste in mascots.

Ah yes, Illinois State.

I think it was called "Normal Normal" when it was founded?

Somebody say just dorky Gopher?

[img]http://kopell.tripod.com/lb/corridor.jpg[/img]

Yeah, there are "Normal" schools all over the place in the US. Basically any schools that trained teachers were called "normal" schools for some reason.

Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Shitty place, never go there.

Then for Law School the University of Arkansas, in the Fayetteville. Great place to go to school.

I think that is only in Illinois But you are correct-here

are there really no brits on this site that went to Uni? Did everyone really go to skools in the Midwest?

I'm in the midwest now but my previous alma maters (BA & MA) were snotty east coast schools, for whatever that's worth.

I just think the Brits have opted not to post - a lot of the Brits I know have been to uni.

we just haven't got any funky mascots to post so feel inadequate

There's a limit to personal info I like to write on such a public site Probably alreday mentioned it somewhere before, but don't want to state it so openly.

I got chucked out of the Reading Uni bar for unmentionable acts.

we americans are quite humble. no one likes to brag that they went to an east-coast elite university. good for you nadia for maintaining our humble image!

University of Maryland, MUNICH CAMPUS

home of 100 pseudo animal-frats.

AG

@brokenm- you went to SLU? hehehe... i looked there, but decided against it-wahoo for Jesuit educ!

Nah, it's just that we can't compete with the british schools in terms of snob appeal.

(Anyway, I said snotty -- not elite. Elite schools get you good jobs upon graduation. Snotty schools make you think you ought to get a good job upon graduation. Frankly so far U of I is my favorite.)

@ Sin:
wasn't it Reading that decided to do away with racist jokes in rag mags and replace all the Irish/Scottish/Welsh/Yank etc. jokes with Eric jokes?

This vastly increases the scope of your "unmentionable acts"...

and made for an even more humour-free rag mag than they usually are. "There was a guy called Eric, and a guy called Eric, and a guy called Eric"...

Winona State University, www.winona.edu

That's Illinois Wesleyan all over!

Only they made your PARENTS think you ought to get a good job upon graduation. They know who's forking out the hundred grand ...

Your map looks suspiciously like the Singapore Zoo to me...

wow, flippin eck, I never knew that!
you could walk up there from my mam and dad's house
is that the askham with the nice pub with the duck pond? or is that askham richard? (i always get the two mixed up)

Dear Old Alma - Mike thought he saw her last night - bastard's gone mad I tell ya, mad as a box of frogs.

Still studying at Georgia Tech - year and a half to go...

My Alma Mater:

[img]http://fusionanomaly.net/pulpfictionjulesvincentsantacruz.jpg[/img]

Our mascot:

[img]http://www.byteland.org/slugfest/banana_slug_mark_bonnington.jpg[/img]

Our campus and town:

[img]http://physics.ucsc.edu/images/ucsc_aerial.jpg[/img]

Er... I'm old mate. They were doing sponsored flan flingin' for rag week when I was around. You paid 50p to them and a team of Phantom Flan Flingers would 'Hit' your nominee. The misery-guts of a landlord at The Dove got 'hit' 14 times in a single lunchtime. Ah! Such merriment in the days of olde.

BTW - Caught shaggin' a bird on the Student's Union snooker table. It was all a long time ago. Can't recall her name, but she came from Boar's Hill, Oxford (why I recall that, I have no idea).

My Alma Mater: Humboldt State University (Arcata, California)


Our Mascot: The Lumberjack


Best known for it's Department of "Agriculture" :

And what a fine department of agriculture it is.

Well, I started out here, and I think I've got y'all beat for worst mascot. Ever heard of a geoduck? (pronounced "gooey-duck", and you're a better person now that you know that, right?)
[img]http://www.psat.wa.gov/you_can_do/creature/geoduck.jpg[/img]

But the school that actually let me graduate was WSU (pronounced "wazoo", of course. Jeez...).
[img]http://www.military-graphics.com/WSU-COUGAR.png[/img]

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Fighting Illini"
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Politically incorrect and proud of it!

Mine wins a special prize for "largest number of horribly ugly slabs of concrete next to a beautiful old city":

@alala: You win for the most horrible mascot! Sadly, I know the geoduck all too well... In my former life, I actually had to weigh, dissect and pulverize some of those lovely phallic critters for bioassays!

Good God, alala. That is one hideous mascot. WAY worse than the gopher.

Alala's Mascot or IPJ's Slug Mascot? HMM! sounds fierce guys!

Hey, the slug's a great mascot!!! [img]http://www.npr.org/nprreplay/replay_mascots/images/slug50.jpg[/img]

IPJ you went to Santa Cruz? I was just talking to ...I think MrBrain the other night about that area. I honestly believe there is not a more beautiful campus on the west coast. A good friend of mine makes jewelery acroos the bay I love that area. Geez I am jealous of you right now.

Yep, it's a fabulous campus. There's nothing like a walk through the redwoods to get to class.

my mom went there and my dad went to University of Iowa, so I was raised cuddling both a fighting illini teddy bear as well as a hawkeye!

...wow, this thread makes me feel young I'll be starting at Iowa State in the fall.

This thread makes me feel so old. I probably went to school with your mom.

It's not even so much the logo that is offensive, but that half-time show!

[img]http://www.covers.com/images/2005/illiniwek_chief050315.jpg[/img]

How clueless do people need to be to not see how this might be offensive? I mean, yikes.

Send your cards and letters to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

I went to the University of Chicago.

Home of the Chicago Maroons.

Our mascot was, however, inexplicably, the Phoenix.

Oh, and the most memorable fight chant I can remember was...

Ha, ha, hoo, hoo, we've got more Nobels than you.

I've heard that Pacific Lutheran has this gem:
Lutefisk, Lutefisk,
Lefse, Lefse!
Ve're da mighty Vikings
Ya, sure ya betcha!

Are you doing the TUM/Siemens program by chance? I just got outta GT back in Dec. and did the TUM/Siemens program Aug. '04 - Aug '05.

btw, anyone have a job for a fresh college grad with a degree in computer science and a minor in German?

I see someone posted the Badger already.. I am a badger and a Nole.. so if you know football you know where I went to school I also studied at the University of Nancy, they don't have a Mascot that I know of...

WHAT?! I thought you were going to be a Golden Gopher this fall. You don't seriously want to move to Iowa, do you? Although, depending on what you study, they probably have a better academic program than U of M.


I grew up Lutheran and can imagine they'd come up with something like that. Lutherans in general are a pretty dorky bunch.

yeah, that was originally the plan because I do love the U of M and I thought a year away would make me a bit more okay with going to school within walking distance of my house, but the idea of staying in my hometown for uni still sounds pretty cringeworthy. Anyhow, Ames is a fun town, I'll just never venture to any other Iowan destinations:)

(and I'm studying engineering and german, which ISU has a specific program for that er, yeah, is a bit better than Minnesota's)

Dont worry Jenny, I'll keep Dinkytown in my heart