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Top 100 things you need to succeed in Aggieland
Abstract:
Duct Tape Cloths Alarm Clock Rain Boots Money Scantrons Pencils Cell Phone Friends Campus Map 12th Man Towel...
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aggie06
posted 8/20/08 @ 11:14 AM CST
Originally posted byAnna Winfrey
Evidently a dictionary should be added to the list, since "clothes" is spelled with an e.
YES - thank you I am not the only one who noticed that!
Stephanie
posted 8/20/08 @ 9:48 AM CST
I wonder what we needed 10 years ago...
Cheney Coker '82
posted 8/20/08 @ 11:24 AM CST
Originally posted byStephanie
I wonder what we needed 10 years ago...
Don't know about 10 years ago but I can tell you what was needed 30 years ago. A lot of the basics are still the same but there were some requirements that that either were left off or just don't exist anymore.
Roach spray (A&M was where I learned that roaches can and do FLY), Zest soap (or you walk around all day with soap film on you), typewriter (!), stereo complete with tape deck, turntable and record albums, beer kegs (the drinking age was 18 back then so some people kept beer kegs in their rooms), hidden after hours girlfriends (no dorms were co-ed and we had visitation hours that ended at 10pm), much less money (a room in the commons cost $480 a semester instead of $2,223), serious deodorant (we still had a few dorms with no air conditioning), and an Aggie Cinema poster (a listing of all the movies Aggie Cinema showed each semester - usually four to five a WEEK).
Bill Page
posted 8/24/08 @ 3:44 PM CST
35 years ago students also needed slide rules, because most classes didn't allow people to use calculators. They were too expensive for the average student to afford. There also were not any interactive computers - we had to type punch cards and run jobs. Proofreading a program consisting of several hundred cards was unbelievably tedious. The coke machines on campus mostly gave you cups. If you were lucky, the order was ... a cup dropped down, coke syrup was added, and then carbonated water, but frequently you first got the syrup, then the carbonated water, and last the cup. Or the cup came down upside down.
Morgan May
posted 8/21/08 @ 12:37 AM CST
I like the idea....but I was hoping there'd be a story to go along with the cool visual on the front page.
Just wondering why condoms and beer weren't on the list?
Just wondering why condoms and beer weren't on the list?
Em
posted 8/21/08 @ 9:36 AM CST
Originally posted byMorgan May
I like the idea....but I was hoping there'd be a story to go along with the cool visual on the front page.
Just wondering why condoms and beer weren't on the list?
They figured everyone would already know to have those. It's scantrons and pencils that we need to reminded about.
dave webb
posted 8/22/08 @ 8:34 PM CST
Hey this was a good "article", it actually talked about some things you need to succeed here in B/CS without talking about getting blasted drunk, which some of the aggielife articles seemed to do. So kudos to you Batt!
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posted 9/29/08 @ 12:48 PM CST
So friends count as one item? Seems like a loophole to me
Socialism
posted 9/29/08 @ 6:59 PM CST
101. Make sure your parents are dead beats that make less that 60k combined so you get to go to school cheap
Happy to Escape
posted 12/17/08 @ 3:21 PM CST
Originally posted bySocialism
101. Make sure your parents are dead beats that make less that 60k combined so you get to go to school cheap
I'm happy to have graduated so I can escape close-minded, arrogant "Aggies" like you. =) WHOOP!
Awwww...
posted 9/30/08 @ 8:58 AM CST
Parents who make less than $60,000 are not deadbeats, people who cry all day because no one will help them pay for school are. Go get a job and take out some loans like the rest of us and quit whining like a baby.
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posted 9/30/08 @ 1:04 PM CST
wow this "article" was lame
took the person at the most 5 min gosh.
took the person at the most 5 min gosh.
williamgeorge
posted 12/17/08 @ 3:34 AM CST
Also in sports we have the reports of Maurice Clarett, who has sued the NFL because its rules required a player to be out of high school for three years before being eligible for the NFL draft. According to the Associated Press, "Clarett, a 20-year-old sophomore, played just one season with Ohio State, leading the Buckeyes to the 2002 national championship. He was barred from playing in the 2003 season for accepting improper benefits from a family friend and then lying to investigators about it." It appears that he would not follow the collegiate rules and was not allowed to play for one season; whether or not he would have been allowed to play in a later season was not stated.
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Killian McLeod
posted 12/20/08 @ 4:11 PM CST
Why do you need Facebook to succeed at A&M? Or duct tape for that matter?
This is the stupidest list I have read in a while. Be nice if the Batt would quit acting like a high school newspaper.
This is the stupidest list I have read in a while. Be nice if the Batt would quit acting like a high school newspaper.
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