OT: 101 Things you should do before graduating from MSU
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I know a couple guys who used surgical tubing for a slingshot and they were shelling McKee Hall & yes, the UN is gone.
You mean Buffy wouldn't understand something that simple? Not sure I'd follow up on the benefits if she's that dumb. **
I lived in Sessums my freshman year...
That was Dr. Zacharias's first year at MSU & also the year that MSU Police cracked down on the Flagpole Flop.
That was Dr. Zacharias's first year at MSU & also the year that MSU Police cracked down on the Flagpole Flop.
How does one go about "drinking a hot dog"? I know it couldn't be the new liquid Carolina's Finest since you speak in the past tense ....
It's probably better that you don't have it written down or memorialized in pictures ... especially if you are/plan to be married. You know she'd find it and it might be hard to explain, even though she knows that college days can be wild ... just not for her "chosen one".
What is the flagpole flop?
It apparently came after my days at MSU. All we had was the occasional panty raid.
It apparently came after my days at MSU. All we had was the occasional panty raid.
The Flop is: Male students running naked from the Sessums Hall Flagpole...
...to the Drill Field Flagpole and back on the first cold night of the school year.
...to the Drill Field Flagpole and back on the first cold night of the school year.
My best times included:
**Attending summer school one year, I attended both sessions. Would go to class a couple days a week and was on the golf course by mid day almost every day and then we would go to The Grill or Flo N Eddie's on a regular 4 to 5 nights a week basis.
**Lived in the Cotton District, I am pretty sure for 3 years
**Was lucky to be there for prime Jackie years and really enjoyed the tailgating and home game activities
**Got a nameless mention in Bad Dawgs (thanks to a drunken event with friends after tearing the goal posts down when we beat Arkansas)
**Took a spur of the moment 3 or 4 day trip to Mardi Gras (I am not from Mississippi and this was not somehting that many of my friends I grew up with had done up to that point of life)
**I attended virtually every home football and basketball game of my college career (my freshman year was 1997, and I had not developed my passion for MSU related sports and activities so I skipped the Egg Bowl and watched it from my parent's home in Texas) It would be the last home Egg Bowl that I missed in my 5 years at MSU
**I seem to remember that during my senior year that I took a photo for the yearbook, but I have no idea if I actually have a yearbook.
**I also got a MSU ring and wore it proudly but I lost this while out fishing in the Pacific Ocean out of my now hometown of Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica... I inquired on the replacement insurance but discovered that it had lapsed about 6 months prior to me loosing it, would have been $50 well spent to renew that but I moved on and my address has changed several times as I moved around the world.
**Took a trip to Pap's Place while the electricity was out in the Starkville area following a sever storm/potential tornado. Had to see the old lady from the commercials
My regrets or should have done list:
**I really don't think I attended a single baseball game until the year I was in summer school, I think it was a Super Regional game, may have even been against ND if memory serves me correctly. It was a great experience attending those couple of games, I just wish I had taken the time to go to games earlier.
**Probably my biggest regret is not attending the SEC Championship Game
** I also wish I had traveled to a few away games for football... especially the Egg Bowl,as I never once attended a game in Oxford.
Overall, I don't have many regrets or thinks that I feel like I missed out on. I really enjoyed my time at MSU and in Starkville. I would come back and visit for a football game or two if where I lived was not so perfect during that time of year. Maybe in the near future I will take the time to do so.
**Attending summer school one year, I attended both sessions. Would go to class a couple days a week and was on the golf course by mid day almost every day and then we would go to The Grill or Flo N Eddie's on a regular 4 to 5 nights a week basis.
**Lived in the Cotton District, I am pretty sure for 3 years
**Was lucky to be there for prime Jackie years and really enjoyed the tailgating and home game activities
**Got a nameless mention in Bad Dawgs (thanks to a drunken event with friends after tearing the goal posts down when we beat Arkansas)
**Took a spur of the moment 3 or 4 day trip to Mardi Gras (I am not from Mississippi and this was not somehting that many of my friends I grew up with had done up to that point of life)
**I attended virtually every home football and basketball game of my college career (my freshman year was 1997, and I had not developed my passion for MSU related sports and activities so I skipped the Egg Bowl and watched it from my parent's home in Texas) It would be the last home Egg Bowl that I missed in my 5 years at MSU
**I seem to remember that during my senior year that I took a photo for the yearbook, but I have no idea if I actually have a yearbook.
**I also got a MSU ring and wore it proudly but I lost this while out fishing in the Pacific Ocean out of my now hometown of Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica... I inquired on the replacement insurance but discovered that it had lapsed about 6 months prior to me loosing it, would have been $50 well spent to renew that but I moved on and my address has changed several times as I moved around the world.
**Took a trip to Pap's Place while the electricity was out in the Starkville area following a sever storm/potential tornado. Had to see the old lady from the commercials
My regrets or should have done list:
**I really don't think I attended a single baseball game until the year I was in summer school, I think it was a Super Regional game, may have even been against ND if memory serves me correctly. It was a great experience attending those couple of games, I just wish I had taken the time to go to games earlier.
**Probably my biggest regret is not attending the SEC Championship Game
** I also wish I had traveled to a few away games for football... especially the Egg Bowl,as I never once attended a game in Oxford.
Overall, I don't have many regrets or thinks that I feel like I missed out on. I really enjoyed my time at MSU and in Starkville. I would come back and visit for a football game or two if where I lived was not so perfect during that time of year. Maybe in the near future I will take the time to do so.
You used to go to the basement of the Union.
But that was pre-renovation (as recent as early 2000s). I don't know whether they are still accessible from there.
You can also try the basement of the Alamo.
But that was pre-renovation (as recent as early 2000s). I don't know whether they are still accessible from there.
You can also try the basement of the Alamo.
Haven't you heard of the "60 Rule" in the "Man Book"? It states no matter how good looking they are, or how much of a freak they are in bed, after you 17 one exactly 60 times, there is no overwhelming physical attraction anymore. At that point you actually have to like them to find them attractive.
I wasted my Jr. & Sr. year in Advanced Army ROTC as I wouldn't have been drafted. I did get to experience alcoholic and bad attitude NCO's and officers at ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, KS,
1. What should everyone do before graduating? Attend a baseball game on an SEC weekend in the Left Field Lounge
2. What I was able to do that not everyone could? Get lucky one night in the tower at Raspet Lab.
3. What would I do different? Party more! Turns out I am the epitome of 'Study long, study wrong. Study light, study right.' The less I studied the better I did but I couldn't bring myself to not study.
2. What I was able to do that not everyone could? Get lucky one night in the tower at Raspet Lab.
3. What would I do different? Party more! Turns out I am the epitome of 'Study long, study wrong. Study light, study right.' The less I studied the better I did but I couldn't bring myself to not study.
When I first met you in Huntsville...
At the old apartment complex, were you still co-oping, or had you graduated then?
At the old apartment complex, were you still co-oping, or had you graduated then?
I don't think I lived at Fontainbleau until I was already out of school, so I'm pretty sure I was out of school then. So it was probably sometime after the spring of 1970 and before the summer of 1973. Later on, you helped me move out of the apartment and into the first house. That was June 1976.
Several things I would've done:
-Majored in something I loved, like history or coaching, instead of Petroleum Engineering. I'd have gotten 3.8-4.0 in those majors instead of the 2.6 I got in PTE. Also, when the oil boom went bust in 1985, I might've been able to get a decent job.
-Neckin' at Eckies...no, wait, I did that.
-Taken an Ag class. After all, we're the "farmers", and I'd have liked to seen something about the heritage of MSU.
-Taken ROTC. Became an officer in either the Air Force or the Army.
-Been born in 1992. I'd love to be a student at State now, what with the Sanderson Center, 7 home games, the Cotton District, the high Coed ratio, the new dorms, the exam week Raves, etc.
-Majored in something I loved, like history or coaching, instead of Petroleum Engineering. I'd have gotten 3.8-4.0 in those majors instead of the 2.6 I got in PTE. Also, when the oil boom went bust in 1985, I might've been able to get a decent job.
-Neckin' at Eckies...no, wait, I did that.
-Taken an Ag class. After all, we're the "farmers", and I'd have liked to seen something about the heritage of MSU.
-Taken ROTC. Became an officer in either the Air Force or the Army.
-Been born in 1992. I'd love to be a student at State now, what with the Sanderson Center, 7 home games, the Cotton District, the high Coed ratio, the new dorms, the exam week Raves, etc.
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I distinctly remember saying at Old Venice (after 2-3 mind erasers and no telling what else) man we should do something crazy before we graduate! This was about 3 weeks before graduation day, and now I can't finish the story cause I'm not sure if the statute of limitations has run out yet or not...... :-\. Needless to say I could have easily had "not graduated" at all.
Thanks for the memories ...
Great thread. So much has changed since graduation in mid '70's.
Great thread. So much has changed since graduation in mid '70's.
- We got to experience basketball games in what is now McCarthy Gym. The Hump is okay but not even Cameron Indoor has the 'atmosphere' that we had in that gym.
- About the only place open at 3:00 AM was the train depot in Mayhew. Maybe it was the beer but I have never had a better omelet.
- Going to school in a dry county forced us to travel to at least the crossroads. It was both the 'best & the worst.' We made friends for life but each year we also 'lost' a friend on Hwy 82.
I puked massive amounts of beer out the window of my suite one night and splattered it all around people walking below, much safer than a tv. My suitmates were hanging out of their windows cheering me on.