why does Southern suck?
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Most of the students at USM are either music majors, LSU fans who were rejected by LSU and didn't want to go to SELA or UL-Monore, and awkward kids from MS high schools.
I don't know if it's still the case, but for a long time they were the only school in the state that would give AP credit if a student made a 2 out of 5, so they aren't much competition academically with Ole Miss and State.
I don't know if it's still the case, but for a long time they were the only school in the state that would give AP credit if a student made a 2 out of 5, so they aren't much competition academically with Ole Miss and State.
but its a city that happens to have a college in it, whereas Stark/Ox are college towns.<div>
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</div><div>thank goodness that Starkville has improved the way it has in the last 10 years.</div>
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</div><div>thank goodness that Starkville has improved the way it has in the last 10 years.</div>
I really like Hattiesburg. But you are right Hattiesburg is a city with a college in it.thatlonghairedguy said:
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.....but I guess it's the type of elitist vaginal discharge that I'd expect from an Ole Miss fan. <div>JimHalpert said:
</div><div>Look, I don't like Southern Miss either. But let's not degrade decent people here. Many people from South Mississippi choose to go there for financial and logistical reasons, but that doesn't make people lesser. And it sure doesn't make Ole Miss and State people better than them. </div>
is rubbing some people the wrong way, but I can at least agree with parts of it. All I can vouch for is the way USM was viewed when I came out of HS about 10 years ago. I grew up in the southern part of the state, and attended a few summer camps and honors-type events at USM over the years. By middle school I was in the metro area for good, but by the time I graduated, the general consensus of our class (and not just me) was:
1) The only USM programs that I and my peers ever heard held in higher regard than* equivalents at OM and MSU were music education and seems like I remember something to do with polymers/chemistry (?)
2) Counting a 2 on any AP tests is awful. NO ONE does this. By 2004, the school was also put on SACS probation, which is inexcusable, academically speaking. There was also some kind of enrollment figures scandal, if I'm remembering correctly, though I may have the timeline off there. Adding these things up, their integrity as an institution was viewed in a pretty negative light for several years among my class and a few following.
3) Perhaps just due to resources, they didn't recruit the metro area very hard, which probably hurt their perception state-wide among graduating HS students. In fact, they were viewed as catering to coasties (opening some campuses on the coast, I think), not that there's anything wrong with that. But State and Ole Miss would bend over backwards for metro-area kids, but you'd never even get the first mass mailed postcard from USM.
Again, this was just the perception, and I'm not saying Southern isn't a fine school. Granted, there was no way in hell I was going there for computer science, but when I saw Halpert's post, I pretty much agreed with it, even if the Black Bear in him couldn't help but put it in some elitist terms.
1) The only USM programs that I and my peers ever heard held in higher regard than* equivalents at OM and MSU were music education and seems like I remember something to do with polymers/chemistry (?)
2) Counting a 2 on any AP tests is awful. NO ONE does this. By 2004, the school was also put on SACS probation, which is inexcusable, academically speaking. There was also some kind of enrollment figures scandal, if I'm remembering correctly, though I may have the timeline off there. Adding these things up, their integrity as an institution was viewed in a pretty negative light for several years among my class and a few following.
3) Perhaps just due to resources, they didn't recruit the metro area very hard, which probably hurt their perception state-wide among graduating HS students. In fact, they were viewed as catering to coasties (opening some campuses on the coast, I think), not that there's anything wrong with that. But State and Ole Miss would bend over backwards for metro-area kids, but you'd never even get the first mass mailed postcard from USM.
Again, this was just the perception, and I'm not saying Southern isn't a fine school. Granted, there was no way in hell I was going there for computer science, but when I saw Halpert's post, I pretty much agreed with it, even if the Black Bear in him couldn't help but put it in some elitist terms.
If you cut through campus going to lunch on a warm spring day,thescenery is definitelylacking in suckage.
And I'm not talking about the 17ing rose garden.</p>
And I'm not talking about the 17ing rose garden.</p>
Maybe it is due to you and I being from the Metro Jackson area, but I can't think of anyone who attended Southern that didn't do so to be different. It seems as if Southern is where everyone who wants to be different/sucked in high school goes to escape their "tormentors." I've been to Southern a few times, and I am always amazed at how few high school students are there on game weekends. Like you said, the average Mississippi high school student attends Ole Miss or State.JimHalpert said:
And if you want an example of why Southern sucks, you need to attend a football game there. Everything about gameday at Southern is bush league. Tailgating sucks, the stadium is never close to full, and Southern "fans" couldn't care less about the outcome of the game. I went to the Southern/ECU game last year, and we left early. So did the rest of the student body. Upon arriving at the bar, every Southern student could be found watching the Florida/LSU game. There were multiple TVs in the bar, and the Southern game was only on one TV. That TV happened to be small and in the corner. The rest of the TVs were showing an SEC game or another game in which legit teams were playing. It was funny and pathetic to watch Southern students yelling at the TV during the Florida game but completely ignoring the fact that "their" team was playing a televised game against a rival. And their game was close in the fourth quarter. And when tailgating, every TV in the District (their ****** tailgating area) was tuned in to a SEC game. People weren't talking about Rice, ECU, UCF and etc in while tailgating; they were discussing Bama, LSU (a significant portion of there student body is comprised of LSU fans) and other SEC schools.
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katrina. Now there are way too many undesirables here which has led to the traffic issues among many others. I guess it beats picayune or the kiln though.
and "blue" roof inspections for the Corps of Engineers. Most of our inspections in Hattiesburg proper were east of Hwy 49. This place was worse than west Jackson, had numerous near run-ins, had a gun pulled on me by a displaced new orleans gang thug. Had pit bulls almost rip me to shreds, more people were drinking beer on their front porches at 8:00 in the morning than inany small Delta town I have ever been in. One of our female inspectors pulled into a dead end street, and some of the thugs pulled 2 barricades behind her car and wouldn't let her out. She had to lock herself in her car and call the cops, they showed up about 20 minutes later. Awful, awful place. The Blue Hippo was cool though.
Oh yeah, had a drunk walking down the middle of one street pull his pants down and try to piss on my car as I drove by him, it was 8:30 in the morning, lovely town.
Oh yeah, had a drunk walking down the middle of one street pull his pants down and try to piss on my car as I drove by him, it was 8:30 in the morning, lovely town.
If you worked Katrina clean up then you most likely worked in the ghetto. You work in any ghetto after that storm hit and it would be the same deal. Most of Hattiesburg is nice and I would say way nicer of a city than your average Mississippi town. Less crime than most of Mississippi and plenty of bars/ eateries to go to. Your opinion of Hattiesburg is based on working clean up in the ghetto after the worst disaster in American history? Please....
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