flying, football, feasting, friends... fabulous

[lorienelfstar]

the weekend in sum:
thursday: st. louis, dinner @ balaban's with the bro, hanging out with some of his friends, making fun of john stamos, bed too late
friday: flight home, driving, PIANO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER, dinner, gifts with the exchange student (aww!), TV relaxing
saturday: ann arbor, brunch @ zola's with j., football fantasticism,

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Awww...football

[randomacts19]

Conflicted opinions is right. The Big Ball U is definitely more "alma-ish," as well as possibly "mater-y" now that I'm not going there anymore (but, I guess it wouldn't be my "alma mater" if I were...). Heck, the entire state of Indiana brings that certain mist of longing to the eyes, *after* I tore out of town so fast you'd think the place was on fire. "No, I'm sorry. That wasn't 'grizzled.' That was 'wistful.' 'Wistful.'"

hahaha...remember the "super bowl" party in the dorms?

[lorienelfstar]

now THERE'S some ball state "football" i liked! i think i'm at the point where i still wouldn't like the muncie townies, and the football *team* was admittedly pretty egregious, but i sort of miss the quaintness of muncie and indiana as a whole, and i definitely liked the college community and the academics i got to know.

it upsets me that there are people in the academy who would assume that i got a good GPA as an undergrad because i went to an "easy" school. i took classes from the professors people were scared of. i made friends with the professors people were scared of. i made what i could out of it, and if it weren't a good school, i wouldn't be in grad school. and, as The Professor reminded me, the tenure/hiring process is in such a state that you have to go pretty far down the list to find a school without good faculty. word.

[libgirl1]

Preach it.

[lorienelfstar]

hehehe...cheers!