Why the snobbery?

Ahhhhh! Quick, close it 100%. That maniac line was the funniest thing on this board in quite a while. Especially funny because it was a total accident.

 

What the two have in common (a strong school and a college football team) is the availability of resources and usually a strong alumni base. Obviously there are good schools which don't have football teams, Chicago comes to mind, but I am unaware of any school with a NCAA level football team which is not considered a good school.

 

Chairborne Ranger!

 

Forgot about this one: American Military University, our athletes don't play games.

(It's on a shirt in their online store, kinda cool).

 

I live in SEC country and can believe this. I know a lot of people that think like this.

I was telling a co-worker of mine not to confuse athletics with academics. I think a lot of people get the two mixed up.

 

Christopher Newport University had a similar shirt. We got a football team my sophomore year. They lost the first game, and so the shirts were no longer relevant. I believe ODU did something similar.

-Matt

 

OK, Awesome! I've got it! I'm going to start an NCU football team and then everybody will respect it! We could play online Bill Madden football. Wadaya think?

 

Some of us want a degree not for accolades or snobbisness, but for what it allows us to do. I want to teach, it has become my passion. I could not be a substitute teacher in New Jersey until I had my AA or 60 credits. Once I started I didn't want to be just a substitute, so I need to earn my BA.

In Sept '08 when I started subbing I was in the teachers lounge when a teacher was complaining about cutbacks; she didn't know I was doing my degree online when she said in a very disgusted tone "The next thing you know they will have us teaching the courses on-line" After I explained my status she tried to backtrack, she finally admitted she doesn't think DL is "Real" learning. Well I guess I have changed her mind, recently she has taken my side in a teachers debate about who is better qualified to teach a math class. The teachers all want little old DL me over the distinguished B&M graduate engineer who has no idea how to teach all his expensive knowledge.

 

Right on, Linda. Good for you. It's situations like that that will slowly turn the tide for DL.

 

LOL! No way, dude! I've seen the NCU team, way better thumbs. Much quicker on the buttons.

 

What is the major mission of the United States Marine Corps.....to conduct amphibious landings in enemy territory, correct?

Who conducted the largest amphibious landing in the history of the world? That would be the United States Army, on June 6th, 1944, on the shore of France.

Before you take some shots at the Army, watch the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, then get back to me.

 

"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."

Having served in both the Marines and the Army, I would say my opinion holds a little more weight than your average 1 term enlistment pogue.

Aint
Ready to be a
Marine
Yet

 

The Marines are starting to sound like they're a religious cult. If the Marines are as superior as they apparently want to think they are, then they don't need to be posturing like pimple-faced adolescents. They should just conduct themselves with quiet confidence, knowing that there's nothing that they need to prove.

 

Funny, that’s what I think when I hear the snobbish language the self-anointed "my RA is superior to your inferior NA" minions default to...

 

ZZZZZZZZZZing! Just what I was thinking. Who are the bigger snobs here? I started this thread about academic snobs, but now I'm not sure who is king.

 

I am grateful to the Marines and to the Army for serving our country and for risking their lives in the name of democracy. Thank you all so much.