This sounds suspiciously like 12 CDs for a penny with nothing more to buy ever....

Every college should do this, for all whatever time you go

FTFA: "I want this to be a statement to kids in Texas," said Chancellor Mike McKinney. "You cannot not afford to go to a Texas A&M school."

What a cultured and refined institute of higher education.

/Double negatives FTW!

"You cannot not afford"?

See what free tuition gets you people.

Texas Tech University has been doing this for awhile. Lubbock, however, is only slightly better than College Station.

Texas A&M mainly caters to feebs who like to pretend they're in the military. Oh, and the Bush family.

Those faegollas need all the help they can get.

It's only to kids from families making under 30k a year... that seems like a pretty low threshold, so it's not likely to cost them much.

Not a bad system.

I loved going to school at A&M. It is a college town. You want a party? Just go to a few apartment buildings on a weekend and you'll find one with people willing to let you in.

I had so much fun there. Beautiful women all over. Northgate was a drink fest. Parties whenever you wanted, and almost everybody you met was in college.

I wouldn't trade my time there for anything. Yes, it is kind of a hick town, but you will have fun.

I've been to colleges in big cities, and the feel of a pure college city is something completely different.

MmmGravy: Texas Tech University has been doing this for awhile. Lubbock, however, is only slightly better than College Station.

You must mean Lubuttock.

penguin31: FTFA: "I want this to be a statement to kids in Texas," said Chancellor Mike McKinney. "You cannot not afford to go to a Texas A&M school."

What a cultured and refined institute of higher education.

/Double negatives FTW!

I think he said exactly what he meant to say; a double-negative makes the most sense here.

/context FTW!

Dr. Frisbee: Not a bad system.

I loved going to school at A&M. It is a college town. You want a party? Just go to a few apartment buildings on a weekend and you'll find one with people willing to let you in.

I had so much fun there. Beautiful women all over. Northgate was a drink fest. Parties whenever you wanted, and almost everybody you met was in college.

I wouldn't trade my time there for anything. Yes, it is kind of a hick town, but you will have fun.

I've been to colleges in big cities, and the feel of a pure college city is something completely different.


As an Aggie(class of '97), I agree with you completely. Lots of city folk don't understand, but you don't have to be in a city to have fun.

It says here that Mary Beth is a Texas A&M student.
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As a grad student down at Texas A&M I personally wouldn't call this a "college town". When the city has 100,00 people in it, you lose that small feel that true college towns have.

If you are looking for a tolerant campus that doesn't fap to pictures of George Bush, don't come here.

/Can't stand the corps of cadets

MmmGravy: Texas Tech University has been doing this for awhile. Lubbock, however, is only slightly better than College Station.

Texas A&M mainly caters to feebs who like to pretend they're in the military.

And then they go into the real military, and many die overseas doing their duty.

"No more convincing testimony could be given to the manner in which the men of Texas A&M lived up to the ideals and principles inculcated in their days on the campus than the simple statement that the Congressional Medal of Honor has been awarded to six former students, that 46 took part in the heroic defense of Bataan and Corregidor, and that nearly 700 are on the list of our battle dead."
--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1946

"Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle...
Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win the war."

--Gen. George S. Patton

Don't be so flippant.

/ex-UT student

Wow, I think that is awesome. Schools across America are facing huge cuts and many are paying for it with a mid-year tuition increase. In the face of all this, A&M comes out with more tuition aid. At least somebody has been keeping their finances in order.

Right on Aggies.

/Granddad was a prof. there.
//Ma went to tech.
///I go to USC?

As a OU fan I still say GIG EM . Love the A & M Fans great people.

2bits: "You cannot not afford"?

See what free tuition gets you people.

penguin31: FTFA: "I want this to be a statement to kids in Texas," said Chancellor Mike McKinney. "You cannot not afford to go to a Texas A&M school."

What a cultured and refined institute of higher education.

/Double negatives FTW!

OK, let's cover this now and early: Double negatives are a perfectly valid and correct grammatical form in english. I know that your english teachers probably told you otherwise, but they probably also told you that you can't start a sentence with a preposition either. They have been well and correctly used by everyone from ol' Bill Shakespeare down to the kids on the playground who told you that you weren't not retarded for thinking that double negatives were incorrect.

They're used for emphasis, stylistically, or in circumstances exactly like the one FTA. Oh yeah and they don't work like math either, and can be used either as an emphasized negative or an affirmative, depends on how they're used.

/Not an A&M fan.
//Just annoyed by the hating on the double negatives.

PCFX: "Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle...
Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win the war."

--Gen. George S. Patton

Right on. I spent my four years in college talking trash on Aggies and their fans, but I've spent the 8 years since knowing them. They are great folks and amazing fans with a great tradition.

Texas Tech fans, on the other hand...

RFtelsa: As a grad student down at Texas A&M I personally wouldn't call this a "college town". When the city has 100,00 people in it, you lose that small feel that true college towns have.

If you are looking for a tolerant campus that doesn't fap to pictures of George Bush, don't come here.

/Can't stand the corps of cadets

Yes, the corps guys are idiots, but I have not, nor will I fap to a picture of George Bush.

And I would call it a college town. Try being here in summer school when all of the students are gone. It's dead.

MmmGravy How the hell is Lubbock any better than College Station? I'm not saying CS is the mecha of all that is great and wonderful, but at least it doesn't smell like cow crap and isn't over run by sorostitutes and frat daddies.

L. Heimdall: OK, let's cover this now and early: Double negatives are a perfectly valid and correct grammatical form in english. I know that your english teachers probably told you otherwise

This.

Sort of like dumbasses who think you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Just because your high school English teacher told you an urban legend doesn't mean that is a farking grammatical rule. Sheesh!

PseudoNic:

Texas Tech fans, on the other hand...

Haha
Yeah. I actually have no problems with Texas fans, but the Texas Tech fans were awful.

After they beat us in football one year, they pretty much spray painted our campus. Pretty tasteless.

I can't say Aggies fans are always much better, but during my time I seem to remember we took things in stride.

JesterGirl: It says here that Mary Beth is a Texas A&M student.
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I'm not sure where Mary Beth is in all of this, but thanks for the link!!!

tonesskin:

Sort of like dumbasses who think you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Just because your high school English teacher told you an urban legend doesn't mean that is a farking grammatical rule. Sheesh!

And ebonics should be part of the regular high school curriculum in all American schools. Nomesane?

tonesskin: L. Heimdall: OK, let's cover this now and early: Double negatives are a perfectly valid and correct grammatical form in english. I know that your english teachers probably told you otherwise

This.

Sort of like dumbasses who think you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Just because your high school English teacher told you an urban legend doesn't mean that is a farking grammatical rule. Sheeshiathat is a rule up with which I will not put.

Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

/third thread today
//

"That is a rule up with which I will not put."

/stupid filter

Not long ago A&M lost in Lubbock, and their entire fan section started whipping the shiat out of each other. There was only one Tech fan in the section, and he took his shirt off to help cover the bloody nose of an Aggie sitting next to him. It was all caught on camera.

When UT played A&M this year, the Aggies ran out while the Horns were in their prayer huddle. As expected, the Aggie players ran into the circle, started bumping chests of the UT players, and talked a lot of smack.

Their low class attitude might have been interesting if they ever won, but now that they're perpetual losers it just seems pathetic.

Sygonus: It's only to kids from families making under 30k a year... that seems like a pretty low threshold, so it's not likely to cost them much.

From the Census Bureau 2008 Texas statistics:

Median Household Income: $47,548
Per capita Income: $23,938

MmmGravy: Not long ago A&M lost in Lubbock, and their entire fan section started whipping the shiat out of each other. There was only one Tech fan in the section, and he took his shirt off to help cover the bloody nose of an Aggie sitting next to him. It was all caught on camera.

When UT played A&M this year, the Aggies ran out while the Horns were in their prayer huddle. As expected, the Aggie players ran into the circle, started bumping chests of the UT players, and talked a lot of smack.

Their low class attitude might have been interesting if they ever won, but now that they're perpetual losers it just seems pathetic.


These days, when students are dropping out because they no longer have any way to pay the tuition, you want to bring up useless football games as a litmus test of a college?

Drop dead.

MmmGravy: Texas A&M mainly caters to feebs who like to pretend they're in the military. Oh, and the Bush family.

The Corps is a small minority at Texas A & M. I think they make up about 4,000 of the 45,000 + student body. They stopped being a primary military school some 40 years ago.

Sygonus: It's only to kids from families making under 30k a year... that seems like a pretty low threshold, so it's not likely to cost them much.

That may be, but single-parent families could benefit from this.

/ poor farker
// no kids

sullyman:

The Corps is a small minority at Texas A & M. I think they make up about 4,000 of the 45,000 + student body. They stopped being a primary military school some 40 years ago.

They stopped being a legitimate college football team soon thereafter.

Valarius: These days, when students are dropping out because they no longer have any way to pay the tuition, you want to bring up useless football games as a litmus test of a college?

Drop dead.

Wow. Bitter and angry much? Or are you just disgruntled because you wasted your own college existence on journalism and English Lit?

The culture of a university is important. Sending a kid to school for free isn't going to do any good if they drop out because they don't like faux-military culture and White Supremacist-like thuggery.

nerfball: tonesskin:

Sort of like dumbasses who think you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Just because your high school English teacher told you an urban legend doesn't mean that is a farking grammatical rule. Sheesh!

And ebonics should be part of the regular high school curriculum in all American schools. Nomesane?

Yeah, a teacher claiming that correct grammar is incorrect is totally the same as Ebonics. I can see the connection!

MmmGravy: Valarius: These days, when students are dropping out because they no longer have any way to pay the tuition, you want to bring up useless football games as a litmus test of a college?

Drop dead.

Wow. Bitter and angry much? Or are you just disgruntled because you wasted your own college existence on journalism and English Lit?

The culture of a university is important. Sending a kid to school for free isn't going to do any good if they drop out because they don't like faux-military culture and White Supremacist-like thuggery.

As said before, it's really not a military school anymore. I walk all around campus and unless you are right on the quad where they live, you only see about 5 a day. And while yes, there are some racist idiots that go here, there are idiots that go to every school who stand out more than the vast majority of good people.

"approved a new program that guarantees it will pay tuition and mandatory fees at all its schools for incoming freshmen .......whose families make $30,000 or less. "

*yawn*. So exactly HOW MANY people would fall under this category?

/well something is better than nothing.
//But its only something.

BTW:

"Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle...
Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win the war."

--Gen. George S. Patton

That's a fake quote. Some Aggies started slapping it on t-shirts and pretended it was real, but no source was ever quoted and it never appeared in any of Patton's personal writings.

Their only defense when confronted on it is "you can't prove it's NOT real!"

I actually do respect the education offered at A&M. It's a good school, and this tuition program is an excellent example of their dedication to the people of Texas. But they just spend SO much time and effort on absolutely hammering jingoist "Aggie pride" myths into their students' heads that it really does warrant caution on a parent's part. For a significant minority of students, it becomes a cult and they get this bunker mentality. That's just not healthy, even if it does give you really loyal alumni.

Meh. Still a great tuition program...

I looooove College Station, well, Bryan anyway. If I could find a way to live there, I would do so in a hot minute. It's a wonderful place to live.

/Class of '96, '03

nerfball: They stopped being a legitimate college football team soon thereafter.

They beat the Longhorns two years in a row. The last few years have been a nightmare, but not that long ago A&M regularly had the best defense in the nation every year. Here's to hoping we get back there soon.

It's gotta be hard to recruit against Austin and OU.

chandler_vt: *yawn*. So exactly HOW MANY people would fall under this category?

Every single latino student who grew up being bussed in to public schools from a colonia, for one thing.

Programs like this are pretty much the only way they can hope to go to college unless they get grants or scholarships (which require higher grades than 2.5).

Cowpie and fries, please.

/2%'er

MmmGravy: Wow. Bitter and angry much? Or are you just disgruntled because you wasted your own college existence on journalism and English Lit?

The culture of a university is important. Sending a kid to school for free isn't going to do any good if they drop out because they don't like faux-military culture and White Supremacist-like thuggery.

TECH IS IN A FARKING DRY COUNTY. POUND SAND DIRT AGGIE.

Cowboy Spencer: It's gotta be hard to recruit against Austin and OU.

Yeah, it's hard for anyone to compete with Mack Brown as far as recruiting. That program is a monster.

Prospero424: Yeah, it's hard for anyone to compete with Mack Brown as far as recruiting. That program is a monster.

I say it this way: Pretend you're an 18 year old athlete who gets to choose where he wants to play football.

Do you choose College Station? Or do you choose Austin?

/loves B/CS, just realizes not that many people feel the same

Valarius: MmmGravy: Not long ago A&M lost in Lubbock, and their entire fan section started whipping the shiat out of each other. There was only one Tech fan in the section, and he took his shirt off to help cover the bloody nose of an Aggie sitting next to him. It was all caught on camera.

When UT played A&M this year, the Aggies ran out while the Horns were in their prayer huddle. As expected, the Aggie players ran into the circle, started bumping chests of the UT players, and talked a lot of smack.

Their low class attitude might have been interesting if they ever won, but now that they're perpetual losers it just seems pathetic.


These days, when students are dropping out because they no longer have any way to pay the tuition, you want to bring up useless football games as a litmus test of a college?

Drop dead.

We are talking about Texas here. Without football, they just look like retards drooling books, rather than helmet-wearing retards drooling books.

/Tengo nada vacas idiotas

nerfball: They stopped being a legitimate college football team soon thereafter.

They did have some good years from the early 80's to early 90's including numerous Southwest Conference Championships (85,86,87,91,92,93) and beat some very good football teams in bowl games during that period. Just ask Bo Jackson and Lou Holtz. Then in the mid 90's the wheels started coming off. Now they are just plain horrid to watch.

DaSwankOne: TECH IS IN A FARKING DRY COUNTY. POUND SAND DIRT AGGIE.

I actually live in Austin, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply. Hasn't Texas Tech beat you shameless pretty steadily for the past decade or so? And didn't Baylor beat you this year, too?

drooling ON books, dammit

/Eight-year-olds flip shiat better than me. . .

At least College Stay has the Bush Library.

Cowboy Spencer: I say it this way: Pretend you're an 18 year old athlete who gets to choose where he wants to play football.

Do you choose College Station? Or do you choose Austin?

Heh, I think it's a bit more complicated than that (their recruitment pitch, I mean), but yeah.

I spent a LOT of time in both places, and I of course prefer Austin. But I had a lot of fun at a lot of parties in College Station/Bryan, even when wearing my Longhorn shirts. (I was only threatened once, and my Aggie buddies chased 'em off).

MmmGravy: And didn't Baylor beat you this year, too?

Heh. Baylor's in a dry county, as well.