GUHoya07
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Post by GUHoya07 on Dec 14, 2004 15:42:02 GMT -5
yeah, um, I don't think he has time to do anything but sit there and write the paper
As for you, Im still embarrassed for your sake, were you even at the San Jose State game? I know you had 500 pages of stuff to write and so on and so on, but a student with over 900 posts on the talkboard should not be missing any games, especially not against the #1 team in the country and then the first game at McDonough in three years.
It's quite obvious that you'll never pull a "FormerHoya" stunt ;D
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Dec 14, 2004 15:53:39 GMT -5
Sorry to interrupt the plights of the current Hoyas to insert a piece that's 52 years old but the same thread.
52 years ago every student in the College of Arts and Sciences had to have a minor in philosophy (Thomistic Philosophy) and take courses such as Ontology, Cosmology, etc. and Psychology. We had a psychology instructor named Father Delmage who was, to say the least, strange. You couldn't decipher his stuff. Well, he decided to flunk a large percentage of seniors scheduled to graduate. And since this was a required course that meant a large number of seniors would not graduate. Finally the dean inserted himself and got the "good" father to schedule a new exam and all "passed it", but not before many seniors studied for that exam at Teehans or the Hilltop, the then local pubs. We always said the "study" got them through.
Then, the lyric: Another day, another class Why don't you shove it ______ For this psychology is idiotsology With Father Delmage
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Dec 14, 2004 15:56:02 GMT -5
yeah, um, I don't think he has time to do anything but sit there and write the paper As for you, Im still embarrassed for your sake, were you even at the San Jose State game? I know you had 500 pages of stuff to write and so on and so on, but a student with over 900 posts on the talkboard should not be missing any games, especially not against the #1 team in the country and then the first game at McDonough in three years. It's quite obvious that you'll never pull a "FormerHoya" stunt ;D Not only did I have 30 pages due on Monday that turned in to about 34 or 35, but I had an afternoon exam. Needless to say, it wasn't conducive to going over to McDonough to enjoy the game.
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GUHoya07
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Post by GUHoya07 on Dec 14, 2004 16:26:57 GMT -5
Not only did I have 30 pages due on Monday that turned in to about 34 or 35, but I had an afternoon exam. Needless to say, it wasn't conducive to going over to McDonough to enjoy the game. Yeah, and I guess your spending 12 hours a day on here isn't conducive to you going to basketball games. Meanwhile, you miss the Illinois game and sit around on hoyachat. I'm gonna stop because I'm starting an argument, but I just figured that someone who spends the amount of time that you or I do on the talkboards wouldnt miss any games. I can understand your excuse somewhat for the San Jose State game, but I dont believe it was impossible to fit in.
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MEGAFAN
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Post by MEGAFAN on Dec 14, 2004 16:27:12 GMT -5
Granted, you are no longer a freshman and this is not the 1995-6 team featuring Iverson, Page, Aw, Rome, Othella, White, etc. However, I don't have much sympathy for a fan who so lacks in dedication that they can't take a two-hour break from studying, proscrastinating or sleeping, to make the very short trek down to an historic game at McDonough, against San Jose State nonetheless, especially if all they are sacrificing is an "A."
Now, I hope you young Hoyas out there don't follow MEGAFAN's lead, as some of my beahvior was not characteristic of an elite Georgetwon scholar, but let me provide you with a glimpse into the Spring term of my freshman year. From roughly our January game @ St. John's, through the BET, and on to our devastating (argh!!!) loss to UMass in the Elite 8, I suffered from a disease otherwise known as MARCH MADNESS.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) for me and perhaps other souls in MEGAFANLAND, MARCH usually spans from February until May (you need a month or two to prepare and recover).
My symptoms included, but were not limited to:
Missing class to watch multiple hours of sportscenter highlights from the Hoya win the night before...
Failing to show up for exams after a mysterious fever struck me following mild (uh, hum) celebratory drinking into the wee hours of the night following a Hoya win (or loss)...
Getting up in the middle of class and shouting out HOYA SAXA and running up and down the big pre-med classroom in Reiss, blasting through the back doors, and leaving my fellow pre-med colleagues in the dust...
Failing to hand in papers, labs, and other miscellaneous assignments if the day of the month didn't correspond to a Hoya roster number...
Failing to attend a class (regardless of scheduled exams or quizzes) if it fell on a game day (home or away), or the day after...
Waking up in the middle of the night screaming "Victor Page for 3," resulting in a mysterious drowsniess rendering me unable to rise for early chem and bio...
Failing to attend any class during the month of March, unless you deem my evening appearances at Yates or my daily dominoes deepdish double bacon cheesburger for $9.99 credit-worthy...
Spending the latter days of March, unable to sleep due to visions of Marcus Camby stuffing basketballs down my throat, resulting in a severe case of missingclassitis...
Spending the month of April haunted by images of Allen Iverson driving his fancy car out of the front gates of Healy, waving goodbye to me and a cloud above my head, reading GPA=basketball, dot, basketball, basketball...
Now, they say that the best approach to life is to take everything in moderation, but don't forget, that includes moderation.
However, MEGAFANLAND doesn't tolerate moderation. Nor do we except lame excuses such as:
"papers," "exams," "learning," "pedagogy," "failing out," "gpa," "grad school," "med school," "law school," "jp morgan," "accenture," "political aspirations," etc...
Nothing can replace the pivotal role that excessive abuse of Hoya basketball can play on your overall mental, physical and spiritual health.
Diagnosis: "March Madness with excessive Hoya mania"
Prescription: "HOYAS! HOYAS... and more HOYAS!!!"
IT'S NOT EVEN MARCH, BUT I'M ALREADY GOING CRAZY!
GO HOYAS!!!
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FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Dec 14, 2004 17:49:41 GMT -5
Again, it just depends on what class. If you are in the School For Suckers then, yeah 20 to go. If however, the paper is for your medieval history class then you have about 13 to go. I started that one at 8pm the night before it was due. And by started I mean went to the library to get books. But really it wasn't my fault because it was my 21st B-day the night before, and after 24 (don't ask why the extra three, I have no good explanation) shots and innumerable beers the night before I didn't even get out of bed till 4. I'm pretty sure I'm the worst student to have ever gradumacated from this elite institution. See everybody, lighten up, anyone can graduate!!
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CAHoya07
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Post by CAHoya07 on Dec 14, 2004 18:12:33 GMT -5
MEGAFAN, I nominate that for post of the year.
FormerHoya, I nominate your Tombs experience for finals story of this thread, until I hear any better.
JerseyHoya, I nominate you and your excuses for Mr. Lameness of the Year.
My only real knock on Georgetown students, especially lame SFSers (apologies, I know a few cool SFSers out there, but in my experience most are lame), is that they put work before fun. Come on guys, this is COLLEGE. This is the last time in our lives that we'll be able to put fun before work until we have to answer to the MAN 40 hours a week from Monday to Friday. Besides, even for the work-oriented student that just HAS to maintain his 4.0, I look at basketball games in general, but especially the SJSU game at McDonough last Saturday, as a nice study break and a way to let off some steam. I mean, come on, if you can't spare 2 hours of your precious time to do something fun, then you are Mr. Lame-O in my book.
As long as you're not failing out, take some time and follow your heart instead of taking ISH from the MAN. Paraphrasing Ferris Bueller, a young man who figured it all out, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around, you just might miss it."
That said, good luck to all taking finals (including myself, I'll need it), and let's all come back from break early, get tanked, and give UConn and their supposed superstar Rudy Gay hell. Go Hoyas!
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hoyaboy1
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 14, 2004 18:15:31 GMT -5
I am in the SFS, and I agree - I can't figure out the people who can't manage to find a few hours here and there even when they have work. Hell, I find whole weeks.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Dec 14, 2004 18:26:04 GMT -5
LOL... This thread is turning into an SFS bash. What I will say to my friends in the COL and so forth is to stop by the hoops office and read the inscription near the deflated basketball.
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hoyaboy1
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 14, 2004 18:29:24 GMT -5
Since I know everyone is interested, I'll steal the idea from a few posts back and update my progress on my 25 page paper about the use of elephants in war (yes, I know):
7:30 - 6 pages and 2 pages of pictures for filler - about to eat, then gonna get cracking
7:55 - page 7 done
8:27 - page 8 done, gotta eat pizza now
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SoCalHoya
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Post by SoCalHoya on Dec 14, 2004 18:53:57 GMT -5
Actually, that sounds like an interesting topic. And no, I'm not kidding. (sadly)
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Post by chinatownfanclub on Dec 14, 2004 19:00:56 GMT -5
you're lucky you're not in law school... the night before cramming just doesn't cut it. san jose st. was my first missed home game (not counting games during break). Might have actually made it to the game if i had not had a few too many drinks before and after the illini game in celebration of my torts exam being over. Unlike the rest of you i gotta a final on the 20th ...ugh
good luck to the rest of you. don't work too hard. long live the college. we know how to set our priorities straight unlike those SFS clowns (and yes my roomate just gave me the death stare when i asked him what his favorite nickname for SFS students
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Dec 14, 2004 19:01:44 GMT -5
LOL... This thread is turning into an SFS bash. What I will say to my friends in the COL and so forth is to stop by the hoops office and read the inscription near the deflated basketball. Why don't you ask FormerHoya how his law career and incredible wife are doing? Then try to live a little, man.
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Dec 14, 2004 19:20:20 GMT -5
CAHoya, as my surrogate, good luck in your exams. You have to have a good career at GU so that you can continue to represent me in the great manner that you have been this semester. And yes, College (maybe not SFS) is meant to be fun, as my classmates so frequently reminded me the second semester senior year as I tried to study anything - we always ended up going somewhere, as my friends actually had cars that year. Mega, great post, but what the heck is this sentence: Failing to attend a class (regardless of scheduled exams or quizzes) if it falled on a game day (home or away), or the day after... Come on, you didn't miss English that much that you forgot that falled is not the past tense of fall. Or maybe you did; your dedication to the Hoyas is now legendary.
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FLHoya
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Post by FLHoya on Dec 14, 2004 19:24:42 GMT -5
My only real knock on Georgetown students, especially lame SFSers (apologies, I know a few cool SFSers out there, but in my experience most are lame), is that they put work before fun. Come on guys, this is COLLEGE. This is the last time in our lives that we'll be able to put fun before work until we have to answer to the MAN 40 hours a week from Monday to Friday. Besides, even for the work-oriented student that just HAS to maintain his 4.0, I look at basketball games in general, but especially the SJSU game at McDonough last Saturday, as a nice study break and a way to let off some steam. I mean, come on, if you can't spare 2 hours of your precious time to do something fun, then you are Mr. Lame-O in my book. Well, here's at least one SFS grad who got that whole thing while in school. I was 48 for 49 in non-holiday break games attended while I was a student. Nothing--whether exam studying, long papers due the next day, or a fresh almost-broken ankle was keeping me from games. Stayed like 3 extra days past the end of my exams sophomore year to go to the UVA game. The only one I ever missed was Norfolk State in December of my sophomore year (might have actually been the game before the UVA game). The game was at noon on a Saturday. I had an econ exam from 11:30-1:30. Didn't get out until 1:15, and even as I did I thought "well, you know if I caught the GUTS bus over by the car barn (the exam was in Walsh), I might be able to catch the end of that." Sadly, I thought better and went home and listened on the radio. Still probably should have used the old SFS brain to come up with a creative excuse. One of the reasons I wrote Generation Burton was in hopes of getting students to help other students "discover" basketball games as one of the most fun experiences you can have in college. The subtitle of the series could have easily been: "Or How Hoyas Basketball Kept Me Sane for Four Straight Years of College".
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Dec 14, 2004 19:26:43 GMT -5
you're lucky you're not in law school... the night before cramming just doesn't cut it. san jose st. was my first missed home game (not counting games during break). Might have actually made it to the game if i had not had a few too many drinks before and after the illini game in celebration of my torts exam being over. Unlike the rest of you i gotta a final on the 20th ...ugh good luck to the rest of you. don't work too hard. long live the college. we know how to set our priorities straight unlike those SFS clowns (and yes my roomate just gave me the death stare when i asked him what his favorite nickname for SFS students I don't mind the SFS bashing one bit. I think all of the schools here have their own idiosyncracies, some of which are preferable to others.
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MEGAFAN
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Post by MEGAFAN on Dec 14, 2004 19:50:03 GMT -5
Nevada, thanks for the correction. "Falled??" What the heck is that? I hope that despite my shameful error, the quality of my English and grammar from previous posts are generally up to par. Otherwise, I appreciate your appreciation of my dedication, sense of humor and obsession/borderline sickness with Hoya hoops.
In turn, I respect your admiration for track & field, and cross country running, yet wonder whether Hoya Hoops is still dearest to you. Which do you prefer? Obviously, it's apples and oranges, but it seems that you are one of the few who pay close attention to multiple Georgetown sports, so I'm curious whether you feel the same highs and lows with respect to following these other fine student-athletes.
GO HOYAS!!!
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SoCalHoya
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Post by SoCalHoya on Dec 14, 2004 19:52:47 GMT -5
I was SFS, went to every game except for a few holiday break games and study-abroad. I went to every BE and NCAA tourney game, too (MSG, Tucson, Atlanta, etc.). Heck, I even made it 95% of the home football games. SFS is no excuse for not going!
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hoyanick
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Post by hoyanick on Dec 14, 2004 20:12:05 GMT -5
Whats going on here? People are now asserting that students in the COL have it easier than those in the SFS? Maybe 15 years ago, but now kids in the COL are smarter (statistically) than SFS students and, in my experience, have at least as much work.
The lucky ones are those damn McD Biz School students. Nursing school kids, when not transferring into the SFS, can either have it incredibly hard or shockingly easy.
No one has enough work to skip games though.
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Dec 14, 2004 20:37:37 GMT -5
Just Thought I'd toss out this story for everyone. Last year, Father Pat (the ESCAPE jesuit) was transfered back to Oregon from GTown, so naturally, and as per his request, a golf party was thrown for him. Well, it turned out that the night that worked best for everyone was the fri night during finals, b/c most people didn't have a final on sat. Well, my friend did. And, if you know my friend, you'd know that there wasn't a test in the world that would prevent him from "helping" Fr. Pat throw a party to remember. Well, needless to say, my friend got trashed. Then we went to the 2nd to last hole, where barber shops were the drink of choice. For a barber shop, you sit in a chair, put your head back, have the "barber" pour rootbeer, and then vodka into your mouth. You can't taste the vodka. So he doesn't remember his third barbershop, or his 4th, or fifth. Or the next hole, where he hooked up w/ some chick, got a massive hickey, and then passed out after puking, adn was finally germed. The next morning, he only managed to get to the final b/c of his roommate dragging him. Once there, he was unable to read the final for an hour, until finally, he got up, went to the bathroom, booted again and came back. He barely managed to finish the essay questions. His grade? B+ That, right there, is why I'm posting on the boards instead of studying for my Schall exam.
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