Video clip of the day

We are unfamiliar with this concept of a freshman convocation certainly never having experienced one while attending Seminary back in New York and certainly never experiencing anything quite this awesome which may explain a few things.


This went down at Georgia Tech a few days ago:







Don't know about you all but we're ready to run through a couple of brick walls.

I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech, and a hell of an engineer—
A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, hell of an engineer.
Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear.
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer.

Oh! If I had a daughter, sir, I'd dress her in White and Gold,
And put her on the campus to cheer the brave and bold.
But if I had a son, sir, I'll tell you what he'd do—
He would yell, 'To hell with Georgia!' like his daddy used to do.

Oh, I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three thousand pounds,
A college bell to put it in and a clapper to stir it round.
I'd drink to all the good fellows who come from far and near.
I'm a ramblin', gamblin', hell of an engineer!

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Photo Image of the Day

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Alternate headline: Your Higher Education Update


As seen on TV this past Saturday during college football's rivalry weekend:

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For those of you in Placentia, California, the above would not be representative of Fresno State University, rather the public education institute from Tallahassee, Florida.


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Is it a conservative vs. liberal thing?

Last month, the NY Times published an article titled, "The Left Leaning Tower." Here was the lede:

Why are conservatives such a minority at so many graduate schools? Conservatives like to blame liberal bias. Liberals like other explanations.

One — the most tactful hypothesis — is that conservatives just aren’t interested in academic careers. Another — the most smug hypothesis — is that conservatives are just too close-minded and dimwitted.

All the usual suspects such as group-think, "departmental majoritarianism", "multi-culturalist vetoes" and outright bias are lent some degree of credence.

After chewing on these, however, we got to thinking about our own experience and our weighing of returning to grad school upon graduation from Seminary and ultimately deciding to stay in the work force.

What was our rationale?: Time to get on with it!

After 16 years of schooling, it was high time to leave the protective cocoon of formalized education. It was time to get a job, get an apartment, make some money and enjoy the fruits of our labor and education as a full-blown adult. Ironically enough, having the means of a mature, responsible adult also meant having the means to party, and brothers and sisters, it was definetely time to party. We proved the two concepts are far from being mutually exclusive of one another

Highly anecdotal and very personal, to be sure, but we had no desire, really, to go to grad school and we were anxious to get back out to the West Coast with an opportunity to get a good job that would afford us nice living arrangements, vehicular transportation and some walking around money. At last, freedom and independence for the first time in our life.

Obviously, this does not mean that going to grad school automatically makes you a liberal but does what we laid out above sound more like standard "conservative" or "liberal" rationalizing?

We know we've got some readers out there with advanced degrees, so we would love to hear what you all think, advanced degree or not.

San Diego State sees its business school enrollment slashed

There was some confusion yesterday as 75 SDSU students participating in a cross-border venture capital project for the university’s business school were busted by the DEA concluding a year-long undercover investigation. Authorities also seized 50 lbs. of marijuana, 4 lbs. of cocaine and weapons in raids that focused on several fraternity houses starting early yesterday morning. Story here.

And just to prove there is no satire or parody like real life, there was a mock graduation held today for the 75 arrested plus 2 students that have died recently from overdoses by those protesting the arrests and….. the two that OD’d…. ?… because they want a responsible drug policy on campus….? On Hedgecock’s radio show today, they got a soundbyte from one of these knuckleheads saying it was basically the school’s and the government’s responsibility to ensure that only “clean drugs” were available as there was too much “dirty drugs circulating that was causing these ODs.” Story here.



And if the above is any indication it came as an absolute shock to no one that it was revealed today in the much-anticipated report on how well college football athletic programs are performing academically, San Diego State’s football program was in the bottom 5 of the 119 Div. I-A programs. Story here.

Yeah… all in all not a tremendous couple of days up on the Mesa.