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[onlyabsolutes]

"There can be no more doubts about Georgia. The fifth-ranked Bulldogs bullied No. 8 Tennessee and cruised to a 26-14 victory in Knoxville. The victory puts Georgia firmly in control of the SEC East and should put them on the short list of national title contenders."

Never have I read three sweeter sentences.

GO DAWGS

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[robot_vs_ninja]

It's just football.

[onlyabsolutes]

i really don't think your whole theory about UGA stands. the number of people i have met here that don't like it here is excedingly small - in the single digits. most people visit before they come and i think almost everyone that chooses a college, not just UGA, attempts to make an informed decision. if you want to stereotype us as a bunch of red-and-black-wearing lemmings, then that's fine, just know that your impression of us and what we actually are are pretty incongruous. but what do i know, i've only been here for more than a year.

and i'm glad you enjoy your school, i've got no grudge with berry, i'm sure it's great. i don't know where UGA was ranked on whatever list you're talking about or where it came from, but based on my experience, i couldn't care less.

[robot_vs_ninja]

I'm not stereotyping your school's students as anything, I'm saying that it seems to me that a lot of people go there or apply there without knowing or caring much about the school itself. Just because you know a lot of people that like it there doesn't mean there aren't people who dislike it, because I know a good deal them.

I also know and have talked to people here at Berry who applied to UGA, did not go on a college visit, and ended up hating it because of the demographic they were placed in, and as a result they have transferred. I'm not saying that this is always the case, but it does make me think that are more people disillusioned with what UGA has to offer than you're willing to admit.

And also keep in mind that I'm not saying that Berry is some spectacular school, I just personally feel that it has more to offer me academically than UGA does. Perhaps I should have mentioned that in my previous statement.

If you need a source for my info about ranking:Reply

[onlyabsolutes]

people seek out the information that confirms their already-made judgements. it's a basic sociological fact. you've got beef with UGA, so you give credence to the experience of the transfer students you meet. they, like you admitted, made bad decisions based on information that was readily available to them that they chose not to use. in my opinion, that reflects more poorly on them than it does on the university, and it doesn't indicate any sort of deficiency on our part. people that make bad assumptions about the college they decide to attend are responsible for those assumptions and their consequences, particularly when it only takes an hour and a half to get to Athens from Marietta and we all knew, as seniors, dozens of kids that went to UGA that we could have asked about it

[tricos]

how can you believe in anything when you can only read one sentence of it before dismissing the whole thing. i believe that is making a blanket generalization about the content of the whole thing based on a very small part of it, which is the thing that you are saying that you hate. well i had a lot more typed, but i just deleted it. its not worth my time to say anything when you're just going to read the first sentence and then fire back at me.

[tricos]

oh and you said you read the blanket statement that had no evidence so you quit reading. geezus spanking monkeys read one more sentence and you will see thats where the evidence starts. *humph* the one day i look at livejournal.

[robot_vs_ninja]

Ok, so since you've spent time a few different colleges or perhaps just know people at different colleges....that's somehow evidence toward your argument?

Yeah, ok. You've totally convinced me.

For you to sit there and make the implication that people at other schools are somehow incapable of loving their school as much as any UGA student simply on the basis of "I've been to other schools" is absolutely laughable to me.

[robot_vs_ninja]

Well, after reading such a vast generalization, I really lost interest in reading anything you had to say. I in now way implied that the rest of what you wrote was of the same calibur, it's just that I no longer cared what you had to say.

[tricos]

i'm pretty sure that no one could give a damn about what you say. You're just a cynicalist who is sitting in your dorm room with nothing better to do than to bitch about other peoples happiness. That is how this whole thing started. Amanda was happy that we won a football game, and you have continued to post asshole comment after asshole comment hoping to bring her down. Hopefully she will delete this conversation by the end of today so she won't have to deal with your irritating ass anymore. I was holding back my opinions on schools the size of my left pinky for a while, but after listening to your arrogant shit for a while, i think you need to be brought down to earth. I hope you really get over your UGA thing, because if you stay anywhere in the southeast then theres a pretty good chance that your bosses are going to be from UGA. I mean we have hundreds of thousands of alumni, most of them in the business world. Don't give me no shit about that you're not a business major. Its america. Everything is business. They're not

[robot_vs_ninja]

Wow, you just got really upset over something really trivial. I posted an opinion and my opinion was challenged, so I defended it. In the end, it really doesn't matter because I'm not going to convince you of anything and you're not going to convince me of anything; I just have fun debating stuff like this, but not with people that all huffy like you.

None of my comments have any sort of vitriol in them at all, and if it came off that they did, that's my fault and I apologize. But you need to just calm down. Learn to breath, or something, because you just went off the deep-end for no reason.

Besides, at this point in your life, you should know that the best way to avoid people like me is to avoid them. You have the exact opposite; you just jumped right into the fray and somehow you're the one getting angry.

And if you really believe this: "You may think Berry is the shit, but what you're going to find out is that no one has heard of it once you get out of Georgia." then maybe you need to do a little more research. I don't know if

[robot_vs_ninja]

"...the best way to handle people like me is to avoid them."

Maybe I'll proofread next time

There are some other small errors, but nothing you can't gather from context.

[tricos]

the major point is that no one has heard of it other than the people who make the polls. the only polls people pay attention to are the 3 or 4 general ones that just have harvard, stanford, and all those at the top. they're like yeah everythings the same and they go about their business. no ones is really going to drill down and look at the rankings of all the small schools cause most people really don't give a damn. if they do, they're not going to be able to remember the names of them for more than 15 minutes. there are just far too many of them to keep up with. most people can probably write down the names of at least 70 of the 117 Division 1-A schools. As little of a difference academically as there would be between UGA and Berry... the name recognition nationally and probably decently internationally is much more important... and there wouldn't be a name recognition without football. so when you're rooting for your school every saturday you're helping yourself as much as your team.

[robot_vs_ninja]

And my point is that while UGA may be more well-known than Berry, the only reason for that is the football. Whereas Berry is very much well-known (more than you're willing to admit) for its academics. Again, I'm not saying that UGA is bad academically, but it's simply not the same as Berry.

And besides, if people are just going to glance at the top of those polls, then they won't see UGA either. UGA is ranked 58 in top universities in the nation, which is nothing to scoff at all, but this is going by your logic. This further solidifies the idea that UGA is known moreso for football, and honestly, that can only do so much for you.