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I was going to say when someone mentioned Mizzou being hit hard lately, their claim to fame has long been the J school and with the complete demolition of making a strong career in Journalism that started the last 15 years, it's not much of a draw.

The champagne bath will be that much sweeter tonight.

I just had the Shingrex vax. I heard like you did and was prepared for the worst. Really, to be honest, I was kinda anxious about it for a few days before. These old people are full of it. The DTAP shot hurt worse. Covid shot hurt WAY worse.

Everclear in highschool? Hardcore

Parrot Bay Rum in a Sonic Slushie bro was a high school all-timer for the incognitio drinko.

That;s funny, but this is waht he was probably talking about, from the other (bad) UT: ORANGE AND WHITE NATION Eight years ago, Derrick Brodus was pulled off the “frat couch” to kick against MTSU https://www.wate.com/sports/orange-and-white-nation/eight-years-ago-derrick-brodus-was-pulled-off-the-frat-couch-to-kick-against-mtsu/#:~:text=Fast-forward to game day,suited up for the Vols.

NIL programs for the flyover left behinds are really going to attract the right players, I tell ya! But this is pretty funny, nonetheless.

Bates is a prestigious name in Liberal Arts, @Bateshorn, so your experience is a valid one. But liberal arts at a 4 year, non-prestigious school, at full boat tuition, and without the inkling of a career plan or post-graduate plan, is probably not a great investment. Seems like a reasonable stance.

I think you are being smart and being proactive never hurt. It doesn't necessarily mean it will help in the long run as the child's personality and capabilities and intangibles will determine what happens, but if you are doing it right in a nurturing and responsible way (which it sounds like you are) it can't hurt.

Oh for sure, 100% agree with you. The rare top of the class who has network already in Wall St. can potentially do it if he crushes the interviews and superdays, but I was calling out the dad of the Tulsa business school guy who said "lots of Tulsa University business school guys are getting into JP Morgan Chase and Blackrock and GS" when in reality it was one guy in the Marcus division of GS and actually zero at Blackrock according to the link provided. I went to McCombs and there weren't a lot of those opportunities out of undergrad who did that from UT, was my point, much less a less reputable school.

Gotcha yep that checks out. And now with DJ Solomon on the hot seat for that bad bet and trying to sell GreenSky at a loss, those opportunities are dried up I assume. And I’m not trying to knock TxSt or Tulsa specifically but for the knowledge sharing of this thread so parents aren’t thinking their kid at Tulsa or Oklahoma State is going to get the same recruitment opportunity for analysts in finance and banking at top and mid firms that only a handful of McCombs kids will get out of undergrad.

To be fair, we didn't visit Texas State and it wasn't on our radar. Things change, and sounds like things have changed for the better, as my opinion of Texas State is frozen from 25 years ago(when it was called Southwest Texas State or something) and I was at UT, but...it felt like a second tier school all around, from the second rate Greek life to academics to floating the square or whatever that whole thing was and back then most of the Texas State students would drive into Austin for the weekends for the house parties and 6th street and football games anyways, so there wasn't a real sense of Texas State having much of an identity outside of UT rejects who wanted to be adjacent to Austin and UT.

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses [Alou] to Sandy Koufax.

Your experience is similar to mine. You didn't mention at Auburn, every educational session loves to tell you that Tim Cook went to Auburn. The only difference is I think TTU > Texas State.

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