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QOTD: Wednesday
Where did you go to college?
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
Did you live on campus?
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
Best college memory?
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Where did you go to college?
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
Large school in a small town
Did you live on campus?
Yes
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
I dropped out of sorority rush. My dad was having heart surgery that week. Too much stress. I didn't miss it. I had a pretty active social life
Best college memory?
Too many to list...I did a study abroad program that I loved. Met some of my best friends and had a blast with them.University of Dayton (Dayton, OH)--GO FLYERS:)
Medium (10-15k student population with grad students), suburban setting
Lived on campus, or just off (university owns most of the houses around the campus, so even once you're out of the dorms, you're still kind of on campus and in campus housing)
Involved in non-greek activities, mostly campus ministry and Model UN...only about 20% of the campus was in the sorority/fraternity world
Christmas on Campus--yearly event that included bringing city school kids on campus to participate in a big fair, followed by a campus-wide Mass. Really cool to see "tough" college boys taking little kids around to play games...awesome to see all the decorations that people did and just soak in the community feel.
Where did you go to college?Colorado State
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Big school but in a smaller town (that loved the college students)
Did you live on campus? only my freshman year
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? I was in a sorority but got more involved in things within my major by my junior year and did not stay active with the sorority.
Best college memory? I am not sure I have just one. It was a great place to go to school and I loved my time there. Probably all the skiing was my best memory. And, some of the road trips.Where did you go to college? - University of Cincinnati
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? - mid-to-large. Urban
Did you live on campus? - I did, with co-ops it was easier to live in on campus apartments then to try and find leases for 3 months.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? - I wasn't involved in a sorority but I did participate in one of the club sports
Best college memory? - Spring Break trip with girlfriends to Italy. I still look back and smile from that trip.
Where did you go to college? UVA
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? big, kind of rural
Did you live on campus? Yep all four years, it was the best deal and easiest for a person without a car
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Not too much, I did recruit for the football team one semester, it was a blast. I worked 20 hours a week waiting tables, so between work, classes, and schoolwork, I was too busy to involved in other activities.
Best college memory? Studying abroad in France was an amazingly awesome experience, specific memory - freshman year, we camped out for the Duke football game for 8 days, then amazingly won and rushed the court!
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Where did you go to college? Houghton College in Houghton, NY
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Tiny Christian college in a rural area
Did you live on campus? I lived in the dorm for 2 years, an apartment with 2 other girls for a year, and then did student teaching off campus for a semester and lived at home for a semester.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Not so much.
Best college memory? Well, I met DH at college, so I'm going to go with that.
Where did you go to college? University of Maryland, College Park (my freshman year was at Mary Washington)
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Big campus (30K) in a medium-sized town, although there wasn't much to the town without the campus . . . I think they all kind of hated us though
Did you live on campus? Freshman and sophomore year, yes. Then I moved to off-campus housing with some roommates
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Not at all, actually. Never wanted to do a sorority, and mostly just hung out with my friends/long-distance boyfriend at the time
Best college memory? School-related, it was probably my senior year when I was taking an international environmental policy class. When I came in on the last day, my professor told me (and a few other people) that we had done so well in the class and on the final paper that we didn't have to take the final exam, and we'd all be getting A's. Woot!TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
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Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? nope. i mostly drank my way through collegeBest college memory? i didn't love Cortland, which is ultimately why I left - it was waaaay too jersey shore for me (i like to watch it on tv, but i didn't want to live it)... Niagara was the best - my favorite memories are the ones when my bffs had huge parties and all our friends from home would come up. that happened about twice a semester. So much fun.
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Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? I guess it's relatively big, suburban.
Did you live on campus? For two years.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Started sorority rush twice but dropped out both times because I couldn't commit to the time and money involved.
Best college memory?
I have a lot - I really enjoyed college. Back in the day, the free concerts at Art Attack were awesome. Winning the NCAA B-ball championships and running downtown to "riot" with everyone was pretty unforgettable. Probably the best memories are the silly, drunken you-had-to-be-there kind.Where did you go to college? JMU!
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? fairly big (15k when I was there), quite rural (but I loved being in the Shen Valley)
Did you live on campus? two years on, two years off
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? No sorority. I was in band (marching, flute choir, concert, quintets), in Madison Dance (club), English honor society (the Greek letters of which were regrettably STD), and Habitat for Humanity (publicity chair).
Best college memory? all of them?though I'm particularly fond of skiing down the modest slope of our backyard at 2:00 a.m., a band trip to Greece over NYE, a St. Patty's Day that didn't go according to plan, studying abroad in London, oh, and meeting my husband
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Where did you go to college? George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Medium sized school in an urban city
Did you live on campus? Yes, but the housing for upper-classmen was basically like apartments. We had our own kitchens, bathrooms, and all that.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? No sorority. I did theatre (in my free time; it wasn't my major) and hung out with that group.
Best college memory? Acting in plays and directing a play my senior year were pretty great. I also remember a couple of fun road trips with my roommates - we spent a weekend in NYC during one of them.
Where did you go to college? syracuse university
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? medium/large school in a small city. i liked that being on campus didn't feel urban but that it was still easy to get downtown.
Did you live on campus? only freshman & sophomore year
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? i was in a bunch of art geeky clubs/groups: diversity in the arts, matrilineage symposium, took photos for our weekly school newspaper (we also had a daily one but i was not about that kind of commitment)
Best college memory? too many drunken antics to remember! watching friends and the rest of the thursday night tv with almost our entire dorm floor freshman year was always fun.
Where did you go to college? Smith College
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Small women's college in a small funky city in western Massachusetts.
Did you live on campus? Yup, all 4 years. You only had to have a roommate your first year, after that you were guaranteed a single at no extra cost.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? No sororities at Smith, but I was super, super involved in campus life. Varsity athlete all 4 years, captain of the swim team, president of my house junior year, head resident of my house senior year, and so on and so on. I don't know how I found time to do actual schoolwork.
Best college memory? Too many to recount. I truly love that place and my time there. Going there was the best decision I ever made in my life, and I have amazing friends from my time there.Where did you go to college? Pepperdine
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? I'd classify it as suburban
Did you live on campus? I did for all 3 years.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? I was a Tri-Delta, I also ran our campus Up til Dawn chapter to raise money for St. Jude, worked in the President's office and did a trillion other small things, so yes, super involved.
Best college memory? One of the major events every year was called "Songfest", where you created an original musical production covering songs that fit around a theme. It was always fun, but senior year H and I were in charge of our group (my sorority, his frat and another club) and really rocked it. At the end, our group won the competition and we were awarded the Director's Award for the best individual contributions as well. It was a good mix of friends/ fun/ recognition for hard work.Stand up for something you believe in.
Huge State university. Like, 40K+ undergrads.
I lived on campus for 4 years, in a sorority house for one year.
I was in a sorority for 2 years, worked for res life for 2 years, was on the crew team for 2 years, and was president of the honor society for my major. I also worked on and off campus at a variety of jobs: med school library, cafeteria, a genetics lab, etc.
Best memory - Probably my entire sophmore year. It was both the best and the worst year of college, at the same time. Me, BFF, and our other BFF had A LOT of fun that year... we basically sat in our dorm room the entire semester. I severely sprained my ankle that semester, was on crutches for weeks, and barely left my room. LOL.
Where did you go to college? Purdue University - West Lafayette IN - Boiler Up!
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Big - I'd say it felt huge to me but I grew up in a town with 2 stop lights.
Did you live on campus? I lived on campus for 2 out of 4 years, dorms freshman year, then off campus apt w/ friends for 2yrs, then on campus apt senior yr.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Yes. I didn't join a sorority right away, I went through informal rush and joined Sigma Delta Tau. My DH was pretty active in his fraturnity and I spent a lot of time there too.
Best college memory? I met my DH at a Halloween costume party at his fraturnity our freshman year...he was not my date but I ended the night with him and we've been together ever since. And then there are too many other shinanigans (drunken & otherwise) to count that came out of those 4 years. Met some of our best friends there and we all still get together at least once a year.
Where did you go to college? Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Small school in beautiful rural setting about an hour from Syracuse
Did you live on campus? Yup, all 4 years. I lived in dorms the first two years and apartments the last two years. They only let about 100 students life off campus.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? Not in a sorority or that involved in campus life. I sort of regret it.
Best college memory A few come to mind: spring party weekend senior year, trip with college besties to Memphis before graduation, study abroad in London, drinking with friends at the local bars.
Where did you go to college?
Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
Small and while it was close to Allentown the area was suburban
Did you live on campus?
Yes, actually as an underclassman you HAD to live on campus when I went there.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
No sororities available at our school, it was an all women's college (except for night school and the radiology program because that used public funding by using local hospitals). We had a lot of volunteer work that we did in the area - visiting old folks homes and helping take them out, arrange dances for them etc.
Best college memory?
My science friends were pretty awesome and we did camping trips to the site where we would isolate bacterial viruses from the local streams. I am not a big camping fan but the hiking was awesome there on the mountain. Also we would go to a state wide conference to present our research findings and the parties that night were pretty fun.
Where did you go to college? Gannon University in Erie, PA
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Small, urban
Did you live on campus? Yes, for all but 1 year. For my sophomore year I lived in a house with 11 other people that was technically off-campus, but still right nearby.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? No sorority, but I was in Phi Eta Sigma (academic), the foreign language club, Model UN, the honors program, and I tutored kids in an afterschool program.
Best college memory? Getting engaged!! Yes, I was young (only 20). DH popped the question on stage at our homecoming dance in front of the whole school! He had to get special permission and his plan spread around school without anyone telling me. One of the best nights of my life.
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Where did you go to college? University of Delaware
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Big and suburban
Did you live on campus? I lived on campus for two years and off for two years
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? No Greek life for me - not my scene, and most of my HS went to the same college so I didn't feel the need to be in a sorority to make friends. I was in other campus groups though.
Best college memory? Study abroad - I did a summer session in Japan, winter sessions in Germany and Switzerland, and a semester in Germany.
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Where did you go to college?
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
Medium sized school in a small city, large town, definitely tourist destination.
Did you live on campus?
Yes, I was an RA my Sophomore through Senior year.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
I was pretty involved at school. I served on the activities board, was Greek, did a lot of volunteer work, was engaged my church group.
Best college memory?
There are so many, I loved the Appalachian service projects, all the silly moments with friends, and the freedom of really feeling like you were on your own.University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
It was a major university but not a big 10 school
Nope, lived at home with parents until I was 21 and then got an apartment with a friend of mine - actually it was a campus website for peeps looking for roomates. We became roomates and she turned into one of my best friends.
Since I lived at home I didn't really do any of the activites. I went to school and worked (graduated with 0 student loans)
Best memory?? FINALLY graduating. I changed my major 3 times in college (education to law to business)
Where did you go to college?
SUNY Geneseo
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
small town in upstate ny, when school was in session we tripled the town's usual population.
Did you live on campus?
For the first 3 years.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
no sorority
Best college memory?
I don't think I can pick just one, just the fabulous friends I came away with.My Food Blog
Where did you go to college?
George Mason University.
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural?
Big population, but mostly a commuter school back then. Its definitely changed a lot since then!
Did you live on campus?
Yes, for three years. And the student apartments are sooo nice. I had my own bedroom, shared a bathroom with one friend, and we had a living room, full kitchen (with dishwasher/stove/fridge/garbage disposal, etc!)...it was awesome.
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?
Yes, I was a Chi Omega. Through the sorority, I was pretty involved in other parts of campus life.
Best college memory?
Beach week every year! Also Mason Day, Homecoming, Midnight Madness, sorority recruitment, Greek Week....I miss college sometimesWhere did you go to college? James Madison University
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Pretty big and urban bc it was in a city but seriously...its harrisonburg
Did you live on campus? fresh and sopho year on campus, junior and senior off campus
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways?didn't do much, went to VA tech to visit husband (bf at the time) most wekeends or he visited me
Best college memory? thats a hard one...I have too many, but mostly the friendships that started and have remained:-)
Where did you go to college? Kenyon College
Was it big/small, urban/suburban/rural? Tiny school in the middle of corn fields
Did you live on campus? There was no other option at the time
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? There was only a pseudo sorority until my junior year, and it was kind of a joke. I wasn't very involved, but strangely (for me) I helped organize the annual all-school formal for three years.
Best college memory? Too tired to think that hard. All I can think of right now are bizarre ones :P
Were you in a sorority or involved in campus life in other ways? we did not have sororities, but I was very involved in campus lifeBest college memory? being the chairperson of our senior formal weekend.