Texas A&M Aggies

[aowells]

Randolph is correct that the institutional objectives of schools are different and the focus of the education is different. He is being a bit ridiculous to state that nothing of any value can come from an A&M education.

It's hard to offer the following without sounding like a total dink, but: I went to an "elite" graduate school and I can assure you that I've heard the same type of arguments about how lesser/public institutions (specifically including UT) don't teach one to be a true leader/supreme court justice/master of the universe and that while it may be okay for lesser folks, a school like UT can never compare to those that turns out presidents and nobel prize winners.

The whole thing is a lot of pissing on the person below you. Yes there is a pecking order. UT is higher up the mountain than A&M but it isn't the pinnacle. Is A&M still a good school? I don't want to send my kids there, but I have hired an A&M grad before who clearly learned something other than cow milking in CS.

Agmaniac - You guys are definitely in the upper half of the SEC academically (for what little that's worth). So feel free to piss all over Mississippi State and let's see if you can crack the top half of the SEC West on the football field.

 

[GARCH]

I honestly dont think the education offered at atm is very worthwhile except for in agriculture and in veterinary sciences. I think aggy is much closer in education to tx st than to ut. But that's just me.

 

[Randolph Duke]

I work in the financial world and have had a number of opportunities to deal with professors at various schools and I can tell you without a doubt there is a huge difference between various universities. I can unequivocally state when George Gau was dean of the UT business school I wanted nothing to do with recruiting grads from UT. I have a visceral dislike for him for good reason. What surprised me the most was the schools that don't offer finance courses and then instead offer economics degrees. The mindset of the econ grads was worlds apart from that of the finance guys. Schools that teach theory produce grads with a fundamentally different way of viewing the world and processing information. One of my problems with hiring aggy grads is that the school instills such a rigidity in thought they don't always deal with abstract thoughts well. I haven't met a lot of aggys who are exceptionally creative or innovative in the world of finance.

 

[Juan]

Randolph is correct that the institutional objectives of schools are different and the focus of the education is different. He is being a bit ridiculous to state that nothing of any value can come from an A&M education......

That is true. This state will always need good veterinarians.

 

[doc longhorn]

That is true. This state will always need good veterinarians.

LOL! I have to agree since my daughter and her husband are both aggie vets.

 

[java]

My daughter graduated with a Business Honors degree from UT and followed that with an MD. She preferred the science, pre-med courses to the business courses, but she felt the business courses prepared her to analyze information and present material well. Though it seemed a strange combination, it worked out quite well. She thought it gave her something of an edge in medical school.

 

[doc longhorn]

My daughter graduated with a Business Honors degree from UT and followed that with an MD. She preferred the science, pre-med courses to the business courses, but she felt the business courses prepared her to analyze information and present material well. Though it seemed a strange combination, it worked out quite well. She thought it gave her something of an edge in medical school.

Did she specialize?

 

[HornNdriftwood]

I miss the point in bad mouthing Aggies school system...thought this was about football? The lets play who's degree is more powerful game is silly in my opinion. It's about the person and what they do with it. I mean some of you guys are essentially trashing kids who attend colleges for the sake of the rivalry..as if graduating for college isn't in it's own right an accomplishment. Things like this strengthen my feeling that the Texas V Aggie game needs to come back. The rivalry is spilling into areas that it need not.

The UT/aggy rivalry has always encompassed both schools and even communities. From sports, academics and culture everything was fair game. Mascots were killed, monuments and facilities were vandalized, people assualted and threatened with bodily harm going back more than a century.

I remember, in my lifetime, when both schools had a traditional bonfire before the big game. But one school had to take it to the next level and have the biggest bonfire ever. The rivalry hasn't really diminished since '11 and we haven't even met on the field of play.

 

[doc longhorn]

Your avatar has always intrigued me. Why do yiu have Jimmy Saxton, are you related to him or something?

The UT/aggy rivalry has always encompassed both schools and even communities. From sports, academics and culture everything was fair game. Mascots were killed, monuments and facilities were vandalized, people assualted and threatened with bodily harm going back more than a century.I remember, in my lifetime, when both schools had a traditional bonfire before the big game. But one school had to take it to the next level and have the biggest bonfire ever. The rivalry hasn't really diminished since '11 and we haven't even met on the field of play.

Your avatar has always intrigued me. Why do you have Jimmy Saxton, are you related to him or something? He is from my day and I always thought he was one of the most exciting runners I've ever seen. I hate to say it, but Manziel runs a lot like him.

 

[Lord Vader]

Ive worked around them, seen first hand how the and their rabid fan base over there live, what they do, etc etc etc. Don't give them too much credit. Some of the most insane things I ever came across were committed by the loyal followers of A&M.

No fan base is perfect though.

 

[PJB]

I honestly dont think the education offered at atm is very worthwhile except for in agriculture and in veterinary sciences. I think aggy is much closer in education to tx st than to ut. But that's just me.

Wow; I know a lot of people that graduated from A&M who have used their college education to become very successful, just as I know many people that accomplished the same with degrees from UT. The technical side of the petroleum business is well represented by top notch engineers with A&M degrees.

 

[GARCH]

Wow; I know a lot of people that graduated from A&M who have used their college education to become very successful, just as I know many people that accomplished the same with degrees from UT. The technical side of the petroleum business is well represented by top notch engineers with A&M degrees.

I'm not in that world and i have no idea. I'll have to take your word for it

 

[pringlelake]

Your avatar has always intrigued me. Why do yiu have Jimmy Saxton, are you related to him or something?
Your avatar has always intrigued me. Why do you have Jimmy Saxton, are you related to him or something? He is from my day and I always thought he was one of the most exciting runners I've ever seen. I hate to say it, but Manziel runs a lot like him.

"He runs like a bucket full of minnows."

-- Darrell Royal on James Saxton, 1961

 

[Randolph Duke]

Wow; I know a lot of people that graduated from A&M who have used their college education to become very successful, just as I know many people that accomplished the same with degrees from UT. The technical side of the petroleum business is well represented by top notch engineers with A&M degrees.

I know people who never attended a single college class who became very successful. We aren't talking about black swans. We are talking about the overwhelming majority of individuals. I can give you five adjectives that will describe almost evetvindividual who has spent four years at tamu. I can't think of another university in the nation that fails to develop their students past being described by five adjectives. That in itself would qualify as abject failure for any university administrator.

I wasnt meaning to say some of them don't find success in life. I meant to say a lot of them aren't very interesting individuals. Hence, the reason they tend to congregate mostly among their own type and spend inordinate amounts of time and energy telling each other how wonderful they are.