Since I've transferred here in January...

This is the most fratastic school I've ever seen.

ALLL THE WAY ACROSS CAMPUS!!! Means "400 yards."

Everyone has a shirt with one of the Big Four school logos on it.

People can drive in the snow.

You cannot skip an am class and tell the prof. you were sick b/c he WILL see you on campus later in the day.

ALL black students are athletes.

Their radio station sucks too.

You can walk into a basketball game as easily as you can a classroom.

You don't have to pay for 90% of your books. (big plus)

They know who Phillip Rivers is but not who Bennett Swygert is.

A 300 level course here is a 200 at State.

If you have an ex here, it sucks. B/c you will see her every day and probably have a class here.

But, you can actually get into a class.



More to come.

1/18/2006 12:43:21 PM

the guy doing push ups in front of wendy's is scurry

1/18/2006 12:45:21 PM

Took me awhile to get "Western Carolina", as I was expected "Western Blvd."

1/18/2006 12:45:54 PM

Western does not have a scrurry pushup ninja.

1/18/2006 12:46:49 PM

yeh well i heard it was fun and you are able to pull up your gpa but a lot of people transfer in and out of there

1/18/2006 12:49:41 PM

^True, I just came b/c I am closer to my teaching degree here and I can commute from home which saves uber $texas.

1/18/2006 12:53:38 PM

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"This is the most fratastic school I've ever seen."

Some of my friends from high school started a new chapter of some frat at Western when they first got there.

1/18/2006 1:03:07 PM

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"Some of my friends from high school started a new chapter of some frat at Western when they first got there."

probably SAE, since you're from gastonia

im glad to be out of cullowhee

1/18/2006 1:23:33 PM

my sister goes there.

she pretty much runs the social scene up there.

1/18/2006 1:25:41 PM

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"This is the most fratastic school I've ever seen."

oh man, western's nothing compared to UVA, UGA, and UF, to name a few, in frattitude.

1/18/2006 1:26:39 PM

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"Phillip Rivers"

Who the hel is that?

1/18/2006 1:29:18 PM

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"Took me awhile to get "Western Carolina", as I was expected "Western Blvd.""

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"True, I just came b/c I am closer to my teaching degree here and I can commute from home which saves uber $texas."

No offense, but I hope you plan on transferring out of there at some point, b/c a degree from WCU means absolute shit anywhere out of NC.

1/18/2006 1:29:50 PM

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"my sister goes there. she pretty much runs the social scene up there."

funny, i went there for 4 years and have never seen or heard of your sister, and thats pretty bad when its the kind of school where you know just about everyone

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"No offense, but I hope you plan on transferring out of there at some point, b/c a degree from WCU means absolute shit anywhere out of NC."

people come from all over the US to try to get into the nursing school at Western. most usually dont get in, since its one of the hardest nursing programs to get into.

but then again, everyone in the US considers NCSU an extremely elite education institution

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1/18/2006 1:31:16 PM

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" funny, i went there for 4 years and have never seen or heard of your sister, and thats pretty bad when its the kind of school where you know just about everyone"

oh, well see she hangs out with the cool people.
everybody knows her up there.

1/18/2006 1:36:11 PM

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"a degree from WCU means absolute shit anywhere out of NC."

I agree to some extent. But I'm a education major, Western was founded as a teaching college and is considered by some to have a better program than State. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to come back and get another degree or grad school at State.

BTW. ALL of the students carry minimum 3'' knives, even the girls! I'm not joking.

1/18/2006 5:18:12 PM

A good friend of mine goes to western and is about to join the league of the Fratty McFrats. But he asked me not to judge him or hate on him.

1/18/2006 5:26:07 PM

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"They know who Phillip Rivers is but not who Bennett Swygert is."

i had to look that guy up




and i thought this thread was going to be about The Boulevard, not the college.

and i went to UNC-A and pretty much all of those things were true.

well except for the skipping ones, if you stay in your dorm room all day sleeping and doing nothing your prof wont see you.

and i dont know how you dont pay for your books.

1/18/2006 5:50:14 PM

you "rent" them, you go to the bookstore and they give them to you, if you turn them in at the end of the sem. ther's no charge. I only had to buy a Spanish workbook and one or two obscure polisci texts... best idea EVER

1/18/2006 6:45:12 PM

they do that at app, too

bastards.

1/18/2006 7:15:29 PM

Hunter Library <3

Western sucks if you're in a wheelchair because there are steps everywhere about four elevators.

1/18/2006 7:20:25 PM

i was also thinking western blvd.

1/18/2006 8:05:48 PM

the ice skating rink is on the wrong side

1/18/2006 8:49:16 PM

^do what?

1/18/2006 9:21:01 PM

There are actually a lot of highly qualified faculty... they seem to like the mountains.

LMAO, if you click "I do not agree" to the computer usage policy on campus, it will crash some computers.

1/20/2006 12:04:04 PM

^Try it at State, I never did...

1/20/2006 11:57:39 PM

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"Took me awhile to get "Western Carolina", as I was expected "Western Blvd." "

1/21/2006 12:23:56 AM

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"Western sucks if you're in a wheelchaira drunk driver (uder) because there are steps everywhere about four elevators.every road has a cliff next to it that will cause you to roll multiple times and be impaled by an evergreen tree"

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1/21/2006 12:25:56 AM

nevermind

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1/21/2006 12:48:29 AM

this is cool, keep it coming. It is helpful to me when I have students who want to transfer to other schools. My brother went to Western. Everytime an area he lives in gets more built up (Cary)he has to move to get back to the boonies.

1/21/2006 8:29:15 AM

It's very nearly impossible to masturbate on a girl's shoe in the tiny library, and I haven't found the campus newspaper yet.

1/21/2006 10:29:17 AM

hey my dad teaches up at western

hes in the poli sci dept

1/21/2006 12:50:57 PM

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"I haven't found the campus newspaper yet"

in every lobby of every building on campus, including the library

1/21/2006 1:22:13 PM

^^holy shit, who is he?

1/21/2006 11:00:25 PM

i don't think i could ever attend western. i have to have things around me and when my friend says that going to wal-mart is pretty much the big thing to do, that turns me off even more.

1/22/2006 12:40:35 AM

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"Took me awhile to get "Western Carolina", as I was expected "Western Blvd.""

1/22/2006 1:17:36 AM

^^Well that's pretty much all we had in Murphy, so if I lived on campus it would have been a big adjustment.

1/22/2006 10:26:21 PM

I get an e-mail anytime there is any sporting event... the underwater basket-weaving team is in the running for a SoCon championship, I'm told.

1/25/2006 2:43:21 PM

arent you from Murphy, though?


i mean... come on... its Murphy... cullowhee is a metropolis for you

1/26/2006 12:55:41 AM

You obviously don't know Murphy well... Yeah, they have a Bojangle's in Sylva... but otherwise??? I'll grant them that. I like the used book store below the weird coffee house/resteraunt.

Unless you are from Thomasville stfu.

1/26/2006 1:19:54 AM

I'm sooooo glad I didn't let my mom pressure me into going to WCU (I live in Whittier), way too boring and way too many kids from my high school (I went to Smoky Mountain).

And Murphy has grown a lot from the way it was back in the day. But still, Sylva is bigger, i think.

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1/26/2006 1:45:29 PM

yeah, the book rental thing is pretty suite...that's not entirely how it works though, because there is a fee built in to your tuition/fee payment

but Elizabeth City State has it as well, and Fayetteville State had it for a while

we're working to start it at every school, because it saves students on average $700 a year

1/26/2006 1:54:12 PM

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"You obviously don't know Murphy well... Yeah, they have a Bojangle's in Sylva... but otherwise??? I'll grant them that. I like the used book store below the weird coffee house/resteraunt."

i thought it was understood that murphy is the armpit of north carolina

1/26/2006 2:02:13 PM

^it is to some extent, but like most of the WNC towns it has exploded in the past five years. The growth rate is exponential... prolly much like Holly Springs and Cary were 10 or 15 years ago... I don't know I didn't live there.

I'll quote Kickin' Grass

"I can make it home to Raleigh in less than half an hour traveling Pittsboro at 70 miles per hour. There's nothing that can slow me they've widened 64. But the backroads ain't the backroads anymore."

That's the song I think of every time I look out my bay window... what used to be a forest is now the surface of Mars b/c the new (goddamned motherfuckin') US 64 is going through my front yard.

At this moment they are stringing the new high-tension poles. BTW, this is the most expensive stretch of road per mile ever built in NC... yes, more than the Blue Ridge Parkway.

1/26/2006 2:32:29 PM

My girlfriend goes to Western...

That school is tiny, but it's more than doubled in like 4 years

1/26/2006 3:49:12 PM

^It's kinda in between... I had a g/f @ Gardner-Webb and I have a cousin who's a linebacker for Lenoir-Rhyne... Western is ridiculously small to me after 4 years at State, but not in comparison to the small privates.

1/26/2006 9:30:31 PM

Western has a Gary too...

Western has AMAZINGLY few squirrels... I don't know why this is.

2/1/2006 10:23:22 PM

^Country boys like to kill them.

2/1/2006 10:34:10 PM

I love to kill them... I just want to know how they get away with it on campus... maybe there's a club I don't know about that I need to join.

Western is far less pedestrian friendly than State (H-Boro Street notwithstanding.)

2/2/2006 12:06:40 AM

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2/2/2006 8:18:41 AM

omg set em up

2/2/2006 9:24:12 AM