So I'm watching the NBA playoffs yesterday...and a commercial comes on for Honda. The guy driving is playing with the windows and door locks...it is clearly annoying the girl in the passenger seat. She says something like, "will you stop that please?" Yeah...that girl....was my girlfriend for about 1.5 years right after high school and through my first year of college!! She was a year younger than me...she went to Vanderbilt and then transferred to Northwestern to pursue drama. She was real involved in drama in high school. She had gotten into some modeling and acting out in LA, last I heard. And then I saw her on TV yesterday...so funny to see someone you knew so well on a national TV ad!!!
that's funny! my wife keeps making fun of me about it..."is your girlfriend on tv yet??" or when some other commercial comes on she says, "did you date her too?" i told her no over and over again until i saw an ad with Jessica Alba on it...
madmax.. you said she was your girlfriend through your first year of college.. did you go to vanderbilt?
Man thats sweet! I would be calling her up! but your married so that idea is gone, but thats pretty sweet you know her.
That's a good question. If you didn't go to Vandy, Max, I can see why the two of you broke up because long distance relationships usually don't work out. Rocket Fan: Your post reminds me that you are going to Vandy. My mother is a Vandy alumni (graduated in '66). I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you would ever want to go to a Titans game or even (perish the thought!) a Vandy football game! It would be cool to meet someone off the BBS in person.
Manny Ramirez.. that would be cool.. I sure hope I enjoy it.. I really am not too sure what to expect at this point.. Cool to at least know someone who lives in the area and knows some alumni.. everyone I know seems to just ask me... "oh where is that.. is it as good as texas a&m?" You live in Nashville? I want to at least make it to the Texans vs Titans game.. Too bad it looks like they aren't going to let freshmen have cars on campus this year.. i'll probably be at most of the vandy football games.. even though i know they are not very good..... If i was going to the school for a good football team I guess I'd be going to University of Texas. I'm curious in that area what is the general thought about the school.. that it is a really good school or what.. when I was up there it seemed a lot of people were talking about how everyone seems to think it's some rich snob school or something.. if that is the case i definitely dont fall into that category lol...
No, I don't live in Nashville. I live about 60 miles southeast of it in between it and Chattanooga. My sister and her husband, though, live very close to Adelphia (its name for now) Coliseum. Yea, Vandy does have that reputation around the mid State as being an elitist school, but you will always have your snobby cliques no matter where you go. Even at ole podunk MTSU (party school central), there were groups of people who thought that their **** didn't stink. It's like you want to go up to them and say, "Hello, you are going to Middle Tennessee State University, get over yourself!" A Texans - Titans game would be good. I don't think getting tickets would probably be a problem for me. My father used to have a PSL for Titans game, but since he is a Redskins fan, he never could get into the Titans and sold his. But I'll be able to get a ticket. We have plenty of time and we can talk more about it when it approaches.
manny.. sounds good about the ticket thing... yeah most of my friends are just like Tennessee? why would you want to go there.. good ole chattanooga.. someone i know played for the AA team.. the lookouts for a few years in the 90's
my first year of college was her senior year in high school...we broke up when she went to college the next year. i don't think the long distance thing was something either of us wanted to try. Waco to Houston was too long for a year.
Another problem with a Waco to Nashville relationship is the time difference. Nashville is in the Central Time Zone and Waco is stuck in 1955.
Waco is actually getting better..many more things there now than when I was at school there...but it's not exactly H-Town! good place to concentrate on studies...except when the Baylor girls went jogging by...ouch!
I like Waco. They've got two excellent movie theatres. Four or five really good bars. One excellent sports bar. Most of the chain restaurants, plus many other holes in the wall that are great as well. Barely any traffic to speak of. They may lack some cultural offerings and have an influx of rednecks, but all in all, not a bad place.
it took a while to grow on me, but i liked it too. i was soooo ready to leave to come home to houston around the time of graduation...but then on my last night there, i felt like i was gonna miss the place. i think a lot of that had to do with the memories i had made..the friends... nothing beats a schmaltz's sandwich (scholotzsky's isn't even a close second!)...nothing beats the cajun burger at big daddy's..nothings beats a Big-O at George's...and there were some other neat little quaint places that i like to frequent when i go back to visit. in my last year there, they started to open up more places. they hit the 100K mark on the population meter, and places started popping up. they started to do the work downtown...turned the warehouse district into a retail center...and the baylor campus looks entirely different to me now!! i need to go back and visit soon...go back to me and my wife's old favorite places...including the beautiful old building on campus where i met her.
I'm from Tennessee originally. Like any school, it depends who you hang out with. I was offered an engineering scholarship at Vanderbilt and they took us up there to try to impress us, though I think the school's greatest strengths lie in other areas. But some of the people who went there have been very successful. There is some of the rich-kid think-we're-special mentality, maybe like at SMU? - but it doesn't really affect day-to-day social interaction. Drinking and partying seem to be fairly high on people's lists. Maybe a little too much so for my taste... but I wanted to go to Rice very badly (apparently there's someone like that every year in the scholarship group), so I knew what I had to do. Nashville is pretty, modern, and clean. It is nothing like people's "backwater" images of Tennessee. Those people haven't been there. I've seen a lot worse-looking places right here in Texas.
isabel.. yes.. i'll be in the college of arts and sciences which is supposed to be good.. in a lot of ways the academic levels of rice and vanderbilt seem similiar.. i met several people there who narrowed it down to rice and vanderbilt before finally deciding on which school to go to.. yeah since deciding to go there i've heard some about the partying and drinking.. .which i really dont plan to be involved in much... but i was somewhat surprised at how many people think of drinking and partyign when they think of the school.. then again i've heard that is pretty high on the list at rice as well and i'm sure most schools.... in some ways I wish I was going to rice next year but in other ways I t hink it will be good to leave the city for a while....and concerntrate more on academics without coming home every weekend etc.. i was looking at the stats etc and from what they said it seems that this year's accepted vanderbilt class is quite a bit above some of the past ones.. grade wise etc.. there were even some jokes in the school paper i read showing how much this years class was academically superior to the past few years.. they said the average high school class rank of people accepted to arts and sciences this year was 4.9... so i expect it to be pretty challenging academically.. oh well i guess it's just all new to me.. and hopefully i will do well academically there next year.. like the dean said.. if they didn't think i could handle it.. they wouldn't have accepted me.. who knows.. maybe i'll end up at rice someday..
