Pope: financial market are a tyranny

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why him?

my test scores were off the charts. I'd totally destroyed their system.

they set the curve... then I sat down with my number 2 pencils, and KA-BLAMMO.

They couldn't contain me.

Hardcore.

 

[byco42]

why? i was a national merit scholar. schools love to trumpet that stuff.

their loss.

In hindsight, I meant.

 

[KAWDUP]

KA-BLAMMO.

They couldn't contain me.

I going to go out on a limb here and conjecture that would have gone with most high schools. :*)

 

[Michchamp]

I going to go out on a limb here and conjecture that would have gone with most high schools. :*)

yes, but that's only figuratively speaking.

I'm actually pretty easy to contain in real life. I never get into too much trouble.

 

[Michchamp]

Had nothing to do with academics; more with what I would have guessed the means background had been.

Although it would have been a pretty uninformed guess, granted.

The post was meant solely to be humerous, though...

oh. hahaha.

I don't think they gave need-based scholarships, though there was financial aid available.

we were often accused of illegally giving out athletic scholarships, but that's absurd. haters gonna hate... public school punks gonna hate.

 

[redandguilty]

why? i was a national merit scholar. schools love to trumpet that stuff.

their loss.

Have I told my U of M merit scholar tour story on this board?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Have I told my U of M merit scholar tour story on this board?

You've told that story more times than I've told my story about meeting the actor who plays Dinozzo when I was out walking our dogs, and more than hungry has let everybody on the Michigan board know that he's 6'4" with washboard abs.

No man, I'm only kidding; I've never read that story, let's have it.

 

[redandguilty]

You've told that story more times than I've told my story about meeting the actor who plays Dinozzo when I was out walking our dogs, and more than hungry has let everybody on the Michigan board know that he's 6'4" with washboard abs.

No man, I'm only kidding; I've never read that story, let's have it.

Seems like a story I woulda told at some point and me not remembering having told it doesn't count for much.

There was a campus tour for prospective students at Michigan. One part of the tour was a seminar on how to get financial aid with a question and answer bit at the end. One mother's question went like this: "My daughter is a National Merit Scholar, so what scholarships does the University offer Merit Scholars?" The financial aid person answered "Every student in this room is a National Merit Scholar. This tour and seminar on where to look for financial aid IS what you get as a National Merit Scholar."

 

[redandguilty]

why? i was a national merit scholar. schools love to trumpet that stuff.

their loss.

maybe those other schools trumpet it.

http://www.michigandaily.com/node/35361

But officials here said the University of Michigan is not as impressed with National Merit Scholars as other schools might be. Associate Provost for Academic Affairs Lester Monts said the expectations set for merit scholars are lower than the standards the University expects its incoming class to set.

"What we look for at the University of Michigan in students exceeds the cutoff for national merit scholars," Monts said.

 

[Michchamp]

maybe those other schools trumpet it.

http://www.michigandaily.com/node/35361

yeah, I know. I think I got the equivalent of a drop in the bucket for it.

I would've gotten more if I could dunk.

edit... I think he's bluffing a bit on that. there are still a lot of dumb students at Michigan.

 

[TheVictors]

I was also a National Merit Finalist ....and all the BRB's I knew at UM were partiers and I know of two who went to rehab and quit drinking.

 

[Michchamp]

I was also a National Merit Finalist ....and all the BRB's I knew at UM were partiers and I know of two who went to rehab and quit drinking.

sounds about right.

actually, I remember hearing some rumors at BR that Michigan admissions didn't really like us that much.

prior to my year, the top quarter of the class would more often than not go elsewhere, and we would only send about 10-15 people to Ann Arbor; more would typically go to MSU. from my class though, we sent over 30 - way more than attended MSU that year - and as far as I know almost all graduated in 4 years.

we did drink a lot of beers though.

 

[TheVictors]

We were back in Birmigham as UM Juniors and crashing at a buddy's parents place -- coming back from the bar we cut thru Cranbrook and got busted by Cranbrook rent-a-cops who sat us down and talked to us about trespassing. It was ridiculous but the two BRB's with us were "on file" with Cranbrook Security from some high school era shenanigans so they detained us longer....

The one dude went to State and we had gone up and crashed at his dorm or apartment. At theother guys wedding in Bloomfield the summerof the blackout, the Sparty BRB was all lit up on coke and dancing at the reception with my buddy's mom.


Crazy kids!

 

[Michchamp]

We were back in Birmigham as UM Juniors and crashing at a buddy's parents place -- coming back from the bar we cut thru Cranbrook and got busted by Cranbrook rent-a-cops who sat us down and talked to us about trespassing. It was ridiculous but the two BRB's with us were "on file" with Cranbrook Security from some high school era shenanigans so they detained us longer....

The one dude went to State and we had gone up and crashed at his dorm or apartment. At theother guys wedding in Bloomfield the summerof the blackout, the Sparty BRB was all lit up on coke and dancing at the reception with my buddy's mom.


Crazy kids!

oh man... Cranbrook. talk about spoiled brat rich kids...

for whatever reason, our coach thought the Cranbrook grounds would be a good area for weekend cross country practice. so on sunday mornings we'd go to one of the parking lots. he'd tell us to "run for 45 minutes and meet back here."

of course, we'd run till we were out of sight, (it was heavily forested) then screw around and vandalize stuff.

One season I was teaching the rest of the team how to use a lacrosse net we found in a remote part of the grounds as a human catapult. some dumbass slipped off the end when it was his turn to be launched and landed on his arm, compound-fracturing his humerus so badly he couldn't be moved. they had to drive an ambulance out into the Cranbrook grounds to pick him up.

our coach was pissed.

 

[redandguilty]

of course, we'd run till we were out of sight, (it was heavily forested) then screw around and vandalize stuff.

Our coach would drive us out of town however far he wanted us to run and just drop us off. No cell phones and you didn't know where you were heading until you got there so you couldn't arrange for a friend to pick you up ahead of time.

Not that I ran cross. I just ran with them sometimes during the summer.

 

[Michchamp]

Our coach would drive us out of town however far he wanted us to run and just drop us off. No cell phones and you didn't know where you were heading until you got there so you couldn't arrange for a friend to pick you up ahead of time.

Not that I ran cross. I just ran with them sometimes during the summer.

wow. few - if any - of us even had cell phones back then. you must've been one of those spoiled rich kids Tinsel didn't like.

 

[redandguilty]

wow. few - if any - of us even had cell phones back then. you must've been one of those spoiled rich kids Tinsel didn't like.

I'm just saying there were no cell phones back then, not that they weren't allowed. I don't think I even knew anyone with a cell phone back then.

 

[redandguilty]

Hell, I got my 1st PAGER in 2002.

 

[Michchamp]

Hell, I got my 1st PAGER in 2002.

I had one of those too. they were pretty useless.

I bought a cell phone in '99, but only because it was cheaper than having a landline and paying ameritechs bullshit sign up and termination fees everytime I moved.


ha, remember ameritech?

 

[redandguilty]

ha, remember ameritech?

I don't. I don't think a ever paid an ameritech bill.