When I was 7 or 8 I heard my first Aggie joke. I didn't know what it meant. Didn't know about the Aggies (from Mesquite, TX) and didn't know what a cigarette "butt" was. My father later explained it.
I don't think I've heard an Aggie joke in maybe 35 years. When is the last time you've heard one?
Do we miss them? I mean I sort of liked the attention I think. Maybe in the 80s when it became apparent that everyone wanted to be us (secretly sometimes) the jokes faded.
When I was a senior and applied to A&M, they sent me a poster of bonfire and I put it up on my closet door. I didn't know what bonfire was even. Didn't know yell practice existed until my first one. Virtually clueless about all things A&M just that it was an absolutely great engineering school and I sure as heck wasn't going to tu which I've HATED since I was 9. Was in the top 3.2% of my high school and A&M is the only placed I applied to. Signed up for a dorm in my senior year of high school (October) and got into a dorm only after having to stay in an apartment the first two years because the dorms were full. Sure liked the convenience of living on campus and the roommate I got paired up with (because we were both physics majors) ended up being my best friend and best man. He was a valedictorian and National Merit Scholar.
I don't think I've heard an Aggie joke in maybe 35 years. When is the last time you've heard one?
Do we miss them? I mean I sort of liked the attention I think. Maybe in the 80s when it became apparent that everyone wanted to be us (secretly sometimes) the jokes faded.
When I was a senior and applied to A&M, they sent me a poster of bonfire and I put it up on my closet door. I didn't know what bonfire was even. Didn't know yell practice existed until my first one. Virtually clueless about all things A&M just that it was an absolutely great engineering school and I sure as heck wasn't going to tu which I've HATED since I was 9. Was in the top 3.2% of my high school and A&M is the only placed I applied to. Signed up for a dorm in my senior year of high school (October) and got into a dorm only after having to stay in an apartment the first two years because the dorms were full. Sure liked the convenience of living on campus and the roommate I got paired up with (because we were both physics majors) ended up being my best friend and best man. He was a valedictorian and National Merit Scholar.
