thinking about roadtripping there...what's the differences

There are enough good looking girls to go around at every school in the south.

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According to the internet in general, Starkville is as bad or worse than Eastern Europe (before the wall fell).

Also, road trips must include the following, at a minimum, for consideration of attending: private jets, unicorns, casinos, alpine ski jumps, guaranteed consorting with women of questionable morals, animal sacrifice, gift bags, Cuban cigars, and live timber sports exhibitions (especially the super-modified saws). Each of these are found in abundance at all SEC schools, save MSU. The Grove is also a mystical oracle with unknown powers but rumored to cure blindness (all forms, including congenital causes), enhance male virility, improve your car's gas mileage, unclog your sinks, and help you rid yourself of that pesky 10 lbs you gained at Christmas.

The cities are different, and both stadiums are smaller than you're used to. You'll feel right at home at State as an Aggie (LOTS of Aggies at State, as faculty, staff, and grad/vet students). Ole Miss will remind you of tu in some ways; it's hands down a nicer crowd, but there can be some condescending d-bags. Pretty girls in spades in both places.

Both towns have good local eats. Bars are spread around Starkville; don't expect Northgate-esque public drunkenness - most of the interesting parties are fraternity or sorority related. Good bars in Oxford - I've enjoyed a few in my visits there. Cold beer is sold in Starkville, and is not in Oxford. Allowable alcohol content has been approved statewide, but is still subject to local restrictions. It will be at the state allowed maximum in Starkville to my knowledge. I don't know if alcohol sales are allowed on Sunday in Oxford - they are in Starkville.

Accommodations in Oxford are more or less non-existent. There is a new hotel under construction in Starkville, and several newer places to stay.

There are some nice parts of Ole Miss's campus, and the State campus will remind you of A&M's Soviet Bloc inspirations in parts.

Tailgating at the Junction and the Grove are a contrast in style, but entertaining in both cases. I don't personally understand the fixation with the Grove, but to each their own.

I live and work in Starkville and I think it's a fine place to be. Have several friends and acquaintances in Oxford, and it's a fine place to be as well. I think you'll have a good time in either place.

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Definitely saw some good looking women when we went to the L$U/Miss St. Game this year!!

AgEng98,

Heading out to Starkville for grad school in a month, seems like an fair assessment. How tight is the A&M club there?

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Better than anything you'll find in Ames or Manhattan and more fun than anything you'll find in Waco.

There are more ****s than you think in Waco.

yeah we stuck it in most of them in the field and they were happy to take it

I don't know if Ole Miss has any better looking women than any other SEC school. They manage to round them all up and put them in one place on gameday, which helps foster the illusion.

I don't know of another school where the greeks tailgate as hard as they do at Ole Miss.

At most schools, they just party at their houses and walk on over to the game afterwards.

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There are more ****s than you think in Waco.

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There are lots of cattle as well, but I don't think that interests the travelling undergrads making their way to campuses on fall saturdays.

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this.

The A&M club typically only gets together at Muster - I assume that's not much different than most small-town out of state A&M clubs. I think in large part it's a product of the environment- many Aggies at State work together or know each other professionally in some capacity. So at the organized club level, not much goes on, but I do socialize with other Aggies.

I'd suspect it's much the same for grad students and vet students - you're likely to run into many Aggies. What department are you going into?

Muster has been hosted by the same folks for my entire tenure in Starkville. Great people, wonderful home, and good group. Lots of Aggie pilots in training over at Columbus AFB and they typically bring 8-12, depending on the class size.

Baylor is full of rich repressed whoores.

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Better than anything you'll find in Ames or Manhattan

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Beg to differ. I had a pretty fun night in Manhattan a while back.

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Baylor is full of rich repressed whoores and many **** at 60 mph

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Manhattan had one of the better groups of co-eds I have seen. From what I saw I would probably even put them right on par with A&M.

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Thete's less money and less repression than you think.

There's a reason they call it STARKville. Stark contrast to Ole Miss.

AgEng98,
Going into the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology under Dr. Goddard.

Starkville seems like a nice town, kind of like a smaller College Station. The "scenery" that I noticed was okay, but it was during the summer. A couple decent bars and some good restaurants. Clean campus with nice Landscaping. The stadium is smaller but looks pretty good.

Don't know Dr. Goddard - I know the department head (Willard) and a few others peripherally. He did some of his graduate work at A&M and is a great guy.

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Other than the square, what exactly do you find exceedingly different? Large state universities (relative to the population) are the focal point of the communities. Outside a centralized entertainment district, there's very little difference between the two cities. Neither are very cosmopolitan when compared to a city of any size.

Starkville is a freaking dump compared to Oxford and the women there are pretty bad.

drunk sloots

I worked with an MSU grad; she was very attractive. However, that doesn't make her representative of the university as a whole. There are pretty ladies everywhere - especially in the South. Manhattan is a dump full of prairie frump and Lawrence is worse. Its not even close.

Not saying they were on an Ole Miss level, but I was actually pretty impressed with what I saw in Manhattan...