53. Graduated with BBA in finance. But have been a bearcat fan since the Gale Catlett days of the mid seventies when I was just becoming a teen. Earliest memory is going to game can Louisville at coliseum...back when UC has guys like pat Cummings and Eddie lee.
Long-time 33yo listener, first-time caller, engineering in '07. First game I remember attending was a Bearcat victory at UD Arena in 1990. Been a fan ever since.
I find it interesting that there are 0 people younger than 20, and only 5 people between 21 - 25. Perhaps this is a "Facebook generation" phenomenon: ever since these people started their journeys through the internet (roughly around middle school), social media has revolved around more modern formats like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
In other words, perhaps the Bulletin Board System seems unfamiliar or dated to kids these days. Personally, I like it and hope it stays around for a long time. Facebook is cancerous.
(01-05-2018 11:13 PM)UCengr Wrote: Long-time 33yo listener, first-time caller, engineering in '07. First game I remember attending was a Bearcat victory at UD Arena in 1990. Been a fan ever since.
(01-06-2018 06:28 AM)TubaCat Wrote: I find it interesting that there are 0 people younger than 20, and only 5 people between 21 - 25. Perhaps this is a "Facebook generation" phenomenon: ever since these people started their journeys through the internet (roughly around middle school), social media has revolved around more modern formats like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
In other words, perhaps the Bulletin Board System seems unfamiliar or dated to kids these days. Personally, I like it and hope it stays around for a long time. Facebook is cancerous.
My kids are in high school now and even Facebook and Twitter are considered "ancient" by their standards. They are big on FaceTime and texting. I can't believe how kids text each other in terms of speed. When I text I feel like I'm all left handed thumbs. And I still can't learn how to avoid the default words popping in your text line when it wasn't the one you wanted! I'm probably one of the few people in my circle of family and friends that does not have a Facebook or Twitter account. Just never felt the urge.
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CoB - BBA - Acctg '90, CoB - MBA - Fin, Mgt, Mktg '04
First UC FB game '68 as a toddler w/ dad who grew up in Mt. Auburn
First UC BB game '70 at Fieldhouse
considering how much smarter everyone on these messages boards (or the internet) is than i am, i figgered y'all'd be older. not that it matters much if someone younger than i is smarter than i, i'm sure it happens quite frequently.
maybe a separate thread, but why'd y'all go to uc? i went because i absolutely wouldn't go to one of those filthy community colleges. no, i had a barely qualifying act score to get into big city state, sissanati and their bearcat basketball. it was mostly because the basketball. i never knew what i wanted to major in really. i was, a confused kid, who shrugged and said, i dunno. lawyer? my high school guidance counselor also shrugged and said, political science? so on i went. daap sounds interesting.
so all of the whatever quality of education i got was really just icing on the cake for me to get bearcat tickets. man, i missed kenyon's senior year by one year. that would have been special. i'm thinking big red machine days. on an aside, if i had one chance to go back in time, i'd want to be watching big red machine baseball in a dive bar in downtown cincinnati
(01-07-2018 01:26 PM)Lush Wrote: considering how much smarter everyone on these messages boards (or the internet) is than i am, i figgered y'all'd be older. not that it matters much if someone younger than i is smarter than i, i'm sure it happens quite frequently.
maybe a separate thread, but why'd y'all go to uc? i went because i absolutely wouldn't go to one of those filthy community colleges. no, i had a barely qualifying act score to get into big city state, sissanati and their bearcat basketball. it was mostly because the basketball. i never knew what i wanted to major in really. i was, a confused kid, who shrugged and said, i dunno. lawyer? my high school guidance counselor also shrugged and said, political science? so on i went. daap sounds interesting.
so all of the whatever quality of education i got was really just icing on the cake for me to get bearcat tickets. man, i missed kenyon's senior year by one year. that would have been special. i'm thinking big red machine days. on an aside, if i had one chance to go back in time, i'd want to be watching big red machine baseball in a dive bar in downtown cincinnati
I kind of fell into UC for several reasons.
1) It was one of the farthest public institutions from my Ohio hometown and I was ready to get out on my own so to speak.
2) I was in some mode of teenage rebellion and my Dad went to Ohio State for two years and finished up at BGSU. I did not want to follow him to the same places.
3) The co-op program interested me - breaking up the classroom monotony with earning some decent dough while gaining real work experience. That was a great thing I might add coming out of my undergrad with some stuff for the resume.
4) One of my best buddies from high school was going there and it wasn't like I was burning to go somewhere else. The cool thing was we roomed together in Daniels Hall and it ended up another mutual friend from our high school joined us later on after we lost a roommate who requested a room change. Ahem, we tended to party quite a bit and he was a lot more studious than us. Some of the participatory debauchery will forever remain in Daniels Hall lore.
01-07-2018 03:00 PM
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(01-07-2018 01:26 PM)Lush Wrote: considering how much smarter everyone on these messages boards (or the internet) is than i am, i figgered y'all'd be older. not that it matters much if someone younger than i is smarter than i, i'm sure it happens quite frequently.
maybe a separate thread, but why'd y'all go to uc? i went because i absolutely wouldn't go to one of those filthy community colleges. no, i had a barely qualifying act score to get into big city state, sissanati and their bearcat basketball. it was mostly because the basketball. i never knew what i wanted to major in really. i was, a confused kid, who shrugged and said, i dunno. lawyer? my high school guidance counselor also shrugged and said, political science? so on i went. daap sounds interesting.
so all of the whatever quality of education i got was really just icing on the cake for me to get bearcat tickets. man, i missed kenyon's senior year by one year. that would have been special. i'm thinking big red machine days. on an aside, if i had one chance to go back in time, i'd want to be watching big red machine baseball in a dive bar in downtown cincinnati
Full tuition scholarship between academics and a partial for soccer + a kicking PWO (that never turned into anything once Jake got his scholly). It was between Cincinnati, Michigan State, and Illinois and it came down to a mixture of money and how much more I liked Cincinnati's campus and city vs. Champaign and East Lansing (which are both cool places in their own rights...I'm just more of a city kid). Athletics were a wash since I was on the fringes at all three, but I got a Big East Championship out of it freshman year before I left the team once a co-op came up out of state my sophomore year.
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