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I'm a nervous wreck from Georgia Tech and a Geeky Engineer.  A geeky, geeky, geeky, geeky, geeky engineer. In one hand is my slide rule, in the other is a beer.  Oh, an geeky, geeky, geeky, geeky, geeky en-gin-neer.  Clear whiskey, white and gold, blah blah blah blah.

Georgia Tech is one of the top 5 most miserable on campus experiences in America.  Concrete locked and poorly laid out (yes, they have a school of architecture), the campus is a mix of old and older buildings placed as inconveniently apart and incaccessible as the land allows. Many of the dorms are a very long walk across a concrete track from a failed trolley experiment to the classroom buildings.  Water stands in puddles after each rain. The street people of Atlanta have free access to the campus. There is inadequate on campus housing.  The student body are all a bunch of nerds that are named Mike, Scott, or Bill.  Like most techies, they have zero courtesy or social skills.  They have about 10 coeds.  Five of those like other girls, 3 are fat, and the other 2 are married Asian grad students.  They make students take 5 or six classes per term, and one alway has to be a laboratory class. The other classes are all weeders, which means the professors are trying to make you flunk out.  Many do.  There is no student parking. Parking on the street means your car will get robbed.  If you ride a bike, you have to lock every removable part, or it will get stolen. They only have commom bathrooms in the dorms.

They are all very bitter and sullen, and this goes back a ways.  They continued football during WWI, and UGA made fun of them with a parade float that said "UGA in Argonne. Tech in Atlanta".  Sometimes, they would field ringers so they could beat the Dawgs.  There is a reason we don't count some of the games.  Anyway, Tech got mad about the float, and in typical fashion, refused to play UGA several years. One year, we came in and crushed them at home.  As soon as the clock ran out, they slammed the lights out on the scoreboard. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh.  They kept getting smacked around in the SEC, so they bailed out and went to a basketball conference that would finally have them. Nobody buys the football season tickets except UGA fans, when we play them in Atlanta.  Georgia has to beat Tech regularly in football, or the coach gets fired.  Mark Richt has never lost to Tech.  I hope he never does.  I enjoy watching/listening to the Tech games, so I can pull for the other team.  A loss by the picnic pests is almost as good as a UGA win. To Heck with Georgia Tech.