I lurk here, but my mom is an Aggie. I believe all Alumni refer to themselves as Former Students. Their Alumni Association is the "Association of Former Students." Gig 'em lol
I lurk here, but my mom is an Aggie. I believe all Alumni refer to themselves as Former Students. Their Alumni Association is the "Association of Former Students." Gig 'em lol
Oh yeah, doesn't stella's H were an Aggie man ring?
Dk, but my H does . He graduated from there AND was in their Corps Cadets, so he was like... extremist Aggie for a bit. We didn't date then.
My cousin was a rare female Corps member when she went there. She's very serious about her Aggieness. I tried to buy her an orange Broncos jersey and she refused to wear it because it is orange. The hate they harbor for T-sippers (University of Texas alumni/students) is intense. My grandpa and uncle were also Aggies. My grandfather's doorbell is the Aggie War Hymn. My grandpa once bonked me on the head with his Aggie ring because I was wearing a UT shirt. Being an Aggie is VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Anecdote alert- I had a coworker, when I worked at another major Texas university that had attended A&M. She was 24. She met her H while in school at A&M- she was a student assistant, he was an athletic advisor (and 45 yo). They had an affair (he was married), people found out, he was asked to leave. They ended up getting married and he got a job at my school working with the athletes, kind of a high profile job. She worked with me in advising. They would attend sporting events as part of his job and she would wear A&M attire. Every time. We also routinely played A&M in football. A&M lost one year and she got on facebook bashing the head coach of my school- the one she worked at- the one that employed her H as the advisor to the fucking football players. She got called out by her H's boss on FB, and quickly locked everything down. It was hysterical to watch.
I lurk here, but my mom is an Aggie. I believe all Alumni refer to themselves as Former Students. Their Alumni Association is the "Association of Former Students." Gig 'em lol
Is alumni too big of a word?
My H and his friends say they're alumni.
I think they need something youneek. They are the Aggies! lol. Anytime my mom is out and sees a car/ person with any sort of Aggie gear she has to do the thumbs-up thing and strike up a conversation. They talk like they've known each other forever. Totally mortifying as a child, especially since I grew up in California. Here we are driving down the 10 freeway with my friends and my mom is honking and gesturing at some vehicle with an Aggie sticker. My brother was sure we were going to get shot one day lol
I think they need something youneek. They are the Aggies! lol. Anytime my mom is out and sees a car/ person with any sort of Aggie gear she has to do the thumbs-up thing and strike up a conversation. They talk like they've known each other forever. Totally mortifying as a child, especially since I grew up in California. Here we are driving down the 10 freeway with my friends and my mom is honking and gesturing at some vehicle with an Aggie sticker. My brother was sure we were going to get shot one day lol
lol. meanwhile, when my H sees aggie gear/stickers/etc. he does this:
Ok - I asked H about it, and even he says the Former Students thing is hokey. It's based on the fact that the school can contact you for donations even if you didn't graduate, hence why the organization is for "former students" and not strictly those who graduate. Lol, he says "once an Aggie, always an Aggie, except not really but we'd like your money".
He says younger generations still say they're alumni to separate themselves from those that didn't finish. Older generations tend to stick to the Former Students.
I lived in College Station for 2 years. Those people are no joke.
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I went to CS one year for that music festival outside of town I can't remember, and got yelled at for pumping gas wearing a TxState sweatshirt. I was like "ummm, we're not rivals?"