Comments on: Tech officials soak in Raiders’ big win

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:31:22 +0000

Another reason not to go to TT is because they are a bunch of snobs. They accuse other schools of being snobish but in reality Tech is the real snob. If you read their purerile and pathetic comments you see very quickly they believe themselves to be morally and intellectually superior to all the other schools. My daughter took a tour of TT last year and she said all they talked about was how students at other schools were just a bunch of rich kids or they thought they were something special, too special to go to a school like Tech. She said the few professors she met seemed to be real nice but the kids she met were just full of themselves. She attends Sam Houston State Univ in Huntsville, which she says doesn’t have the inferiority complex that students at Tech had. Maybe Tech should look itself in the mirror and take stock before it attacks others schools for being something less than perfect as Tech seems to think it is.

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By: David

David — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:03:16 +0000

No doubt TT did itself proud, but like the aggies, you make way too much of a deal out of playing Texas, like it’s the only game there is. Whatever your fixation is with Texas you need to get over it. Your obsession with Texas is like that of a little brother wanting to outdo his big brother. If TT is ever going to get real respect they need to start acting like Texas is just another school and nothing special.

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By: Texas Born

Texas Born — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:15:08 +0000

I’ll be the first one to say it since no one else will.

#1 reason not to go to Texas Tech.

Majority are Ignorant, Racist Rednecks

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By: Techgrad

Techgrad — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:41:51 +0000

I’m pretty pleased where my “low-grade, third rate, frat school” Tech education has taken me, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital. So I guess its a good thing someone from Rice or some other “good” institution wouldn’t have had me, they may have held me back…

Wreck ‘em!

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By: New Mexico TTU Alum

New Mexico TTU Alum — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:51:16 +0000

I just offer the following to those that have an interest in TTU academics. I attended Tech, B.S.Ch.E 86. I turned down full scholarships to MIT and the Colorado School of Mines before I choose Tech. Tech’s offer of scholarships and in-state tuition to high-performing applicants was a generous and important contributing factor, though the attention to undergraduate education in the College of Engineering was the main draw.

I was awarded an National Science Foundation fellowship to graduate school on graduation from Tech – thanks to an excellent and broad undergraduate curriculium, as well as unique opportunties to interact with Tech professors for individual research projects – and choose to do my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (Ch.E.,1991).

I had the oppurtunity to teach a few key Chemical Enginering courses at UCB for a few years (unit operations lab) and compare students there to the folks back at Tech. I would put Tech’s undergraduate engineering education up against ANY school in the country. Period.

At present, I’m a senior manager with a National Laboratory, have hired dozens of recruits, and continue to favor Tech grads for our engineering divisions. I use my education from Tech everyday, and still recall great lectures and content from my many undergraduate courses.

A simple fact is your education is as much in your control and you will succeed in proportion to the dedication you demonstrate. Tech can provide the dedicated staff, professors, courses, facilities, and content, but ultimately, YOU have to want to succeed and learn. I’ll put Tech engineering graduates up against those from high-powered private schools anyday. I know, I’ve hired hundreds from around the country, and Tech continues to provide outstanding basics to our engineers.

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By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:41:23 +0000

And who’s going to look at a Rice resume????
1986 Tech grad

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By: redblack4ever

redblack4ever — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:28:00 +0000

To Texas Born:

And I guess that would be YOUR mistake — you might be missing out on a fine employee. Sounds like my daughter might be wiser than you.

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By: jwksa

jwksa — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:22:34 +0000

I could have gone to any undergraduate and graduate school I wanted, but I chose Tech (BA, 1974, MBA 1983). It doesn’t appear to have hurt me any in my life or in my career. I enoy a six figure salary and fantastic career, I live in Austin, and I have supervised whiz kids from Stanford and Harvard and tu who couldn’t find their derriere with both hands. I have always felt that you can take the boy out of West Texas but you can’t take West Texas out of the man. I plan to retire to West Texas in a few years, and as Mac Davis says “you can bury me in Lubbock Texas…in my jeans”.

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By: Texas Born

Texas Born — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:19:34 +0000

redblack4ever if I have 3 resumes in front of me and each resume represents Tech, A & M and UT, I’ll be the first person to say that I probably wouldn’t even look at the one from Tech.

Go Owls

Rice Class of 74

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By: Bubba

Bubba — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:45:25 +0000

After having a beer thrown at me after Gideon’s dropped “interception” while watching the game in Austin, all I can say is Tech fans, please stay classy. The UT fans here were the worst losers I’ve ever seen, bar none. Yeah, a tough loss, but childish, boorish, self-indulgent, spoiled – I’m having a tough time finding more adjectives to describes what I witnessed on Saturday. The orange and white nitwits did a huge disservice to their team, which showed some great spirit by staying in the game until the last second. But my previous sporting rivalry against UT has now turned to a deep disgust. Not all the UT fans were complete losers, but in the bar I was at far more than half dont seem to have a grasp on anything resembling civilized behavior. Here’s to hoping TTU continues to play great for the rest of the season, and that UT gets their a** handed to them by Baylor. A few more lessons of humility would be nice for the horns.

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