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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 71266" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>Yes, there is something about being a Tech fan that encourages a critical approach to things, no doubt about it. There is a parallel phenomenon that exacerbates the problem for a Tech fan and that is that the culture in the state of Georgia has a deep brooding inferiority streak. One sees the compensation for this going on everywhere. Towns in Georgia will brag about things all out of proportion to the reality. Does your town have an art museum? Some people in that town will say it rivals the museums of New York. Does your town have a side walk cafe? If will be spoken of as if nothing in Paris compares. Does your municipality have a developing music scene? Stand back jazz clubs of Chicago. I could go on but I hope some of you have noticed this and I don't have to explain. People in Georgia tend to exaggerate their progress all out of proportion to the reality. In some rare cases this "fake it until you make it" approach may work. More times than not, however, it only ends up deluding the local population while people from other parts of the country just shake their heads at how backward we Georgians are.</p><p> Now enter the University of Georgia. I have known three people who have taught there, two friends and one family member. Here are a few things they say. The school relies way too much on adjunct professors to teach, often has people teaching outside of their area, struggles keeping certain departments afloat and can't cut a damn paycheck on time to save their life. If you want to find out what the culture is like on the Athens campus just ask anyone who does contract work with them and has tried to get their paycheck right. A close friend of mine who teaches there says that most of his students are pretty dull and ape popular opinion far more than one would think for a flagship university. Very few are willing to struggle for a good grade or challenge the assumptions they already had when they came to college. </p><p> Yes, I do not have a hard time believing that the school in Athens thinks they are surpassing Tech in every way because that is the culture of which they are a part. And really, no one in other parts of the country believes that for even a moment. Should Tech fans take on some of that same kind of self delusion? It makes life easier in some ways but I don't think that is the Tech way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 71266, member: 1640"] Yes, there is something about being a Tech fan that encourages a critical approach to things, no doubt about it. There is a parallel phenomenon that exacerbates the problem for a Tech fan and that is that the culture in the state of Georgia has a deep brooding inferiority streak. One sees the compensation for this going on everywhere. Towns in Georgia will brag about things all out of proportion to the reality. Does your town have an art museum? Some people in that town will say it rivals the museums of New York. Does your town have a side walk cafe? If will be spoken of as if nothing in Paris compares. Does your municipality have a developing music scene? Stand back jazz clubs of Chicago. I could go on but I hope some of you have noticed this and I don't have to explain. People in Georgia tend to exaggerate their progress all out of proportion to the reality. In some rare cases this "fake it until you make it" approach may work. More times than not, however, it only ends up deluding the local population while people from other parts of the country just shake their heads at how backward we Georgians are. Now enter the University of Georgia. I have known three people who have taught there, two friends and one family member. Here are a few things they say. The school relies way too much on adjunct professors to teach, often has people teaching outside of their area, struggles keeping certain departments afloat and can't cut a damn paycheck on time to save their life. If you want to find out what the culture is like on the Athens campus just ask anyone who does contract work with them and has tried to get their paycheck right. A close friend of mine who teaches there says that most of his students are pretty dull and ape popular opinion far more than one would think for a flagship university. Very few are willing to struggle for a good grade or challenge the assumptions they already had when they came to college. Yes, I do not have a hard time believing that the school in Athens thinks they are surpassing Tech in every way because that is the culture of which they are a part. And really, no one in other parts of the country believes that for even a moment. Should Tech fans take on some of that same kind of self delusion? It makes life easier in some ways but I don't think that is the Tech way. [/QUOTE]
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