With the exception of my freshman year in '88, we sucked my entire time @ LSU. I envy you "youngsters" that have actually been able to experience winning football. It must be great. But I'm a lifelong Tiger fan, so lose the bitterness over not being @ LSU anymore. There are plenty of us out there that feel your pain.
It's hard to lose the bitterness of not being there anymore, and it pains me to say this but I now go to MTSU and live with my parents. Nuff said, huh, and my mom is a helicopter parent as well. :nope:
What exactly does BR lack that young people expect it to have? I'm sorry, but I read that article in 225 some months back, and all the kids could come up with was "We're tired of going to the mall and coffee shops... other cities like Austin have great museums and rock concerts."
Have no idea but a helicopter hovers so I'm going to guess it's the same and if you're a college student, that's a bad thing. Just wondering...........do they call them Harrier parents in England?
No doubt Austin is more fun... But being someone who has been in the city a lot of my life, Baton Rouge now is far better than Baton Rouge 4-5 years ago... In both good and bad ways.
If you have an issue with living in Baton Rouge, being an hour away from New Orleans beats living in Austin any day of the week.
Austin is the only city in Texas I would live, it's a beautiful area in some parts, has great restaurants and the music scene is fabulous. The similarity between Baton Rouge and Austin is LSU/UT and both being state capitals but seems to me that Texas pours a lot more money into Austin than LA does Baton Rouge; that looks like it may be changing though as Baton Rouge sure has a ton of things going on right now and I wouldn't be surprised if the business climate in Metropolitan Baton Rouge doesn't move it past N.O. in the future, and that will bring in more money, diversity, and culture. As someone who has lived out of state for 20 years I was kind of shocked at how Baton Rouge has changed over the past decade or so. Having LSU and the capital as economic engines is a giant plus for the area.
As far as the helicopter parent, you guessed it. They hover, and when you're 22 it gets really Fkn old. I now am so ready for college to end it is unreal. I mean MTSU, please, I haven't started yet, but I can only imagine that it has NO culture whatsoever. As far as what BR lacks to what I thought it would be, nothing. I came to go to school at the Great LSU, not to live in BR. I loved BR when I first got there, then that biatch came and destroyed NO. Traffic is a nightmare in BR. Obviously there's not much you can do b/c whoever designed the roads and outline for the city was an idiot. Anyhow, I'm getting really off-topic. The point is that I really miss LSU and it was SO SO hard to watch the football games last year, most notably the LSU/Florida game. The crowd noise on the television was louder than the announcers.
