new computers for class of 2013

Memphis9489 said:
But don't forget that the Class of 2013 was not issued laptops - they were issued netbooks. These are much smaller and lighter and are very portable.
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It's all the same to me netbook/notebook/laptop - one more thing to carry around - I have a netbook I travel with and I still find it cumbersome. I prefer good 'ol pen and paper or a good book.

Not to mention, dropping your books doesn't break anything nor cause you to lose information. dropping your netbook wouldn't be such a good thing. and a plebe chopping up and down stairwells and thru p-ways chances are the bag is bound to be dropped sooner or later.
 
wasn't that what the purpose of the pee-coat collar? :biggrin:
 
I was going to bring the comment about the pillow and Forrestal lecture up.
Too bad it didn't happen when President Bush came -- oh wait, MIDN were "sleeping" anyways.
 
jadler03 said:
I was going to bring the comment about the pillow and Forrestal lecture up.
Too bad it didn't happen when President Bush came -- oh wait, MIDN were "sleeping" anyways.
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I remember that. Weren't those poor kids dragged into Alumni Hall at like 0300 or something?

Rediculous.

I still remember one particularly painful Boreusall Lecture. Carl Sagan came and gave his usual BS leftist screed about nuclear winter (really the wrong audience to try that crap with). At the end, the floor opened up for Q&A.

Well, in the class of 1990 (who were Youngsters at the time), there was a guy named Ita who was legendary for being a total brain. This guy was simply unreal.

So when the Brigade sees that Ita is wanting to ask a question, they start chanting, "Ita! Ita! Ita!"

So he asks his question, which I don't remember and probably couldn't repeat properly if I did. It was something along the lines of extending a Pth dimension along an infinite boundary of reverse polarity and crossing into the 12th dominion or something.

Sagan, as cocky a scumbag as any liberal intellectual you've ever seen, stood there utterly stumped and dumbfounded. I can only describe his face as a poetry of confusion, ignorance, and the sudden realization that a warmonger had just beaten him at his own game.

The Brigade EXPLODED in cheers and laughter. :biggrin:

Yeah. That one ended well! :yllol:
 
As a BattO, these were mando fun for me too. My secret favorite, and for the mids too that year, was some mountain climber guy who had a serious injury during a climb and Super Glued his torn fingers together to get himself out of his jam. I just remember the Super Glue part, and all of us being riveted by his story.

I also remember the coughing that would begin and became something to do to pass the time during particularly challenging lectures...
 
The only two forrestals I vividly remember are Henry Kissinger and Staubach. Kissinger because people asked him questions about such things as Pinochet and whatnot, expecting him to give some new insight (this being the NAFAC Forrestal, mostly non-mids asking). Can't remember any of Staubach's talk, just that it was snowing real hard and he "gave us" the day off the next day. Only to find out the next day was going to be cancelled anyways.
 
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