The Frustrated Bunny

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Georgia Tech / Personal

A word about college football as social education

Can I have an opinion here for a second? If you go to a school where football is traditionally an important thing, and you don’t make any kind of attempt to understand it, go to a game, or enjoy it, you are completely and totally shortchanging yourself of an important part of your social education. Why? Because you never know when knowing just a little bit about football or your team could be just the little bit of small talk you need to get your foot in the door with someone who could offer you an opportunity or friendship of...

Georgia Tech / Personal / Random

Signs your football commentators suck

Alright, so Tech lost to Georgia (Again. Who let a freshman touch the Wreck?), but in order to keep my blood pressure down, I took to becoming more frustrated with ESPN’s color commentary than the game itself. (It’s a coping mechanism. I’d like to NOT have a heart attack before I’m 30, thanks.) If ever there was an illustration of all of the things NOT to do if you’re a football commentator, this broadcast was probably it. Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham: you are on notice. Seriously, have either of you actually ever called a football game before? Ok, I know...

Georgia Tech

A treatise on traditions and stealing the T

I feel like this post has become a long time coming, but until now, it would have been nothing but the grouchy ramblings of an alumna who probably spent a little too long at Tech. But with the recent “Keep the T in Tech” campaign and the Institute and SGA’s “T Amnesty Day” and its “display” of the “real T tradition” (which, by the way, was NOT the real T tradition), I may still be grouchy and rambling, but at least its timely grouchy rambling. The evolution of a tradition To start with, the assertion by Tech’s administration that stealing...

Food / Georgia Tech / Personal

Farewell, Junior’s

Earlier today, word was leaked that Junior’s Grill, a Georgia Tech tradition and institution, will be closing tomorrow afternoon for the last time with the retirement of owner Tommy Klemis. Klemis’ decision to close the restaurant rather than sell it upon retirement seems to stem from a decline in business over the past couple of years, coinciding with an expansion of on-campus dining options and a decline in interest from underclassmen, many of whom appear to believe, rather incorrectly, that Junior’s long history with the school implies that it’s no better than the dining halls. “Business has changed a lot in recent...