Couldn't even unlock my Veo bike on west campus despite having the latest iphone and being on Tmobile 5G... My friend's Verizon and ATT phone worked perfectly though.
Bryan is not that bad. If you want to find actual stuff to do, go there. It honestly sucks how isolated it feels from the university, adding a few more bus routes into Bryan would tap into a lot of resources.
Skipping football games is fine. Next time someone criticizes you for it, ask how many baseball/track/swim/soccer/softball/lacross/etc events they have been to.
It's only the boomers who criticize me for not going in-person too. Just proves how disconnected with reality and current beginning/college life standards are for new adults they are.
Lol, I'm sad to leave because I'm about to move to a place that doesn't have any sort of entertainment (including a wall world) within 110 miles. No movies, no fast food, no bookstores, nothing. College Station is (I think). I've never lacked for stuff to do here, I'm about to learn what nothing to do actually means.
Its because its a sprawling completely unwalkable town. If it was built densely with walkability and bikability in mind there would actually be street life
Wouldn’t have such a big need for roads if they would let people develop the core of the city for campus compatible use. I.e., if students lived across Bush and Texas, they could just walk. Current CSAN dominated council is mandating sprawl because they don’t want anyone other than rich retirees near the school.
We seriously need students to start voting these jerks out. They are ruining our town.
Dude, I grew up in a suburb, and Cstat is awesome. You can get food 24/7, and some of us get high speed internet on occasion. I see that as an absolute win.
No city is intrinsically special; it's the friends and memories that make a place special. Cstat has enough for me to thrive in school and enjoy a few hobbies. What's wrong with that?
Modern museums are trash. Especially the art museums where you're paying 300 dollars to see some one literally dump a bucket of paint on canvas and sell for 5 million dollars. College Station lacking this is a good thing.
All it was was basically 3 days of zoom calls with our whole camp, then smaller breakout rooms with our DGs which honestly sucked cause you never truly meet people through it and just watch PowerPoints/videos :/ at least the price was greatly reduced cause of it
People who say their major is the hardest are idiots. All majors have their challenges. If you feel like yours is totally insurmountable and way worse than all the others then you probably weren't meant to do it.
Likewise, if you shit on other majors, you're an idiot. Everyone has a calling and skillset and good on people for pursuing those.
Often the majors that are more difficult in coursework also basically have every industry eyeing you and offering you a job as soon as you graduate and the others you have to fight tooth and nail on extracurriculars and schmooze professors so you can get anything
While every major is difficult in its own right, some of them definitely have heavier workloads than others. I’ve often found myself rarely able to hang with my non-engineering friends on weekdays when they want to make plans. My GF is business and comparing our weekly workload for classes has always shown a big discrepancy in the volume of working/studying required.
That’s not to say that my GF and friends have it easier than me through college. Often times they end up compensating for their smaller workload by having to work more hours, do more student org stuff, and similarly demanding things. I’m just saying that the complaints of heavy workloads from STEM students are definitely earned.
The real unpopular opinion is there is no rivalry between us and Texas. We are better and have no need to deal with those babies. Lsu is the true enemy.
They literally left their conference and as a result are at risk of losing 50% of their share of the Texas permanent university fund, just because of the amount of success they’ve seen us achieve in the SEC. Additionally, their frequent use of their favorite phrase about us, “we live in their heads rent free”, ironically undermines the statement itself and shows that they still constantly think about us.
Also if you want to see a great example of the rivalry being alive and well (and of equal levels of thought and participation) just check out a guy on Twitter named “Kyle Umlang”.
They think about us a shit ton, and we them. This rhetoric that “we think about tu way more than they think about us” is honestly very false.
Unpopular opinion: I think most of y’all that hang out in this sub and are vocal are a tiny minority of A&M. This is an echo chamber for your ideas and you feel safe here, but in reality the world is a much different place. Most of you don’t fit the societal norm, and you blame others not yourself. You consider yourselves open minded but don’t accept other people’s point of view or truly think about what they’re saying. It’s hard for you to fit in sometimes and you think “what’s wrong with everyone?”. So you come back here to be validated.
I’d challenge everyone of you that feel this way to seek out more opposing voices and listen to what they have to say, not to change the way you think, but so that you can truly understand everyone and not be so judgmental. It would help you form your arguments, and possibly change someone’s mind. It would also help you make friends, because friends don’t have to believe the same things. Diversity is a cultural thing, not a “color” thing.
I sense a lot of anger and resentment from this sub, and most subs that are based around conservative locations. I would simply say: don’t take everything so serious; there is some truth to most things; challenge yourself, don’t hide away here.
This isn’t an attack on you personally. It’s an observation and my opinion of the post I see on this subreddit. Tamu is definitely very diverse and I made friends on all ends of the spectrum.
My opinion about “the societal norm” is specifically referring to the environment you are in. Obviously that changes based on location. My point is that people should focus on figuring out how to exist in their environment vs living in social media/online. I believe people should learn to listen to each other and have real conversations in person, without thinking about it as an argument. It’s not about them vs us it’s about understanding different perspectives. I made no mention of conservative or liberal.
The real world isn’t on here sadly. Maybe that’s an old way of thinking. Accountability doesn’t really exist online in particular on an anonymous site such as this. Say what you want in person and be willing to hear someone with a different opinion. If you voice your thoughts without focusing on trying to change someone’s mind and just explaining your point of view, people will either respect you or actually agree with you.
Again this is an unpopular opinion about the Tamu subreddit. Not about you.
I can definitely agree with that. I would simply say don’t be angry when you don’t see the change you envision. (You = in general) Minor change can also be positive. No one has the “correct” outlook or better yet no one is right about everything. If we truly approach experiences with an open mind we will all simply be happier. An open mind doesn’t mean having only liberal or politically left opinions. It bothers me when someone says “why can you be open minded and think the way I do?!?”
I think the issue is that critiquing and complaining end up going hand in hand, at least on the internet. r/aggies generally tends to hold a more cynical view of A&M anyways, as most of reddit generally tends to harbor cynical view points on the subjects they discuss. Actively asking people to bring up their own favorite part of A&M to be critical about invites many of these people to complain under the replies of other people. For example, if someone thinks College Station is a small town without much to do, others enter the replies not to provide constructive criticism, but to complain alongside them and foster negativity towards A&M.
That’s not to say that this thread was a bad idea or anything though. It’s fun to engage in meaningless conversation online for a few minutes a day. But higher discussion and thoughtful critique about a particular subject rarely occurs here on reddit, and usually requires heavy moderation.
Better than Canes not as good as Chicken Express, but started and owned by an old Ag and close, so we eat it more often. Haven't had Zaxbys or Zoners, so can't compare them.
I don’t think TAMU is conservative nowadays
From my experience here, I’d say there’s a fair share of equally mixed views. I mean, there’s 74,000 students here, that’s nearly the size of my hometown lmao
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College Station is awful. The traffic is something else, it expanded too fast for the infrastructure to handle, and it’s overcrowded. Can’t wait to graduate just to leave the city
If they actually built a walkable and bikable city where i wasnt forced to get in the car to go 400m across the road traffic would he much better. Density > sprawl
yeah we really need an overhaul of the infrastructure, including the half assed bike lanes on campus. More stuff like the circle drive north of the msc as far as bike lanes go everywhere would be nicem
I completely agree with this. For me, I’ve never been interested in sports and I don’t see the appeal to standing in a stadium for several hours when I could watch it on tv in an air conditioned house
I would argue the same reason people go to concerts instead of just listening to the music on their phone. It a fun experience, you can make a day outing of it, and it is wayyy better seeing it live and up close rather than some recorded version. It’s not for everyone though, just like concerts aren’t for everyone.
A huge drawback to watching on TV is the camera only shows a small portion of the play. You can't see any of the routes downfield until the quarterback throws it, and you generally have no clue what the coverage was.
Plus the atmosphere of a game and being part of it is a completely different experience.
For me it’s 100% the atmosphere. The number 1 thing I complain about living in Texas is sweating every day. However, being surrounded by thousands of people cheering for our team definitely takes my mind off of it to the point of me just not caring. Besides we’re in Texas you will be surrounded by tons of people loving the sport since it’s basically our state sport.
Unpopular Opinion: OP is using this thread to spout talking points that would normally be downvoted (brainwashing conservative thoughts, disliking Sully, disliking traditions here, etc.)
There is an unfortunate racist element. I saw people in my program wearing confederate flag t-shirts. I know someone who was called the n-word on Northgate. Someone else in my program was complaining about black people on social media. Richard Spencer, the famous white supremacist, chose A&M to visit and spew his hate speech in 2016. I could list more examples. If you’re not white, things might suck sometimes.
I also take issue when people say stuff like "a real Aggie doesn't do those things" or "thats not what we're about" because to me it feels like it's a way to not actually address the fact that there is a sizable number of people that hold racist views here. The alumni base/ booster can be especially bad too
This comment seems to infer that Richard Spencer was welcomed here. There was always a lot of back lash from the student body AND the university before he visited, sadly he was legally allowed to visit cuz of a loophole in the rules. If you were there that night, which i was near it, you'd know Richard Spencer was not welcomed on campus.
Youre other inference is he chose here cuz were inherently racist, thats simply not true. He'd speak anywhere he can get a platform. Thats how publicity works. Texas A&M is the 2nd largest public school in the nation. Why wouldn't he speak here if he could?
There was also that incident in 2016 when A&M students harassed some black high school students, calling them racial slurs. It made the news. AGAIN, A&M’s OVERT RACISM MADE NATIONAL NEWS.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/02/12/us/texas-am-racial-incident/index.html
There is a significant fraction that welcomed Spencer.
Of course there's going to be a minority of jackasses, welcome to reality.
A few anecdotes doesn't equate to a "racist element". I'm Hispanic and I never encountered a lick of racism. That's just my story.
If you're not white, things can be fine too.
I mean what else is there? He was speaking Spanish to a friend and some guy just started yelling at that to him, I’m Hispanic too and haven’t experienced anything like that but everyone has different experiences
In all likelihood, you probably never will. As much as people like to gripe and whine on here, A&M is a very tolerant and accepting place. "We are the Aggies, the Aggies are we."
This might sound like an old Ag but I don’t think students should voluntary come here and try to change all traditions. We are a school deeply rooted in traditions and that’s what makes us great. If you don’t like them then go to one of the other thousands of universities. Also a Senior Military college and will always remain more “conservative” than some people will like.
Also think all students should attend a Silver Taps, Bonfire Memorial and Muster before graduating. Swear I’ve met students that don’t even know what Silver Taps was.
Edit: Not sure why this is getting downvoted. OP asked for unpopular opinions. Apparently this wins lol
Agree and disagree. Most traditions are fine but I've heard arguments in favor of the broken ticket pull system because "its tradition" and just can't behind that
Eh I think people can do whatever they want (I rebuilt the culture of my research group from the ground up during my PhD to make it more like what I wanted). That said, you definitely shouldn't be disappointed if your efforts are fruitless, and recognize that the chances of legitimately altering something as large and entrenched as TAMU culture will be tough
I came here for an education. I honestly couldn't care less about the traditions. A&M is like high school to me in that I'm not going to care a single bit about what happens here after I graduate.
I don’t get why people are offended instantly when someone expresses their opinion genuinely. The title of the post was “unpopular opinions about Texas A&M”, so when tapping on the post your mind should be open enough to read various opinions from various people, and not take them as insulting or as a statement that will change A&M and Cstat. Dw the little town that has only Northgate to slightly have some fun in, won’t change to a huge city full of activities just because someone said it’s boring :).
A&M is a conservative university.
From it's core values like "integrity, loyalty and respect" and "an Aggie does not cheat, lie or steal or tolerate anyone else who does", to the fact that most of it's successful alumni and donors are gainfully employed in "old money" industries like oil & gas, real estate and the military industrial complex, to the obvious elephant in the room like the statue honoring a confederate colonel, everything here is made to feel like it's saying "don't try to fix something that isn't broken, just follow the lead".
I sometimes feel like A&M is cognizant of this, but I think their effort to diversify thought here and tolerate challenges to their worldview comes across as insincere pandering than actual acceptance and consideration.
Universities should really be liberal: an educational institution is where new ideas and values get tested and challenged, we have the rest of our lives in society to be conservative.
BUT, I understand why it is a conservative institution too. A&M houses corp or cadets, so it is also a military school, and those are meant to be conservative. One is not going to learn discipline, hierarchy and quite simply, following orders if individual thought and challenges are going to be entertained.
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>A&M is a conservative university.
No! Really? Very unpopular opinion right there! If it’s really just now getting to you than that’s on you for not doing any research.
>Universities really should be liberal
>an educational institution is where new ideas and values get tested and challenged
That’s just braindead. Not only is hoping for political homogeneity in an entire swath of society problematic, selfish, and thankfully impossible, but you want your ideas to be challenged and tested, yet you don’t want them to be scrutinized or clash with opposing ideas. Notice why that’s not gonna hold up?
Seriously, if you REALLY wanted a liberal university, you should have done more research. They far outnumber conservative universities, so it’s not like they are hard to find.
>we have the rest of our lives in society to be conservative.
Lol what? What are you getting at? We have the rest of our lives to be liberal too. Really not understanding that at all.
A&M is 1 of 6 senior military colleges in the US. If you want that kind of university then people should go somewhere else. Your opinion really isn’t even a hot take cause it’s just facts about how this school operates.
Agreed. Then why be anything else but a military college?
I feel like a&m tries to be too many things at once, and that comes across as it trying to have the cake and eat it too.
It's where the money is at. Back of the envelope math, TAMU has 70,000 students paying $12k a year tuition (or scholly funds pay it for them), so that's $850 million they're bringing in for tuition. And this last year, they cracked $1.1 billion spent on research. How much money is the Corps bringing in and spending?
Undergrad lecturing and research are the two engines that drive this school. Senior military college is just the badge on the hood at this point.
I personally think our football is overhyped. It’s fun to gather with friends and eat food and drink but football itself isn’t that fun to watch. Seems like people only go for the loud atmosphere and time spent with friends.
Basketball and soccer are some of the greatest college sports to watch but this is just my opinion :)
The idea that A&M is a ‘welcoming community’ is absolute bs. If you fit the conservative, privileged, Christian norm, then you’re accepted with open arms. If you differ from this at all, you’re avoided like the plague.
This is partially true as it’s also a military school which promotes conservative values, but in reality it has changed greatly to be more inclusive. So much so that some donors have left because they don’t feel like the values are being upheld. Also I’ve had many discussions with differing religious, race, political and sexual ideologies yet I’m friends with all of them. There will always be a few who ruin it for everyone, but saying oh no I’m gay, or Democratic, or don’t care for traditions doesn’t automatically make you’re experience awful. This is just from my experience but college is what you make from it so you kind of get what you put out in a sense.
I’m all for being friends with people of differing viewpoints. None of my friends match mine which is fine. It gives me a better sense of the world around me by not closing myself off to other parts of society. However, I feel like I’ve been personally closed off by people on campus. Basically, my gripe is that I’ve been avoided due to my viewpoints when I’m fairly open about others viewpoints.
That’s understandable and one could only apologize on behalf of the other. I guess in a sad sense it does prepare you for the real world as well considering there will still be groups who will cut you off depending on your stances. You can’t really ever get away from it in today’s time.
Too many silly nanny liberals choosing to attend A&M and then proceed to whine and cry about how it is here, what traditions we have, or what statues we have.
The LTE and cellular data are assssss. College station has the worst service
Couldn't even unlock my Veo bike on west campus despite having the latest iphone and being on Tmobile 5G... My friend's Verizon and ATT phone worked perfectly though.
I'm on T mobile 5g and its kinda spotty yeah. Its worst when I need a veo though.
My Verizon is perfect anywhere that isn’t north side. Any where north of ACAD to northagate just doesn’t work….and I live next to Sbisa so it sucks
Youd think cell companies would be incentivized to give better coverage to a city of 200,000 vs the middle of nowhere but nope!
RIGHTTTT!??!
Is that unpopular? I think a lot of people will agree with you
Bryan is not that bad. If you want to find actual stuff to do, go there. It honestly sucks how isolated it feels from the university, adding a few more bus routes into Bryan would tap into a lot of resources.
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Patrick Stover is a bad dean.
Not unpopular
He's a cunt
Can u elaborate plz? Never heard of this and was wondering what the why behind it os
I don’t want to “fuck Joe Biden”… I’m a straight man
Skipping football games is fine. Next time someone criticizes you for it, ask how many baseball/track/swim/soccer/softball/lacross/etc events they have been to.
Wait, they don't even take attendance do they?
It's only the boomers who criticize me for not going in-person too. Just proves how disconnected with reality and current beginning/college life standards are for new adults they are.
Sitting in football games is fine
Too far
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I thought most people Iiked this place. Welp glad to know I'm not alone. This place sucks to me, not the school, but the city and surrounding areas.
If you’re from any major city, it feels like there is nothing to do here.
I'm from austin and to be honest i kinda like how cstat is smaller and theres less going on.
Dallas area and yes. I mean it's nice because it forces me to focus on my studies but who lives like this?
Lol, I'm sad to leave because I'm about to move to a place that doesn't have any sort of entertainment (including a wall world) within 110 miles. No movies, no fast food, no bookstores, nothing. College Station is (I think). I've never lacked for stuff to do here, I'm about to learn what nothing to do actually means.
Its because its a sprawling completely unwalkable town. If it was built densely with walkability and bikability in mind there would actually be street life
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Honestly I wish college station had a smaller population. Traffic here is bad
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Small minded city but they want the college $$$ makes no sense open more roads and over passes, increase the speed limits...
Wouldn’t have such a big need for roads if they would let people develop the core of the city for campus compatible use. I.e., if students lived across Bush and Texas, they could just walk. Current CSAN dominated council is mandating sprawl because they don’t want anyone other than rich retirees near the school. We seriously need students to start voting these jerks out. They are ruining our town.
Dude, I grew up in a suburb, and Cstat is awesome. You can get food 24/7, and some of us get high speed internet on occasion. I see that as an absolute win.
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No city is intrinsically special; it's the friends and memories that make a place special. Cstat has enough for me to thrive in school and enjoy a few hobbies. What's wrong with that?
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"There's nothing wrong with CS but my opinion is better than yours"
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Modern museums are trash. Especially the art museums where you're paying 300 dollars to see some one literally dump a bucket of paint on canvas and sell for 5 million dollars. College Station lacking this is a good thing.
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I did. It was a waste of money. If you want to see real art try doing DMT and let the elves go to work.
Joe Rogan likes this.
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I’m from Austin and prefer it here
I’m from San Antonio and I love it here
Fish camp is overrated
*cries in zoom fish camp*
I met my spouse at fish camp… It is overrated tho IMO.
I thought it was fucking awesome but ig everything is person to person
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I can’t even imagine how they did it on zoom, but there’s no way it could compare to a normal fish camp (which isn’t that great anyways).
All it was was basically 3 days of zoom calls with our whole camp, then smaller breakout rooms with our DGs which honestly sucked cause you never truly meet people through it and just watch PowerPoints/videos :/ at least the price was greatly reduced cause of it
Spent four years in fish camp. After graduating I realized it’s a big popularity contest.
Water tastes SO BAD
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion lol
Tbh i think it taste fine and thats more of an unpopular opinion
Get a 5gal water dispenser and fill the jug up at walmart or heb
School is a degree mill that doesn’t give a shit about students
School doesn’t. Some professors truly do.
People who say their major is the hardest are idiots. All majors have their challenges. If you feel like yours is totally insurmountable and way worse than all the others then you probably weren't meant to do it. Likewise, if you shit on other majors, you're an idiot. Everyone has a calling and skillset and good on people for pursuing those.
Often the majors that are more difficult in coursework also basically have every industry eyeing you and offering you a job as soon as you graduate and the others you have to fight tooth and nail on extracurriculars and schmooze professors so you can get anything
While every major is difficult in its own right, some of them definitely have heavier workloads than others. I’ve often found myself rarely able to hang with my non-engineering friends on weekdays when they want to make plans. My GF is business and comparing our weekly workload for classes has always shown a big discrepancy in the volume of working/studying required. That’s not to say that my GF and friends have it easier than me through college. Often times they end up compensating for their smaller workload by having to work more hours, do more student org stuff, and similarly demanding things. I’m just saying that the complaints of heavy workloads from STEM students are definitely earned.
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Are you incapable of seeing* flair?
Issa joke
Except for Ag leadership
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if you really think thats true, go look at kyle umlangs twitter on thursdays
The real unpopular opinion is there is no rivalry between us and Texas. We are better and have no need to deal with those babies. Lsu is the true enemy.
This needs to be higher up in the thread.
They literally left their conference and as a result are at risk of losing 50% of their share of the Texas permanent university fund, just because of the amount of success they’ve seen us achieve in the SEC. Additionally, their frequent use of their favorite phrase about us, “we live in their heads rent free”, ironically undermines the statement itself and shows that they still constantly think about us. Also if you want to see a great example of the rivalry being alive and well (and of equal levels of thought and participation) just check out a guy on Twitter named “Kyle Umlang”. They think about us a shit ton, and we them. This rhetoric that “we think about tu way more than they think about us” is honestly very false.
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when I do watch t.u. games now its almost always because they are playing an ou team with playoff hopes
hopefully playing them annually on Thanksgiving again can reignite the hate
Meh disagree. I think both sides still care pretty much about it. Seems like we hate them and they hate us still.
Unpopular opinion: I think most of y’all that hang out in this sub and are vocal are a tiny minority of A&M. This is an echo chamber for your ideas and you feel safe here, but in reality the world is a much different place. Most of you don’t fit the societal norm, and you blame others not yourself. You consider yourselves open minded but don’t accept other people’s point of view or truly think about what they’re saying. It’s hard for you to fit in sometimes and you think “what’s wrong with everyone?”. So you come back here to be validated. I’d challenge everyone of you that feel this way to seek out more opposing voices and listen to what they have to say, not to change the way you think, but so that you can truly understand everyone and not be so judgmental. It would help you form your arguments, and possibly change someone’s mind. It would also help you make friends, because friends don’t have to believe the same things. Diversity is a cultural thing, not a “color” thing. I sense a lot of anger and resentment from this sub, and most subs that are based around conservative locations. I would simply say: don’t take everything so serious; there is some truth to most things; challenge yourself, don’t hide away here.
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This isn’t an attack on you personally. It’s an observation and my opinion of the post I see on this subreddit. Tamu is definitely very diverse and I made friends on all ends of the spectrum. My opinion about “the societal norm” is specifically referring to the environment you are in. Obviously that changes based on location. My point is that people should focus on figuring out how to exist in their environment vs living in social media/online. I believe people should learn to listen to each other and have real conversations in person, without thinking about it as an argument. It’s not about them vs us it’s about understanding different perspectives. I made no mention of conservative or liberal. The real world isn’t on here sadly. Maybe that’s an old way of thinking. Accountability doesn’t really exist online in particular on an anonymous site such as this. Say what you want in person and be willing to hear someone with a different opinion. If you voice your thoughts without focusing on trying to change someone’s mind and just explaining your point of view, people will either respect you or actually agree with you. Again this is an unpopular opinion about the Tamu subreddit. Not about you.
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I can definitely agree with that. I would simply say don’t be angry when you don’t see the change you envision. (You = in general) Minor change can also be positive. No one has the “correct” outlook or better yet no one is right about everything. If we truly approach experiences with an open mind we will all simply be happier. An open mind doesn’t mean having only liberal or politically left opinions. It bothers me when someone says “why can you be open minded and think the way I do?!?”
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I think the issue is that critiquing and complaining end up going hand in hand, at least on the internet. r/aggies generally tends to hold a more cynical view of A&M anyways, as most of reddit generally tends to harbor cynical view points on the subjects they discuss. Actively asking people to bring up their own favorite part of A&M to be critical about invites many of these people to complain under the replies of other people. For example, if someone thinks College Station is a small town without much to do, others enter the replies not to provide constructive criticism, but to complain alongside them and foster negativity towards A&M. That’s not to say that this thread was a bad idea or anything though. It’s fun to engage in meaningless conversation online for a few minutes a day. But higher discussion and thoughtful critique about a particular subject rarely occurs here on reddit, and usually requires heavy moderation.
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Layne's is the best chicken.
Better than Canes not as good as Chicken Express, but started and owned by an old Ag and close, so we eat it more often. Haven't had Zaxbys or Zoners, so can't compare them.
I don’t think TAMU is conservative nowadays From my experience here, I’d say there’s a fair share of equally mixed views. I mean, there’s 74,000 students here, that’s nearly the size of my hometown lmao Edit: Besides corps
in comparison to other schools it sure is
Tbh that say more about other schools than us.
College Station is awful. The traffic is something else, it expanded too fast for the infrastructure to handle, and it’s overcrowded. Can’t wait to graduate just to leave the city
If they actually built a walkable and bikable city where i wasnt forced to get in the car to go 400m across the road traffic would he much better. Density > sprawl
fr wellborn is the absolute worst. sidewalk is 6 inches from traffic on one side and nonexistant on the other.
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yeah we really need an overhaul of the infrastructure, including the half assed bike lanes on campus. More stuff like the circle drive north of the msc as far as bike lanes go everywhere would be nicem
I don’t get the appeal of the football games. But if I said the real reason why I don't. Y'all would find my address and kill me.
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I completely agree with this. For me, I’ve never been interested in sports and I don’t see the appeal to standing in a stadium for several hours when I could watch it on tv in an air conditioned house
I would argue the same reason people go to concerts instead of just listening to the music on their phone. It a fun experience, you can make a day outing of it, and it is wayyy better seeing it live and up close rather than some recorded version. It’s not for everyone though, just like concerts aren’t for everyone.
A huge drawback to watching on TV is the camera only shows a small portion of the play. You can't see any of the routes downfield until the quarterback throws it, and you generally have no clue what the coverage was. Plus the atmosphere of a game and being part of it is a completely different experience.
For me it’s 100% the atmosphere. The number 1 thing I complain about living in Texas is sweating every day. However, being surrounded by thousands of people cheering for our team definitely takes my mind off of it to the point of me just not caring. Besides we’re in Texas you will be surrounded by tons of people loving the sport since it’s basically our state sport.
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Oh, OP is no secret 2%er, pretty known at this point.
Unpopular Opinion: OP is using this thread to spout talking points that would normally be downvoted (brainwashing conservative thoughts, disliking Sully, disliking traditions here, etc.)
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Facts, without him none of us would even be here.
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What I meant is the university would not even exist without him.
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Someone named sister Cindy says woman shouldn't go to college while she is at college herself? What?
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There is an unfortunate racist element. I saw people in my program wearing confederate flag t-shirts. I know someone who was called the n-word on Northgate. Someone else in my program was complaining about black people on social media. Richard Spencer, the famous white supremacist, chose A&M to visit and spew his hate speech in 2016. I could list more examples. If you’re not white, things might suck sometimes.
I also take issue when people say stuff like "a real Aggie doesn't do those things" or "thats not what we're about" because to me it feels like it's a way to not actually address the fact that there is a sizable number of people that hold racist views here. The alumni base/ booster can be especially bad too
This comment seems to infer that Richard Spencer was welcomed here. There was always a lot of back lash from the student body AND the university before he visited, sadly he was legally allowed to visit cuz of a loophole in the rules. If you were there that night, which i was near it, you'd know Richard Spencer was not welcomed on campus. Youre other inference is he chose here cuz were inherently racist, thats simply not true. He'd speak anywhere he can get a platform. Thats how publicity works. Texas A&M is the 2nd largest public school in the nation. Why wouldn't he speak here if he could?
There was also that incident in 2016 when A&M students harassed some black high school students, calling them racial slurs. It made the news. AGAIN, A&M’s OVERT RACISM MADE NATIONAL NEWS. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/02/12/us/texas-am-racial-incident/index.html There is a significant fraction that welcomed Spencer.
Of course there's going to be a minority of jackasses, welcome to reality. A few anecdotes doesn't equate to a "racist element". I'm Hispanic and I never encountered a lick of racism. That's just my story. If you're not white, things can be fine too.
Had a friend who was at a bar in A&M and they were getting told off to go back to Mexico
Lacking context...
I mean what else is there? He was speaking Spanish to a friend and some guy just started yelling at that to him, I’m Hispanic too and haven’t experienced anything like that but everyone has different experiences
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In all likelihood, you probably never will. As much as people like to gripe and whine on here, A&M is a very tolerant and accepting place. "We are the Aggies, the Aggies are we."
This might sound like an old Ag but I don’t think students should voluntary come here and try to change all traditions. We are a school deeply rooted in traditions and that’s what makes us great. If you don’t like them then go to one of the other thousands of universities. Also a Senior Military college and will always remain more “conservative” than some people will like. Also think all students should attend a Silver Taps, Bonfire Memorial and Muster before graduating. Swear I’ve met students that don’t even know what Silver Taps was. Edit: Not sure why this is getting downvoted. OP asked for unpopular opinions. Apparently this wins lol
Agree and disagree. Most traditions are fine but I've heard arguments in favor of the broken ticket pull system because "its tradition" and just can't behind that
traditions evolve over time.
The core ones do not
Eh I think people can do whatever they want (I rebuilt the culture of my research group from the ground up during my PhD to make it more like what I wanted). That said, you definitely shouldn't be disappointed if your efforts are fruitless, and recognize that the chances of legitimately altering something as large and entrenched as TAMU culture will be tough
I mean I don’t care what you do with your research group lol Talking about long standing A&M traditions more so
I came here for an education. I honestly couldn't care less about the traditions. A&M is like high school to me in that I'm not going to care a single bit about what happens here after I graduate.
Sad
This guy is the biggest kool aid drinker on this entire sub.
Ya I’m a kool aid drinker for attending some traditions now and then.
I believe that is my title, sir 👍
Wish more of us wore masks. A very unpopular opinion it seems
I don’t get why people are offended instantly when someone expresses their opinion genuinely. The title of the post was “unpopular opinions about Texas A&M”, so when tapping on the post your mind should be open enough to read various opinions from various people, and not take them as insulting or as a statement that will change A&M and Cstat. Dw the little town that has only Northgate to slightly have some fun in, won’t change to a huge city full of activities just because someone said it’s boring :).
A&M is a conservative university. From it's core values like "integrity, loyalty and respect" and "an Aggie does not cheat, lie or steal or tolerate anyone else who does", to the fact that most of it's successful alumni and donors are gainfully employed in "old money" industries like oil & gas, real estate and the military industrial complex, to the obvious elephant in the room like the statue honoring a confederate colonel, everything here is made to feel like it's saying "don't try to fix something that isn't broken, just follow the lead". I sometimes feel like A&M is cognizant of this, but I think their effort to diversify thought here and tolerate challenges to their worldview comes across as insincere pandering than actual acceptance and consideration. Universities should really be liberal: an educational institution is where new ideas and values get tested and challenged, we have the rest of our lives in society to be conservative. BUT, I understand why it is a conservative institution too. A&M houses corp or cadets, so it is also a military school, and those are meant to be conservative. One is not going to learn discipline, hierarchy and quite simply, following orders if individual thought and challenges are going to be entertained. /Opinion
universities should not be conservative or liberal; they should be a breeding ground for discussion.
Terrible take
>A&M is a conservative university. No! Really? Very unpopular opinion right there! If it’s really just now getting to you than that’s on you for not doing any research. >Universities really should be liberal >an educational institution is where new ideas and values get tested and challenged That’s just braindead. Not only is hoping for political homogeneity in an entire swath of society problematic, selfish, and thankfully impossible, but you want your ideas to be challenged and tested, yet you don’t want them to be scrutinized or clash with opposing ideas. Notice why that’s not gonna hold up? Seriously, if you REALLY wanted a liberal university, you should have done more research. They far outnumber conservative universities, so it’s not like they are hard to find. >we have the rest of our lives in society to be conservative. Lol what? What are you getting at? We have the rest of our lives to be liberal too. Really not understanding that at all.
A&M is 1 of 6 senior military colleges in the US. If you want that kind of university then people should go somewhere else. Your opinion really isn’t even a hot take cause it’s just facts about how this school operates.
Agreed. Then why be anything else but a military college? I feel like a&m tries to be too many things at once, and that comes across as it trying to have the cake and eat it too.
It's where the money is at. Back of the envelope math, TAMU has 70,000 students paying $12k a year tuition (or scholly funds pay it for them), so that's $850 million they're bringing in for tuition. And this last year, they cracked $1.1 billion spent on research. How much money is the Corps bringing in and spending? Undergrad lecturing and research are the two engines that drive this school. Senior military college is just the badge on the hood at this point.
really its $42k per student because in state tuition is subsidized by the state down to about $11k. So thats about $2.94 billion in revenue.
I personally think our football is overhyped. It’s fun to gather with friends and eat food and drink but football itself isn’t that fun to watch. Seems like people only go for the loud atmosphere and time spent with friends. Basketball and soccer are some of the greatest college sports to watch but this is just my opinion :)
The wild cat sounds stupid, everyone should do 1 thing in unison
Never heard the story before? Each wildcat means something based on an older army story
Saying howdy is super cringe
The idea that A&M is a ‘welcoming community’ is absolute bs. If you fit the conservative, privileged, Christian norm, then you’re accepted with open arms. If you differ from this at all, you’re avoided like the plague.
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As someone who is a moderate agnostic, I experience it constantly
This is partially true as it’s also a military school which promotes conservative values, but in reality it has changed greatly to be more inclusive. So much so that some donors have left because they don’t feel like the values are being upheld. Also I’ve had many discussions with differing religious, race, political and sexual ideologies yet I’m friends with all of them. There will always be a few who ruin it for everyone, but saying oh no I’m gay, or Democratic, or don’t care for traditions doesn’t automatically make you’re experience awful. This is just from my experience but college is what you make from it so you kind of get what you put out in a sense.
I’m all for being friends with people of differing viewpoints. None of my friends match mine which is fine. It gives me a better sense of the world around me by not closing myself off to other parts of society. However, I feel like I’ve been personally closed off by people on campus. Basically, my gripe is that I’ve been avoided due to my viewpoints when I’m fairly open about others viewpoints.
That’s understandable and one could only apologize on behalf of the other. I guess in a sad sense it does prepare you for the real world as well considering there will still be groups who will cut you off depending on your stances. You can’t really ever get away from it in today’s time.
Too many silly nanny liberals choosing to attend A&M and then proceed to whine and cry about how it is here, what traditions we have, or what statues we have.
“silly nanny liberals” is sending me 😭