No offense and I'm not trying to start a flame war, but if this were about Rodgers or Brady donating to their alma mater, almost all of the comments would be "it's great to give back" and stuff, with all of the "it's not charity to donate to one's alma mater" comments being downvoted to oblivion.
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As a former Beckley resident, I'm excited and proud of my alma mater for moving to serve the southern part of the state.
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Does your alma mater still do rotations there?
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In the middle/upper-class, you will find that goals fall into 1 of 2 categories: either you find the yuppie clone who wants to go to their mommy/daddy's alma mater, and go into a prestigious line of work that is sometimes what their parents did, or you find the aspiring art major, who gets a degree that won't get them a job and they spend time being what I like to call "white-person impoverished" where they backpack around, usually in another continent, without much money, but with enough financial security that they could, at the very worst, call their parents for a plane ticket back home.
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They're offering you money to go to school there, it's in the type of environment you want, you feel that it fits you, and you already think that going back to your Alma Mater would cause you to miss out on desirable new experiences.
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I chose not to go back to my Alma Mater for med school despite it being ranked around 15th in research to go to a school probably in the 40/50s.
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But as /u/JustHereForTheMemes said, once you're in the workforce your alma mater becomes irrelevant.
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Seeing your alma mater play is awesome.
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Those 3 get full scholarships to USC, his alma mater.
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If I'd said that at my alma mater (University of Ottawa), there'd be a photo of me on the front page of the campus paper taken from Facebook the following issue.
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Yeah, I mean I've seen pieces of the shows he's on, and I was aware of the OSU connection, but I thought he was a former Buckeye who was just too hard on his alma mater for everyone's liking.
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You know some of those guys would love to come back and coach their alma mater.
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I think if the Iowa job opened up though, people would be a little more understanding of him leaving us for his alma mater, but it would still suck if we continue on the trajectory from this season.
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Hopefully it becomes a Jim Mora situation, where if his alma mater calls upon him (like UW did this past offseason to Mora), Bielema stays to see this whole thing through.
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I also think there is a lot more heart in the game when players are defending their alma mater versus playing for a paycheck
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He went to my alma mater!
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Bob Stoops would be a good candidate, considering it's his alma mater.
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Is your alma mater UConn, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Stanford, Baylor, Duke or Louisville, or UNC?
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But considering OSU's field shows have gotten millions of views on YouTube and they get the whole stadium singing along to their fight song and alma mater, I'd say they are loved all over.
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If just providing meals was against the rules I was beginning to get very nervous for my Alma Mater.
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Nice to see my Alma Mater getting credit.
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Alumni don't know what's going on with their alma mater?
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I am very happy with him representing my alma mater, contrary to my other two football teams.
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Only difference is UM is Harbaugh's alma mater, a prestigious program, and offered a lot of $.
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The reason I ask is that my alma mater has 2 other schools it can be mixed up with, one in state and one out of state.
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I wanted to add that my alma mater, University of Missouri, has other prices (Amazon, half.com,etc) listed on their bookstore website.
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And part of it was recorded in my hometown at my alma mater.
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Well that also applies to colleges as many cheer for their alma mater or the local university for those kinds of sports.
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I don't really have any local allegiances, so I rep my alma mater on here.
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I know my alma mater started off as an Ag school, but I really don't need to see 50 FarmersOnly.com commercials every time I watch a game.
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Desmond didn't pick against his alma mater though... a little sad they didn't point that out.
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I'm actually rooting for my alma mater.
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I think that's the alma mater.
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If you're looking for an example, Jay Ajayi played RB for my alma mater last night.
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It's a mystery that he wanted to coach his alma mater?
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I love cheering for my alma mater because I feel a more personal connection to the team.
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Upon returning to his native Canada for a visit to his alma mater, Alex Trebek finds out that he contracted gonorrhea of the throat after going down on a teenage boy in a sketchy van parked by a ravine.
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TO OUR ALMA MATER...
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TO OUR ALMA MATER...
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I say we when referring to Georgia because it's my alma mater and the team is a representation of me.
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Yeah, how dare I cheer for the team my dad grew up cheering for or my alma mater.
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He had a doctorate in English, but decided to teach HS at his alma mater because he vastly preferred smaller classes.
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Is it bad that my Alma Mater had one of those old mainframes in the campuses main computer room?
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My alma mater spends $800k a year on a women's basketball coach and the women's basketball program does not make a profit.
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My alma mater is winning their bowl game at the moment.
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My alma Mater.
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I dunno, he spurned a huge offer from Texas and rejected his alma mater last year
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Some people say he's bitter about a 72-0 shelacking Ohio State put on Pitt in 96 (his alma mater).
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