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Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:42 pm
by Kilpatrick
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Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:05 pm
by cr073137
Kilpatrick wrote:I'm going to Illinois and there will be lots of talk about the Lakers, I'm sorry. The bulls are my second favorite team though so it would be pretty cool if Lebron ended up there while I was living 2 hours away.

NOT going to happen, if lebron goes anywhere, it will be to the knicks http://www.nycgo.com/cmonlebron , but he will probably stay up in Cleveland. FYI, there are a lot of international students here, and for us, football=soccer, so can we use "American Football" for clarity? Also, I hope I will not be the only non-football fan in the school. I dont mind going to a game, but i dont really go because I like American football, I just like cheering and the atmosphere of almost all sports. Who knows, maybe ill start to like the damn sport now. Another thing, is being a colts fan a bad thing in Illinois? that's the only American football team I currently cheer for.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:11 pm
by blurbz
cr073137 wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:I'm going to Illinois and there will be lots of talk about the Lakers, I'm sorry. The bulls are my second favorite team though so it would be pretty cool if Lebron ended up there while I was living 2 hours away.

NOT going to happen, if lebron goes anywhere, it will be to the knicks http://www.nycgo.com/cmonlebron , but he will probably stay up in Cleveland. FYI, there are a lot of international students here, and for us, football=soccer, so can we use "American Football" for clarity? Also, I hope I will not be the only non-football fan in the school. I dont mind going to a game, but i dont really go because I like American football, I just like cheering and the atmosphere of almost all sports. Who knows, maybe ill start to like the damn sport now. Another thing, is being a colts fan a bad thing in Illinois? that's the only American football team I currently cheer for.
I've spent my undergrad years being co-opted by Colts fans...They're a fun team to root for so I won't judge you at all for it!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:17 pm
by Kilpatrick
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Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:19 pm
by blurbz
Kilpatrick wrote:I've spent most of my life without an American football (I'll comply with your request cr!) team to root for. I went to a Rams game once when I was a kid, but that was it. I'm excited to go to some games at Illinois. Maybe I'll even start rooting for the Bears. Are they any good?

The Bears are an awful, awful team and you'd be wasting your time getting too attached to them. If you want to root for a real team, buy something green and gold and come to my apartment on Sundays.

:-)

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:25 pm
by yhezel
TCScrutinizer wrote:Although, I don't really care much about baseball. Football first, football always. Then basketball. If Chicago gets LeBron they're immediately my second favorite team behind the Rockets.
+1.

I'm guessing with Indy 90 minutes away there's plenty of Colts fans in Illinois. Anyone planning to go there on 11/28? :D

I think the school organizes some events during the orientation days (Based on the agenda for the previous year) but we could still do something before the 18th.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:22 pm
by SaintClarence27
blurbz wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:I've spent most of my life without an American football (I'll comply with your request cr!) team to root for. I went to a Rams game once when I was a kid, but that was it. I'm excited to go to some games at Illinois. Maybe I'll even start rooting for the Bears. Are they any good?

The Bears are an awful, awful team and you'd be wasting your time getting too attached to them. If you want to root for a real team, buy something green and gold and come to my apartment on Sundays.

:-)
To burn in effigy while you root for the Vikings?

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:52 am
by TCScrutinizer
MBZags wrote:
TCScrutinizer wrote:
MBZags wrote:I already know a few people on here just from the admitted students day, and the only thing I've said on here that might get me in trouble is that the Cubs suck, but of course, we all know that's true. (Go Reds!) :P

But yeah, everyone here seems really cool and laid back, which is the feeling I got from most people at the ASD. I'm definitely excited to get up to Chambana in August to meet everyone and have some fun before school starts.
I can support you on the "Cubs suck" if you forget to mention the Lakers ever again.
That might be tough. Is Kobe on the banned list as well? I assume in most contexts that talking about Him is fine, as long as we don't take the Lord's name in vain.

I hate Kobe Bryant so much, but mainly because he's inhumanly good at basketball.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:17 am
by blurbz
SaintClarence27 wrote:
blurbz wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:I've spent most of my life without an American football (I'll comply with your request cr!) team to root for. I went to a Rams game once when I was a kid, but that was it. I'm excited to go to some games at Illinois. Maybe I'll even start rooting for the Bears. Are they any good?

The Bears are an awful, awful team and you'd be wasting your time getting too attached to them. If you want to root for a real team, buy something green and gold and come to my apartment on Sundays.

:-)
To burn in effigy while you root for the Vikings?
:evil: Not exactly. The only team I hate more than the Vikings is the Bears.

...But I will admit to being a Favre fan, so I had no problem rooting for them to win it all last year.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:39 am
by as stars burn
Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:45 am
by anthropologieaddict
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Good luck to you at IIT!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:49 am
by blurbz
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)

Sorry to see you go--

Best of luck to you!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:52 am
by SaintClarence27
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)

GOOD LUCK!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:26 am
by cr073137
SaintClarence27 wrote:
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)

GOOD LUCK!

Sad to see you go... Now, can we go back to basketball? Yesterday was a great game! I was sure the Lakers were going to win again, freaking Rondo was missing every possible shot, and the Kobe + Gasol combination was unstoppable. Thanks to Gasol, people are finally recognizing that there are really good players outside of the NBA. Spain's team is amazing. Does anyone here watches the international tournaments?

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:34 am
by taw856
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Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:57 pm
by Luis Gomez
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Sorry to hear that. ITT is a great school and u get to live in Chicago. Good luck.

I got my visa approved for UIUC, so I will be withdrawing from some wait lists today, as well.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:02 pm
by blurbz
Luis Gomez wrote:
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Sorry to hear that. ITT is a great school and u get to live in Chicago. Good luck.

I got my visa approved for UIUC, so I will be withdrawing from some wait lists today, as well.

Congratulations!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:42 pm
by cr073137
blurbz wrote:
Luis Gomez wrote:
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Sorry to hear that. ITT is a great school and u get to live in Chicago. Good luck.

I got my visa approved for UIUC, so I will be withdrawing from some wait lists today, as well.

Congratulations!
Hardly anyone ever gets denied (if you are legit). Its just such a pain in the ass to do the paperwork, pay fees, and im just too lazy. Ill get mine in august, like a week before my trip ;)

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:37 pm
by webbylu87
blurbz wrote:
TCScrutinizer wrote:Although, I don't really care much about baseball. Football first, football always. Then basketball. If Chicago gets LeBron they're immediately my second favorite team behind the Rockets.

I've underlined the important part. Please tell me I won't be the only Packer fan in the class...
I bleed green and gold. Favre is a Packer 4EVA.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:56 pm
by TCScrutinizer
webbylu87 wrote:
blurbz wrote:
TCScrutinizer wrote:Although, I don't really care much about baseball. Football first, football always. Then basketball. If Chicago gets LeBron they're immediately my second favorite team behind the Rockets.

I've underlined the important part. Please tell me I won't be the only Packer fan in the class...
I bleed green and gold. Favre is a Packer 4EVA.
Even if he comes back and wins a ring for Minnesota?

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:58 pm
by webbylu87
TCScrutinizer wrote:
webbylu87 wrote:
blurbz wrote:
TCScrutinizer wrote:Although, I don't really care much about baseball. Football first, football always. Then basketball. If Chicago gets LeBron they're immediately my second favorite team behind the Rockets.

I've underlined the important part. Please tell me I won't be the only Packer fan in the class...
I bleed green and gold. Favre is a Packer 4EVA.
Even if he comes back and wins a ring for Minnesota?
No. I was willing to forgive his little Jets indiscretion. He was kind of forced out and obviously wanted to keep playing. I was with him up until there as he had earned that much faith from Packers fans. But going to the Vikings? Now that's just adding insult to injury!

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:08 pm
by Kilpatrick
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Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:47 pm
by Luis Gomez
Kilpatrick wrote:
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Sorry to hear you are withdrawing, I was rooting for you. Probably a smart thing though, looks like not much waitlist movement anywhere.

Re: American football talk. Hatred of Bears aside, are they any good? Do they win games? I know this is unAmerican of me, but I really don't follow it closely.

Who does everyone like in the World Cup?
BRASIL is the best team out there, man by man it must be Argentina.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:12 pm
by yhezel
Luis Gomez wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:
as stars burn wrote:Sorry to break up the basketball talk, but I have sadly withdrawn from the Illinois waitlist today. I'm just unable to wait anymore and I honestly see none to very, very minimal waitlist activity. Excited about my final decision though.

Also, I'm a HUGE Orlando Magic fan. Too bad they got absolutely dominated the last two years by the Lakers and Celtics. Gotta represent the underdogs :(

Good luck to the entering class! :)
Sorry to hear you are withdrawing, I was rooting for you. Probably a smart thing though, looks like not much waitlist movement anywhere.

Re: American football talk. Hatred of Bears aside, are they any good? Do they win games? I know this is unAmerican of me, but I really don't follow it closely.

Who does everyone like in the World Cup?
BRASIL is the best team out there, man by man it must be Argentina.
Congratulations on the visa Luis! Back to Sports... Kilpatrick, if you root for the Chicago Bears you're looking at lots of Sad Sundays :(

Spain will get very far in the World Cup, with good chances of being the world champion.

Brett Farve WILL get another ring, even if he's on Medicare by then.

Re: Illinois 2010!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:12 pm
by yhezel
Wasn't this thread at one point about a Law School? :)