i go to suny fucking albany. JUDGE ME

ok, so i hate the saying "suny fucking albany."  it's trashy, but it just works with the title and the blog and sometimes it's fun to say.


so i kinda have this love-hate thing with albany, but i'm tired of other people putting down my school.  this is my attempt at defending my school.  my albany babies, this is for you.


so, the usual reactions i get from people when i tell them that i go to suny albany is something like "nice! how are the parties? SICK RIGHT?!" or "suny FUCKIN albany!?" or, my personal favorite, something of a chagrin, an "oh", from those i'm-so-cool-and-so-smart-i-go-to-fordham-in-the-bronx people.  i hate to break it to you guys, but fordham's no georgetown.


first, i'd like to clear some things .. sometimes i hate albany, but that's just because i'm moody.  95% of the time, i love it for many, many reasons (which one day i will list in another blog).  
secondly - yes, there are many parties at albany, but just as much as every other college across the united states?  and i could confidently say that when going out on a weekend night, the goal of the population is definitely to get drunk and have fun.  and yes, at some point, albany was definitely the #1 party school, but that was in 1998.  it has been ranked in the top 10 party schools about 9 times.  something i'm proud of?  i don't know.  it's just a good topic of conversation with strangers...


and all of you, i-go-to-a-private-school-so-i'm-better-than-you people (you know who you are): you're wrong and dumb.  suny's standards are being risen.  suny albany has increasingly been becoming more and more competitive to get into.  many don't get into albany anymore, whereas a few years ago, anyone could get in.  more and more intelligent people are choosing albany, where they could choose any of the state schools around new york and in their neighborhoods.

as far as the partying and studying goes, people do study and party.  i know, hard to believe being all we do is party here.  24-7.  we never go to class, always party.  the teacher's aren't good either because it's a state school.  false.  i've had more brilliant teachers than bad ones in the past year and a half.  there is a good balance.  students study and party.  they should probably study more than they do but at least it's something!

all in all, you know why i love albany.  it's cool.  it's definitely #1 in my book's top 10 coolest universities.  so yeah, go ahead, judge me for going to suny fucking albany, but your judgement is wrong.