The Dread Pirate Monty

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

Hey all, been a forum lurker on aifa for a year or so now but I'm just now registering for the forums (as I am actually a legit MS I now in AROTC and therefore I have cause to register myself). I'm a freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, originally from Palo Alto, California (san francisco bay area). Awesome site, glad to be a more active part of it now

[Cerebroden]

lurked for a year and still joined the airforce? that is no fucking cause I can think of. How you liking a quality U of M school? long way and totally different climate from the bay area.

[Skull6]

Maybe its BECAUSE he lurked here for a year that he went AF...? :D

Welcome.

[Sammy Sandbag]

lurked for a year and still joined the airforce? that is no fucking cause I can think of. How you liking a quality U of M school? long way and totally different climate from the bay area.

Where the fuck does it say he joined the Air Force?


Welcome The Dread Pirate Monty.

[Cerebroden]

ok point, for some reason I'm just used to seeing AFROTC, everyone in army calls it army rotc

statement retracted,
fuck you sammy

[I274]

'went from the left coast to the east coast -- but at Amherst, there is no political difference. That place is full of left wing commie pinkoes. (lived there for 3 years.)

Welcome to AIFA and good luck!

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

You're right, and what's worse, I am a political science major and I'm in a special program where I live on a floor of only political science majors... we get sloshed on saturday nights and talk foreign policy... ugh I hate it. So there's prett much no way of avoiding the whole pinko commie crap. There's another guy on the floor who's in *ARMY* ROTC with me so they call us the army of too. Everyone's nice though as long as we steer the conversation away from current events.

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

There's another guy on the floor who's in *ARMY* ROTC with me so they call us the army of too.

God I just got back from PT. I can't even spell at this hour...

[Aries]

stop being a pussy.

anyway, i was a poli sci major and C was a International Affairs Major. it made life a lot more interesting debating with the fascists and the commies

[Jake the Skillet]

Being a previous poly sci major, just heed this warning.

Be extremely careful what you say when you are in uniform

[Aries]

very very very careful..

shit.. if you are in uniform, just say "no comment".

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

That's good advice... I try to avoid everything. But since people know I'm in ROTC, they usually have a few assumptions of their own regardless. It's not THAT bad here, it's definitely no Cal Berkeley, I've heard that cadets there get eggs and heil hitler salutes quite often, however I have a lot of friends that go to Cal and they say the activists isn't as much the students anymore, it's the aging hippie locals that went to Cal a long time ago, dropped out, blazed their lives away and stuck around Berkeley with a sense of nostaliga for their 60s activist days. Either way, UMass isn't so bad. People here are supportive of my wish to serve if not "the cause" in particular. But, causes change with administrations; it's just as likely the Army will be fighting a war for a left-wing president by the time I graduate, and then they'll just love me.

[Skull6]

very very very careful..

shit.. if you are in uniform, just say "no comment".

Or better yet..."I can neither confirm nor deny that I am going 'Commando' at the present time..." :D

[neo]

Why poli sci?

If it is to do politics then leave now and change your major cause NONE of it applies in the real world.

[Skull6]

or even the military, for that matter. :D

[Jake the Skillet]

MSG Anderson was my Platoon TAC at LDAC

He's a badass. Hard, but fair.

"Fast is smooth, smooth is fast, don't rush to failure."

That quote will always stick with me

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

I honestly don't know why I chose Poli Sci... I'm known in my polisci class (which is composed of ONLY poli sci majors, cause of the honors program) for being the dude that doesn't care about politics... After a while, class became all the liberals just repeatedly backing each other up, they don't talk to debate, they talk to hear each other talk... I'm apathetic, I take politics as seriously as anything else in life. From what I've seen, it's always a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich (hope you guys get the south park reference). But then again I'm 18 years old, what the hell do I know about politics or life in general. I don't think I'm old or wise enough to have a fully formed opinion yet, regardless of what voting rights the constitution allows me.

Oh yeah, MSG Anderson... he's quite the character. A very... spirited NCO to say the least. Some of the guys think he's a bastard, but I find him funny most of the time... especially his interactions with some of our MSIVs and MSIIIs who goof off and say hilarious stuff in ranks during PT

[Skull6]

From the 2 poly sci classes I took, I learned 2 things.

1) Listen to what's being said & think about it before speaking.

2) Opinions are like assholes--everyone has one. A person of true character knows when to keep theirs to themselves. Others spout off with what usually equates to emotional diarrhea FAR too often.

That is all...

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

Good advice, skull... yeah people in my class tend to get VERY emotional... as in I don't want to say anything, because if I'm actually right, and I debate them into the ground, I've seen some students get teary-eyed... they all want to be something dramatic like earthshaking political figures or world famous human rights lawyers... a little too ambitious for UMass Amherst is you ask me. Nowadays I'm content to sit back and watch the fireworks, I only pop in often enough to maintain my participation grade.

[Cerebroden]

it might actually be fun for you to look ahead and find out what you'll be doing in a few days, and pick a real controversial topic and do some homework..it's always fun to put down the entire class with some well thought out salvos...and it will help your grade

[CombatCady]

They cry becaues you out-argue them? Fuck them, they're in the wrong major, the wrong business, and the wrong spot on the food chain. Don't be afraid to make some little shithead cry becaues you have a valid point.

[neo]

Poli Sci students learn nothing. It is a gay ass major.

[The Dread Pirate Monty]

Cereb, that's exactly what some people have started doing... the funniest part is after we ream them on a certain topic, people start whispering about how the person who did their research is "making those 'facts' up." Some folks just don't know when to concede

[Skull6]

Yeah, I usually call them folks "liberals." :D