12 Texas A&M hot takes
- TAMU’s land grant, state school mission is to educate the masses, not build prestige or be exclusive for reasons other than “we can’t handle more”
- We need more housing so either keep building more high rises on northgate or build more on campus.
- We should build said housing in the golf course, it’s stupid we have almost 1/4 of main campus dedicated to a KINE credit, minor sport and donors/former students who play.
- An actual fine arts school with more majors and proper funding wouldn’t kill us
- There’s a lot of surface lots wasting valuable land that need to be garages or buildings
- CHANGE THE SEAL BACK ITS SO NASTY
- Hissing is the only tradition I actually hate
- The TAMU-LSU rivalry needs to be talked about more, I’ve never had more beef about being an Aggie then when I went there, more than Austin and Jerry world (when we play the pigs)
- We really need to focus on walkability here, not bitching about growth. If you want to live somewhere where the population doesn’t grow, go to Shreveport or Detroit.
- This place isn’t really that “backwards” or even republican. Like there’s racists etc sure, but it isn’t even that country. A vast majority are from the suburbs/cities, it’s a place of higher education and it’s a group of 80,000 17-25 year olds.
- Quit acting like this place is the sticks, like there’s ~320,000 people here when class is in session. That’s a majority of Wyoming in a single county. Just because a place isn’t Houston or Dallas doesn’t mean it’s smalls
- The A&M system needs to take system schools more seriously. It puts less strain on us and can help us educate more people. Not everyone can afford to go across the state and it doesn’t hurt to invest in the rest of the 250,000 sq miles of Texas.
I feel like these are controversial/not talked about enough so don’t get all pissy I’ll elaborate if you want.