Jesus Christ...

So many bad memories come to mind when I think of my last semester at NCSU. I was threatened with a hold on graduation and/or to be dropped out of all classes for owing the school $33.00 when it was them who made the error in billing earlier that semester.

Oh, well....I paid it.

Come to think of it, they were willing to not let me graduate for $33 bucks....

Now, I get all these letters asking me for money, blah blah blah....

Should I pay up or screw it?

11/5/2009 3:38:55 PM

i say no

11/5/2009 3:41:36 PM

i say no

11/5/2009 3:42:38 PM

I stuffed about half a ton of junk mail in the prepaid envelope with a note that said they weren't getting a dime from me until Fowler was gone and we started winning championships


So, they'll never get a dime from me.

11/5/2009 3:42:53 PM

i remember them calling me like 2 days after i graduated. i was like "ummm no....i need a job first"

11/5/2009 3:45:01 PM

-I'm not very happy with the way NCSU has represented itself in the news in the past few years.
-I'm also not particularly happy with actions that individuals composing the student body have displayed...which in turn made the news in the past few years.
-Even though I never expected NCSU to place me in a job after graduation, I am not particularly impressed with the amount of support and advice they provided to me directly before and after graduation in terms of employment.


Given all that, NCSU is going to be missing any type of donation from me (including the matching donation that my company will give) for a very long time.

11/5/2009 3:46:44 PM

they would just spend it on dumb shit anyway

11/5/2009 3:46:50 PM

WARD SAYS NO!!!

11/5/2009 3:47:26 PM

I donate to the college of management, but not to the alumni association.

11/5/2009 3:48:37 PM

i say no

11/5/2009 3:49:50 PM

Donate to the Bell Tower Fund.

11/5/2009 3:54:09 PM

i say "no," too. when an employee of the university tells you to do something and you won't be charged for it, then you do it, and the university slaps you with a fee anyway, I say "fuck em."

11/5/2009 3:54:11 PM

If you want to give back to the school somehow, give to your college - not the alumni association.

After I graduate, and the alumni assoc comes a-knockin', I will take great pleasure in telling themselves to sodomize themselves on a cactus of their choosing, and then to never contact me again.

...And then I'll donate to the North Carolina Textiles Fund or the College of Textiles

11/5/2009 4:14:46 PM

I won't be giving to the alumni ass.

11/5/2009 4:16:01 PM

if you're in engineering, give to your department not your college

11/5/2009 4:16:42 PM

I aint give em shit

the way i see it, when my NCSU degree starts payin off for me to live comfortably, thats when ill start payin.

it aint no dilemma for me

Quote :

"Even though I never expected NCSU to place me in a job after graduation, I am not particularly impressed with the amount of support and advice they provided to me directly before and after graduation in terms of employment."

this was a big thing for me too, I graduated from CNR which should be a big deal given the university, yet the career center was only listing jobs in forestry, pulp and paper, and environmental law enforcement

i was like what the fuck none of this shit relates to my degree and concentration, I wanted nothing administrative, I did not take one class of the pulp and paper curriculum, and forestry...no my COLLEGE of NATURAL RESOURCES and ECOSYSTEMS ASSESSMENT was a little more broad than those fields, honestly I would have gotten chewed up and spit out had I applied to any of those jobs they were largely specialist

not to mention those job opportunities were restricted mainly to the western US, never mentioned to me that I could work as a temporary or anything like that, just straight up full time positions directly into the field.

i had to go out on my own through a temp agency that I found on my own and work there until i applied for and was hired for a position in the company i was contracted to, that is exactly what I wanted in a career and allows me to use my more broad education from both my CNR degree and my hort minor

So thats why I am highly reluctant to give back to the university, in addition to the absolute shitty way I have seen people treated at the various departments.

i figure for now ill just pay back my loans and they best be happy with that sorry for the rant but I saw EMCE's post and it immediately reminded me of why I dont give

as far as im concerned NCSU career center didnt place me in shit

[Edited on November 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM. Reason : g]

11/5/2009 4:19:48 PM

HELL NO

11/5/2009 4:23:03 PM

I'd said for a couple of years that I wouldn't join the AA as long as Oblinger was chancellor. He left, and I made good on my word to join, but now they won't stop asking for money above and beyond my membership dues.

So my answer is: no, don't give to them. Don't give anything to the Wolfpack Club either.

11/5/2009 5:14:36 PM

Quote :

"Even though I never expected NCSU to place me in a job after graduation, I am not particularly impressed with the amount of support and advice they provided to me directly before and after graduation in terms of employment."

ditto. brendalee mccarthy is an idiot in my opinion. First thing she asked me at one of our meetings was if I had looked on epack for jobs..........


really lady? I mean, come on, I'm not an idiot and I have looked on my own college's job listings. That was why I wanted to talk to her in the first place.

11/5/2009 5:14:57 PM

They spell my name wrong every time they send me something asking for money. They sure as hell spelled it right when I owed them money.

11/5/2009 5:18:24 PM

Please accept my gift:

$500 $250 $100 $50 $25 other ________

Donors of $1000 or more are recognized with Chancellor's Circle membership.

No, thank you

11/5/2009 6:31:54 PM

i say no

11/5/2009 6:35:08 PM

Give them a meat lovers and call it a day!

11/5/2009 7:27:13 PM

Pay them in gum

11/5/2009 7:29:20 PM

fuck this jewniversity

11/5/2009 7:31:44 PM

cat turds are nicely dehydrated enough to mail.

Too bad some poor, underpaid, student underling would be responsible for opening your contribution, and not anyone who really matters.

11/5/2009 7:33:12 PM

^lol

Somehow I feel current students do not truly appreciate the value of this thread....damn noobs

11/5/2009 10:20:20 PM

no

11/5/2009 10:20:34 PM

fuck them. they should ask for money from people who didnt already give all of their money for undergrad

11/5/2009 10:21:31 PM

this kinda happened to me too. they charged me like a gajillion dollars for library books that i turned in on time.

something insane like $100 a book.

11/5/2009 10:22:51 PM

isn't it funny how for 4+ years, the university fucks students over with book fees, drinking tickets, blah blah blah...

and as soon as that student graduates, it's "WELCOME TO THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION! GIVE US MONEY!!1"

11/5/2009 10:33:13 PM

it sure is



fucking HILARIOUS

i mean i guess all universities do this shit, but god damn i never once felt that big university/small university feel while i attended

i didnt even feel like a number, felt like a damn turnip that they kept tryna sequeeze blood out of

even the athletic department, fuck them too they made me apologize personally to fowler for some shit i said or else theyd suspend me i told them id write a letter when i just said he needs to get his shit in gear and quit dickin non-revenue sports around for the sake of football and basketball


haha im gettin pissed again i can go all night

i wouldnt give these bitches money if i took over the UNC system

11/5/2009 10:50:08 PM

hah, damn. never heard about that (though you may have never said it on here).

but yeah, that's just what I'm talking about. I get the feeling that when our parent's generation attended college, the university treated them like family. in turn, after graduation, they felt a sense of membership... felt as if they owed the university, if not just to do their part to ensure future students were able to enjoy the great experience that they once did




us? nah...
I mean, I had a good time in college. But that had very little to do with NCSU.

[Edited on November 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM. Reason : words r hard, k?]

11/5/2009 10:55:32 PM

I'm sure I paid them $1000 in parking tickets over the course of my college career, and half of them were completely bullshit

-parking tickets for parking in the loading area of the parking lot at my fraternity house where I was living

-a parking ticket EVERY DAY for a solid week, first thing in the morning, when I'd first gotten home from OCS (like just a day or so earlier), was sick with rocky mountain spotted fever and pneumonia, due to the fact that my motorcycle would start (and I was too sick to work on it in the summer heat, and couldn't get a truck to move it anywhere for about a week). Oh, and this was in the upper frat court lot (where I lived and had a parking pass for, and where there were shit tons of empty parking spots). I even took my sick ass to transportation, explained the situation, and asked them to stop...they told me to get fucked, and to expect more tickets until I moved the bike. I appealed the tickets later, and got denied.

-when we got 2' of snow, they stopped ticketing because (a) everything was shut down, (b) people couldn't move their cars, and (c) you couldn't see the parking lot lines. Well, out of the blue one day, and without announcement, they started ticketing again, and of course gave me one (for parking outside of a designated spot, even though everything was still pretty much snow covered).


I'm sure there are more, but those alone (particularly the motorcycle incident) are enough that I will never, ever give a single cent to NCSU as long as I live.




Oh, and let's not forget shitcanning campout, tailgate, and every other social thing they could get their hands on.

as well as (a) mistakenly thinking I didn't have credit for freshman english, (b) not catching this mistake when we submitted our graduation applications MONTHS beforehand, and (c) after initially saying I couldn't graduate, eventually allowing me to walk and giving me a dummy folder with nothing in it (I wanted to just leave and have them mail me the degree paper, but I went to graduation at the insistence of my parents, who wanted to see it).


The list goes on and on and on. Fuck 'em.

[Edited on November 5, 2009 at 11:12 PM. Reason : ]

11/5/2009 11:10:02 PM

I think the advice about donating to your college/major is good advice.

Where exactly does the money to the alumni association go?

11/6/2009 4:32:33 AM

Hope you're watching, NC State

Its as if the student body is punished, threatened and fined for their school spirit for four years, then expected to be glad for the opportunity

as far as i can tell it really started going downhill after Public Safety started calling themselves police. holy crap do these guys hate NCSU students. It must rub off or something

11/6/2009 5:32:48 AM

They got Jay Dawkins to wake me up...

11/6/2009 7:13:07 AM

Quote :

"I stuffed about half a ton of junk mail in the prepaid envelope"

i do this ALL THE TIME

i suspect that i'm helping to keep the USPS in business while ensuring that i receive less junk mail (or, at least, no more than usual)

11/6/2009 7:52:38 AM

^lol

i will have to start doing this. not a bad idea.


and don't give to the alumni association. like many others have said, if anything, donate to your particular college. at least that goes to help the particular college that you earned your degree from.

the alumni association is terrible. the university rapes us for four years with any fee they can possibly find and then expect us to thank them with a donation. i too got a call within a week of graduating a couple of years ago.

11/6/2009 8:18:08 AM

I'm torn about this. First off, I'm too broke to give any money anyway.... but if this degree pays off later in life, I will probably give some to the MAE department.

11/6/2009 9:00:41 AM

I'd give to the MAE department if I was cleaning house in the money department, but that's failed to happen so far.

As far as the Alumni Association...the only good they have done me is...uh...ummm...NOT A GODDAMNED THING.

And they won't get shit from me. Unless I shit in an envelope and send that to them.

11/6/2009 9:03:37 AM

^LMAO...zxappeal never fails to deliver the "shit"

11/6/2009 10:05:33 AM

I gave 500 the last two years and would like to start giving 1000 next year

I don't understand all the people who are saying "fuck this school, they won't get shit from me" etc

Its not your duty to donate, but if you have the means, its something you should try to make a habit of

11/6/2009 10:08:13 AM

I'd rather give my money to the Rescue Mission or to a soup kitchen or something.

11/6/2009 10:10:24 AM

good god y'all are some bitter people.

11/6/2009 10:10:33 AM

says the guy who makes $100K

11/6/2009 10:11:50 AM

that is news to me.

11/6/2009 10:13:48 AM

Regardless of whether you donate or not

It makes you look petty and insecure by bashing the school you attended for reasons other than athletics

11/6/2009 10:15:52 AM

Bullshit. I'll bash the school all I want to. Granted, I felt fortunate to have the faculty I did in MAE, and I definitely relished their contribution to my education...

But as far as all else goes, NCSU has been just another hamstrung state-run institution of higher learning with the usual highly mediocre administration that blows shitloads of money on much peripheral unnecessary shit and not enough on necessities.

11/6/2009 10:20:45 AM

Well, I mean insecurity has nothing to do with this. The issue is whether or not a an alumnus should contribute to the school that threatened to halt his graduation for $33.00.

I'm secure all the way, baby

11/6/2009 10:23:05 AM