July 17, 2015

My Alma Mater

Oregon State University (from which I dropped out in 1975) is not one of the ones you think of when trying to name great universities responsible for great advances.

They don't even have a good football program. U of O fielded a great team last year, but OSU is traditionally at the bottom of the Pac 10 (or is it 12 now? or 14?)

But once in a while OSU gets it right. They have one of the best Oceanography departments in the world, and those guys just found an edible seaweed that tastes like bacon!

So now all the vegans can eat BLT's without meat.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 09:20 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 It seems fitting, somehow, that you'd go to the school that is the instate rival of the University of Oregon Ducks.

Posted by: Wonderduck at July 17, 2015 02:33 PM (jGQR+)

2 OSU is the cow college, and also has a better engineering department. Also, it's where my Dad went to school and where he met my Mom.

UO has a reputation for being hippy-dippy, at least by comparison to OSU.

For all my nasty comments, there are a lot of things OSU does right. It's got a big Agriculture school and a big school of Forestry. I mentioned the Oceanography department; they've got a facility in Newport and a big research ship that's at sea a lot of the time. (There's a highway that runs straight from Corvallis to Newport, about 80 miles over the Coast Range, so it's convenient.)

Of course, all my memories are from 40 years ago; I have no idea what it's like now. A couple of months ago I "drove" up Campus Row on Monroe Street (via Google Earth) and didn't hardly recognize anything.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 17, 2015 05:07 PM (+rSRq)

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