Quoted: any suggestions on how to survive a liberal college?

HEY WI_RIFLEMAN!!!  I.M. Your New Address & Phone # to me...  I'm Also attending the Univ of MN...  Also, you'll want to check in with the MN Hometown Discussion Boards to see what are a few upcoming Defensive Edge classes.

You're going to HATE the liberals all over campus!!!

Then you've got Brother Jed (George E. [Jed] Smock of the Campus Ministry U.S.A.), the psycho Preacher...  He's going to be telling massive groups of students that they're all going to burn in the depths of hell for being...

FORNICATORRRRRRRRRRRS!!!


You're going to have to contend with professors that will REGULARLY spew their Pro-Kerry Rhetoric all they way to election day (and STILL even MORE liberal drivel for the rest of the school year)...

Oh.  It's going to be another long year on campus.

I'm a senior, and about to graduate this year (Assuming something bad regarding the scheduling of courses doesn't happen)...  I can't do as many fun things as I could in the past because I've got a job, and full-time classes as well.

The REAL trick to surviving liberal college (and BELIEVE ME, U OF MN IS VERY LIBERAL) is to have thick skin, patience, and the ability to debate political and societal issues in depth with the most irrational, and illogical liberal morons you'll ever meet.

Once you move in, don't forget to get to know EVERYONE YOU CAN...  Start making a lot of friends if you can, because the more you have, the more fun you'll have on campus.  There are a shitload of great things to do on campus.

I recommend *NOT* bringing up your conservativism when out on your first date or two with girls...  Also, a good place to meet (HOT) girls is at the Rec Center...  Congrats on choosing one of the most fun (but most liberal) campuses on earth.  If you had attended last year, I could have brought you to one of the old-school, hardcore MSA parties where 400+ people crammed into a campus party house, loaded up on 12 kegs of beer, $1 shots of liquor, and where you have to watch out for extasy tabs & LSD blotters which may end up in your drink...  Those parties no longer exist (last one was this past July), because things got tamed down severely.  It was kinda cool to go to a party, meet a girl, and make out with her while you're both watching 9+ people having all-out sex in the corner of the basement.  

Darn, I miss those parties...  

BUT DON'T FORGET TO STUDY & DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!  

Edited to add: Don't tell them you're from Wisconsin!!!  You'll get some grief from people like me there...  Just kidding.  Tell all that you want, but don't be surprised if you say, "I'm from Wisconsin" and someone quickly replies, "Oh, I'm sorry..." like you've got some kind of social disease.  

I also forgot to add...

If you're going to be living in the dorms...  The following are ESSENTIAL to your survival.

-Earplugs
-Flip Flop Sandals (AKA: John Kerrywear) for the showers/bathroom
-Condoms  (You're gonna need 'em)
-Bathrobe
-Computer

Also, you're going to need a sign to hang on the back of your bedroom door saying:
"It could be worse, you could be at UW-EC or UW-Madison..."  

I'm finishing up my degree in Landscape Architecture, with a possible minor in Computer Science...

WORD TO THE WISE...  Parking is going to be a B.I.T.C.H. if you're moving into the dorms tomorrow!!!  (Thought I'd warn ya that you may have to double or triple-park)

Bullwinkles is a GREAT bar for that...  Don't ask how I know...  

Actually, it's because I used to live in the shithole apartments just behind bullwinkles, near the Crack-Stacks.

Mak762, I don't like living on campus because it's a P.I.T.A. to try sneaking your guns into your room when you're done shooting.  Now I live about 1.5 to 2 miles away from campus, but that's still well within drunk-stumbling distance...