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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on May 15, 2008, 10:57:35 pm
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so while Chef and I were on the bus to the train station in Orlando (he was wearing his favorite shirt and we both got blessed by an Alfonso on mushrooms or something), I got a phone call from the University of Minnesota telling me I got into their law program. this was pretty surprising, the least reason why being that I totally forgot I applied there.
anyways, U of M is apparently a really good law school, at times having been in the top 20 (highest being 14) and currently at 22 by the USN marker so I'm pretty sure I'm going to go there but I don't know anything about Minnesota. I'm not even sure where it is.
what is Minnesota like? are people there dicks? whats the political feel (redneck/indie kid)? does anyone from GW live there?
gimme all your Minnesota facts, wikipedia blows with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota
help me out folks.
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depends
how do you feel about living in CANADA
edit: I hope you like negative celsius if you know what i mean
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I don't know, do you think it's better than North Carolina. I guess that wouldn't be too hard to accomplish, anyhow.
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it's alright, i wouldn't call it GOOD or anything, but i'm a little biased because i like solid things, rather than having vegetables floating around in my soup
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thats minestrone you silly :haha:
also yeah I heard it gets pretty cold up there. I lived in Ohio during a big snow year but I was also like 11 so that doesn't really count huh.
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Mmmmm...........Minestrone, Da Vinci's favorite food.
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snow and also a thriving hip hop scene and then also rhoda morgenstern
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my friend lived there for a year. he said it's flat and really norwayfriendly (since thats where norwegian settlers went).
hope that helps
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I lived there for a year or two and I have to say that the economy is really, really good (last time I checked it was in the top 5 of highest median income) and pretty much everyone there is stinking rich and a total snob. The state has the highest voter turnout in the country and there's no particular sway between democratic and republican; basically, the people are very well informed and vote based on who they think will do the best job and are probably the smartest voters in the country because it's so fucking easy to get registered. There's a lot of Canadian immigrants (obviously) but the state is seriously over 80% white and while I never had any direct racism or prejudice leveled at me it does exist so it could affect your schoolin'.
Besides the fact that it's fucking cold, the state has the largest mall in the world and the mountain scenery is beautiful.
Yeah, enjoy your freezing weather dude.
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[blockquote]11. Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the country.
13. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.
37. A Jehovah's Witness was the first patient to receive a transfusion of artificial blood in 1979 at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He had refused a transfusion of real blood because of his religious beliefs. [/blockquote]
oh shit
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Yeah, Minnesota is the defacto OLD PEOPLE STATE except unlike Florida everyone who's filthy stinking rich goes there to retire.
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"13. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. "
what?
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"13. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. "
what?
The entire state is pretty much engulfed by Lake Michigan and it's a really large state although it's square-like size tricks the eye.
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13. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.
This can't be true.
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i might be going to a music school in Minneapolis-St Paul, so i'd like to know about this too :)
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I live in Minnesota and it's pretty awesome... just hope you can get used to blazing hot summers and really cold and messy winters. We have some of the harshest winters in the country. U of M is pretty diverse to my knowledge but the town I live in isn't... we have like... 3 black people in our 5,000 person town. This... isn't a joke.
The Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) are pretty shwank, the light rail is fun and we have the fucking Mall of America. It's huge. If you're into gambling we also have a huge casino called the Mystic Lake Casino which is located about a half-hour south of the Twin Cities.
The people are NOT hicks and are actually some of the most progressive speaking in the country.
The accents of the region are generally distinct from those of the South and many urban areas of the American Northeast. The accent considered characteristic of most of the Midwest is considered by many to be "standard" American English. This accent is preferred by many national radio and television broadcasters, who go so far as to actually have potential broadcasters receive training in speaking "Midwestern."
If you have more specific questions I'll be happy to answer them. I know Brown and maladroithim are both from Minnesota as well.
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I know Brown and Malithrodom (sp?) are both from Minnesota as well.
I thought he was from Toronto?
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Even if, I used to talk to him while he lived in Mankato. He spent part of his life in Minnesota, and that's all that counts :)
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Ummm.........ok then, if you say so.
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just hope you can get used to blazing hot summers and really cold and messy winters.
Surely you jest.
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nah that sounds about right. i'm in cleveland and we have awful, awful winters but arguably worse summers because it's like 90-100 degrees and humid as shit. it's basically only temperate for about two weeks a year, so i wouldn't be surprised if minnesota was the same way, because i've heard the climates are fairly similar!
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The entire state is pretty much engulfed by Lake Michigan and it's a really large state although it's square-like size tricks the eye.
it doesn't touch lake michigan, and only part of it is on lake superior
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man I'm getting all kinds of gay excited for this. this is the furthest I'll be away from anyone ever.
WITHOUT A NET!!!
but yeah do you guys know anymore, like food, music (the hiphop scene is like heiruspecs etc right? BACKPACKheh that stuff), general shit to see? I'll have to go check it out before the school year starts and I'd like to have a good idea of the stuff around it.
maaaaan I am way gay for this. that Gehry art museum is awesome too.
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nah that sounds about right. i'm in cleveland and we have awful, awful winters but arguably worse summers because it's like 90-100 degrees and humid as shit. it's basically only temperate for about two weeks a year, so i wouldn't be surprised if minnesota was the same way, because i've heard the climates are fairly similar!
I think our definitions of humid as shit may differ, as I was raised below sea level.
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yeah if you go to U of M get used to every other person having a swedish/norwegian/finnish last name
also you will find that they talk way differently than what you're surrounded with in NC. My dad went to U of M in the 70s and many people assumed he was from Tennessee or Georgia because of the way that he talked. He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and never lived anywhere else. Sooooo just get ready for a bit of a lingual jistle-jostle when you arrive lol
also Garrison Keillor is awesome listen to Prairie Home Companion
and uhh find some episodes of Red/Green or something
also guys with the shoreline figure you have to consider that Minnesota has like 5 bajillion lakes (lakes have shorelines loller)
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it doesn't touch lake michigan, and only part of it is on lake superior
i'm actually thinking about michigan which doesn't have that much shore.
robotussin
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Horrible highway system and lots of suburbs near the city. I dunno it's a good state if you like running because everything is real pretty. The Twin Cities are exciting and similar to Chicago in ways just a little smaller. It's really not that bad during the winters in the Southern/Central part of the state (where people are) I think people just like to think they are tougher. If you like camping and stuff like that you can get somewhere decent with hiking and shit fairly quickly (less than an hour from the cities), but the city has always got shit going on and like you already said the Hiphop is there. If you like Bob Dylan there's some shit for him and Frank Loyd Wright too
Also I don't know what you mean about food, if you mean state distinctive there's a food festival during the summer, and people like fish (not me) but for the most part it's like any other state with a major city.
Edit: Brown is Minnesotan? Also someone lives up North but I forgot who Puppet Master maybe?
Edit: never mind I see