I for one can't wait to taste some home brew. I hear it's delicious.
save the seven years i lived in memphis, working north mississippi, i have been here all my life (43 years) and to be honest, our reputation both good and bad is pretty well deserved.
JeepDiver said:No not really. I've lived in several places since Graduating college and seen a lot of what is out there as well as what the perception of MS is.
The backwoods racist sterotype. Sorry but as much issue as MS does have with race, we at least deal with it. Most of the country out of the South is so segregated, that they don't even deal with the issue. I've seen more White people in the big cities that are scared to death of people of other races it's not even funny.
The dumb redneck sterotype. Some of the best writers in the world have come out of Mississippi. We have had more than our fair share of world renown scientist. We have more college classrooms per capita than just about any other state. We have 8 Public Universites, countless Community Colleges, and several other top notch private schools.
The perception that people from the South in General aren't friendly to outsiders. This one kills me. Sorry but people from the South are friendly and open to everyone, until you start telling us how to do things, and what we are doing wrong. Then yeah, we can get a little hot under the collar.
Sorry, while I don't currently live there, I'll take the Good Ole South over most of this country any day.
Hear Hear! I believe MS ranks in the top 10% of the USA in computing power as well. A lot of research goes on in MS.
JeepDiver said:I forgot about that. I worked at waterways when they were putting in the High Performance Computing Center, with.several Crays and a bunch of other high end SGI, and other super computers. There is an identical setup.at Stennis on the Coast and a couple of Crays at Ole Miss
alestateyall said:Wait a second now. Don't be linking ole miss to computing power without mentioning Mississippi State's High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPCC)! There are a lot more teraFLOPS in Starkville than Oxford.
And if we are talking research, MSU is designated by the Carnegie Foundation as having "very high research activity." That is the highest rank available. There are 108 universities in the country at at level and only 1 in Mississippi.
Also, MSU's Bagley College of Engineering consistently ranks in the top 10% nationwide in engineering research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation.
We can do some science and engineering at MSU!
Orthobrewsky said:Any of you Mississippians done a legal brew yet?
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