I Go To UMass Lowell

So I had a dentist appointment the other day and I was sporting a generic Boston College T-shirt. I go up to the receptionist to check-in and she asks, "Ohh, do you go to BC?" I was like, "No, I actually go to UMass Lowell. I just like BC" (I wasn't gonna get into the whole transfer thing with her because I've told that story like a thousand times). And her response was, "Oh, UMass Lowell, there's nothing wrong with that! My daughter goes to BC." Oh, don't worry Mrs. My kids are too good for UMass Lowell receptionist lady, you are not even close to being the only person who has given me this same response. Like if I awkwardly run into my 9th grade English teacher at the grocery store, the inevitable "Where are you going to school now?" question comes up I get the same "There's nothing wrong with that!" response. Like you obviously do feel there is something wrong with it if you feel the need to try and act like there's nothing wrong with it. Let's say I lied and told them I go to MIT, or even less extreme, BU. Absolutely no chance they tell me "there's nothing wrong with that!" No, they probably get all warm and fuzzy and think, "Oh wow, good for you!" It just pisses me off to no end that people actually think UMass Lowell is a bad school. I mean sure, our campus is no UCLA (hey, it's better than UMass Dartmouth (I think?)), and we tend to accept a fair percentage of applicants (still wayyy less than Merrimack), but there's no reason for anyone to think there is anything wrong with someone going to UMass Lowell. Honestly, where you graduate from undergrad is less important than where you went to preschool. So Mrs. Receptionist, you can tell your daughter to have fun paying off her 100k of UNDERGRAD debt. Yeah, that sounds totally worth it to me...


 PS: I hate how in every movie all the characters go to elite schools. Like in "The Last Song" with Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus (I swear I wasn't watching it, I was just waiting for Secret Life to come on...). Liam Hemsworth's character just nonchalantly says "Yeah, I'm thinking about transferring from Vanderbilt to Columbia." Uhh bro, you don't just like throw in an app to Columbia and transfer. They accept like less than 1% of transfer applicants. But then again, it's fucking Liam Hemsworth we're talking here. His brother is Thor.