Re: Student Numbers?

by **MiamiSpartan** Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:12

TrapperGus wrote:
MiamiSpartan wrote:

I think they added the A to the beginning and 1 to the end of everyone's when they switched from quarters to semesters in the fall of 92.

Like most of you, I can still rattle mine off without having to think about it. It surprised me that it sprang to mind right away when seeing this thread, despite me not even thinking about the number in 25 years.

Biggest mistake MSU ever made.

You must have been really attached to the old number system without the letter at the beginning.

Oh wait, you probably mean changing to semesters. Yeah, I'm glad to have at least experienced the awesomeness of Spring semester one year, but then to have it ripped away sucked ass. I knew what I was missing, and the 1 week or so of warm weather in late April or early May was just a tease.

by **Nordic** Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:12

MiamiSpartan wrote:
AvgMSUJoe wrote:A11492###

And the letter and last number were added when I was a Sr, I think?

I think they added the A to the beginning and 1 to the end of everyone's when they switched from quarters to semesters in the fall of 92.

Like most of you, I can still rattle mine off without having to think about it. It surprised me that it sprang to mind right away when seeing this thread, despite me not even thinking about the number in 25 years.

Yep. Can confirm.

by AvgMSUJoe Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:12

I had a history class where the exam question was like 10 words and I filled 2 blue books and took the entire time.

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:23

Dendrobates wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:

That’s about when my brother enrolled. Both he and my sister were in Holden.

Freshman year I was Holden
Sophmore I was in Holmes

Freshman year - Emmons one term, Hubbard two terms (4th & 12th floor)
Sophomore year - Hubbard (12th floor) three terms
Summer - Wilson
Junior year - Wonders three terms
Senior Year - Wonders (6 East - coed floor) three terms
Extra credit - two terms off campus

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:25

AvgMSUJoe wrote:I had a history class where the exam question was like 10 words and I filled 2 blue books and took the entire time.

Russian Revolution class - I started with "Alexander took Russian to the scrap heap of history" ... was good enough BS for a pass ...

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:27

MiamiSpartan wrote:
TrapperGus wrote:

Biggest mistake MSU ever made.

You must have been really attached to the old number system without the letter at the beginning.

Oh wait, you probably mean changing to semesters. Yeah, I'm glad to have at least experienced the awesomeness of Spring semester one year, but then to have it ripped away sucked ass. I knew what I was missing, and the 1 week or so of warm weather in late April or early May was just a tease.

In Engineering we got a semester for each term, so over 4 years we got 6 years of what others got.

by **The Pantry** Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:29

Dendrobates wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:

That’s about when my brother enrolled. Both he and my sister were in Holden.

Freshman year I was Holden
Sophmore I was in Holmes

Told this story before. Climbed from floor-to-floor inside the walls of both Holden & Wilson to knock on the back of medicine cabinets to get someone's attention. When they opened the door I talked to them while peaking through the razor slot. They were always freaked out. Good times!

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:34

The Pantry wrote:
Dendrobates wrote:

Freshman year I was Holden
Sophmore I was in Holmes
Told this story before. Climbed from floor-to-floor inside the walls of both Holden & Wilson to knock on the back of medicine cabinets to get someone's attention. When they opened the door I talked to them while peaking through the razor slot. They were always freaked out. Good times!

I had suite mates who were obsessed with TeeVee reception on Hubbard 12. They climbed out the stairway windows to the roof to get into the elevator roof access and split into the building TV antenna to get better reception. Then they discovered that taking the elevator access door off the hinges was a better option.

by **MiamiSpartan** Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:36

TrapperGus wrote:
MiamiSpartan wrote:

You must have been really attached to the old number system without the letter at the beginning.

Oh wait, you probably mean changing to semesters. Yeah, I'm glad to have at least experienced the awesomeness of Spring semester one year, but then to have it ripped away sucked ass. I knew what I was missing, and the 1 week or so of warm weather in late April or early May was just a tease.

In Engineering we got a semester for each term, so over 4 years we got 6 years of what others got.

I was thinking more of having 5-6 weeks of coeds in skimpy clothes, countless hours playing beach volleyball, basketball, softball, soccer, etc., and hitting up huge parties on pleasant spring evenings.

But that engineering thing sounds nice, too, I guess.

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:40

MiamiSpartan wrote:
TrapperGus wrote:

In Engineering we got a semester for each term, so over 4 years we got 6 years of what others got.

I was thinking more of having 5-6 weeks of coeds in skimpy clothes, countless hours playing beach volleyball, basketball, softball, soccer, etc., and hitting up huge parties on pleasant spring evenings.

But that engineering thing sounds nice, too, I guess.

There were coeds at MSU?

Engineering joke -

Would you rather have a mistress or wife?

Accountant - Wife, taxes are better with marriage
Lawyer - Mistress can protect me in court.
Engineer - I can tell the wife I am with the mistress and the mistress I am with the wife and go to the lab.

by TrapperGus Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:43

Second Engineering Joke

A beautiful woman rides her bike up to an engineer, stops, strips and says take me. I'm yours.

The engineer say - cool bike, and rides off on it.

by **tGreenWay** Wed 17 Nov 2021 - 23:52

TrapperGus wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:

That’s about when my brother enrolled. Both he and my sister were in Holden.

Holden is the youngest dorm.

MSU March Band Drum Major disappeared while living there while I was there.

Major lost love was an RA there.

Maybe the youngest but that dorm felt ancient and sterile back in the mid 70s when I was there for Sports School.

by **The Pantry** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:11

The Pantry wrote:
Floyd Robertson wrote:I swear mine was 6 digits, prefixed with the last digit of the year I started, like 8xxxxx for 1978. My ID is around here somewhere...
Pretty sure have my student ID card somewhere here but damn if I know where it is.

However, have my transcript. The number is 07-XXXXX. IIRC the card dropped the leading zero and the hyphen and only showed as 6 digits.

Going by memory again, the ID card had a sticker on the back that would get meals checked off when entering any dorm cafeteria.

Now, I want to find my ID card to see how much better I looked back then Student Numbers? - Page 2 1811933421

by **Turtleneck** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:13

Bob's started with AR15 because he pertekts!

by **Dendrobates** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:16

TrapperGus wrote:
The Pantry wrote:
Told this story before. Climbed from floor-to-floor inside the walls of both Holden & Wilson to knock on the back of medicine cabinets to get someone's attention. When they opened the door I talked to them while peaking through the razor slot. They were always freaked out. Good times!

I had suite mates who were obsessed with TeeVee reception on Hubbard 12. They climbed out the stairway windows to the roof to get into the elevator roof access and split into the building TV antenna to get better reception. Then they discovered that taking the elevator access door off the hinges was a better option.

Husband and I are (unfortunately) the reason food could not be taken outside the cafeteria. We were young and dumb, at the same time, the rule restricts poor kids like us getting some extra food we paid for.

But we used to take apples from Hubbard, got to the 12th floor stairwell, and let them go in between the stairwells to reach to the bottom.
I'm sure the janitors fucking hated us. I feel terrible about it now.

It was shortly after that, rules came about you couldn't carry food outside the cafeteria. Sorry guys

by **duffy munn** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:18

176140

**correction: 876140

by **duffy munn** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:19

The Pantry wrote:
The Pantry wrote:
Pretty sure have my student ID card somewhere here but damn if I know where it is.

However, have my transcript. The number is 07-XXXXX. IIRC the card dropped the leading zero and the hyphen and only showed as 6 digits.
Going by memory again, the ID card had a sticker on the back that would get meals checked off when entering any dorm cafeteria.

Now, I want to find my ID card to see how much better I looked back then

How else were you going to eat Johnny Marzeti or the baked turbot?

by **The Pantry** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:23

duffy munn wrote:
The Pantry wrote:Going by memory again, the ID card had a sticker on the back that would get meals checked off when entering any dorm cafeteria.

Now, I want to find my ID card to see how much better I looked back then

How else were you going to eat Johnny Marzeti or the baked turbot?

Truth. My favorite dorm dinner was the square lamb patties with mashed potatoes and gravy.

by AvgMSUJoe Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:25

Stromboli

by AvgMSUJoe Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:26

Not to mention the christmas/holiday dinner. That was primo fare to an 18 year old.

by AvgMSUJoe Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:27

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Not to mention the christmas/holiday dinner. That was primo fare to an 18 year old.

Then we had a party and the suite mate drank most of a fifth of tequila and it didn't end well.

by MSU addict Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:37

Strangely, I can not only rattle off my student number, but also remember both of my long term girlfriend's student numbers.

by **tGreenWay** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 0:58

The Pantry wrote:
Dendrobates wrote:

Freshman year I was Holden
Sophmore I was in Holmes
Told this story before. Climbed from floor-to-floor inside the walls of both Holden & Wilson to knock on the back of medicine cabinets to get someone's attention. When they opened the door I talked to them while peaking through the razor slot. They were always freaked out. Good times!

by **tGreenWay** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 1:08

Never had to live in the dorms because I commuted from home the first year, then went straight to an apartment. I do, however, remember the names of the dishes you mentioned; Stromboli and Johnny Marzetti. There was a dish that I recall was actually pretty popular, and I think Wisconsin was part of the name. I still have no idea what was in that.

by **MiamiSpartan** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 8:19

tGreenWay wrote:Never had to live in the dorms because I commuted from home the first year, then went straight to an apartment. I do, however, remember the names of the dishes you mentioned; Stromboli and Johnny Marzetti. There was a dish that I recall was actually pretty popular, and I think Wisconsin was part of the name. I still have no idea what was in that.

Surely that can only be Wisconsin Cheesey Chicken.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 11:26

Turtleneck wrote:Bob's started with AR15 because he pertekts!

freedom and jesus, man... freedom and jesus.

by **tGreenWay** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 12:50

MiamiSpartan wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:Never had to live in the dorms because I commuted from home the first year, then went straight to an apartment. I do, however, remember the names of the dishes you mentioned; Stromboli and Johnny Marzetti. There was a dish that I recall was actually pretty popular, and I think Wisconsin was part of the name. I still have no idea what was in that.

Surely that can only be Wisconsin Cheesey Chicken.

That’s got to be it, and don’t call me Shirley.

by **MiamiSpartan** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 13:38

tGreenWay wrote:
MiamiSpartan wrote:

Surely that can only be Wisconsin Cheesey Chicken.

That’s got to be it, and don’t call me Shirley.

You said you said you liked it when I called you that last night.

by **tGreenWay** Thu 18 Nov 2021 - 16:30

MiamiSpartan wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:

That’s got to be it, and don’t call me Shirley.

You said you said you liked it when I called you that last night.

That’s only when I’m dressed like her! Do you see a wig today? No!

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