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TexasTowelie

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10. Southwest Texas State is a party school, now it is Texas State University.
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 05:42 AM
Jun 2016

We used to joke at Southwestern that we were the "party school" since nobody knew about us. SWT is 35 miles south of Austin while we were about 30 miles to the north of Austin.

I went there briefly after I graduated and before I found a job to start work on a teaching certificate. I had slightly over a 3.0 GPA at Southwestern, but when I withdrew from SWT I was holding a 4.0 GPA with minimal effort. It is not a rigorous university and I had more multiple choice exams in one semester there than I did as an undergrad at Southwestern. The best thing about SWT was that there were a lot of cute girls there.

BTW, my smallest class at Southwestern was a second year of physics with only three students. The professor, Darth Roeder, was kind of sloppy with his algebra at the chalkboard and when the discussion was on Einstein's theory of relativity he ended up getting E=mc^3.

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