Rank top 5 reasons you love Penn State!

[Jerademan74]

For me, it is as follows:
1. My love for Penn State football. I just can't get enough of it!
2. I am proud to have my degree from Penn State. It HAS helped my career! PSU is not an Ivy League school academically, but it also is not an SEC team not named Vanderbilt.
3. My feeling of being a member of a family of Penn State worldwide alumni.
4, My admiration for what Joe Paterno created at Penn State. No, he was not a saint, but he was a father-like figure to nearly everyone who played for him as well as fans. I'll defend him to anyone who tries to lessen him as a man!
5. The beautiful country-side setting of State College and the UP campus.

 

[PSUriseANDfire]

1. I am proud that I grew up around the school and went to the school
2. I am proud that I worked for the school at one point.
3. I am proud that it is one of the nicest campuses in the world.
4. I am proud that I got to drink way too much because of the school and have some of the funnest times of my life.
5. I just love PSU. Even as a kid, the football program that JoePa built was and still is something to be proud of.

 

[sluggo72]

1) JVP

 

[kgilbert78]

It's a lot shorter list than it used to be.....

 

[OMPats13]

Beautiful, peaceful campus.
Quality of education (engineering for me)
Meet and become friends with people from all over that you will remember forever

 

[9fold]

Academics, Joe (Success With Honor, The Grand Experiment, 409), Athletics (on and off the field), Happy Valley, Blue Band, Creamery

O.K. That's six.

 

[LionsandBear]

1. I'm a proud Pennsylvanian
2. Joe Paterno
3. Success with Honor
4. The Grand Experiment
5. I'm an Alumnus

 

[nits74]

For me, it is as follows:
1. My love for Penn State football. I just can't get enough of it!
2. I am proud to have my degree from Penn State. It HAS helped my career! PSU is not an Ivy League school academically, but it also is not an SEC team not named Vanderbilt.
3. My feeling of being a member of a family of Penn State worldwide alumni.
4, My admiration for what Joe Paterno created at Penn State. No, he was not a saint, but he was a father-like figure to nearly everyone who played for him as well as fans. I'll defend him to anyone who tries to lessen him as a man!
5. The beautiful country-side setting of State College and the UP campus.

2,4,5 still apply for me. The other two, not as much these days.

 

[KidTwist]

1. Academics B-School (Accounting Major) had my pick of Big-6 Accounting Firms when I graduated.
2. Joe and everything that he represents about truly being an educator before a coach
3. Army ROTC (although I did get sick of the Wagner Building after a while)
4. Football Weekends on crisp Fall Saturday. Walking out to the stadium and smelling all the tailgates and feelin the electricity in the air (it's makin me misty-eyed now!)
5. There was this curious tradition in the Spring at University Park the Sunday before finals started you used to be able to join a big crowd and stand outside a girls dorm and shout (really demand!) they undress and show the crowd their breasts, booty and in some cases the honeypot!!!! For some reason, the girls did what we said for those few hours and the campus police didn't do anything??? It was a little Nirvana before finals!! I remember a few couples buck naked pulling the curtains open with bags over their heads and simulating sex while the crowd below roared!!! Funny times!! I wonder if they still do that anymore (this was late 80s early 90s when I was there)? I enjoyed this tradition VERY much !!

 

[Mr. Potter]

1) JVP

The only reason JVP

 

[Mr. Potter]

If not for JoePA I would definitely not be as big a PSU Football guy even though I attended Penn State and live in PA

 

[psuro]

1. Joe
2. Respected Engineering School
3 A sense of community from alums
4. Pastoral setting. Well at least it used to be.
5. Joe

 

[Class of 67]

For me, it is as follows:
1. My love for Penn State football. I just can't get enough of it!
2. I am proud to have my degree from Penn State. It HAS helped my career! PSU is not an Ivy League school academically, but it also is not an SEC team not named Vanderbilt.
3. My feeling of being a member of a family of Penn State worldwide alumni.
4, My admiration for what Joe Paterno created at Penn State. No, he was not a saint, but he was a father-like figure to nearly everyone who played for him as well as fans. I'll defend him to anyone who tries to lessen him as a man!
5. The beautiful country-side setting of State College and the UP campus.

I'll accept your 1-5 in about that order, but I'll replace your #1 with a collective all athletics and non-sport student and alum accomplishments, which I'd rank about in the middle.

 

[psuken]

For me, it is as follows:
1. My love for Penn State football. I just can't get enough of it!
2. I am proud to have my degree from Penn State. It HAS helped my career! PSU is not an Ivy League school academically, but it also is not an SEC team not named Vanderbilt.
3. My feeling of being a member of a family of Penn State worldwide alumni.
4, My admiration for what Joe Paterno created at Penn State. No, he was not a saint, but he was a father-like figure to nearly everyone who played for him as well as fans. I'll defend him to anyone who tries to lessen him as a man!
5. The beautiful country-side setting of State College and the UP campus.

Being an alumni, PHI PSI 500, JoePa and Beaver Stadium, the Lions Den, Summer Sessions at the Main Campus...

 

[psuken]

And we cannot forget streaking from Geary Hall and seeing signs hung from the East dorms saying 'Only God saves more than Bernie Parent'. Fraternity Jammies, the Train Station and Release Valves...and graduating from the greatest school on earth...

 

[fairgambit]

 

[kgilbert78]

And we cannot forget streaking from Geary Hall and seeing signs hung from the East dorms saying 'Only God saves more than Bernie Parent'. Fraternity Jammies, the Train Station and Release Valves...and graduating from the greatest school on earth...

I'd forgotten about Release Valves (I wonder why...).

Nice to see someone post "the elms". Sad to think the next generation of Penn Staters will not have them.

 

[FHSPSU67]

Joe Paterno