I was startled by the sight, but the above photo of the new IST Honors Society t-shirt says a lot about the character of this organization. The text on the t-shirt “Smarter Than You Since 2005” explains everything I had worriedly expected before joining the ranks of “Gamma Tau Phi” in 2007.
Since this t-shirt design was apparently conceived by majority vote, we can reason that most of the members really are conceited bastards who think way too highly of themselves just because they manage to keep a 3.5 GPA in the easiest college at Penn State University.
You want $10 for this club t-shirt? I wouldn’t even wear that bullshit for free.
Please… get in touch with reality. You guys are not that great.
Update (4/11/08): I just received an email from GTP that refutes the notion that this was actually a majority vote.
We really want you guys to buy these and we are somewhat disappointed in the number of orders thus far. For a group that was so enthusiastic about buying them earlier in the year, we expected more responses. So please, fire off an e-mail to Brad and show your support for Gamma Tau Phi!
Now I have a little bit of reassurance about the quality of the members. Don’t buy this t-shirt!
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go figure.
The College of IST at Penn State has lately been dealing with a reputation similar to this t-shirt. Penn State undergrads in different programs think we are a College of Nerdom. IT professional should be the phrase associated with the College of IST, not IT nerd.
This is just like the National Honor Society in high school. A bunch of people who put like an extra hour of work in a night and get As, get in to top schools and then spend their first semester sleeping in, getting drunk, and having sex with anything with a pulse. These kind of things annoy me because they really aren’t that smart. School is not hard, especially your undergrad. Oh let’s brag about how good we are at basic java programming, or let’s brag about we have a high GPA in an easy ass major. Worst part is, is all these people most are only good at school work. They have no skills outside of their course work, so someone like me runs circles around them while they sit around in their constant 3.7+ gpa circle jerk.
Daehee, while i agree with the cocky attitude that this shirt represents, I have to disagree with your comment about IST graduates not getting jobs. Most of the IST and SRA professors really care about their students and the course they teach. We don have one of the highest placement rates and average starting salaries for nothing.
To take the “helpfulness” of your post to the next level, I think you should suggest a Better, NON-Conceited, T-shirt design for the IST Honors Society… exhibit some examples of rad t-shirts other academic groups have used.
Pft, who has time to do that, just complaining about it is so much more effective then actually outlining a solution to the problem. Besides, they shouldn’t have their head up their ass in the first place.
Good point. Examples might take the *sting* out of it.
I don’t think the point was to tip toe through the tulips with people.
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