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Does being an Online Student actaully make you a Student of said College?

Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:31 pm
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
19765 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:31 pm
Know folks who grew up loving LSU, became an Online Student for Bama. Graduate. Then boom! They're claiming the championshipa Bama this, Bama that. Never set foot on campus.

Would something like that make them a Student or just an Online Student? Should they distinguish that?

I mean they do pay the tuition. They could call themselves that.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30580 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:33 pm to
Ask Joe Burrow.
Posted by tigerstripedjacket
This side of the wall
Member since Sep 2011
3007 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:33 pm to
Can you get pregnant from cybersex?
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:33 pm to
If someone wants to join Tiger Nation as an online student, I'll allow it. Just don't start melting on the Rant after a bad baseball game saying the season is over. TIA.

Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:33 pm to
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This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 11:10 am
Posted by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
23713 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:34 pm to
better question is why do you give a frick what college someone claims?
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
162283 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:35 pm to
The obvious answer is yes

But I think what you're getting at is that they have no social connections if it's all remote and I do agree that it's different.

I feel a connection to LSU because I attended in person classes there and met many people along the way. If I were to pursue further education in an online only environment I wouldn't feel that same connection. It would just be a means to and end.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:36 pm to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22421 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:42 pm to
By the same logic, anyone who celebrates a championship has no business doing so because they weren’t on the team.
Posted by white perch
the bright, happy side of hell
Member since Apr 2012
7163 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:54 pm to
If you haven’t puked in a dorm on campus, you’re not a real student
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
15821 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:59 pm to
I’d say it actually makes you a smarter student. Who actually brags about spending hours walking to their lecture instead of hopping on the zoom call?
Posted by TJack
BR
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:16 pm to
quote:

actaully
Posted by duckblind56
South of Ellick
Member since Sep 2023
1386 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:24 pm to
97.387% of "claiming championship" Bama fans are banwagon. Let's see what happens post Sabin.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98485 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:36 pm to
I watch Yale online classes on youtube. That makes me a Yalie.
Posted by TheWalrus
Member since Dec 2012
40888 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:54 pm to
If you are working towards an actual undergraduate or graduate degree, then it counts. If you enrolled in a program with no admission standards or grade requirements to graduate, then it doesn’t.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
17101 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:56 pm to
Online school isn’t going away.

Don’t 1980s this and think that if you didn’t sit in a classroom, you aren’t a student.

I’m in my 40s and if you finish online school or go to in person classes, you still get the same diploma. No point in getting bothered
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63756 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 11:29 pm to
I am a proud student of the University of Phoenix.
Posted by lanticguy
AK
Member since Nov 2014
404 posts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 11:37 pm to
Cracked some sidewalk cuz he asked why I didn’t have a jersey on, he wore my class ring indention. So I’ll allow it if he’s been blessed looking into the mirror.
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
7329 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 1:07 am to
I’m of the opinion that you can claim you’re an LSU grad only if you attended the main Baton Rouge campus. Everything else is with the disclaimer LSU-somewhere else.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
6565 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 1:20 am to
quote:

Online Student for Bama. Graduate.


Two factors here. Super smart for not doing it on campus, they hopefully saved a ton of money. I did as many correspondence courses as I could to save money (not many.) If it says UA - Tuscaloosa, that's it.

Second factor, athletics. I don't agree with it (when I saw people with UA and UF gear at LSU in the 90s going to class, the first thing I thought was not positive.) I don't think it's a big deal. It sounds like you're dealing with someone on the younger side. Who wouldn't want to be a Bulls fan during the Jordan era? The student you're talking about is about to hit realism of CFB. There will be a correction, and they'll be fine. Think about Tennessee fans between 2001 and ... recently. The ups and downs are a lesson that must be learned.
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