Starkville is my favorite college town.

You are a student at State?

Cause of Major?

I liked every professor that i had at state, except anything dealing with finance. The rest were mostly brilliant at what they did.

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I will say that Blackjack Road is a piece of shite and needs to be repaved though

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shite you ain't kidding. Mike Taggert, Keenum, and slapdick Parker Wiseman just signed some kind of bill that is supposed to completely revamp 12, which is sorely needed. The city counsel also just approved a complete overhaul of Russell Street that's going to look really good.

Starkville is definitely improving big time.

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Northern District Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert (l-r), MSU President Mark E. Keenum, and Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman participated in a signing ceremony Thursday [Oct. 22] to declare their commitment to the improvement of Highway 12.

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The people that have been fighting stuff like this for the last 50 years are finally starting to die or get out of the way.

I wrote this in a SR topic bashing Starkville.

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I'm ex-military and have worked all over the world—Starkville is one of my favorite places I have lived.

There is a great international academic pull to the area, for whatever reason, and the faculty were some of the most learned people I have met in academia.

Also, there is a rejuvenating and laid-back vibe to the city that isn't undermined by any kind of ostentatious pretension that pervades a lot of other college towns.

Finally, people hate on it for being in the middle of nowhere, but Princeton is secluded, similarly, and it cultivates a tight-knit feeling that even Dak Prescott wrote about recently.

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I would like to perpetuate more pro-Starkville literature. I really loved the place, and am honestly a little dis-illusioned having graduated from MSU, and hearing people bash on it for not having drunken/dude-bro amenities that would never be at Princton,MIT, Duke, ND, Carnegie Mellon etc.

I originally didn't know much about State, but grew up near Oxford and learned that if I went to school is Mississippi that that was exactly what I didn't want to surround myself with. In a outsiders assumptive glance, I really got the impression that Oxford was full of people who wanted to get drunk, talk about how much money their parents make, pretend they are on the same athletic level as Alabama, and have pretentious delusions that they are living in pre-Civil War antebellum enslaved MS. To be fair I never enrolled a single class there. This is just an outsider's observation of a military brat. The disillusionment is that there are people that actually want the previous versus the rigorous academic community of say Carnegie Mellon.

Furthermore, Starkville was also where I began to pick up my Catholic faith again, which is the inverse of what most people do with their faiths in college. The Christian communities there are top-notch and are some of the best people I have had the pleasure of befriending in my life. I will never forget them.

A long time ago, I was born in Starkville, and grew up there.

I moved away after grad school. While I enjoyed it then, it is night and day different/better now.

There still seems to be a small town feel, but at long last, in the post-Templeton era, the University and Town seem to be embracing each other.

The developments along Main Street are great, and if they fix up highway 12, a lot of perceptions will change.

I go back once or twice a year and each time it's better.

I work traffic after the games (decent grad student job) and I can tell you that the LSU game was an exception because we hadn't quite figured out the most efficient way to get people off campus with all of the new construction. We managed to get the Bama crowd out in about half the time despite there being a bigger crowd.

If any of you guys exit campus through the Bailey Howell/College View intersection, please don't hit me tomorrow!