How many met their SO at MU?

[dgies9156]

Someone let grandpa near the computer again.

Damn straight. LOL.

Lighten up all!

[MU82]

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

What?

[Lennys Tap]

Why bring kids into a world that their grandparents have long ruined?

Life has never been better or easier but you can never stop perpetual whiners.

[Lennys Tap]

No. Still waiting to experience my first kiss

Maybe Sultan can kiss your arse?

[real chili 83]

I met my wife the first day of Spanish class in January 1976,

She had a habit of coming to class on the first day dressed "well." Her smile was a killer and her eyes basically captured me within a day or so. She had the same major I did.

It took about a month for us to go out. She had to ask me to a dinner/dance sponsored by O'Donnell Hall. We had a great time and hit it off from the outset.

We dated all through Marquette and she followed me a year later to the city of my first job. She was graduated a year after I was.

We were married in 1980 and 42.25 years later, we're happy as ever! She was without a doubt the best thing that happened to me while at Marquette.

I suppose since you are a Real Chili virgin, this would be the best thing that ever happened to you while at Marquette.

[Hards Alumni]

Life has never been better or easier but you can never stop perpetual whiners.

I sincerely hope you don't actually think this.

You're a member of the silver spoon generation that has kicked the ladder out from beneath your successes.

Life has never been better and easier for you, but that's because you're an old boomer that got to experience America at the peak and now you're generation is doing it's collective best to destroy it. 

Thanks guys!

[4everwarriors]

Just the other way around, BH. We've worked for everything...no entitlement, hey?

[Hards Alumni]

Just the other way around, BH. We've worked for everything...no entitlement, hey?

nope.

[Goose]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

[Hards Alumni]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

100%

[Uncle Rico]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

[Hards Alumni]

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

Same.  I paid my entire way with loans, grants, and I worked every summer.  Finished paying back my loans a year or two ago.

[Uncle Rico]

Same.  I paid my entire way with loans, grants, and I worked every summer.  Finished paying back my loans a year or two ago.

I am looking forward to when I get older and can start calling all generations after mine entitled.  It’s such a lazy old person thing.  It’s not complicated to understand the goal of each generation should be to make it easier for the next generation.  That’s sort of the purpose, aina?

[Goose]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

[Pakuni]

"Now a lot of these cultural crimes I’ve been complaining about can be blamed on the baby-boomers. Something else I’m a little tired of hearing about, the baby-boomers. Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: “gimme-it it’s mine”! “give-me-that it’s mine”! These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them, and they took it all. Took it all. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. And they stayed loaded for twenty years, and had a free ride, but now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age burn-out, and they don’t like it. They don’t like it so they’ve turned self-righteous, and they want to make things hard on younger people. They tell them to: “abstain” from sex. “Say no” to drugs. As for the rock-n-roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago, so they could buy pasta-machines, and “stair-masters”, and “soybean-futures”. “Soybean-futures”. You know something? They’re cold bloodless people. It’s in their slogans. It’s in their rhetoric. “No pain no gain”, “just do it”, “life is short play hard”, “sh-t happens deal with it”, “get a life”. These people went from “do your own thing” to “just say no”. They went from “love is all you need” to “whoever winds up with the most toys wins”. And they went from cocaine to rogaine. And you know something? They’re still counting grams, only now it’s fat grams. And the worst of it is, the rest of us have to watch these commercials on TV for Levi’s loose-fitting jeans, and fat-ass docker pants, because these degenerate yuppie-boomer-c*cksuckers couldn’t keep their hands off the croissants, and the häagen-dazs. And their big fat asses have spread all over and they have to wear fat-ass docker pants. F*ck these boomers."

- George Carlin

[Uncle Rico]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

Good!  That’s awesome and I’m sure Doc is among them.  Doesn’t mean those kids and grandkids are “entitled”.

[Hards Alumni]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

I'd prefer we make it easier for everyone of a generation instead of just family members, personally.

[Goose]

I can only speak for my family, my kids have lived a very nice, easy life but never have I felt it was not appreciated to the highest level. I actually have told me adult kids (26-35 years old) they do not need to thank Mom and Dad for literally everything we still do for them. Two of my boys are my main golf buddies and they have never paid for a round when playing with me yet have never taken it for granted and thank me every single time. I lived a very nice life and believed paying it forward was how I wanted to live my life.

Over the past 25 years I have had a roller coaster of a life financially, but my kids left college debt free and have made great decisions since graduating. To be honest, seeing their Dad eat a little dirt was the best education they may have received. They saw their parents' sacrifice a ton to provide an education and life in general. Hopefully they have learned the lesson of paying it forward.

[Goose]

Hards

#1 I believe you do not have children and if that is the case, you really have no experience to comment on the topic.
#2 I have always believed you start at home and work out in helping people.
#3 Pretty big assumption that I do not want to help others. For the record, your assumption is off target.

[Billy Hoyle]

I am looking forward to when I get older and can start calling all generations after mine entitled.  It’s such a lazy old person thing.  It’s not complicated to understand the goal of each generation should be to make it easier for the next generation.  That’s sort of the purpose, aina?

I'm Gen X and working at a college have ample opportunity to call Gen Z kids "entitled" as they display it on a daily basis,

[MU82]

I love all the labeling of entire generations.

My wife and I are Boomers and I think we both worked pretty hard for decades. Neither of us had anything handed to us, and I don't think we could be called "takers" or "me-first" or bad for the planet or any of the other labels that get used to describe Boomers.

Our kids are in their mid-30s. That makes them, what, Millennials? We absolutely didn't spoil our kids -- they used to call us "too strict" -- but it was a goal of ours to put them through college and we did. Otherwise they were not what I'd call entitled or spoiled. They have worked their arses off as young adults, married great people, and now are doing a fine job raising their own kids. Most of the friends they went to high school with have grown up to be hard-working contributors to society. I hear the blanket criticism of Millennials, and it sounds so ignorant -- though no more or less ignorant than blanket criticism of Boomers.

So on this I'll take Hards' side AND Lenny's side. They're pretty much right about their own generations AND wrong about others.

Generalizations and labels are counterproductive and shallow.

And of course, we're having this discussion in what was looking like a fun thread about whether or not we met our spouses at Marquette. Jeesh.

[Lennys Tap]

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

Rico

Your story is commendable and not an uncommon one for yours or any other generation. People who want to lump individuals into some neat, packaged narrative based on their birth date should know better.

That doesn’t mean that people don’t benefit generationally. The world my generation inherited was more just and afforded us more opportunity than my parent’s had. Did that result in some being entitled or ungrateful? Sure. The same is true for yours.

[MUBurrow]

There's a lot of conflation going on here between defining the "next generation" as members of one's family vs the country at large.  Statistically, millenials are on pace to be the first generation to be worse off than their parents.  As of a 2013 NYT article, "The average net worth of someone 29 to 37 has fallen 21 percent since 1983; the average net worth of someone 56 to 64 has more than doubled."

But it stands to reason that the descendants of graduates of a private college would buck that trend.  If the generational criticism is that the boomers consolidated their wealth at the expense of the next generation and thereby created greater levels of wealth inequality, then the millenial descendants of the wealthier and more educated boomers would actually be more priviledged compared to their peers than was the case for their parents.  Its a positive feedback loop.

[real chili 83]

There is one accurate generalization.

ND sucks.

[dgies9156]

There's a lot of conflation going on here between defining the "next generation" as members of one's family vs the country at large.  Statistically, millenials are on pace to be the first generation to be worse off than their parents.  As of a 2013 NYT article, "The average net worth of someone 29 to 37 has fallen 21 percent since 1983; the average net worth of someone 56 to 64 has more than doubled."

Nonsense!

The same comment was made about us boomers during the 1970s and 1980s.

There are three variables that govern intergenerational wealth in this country. The first is the pace of technological change. We boomers benefitted from the technology age that began in the 1980s and accelerated dramatically in the 1990s. The second is the way the government manages the economy. Quite simply, does the policies of the monetary agencies and the fiscal policies of the government promote growth? Thirdly is individual initiative. How driven are you to succeed and what are you willing to give up on the short-run to assure your life is a good one.

We boomers benefitted from the tech revolution. To suggest we need to "get out of the way," as some millennials have suggested, is garbage. Find your way, man! You can do it!

That said, those of us who married Marquette spouses are especially well-equipped to benefit. Our spouses are grounded in real-world reality, are well-educated, thoughtful and, most of all, smart. In my case, she's beautiful too!