Purdue University

Boilermaker:

• 1) One who makes or repairs boilers.
• 2) A drink of whisky with a beer chaser.
• 3) A student who attends Purdue University.

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Some of the best things about Purdue are:

• Fountain runs
• The awesome Big Ten athletics
• The beautiful campus—so pretty, and so easy to navigate that it must have been designed by an engineer
• Sledding down Slayter Hill on lunch trays
• Hot boys playing Frisbee on the Memorial Mall without their shirts

Some of the worst things about Purdue are:

• The extreme boredom of the Lafayette/West Lafayette surroundings
• The Midwestern weather
• The parking Nazis who slap a ticket on your car the instant the meter expires
• Foreign TAs
• 7:30 a.m. classes

And did you know that . . .

The famous Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, was named after a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Theodore Kermit Scott grew up in Leland, Mississippi, with Muppet creator Jim Henson, who borrowed Scott’s middle name for his most famous creation.

Twenty-two astronauts hail Purdue as their alma mater, including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, respectively the first and last men to set foot on the moon, and Jerry Ross, the man who has been on more space walks than any other astronaut. Purdue alumni have flown more than one-third of all U.S. manned flights into space, which has led to Purdue’s epithet of “the Cradle of Astronauts.”

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