I'm a UTA grad also, and like most of my friends I went there because the tuition was cheap, and you could further save on expenses by living at home. :)
But in my day it wasn't the cradle of ME students, it was more like their playpen, and they were spoiled little brats, to put it politely.
UT Arlington. My alma mater. The cradle of Middle-Eastern students...Really? UTA is really a good school. I got my B.B.A. degree there. They were the 6th largest school of Business Administration in the country when I went there...I'm a UTA grad also, and like most of my friends I went there because the tuition was cheap, and you could further save on expenses by living at home. :)
But in my day it wasn't the cradle of ME students, it was more like their playpen, and they were spoiled little brats, to put it politely.
Yeah. I probably should have said 'hotbed' or 'rats nest', lol !
I had a roommate in the dorm for one or two semesters from the Middle-East. He was from Kuwait. His name was Hadi.
Hadi was one of the spoiled brats, sort of. (His dad worked one of the oil companies there, from what I recall). But Hadi wasn't a bad person. He and a few others of us from the dorm would go to Burger King on occasion. Hadi was adament that he not get anything with pork in it, so he would always get a burger or chicken. One of the gang, Raymond (whom we all called Opie because he looked like Ron Howard), would always taunt Hadi about the pork. 'Hey, Hadi, I got your chicken sandwich. Is that my pork you're eating?' 'Hey, Hadi, they put pork on yours, I saw them,' etc. That's about the only time I ever saw Hadi get riled, lol ! He was adament about no pork. Hadi told me that they see pork as 'unclean' meat, because they think that the hogs/pigs eat their own feces. I've heard some say it's true, and others tell me it's not true. I don't know. I never lived on a pig farm...