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CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones / Same RMA?
« on: December 21, 2007, 05:46:15 PM »
I stumbled upon fornits recently and was sort of shocked that people had such a different experience at RMA than I did. Or at least that it still has such a negative impact years later. I spent a couple of hours may be more reading through the posts, experiences, thoughts etc (fornits is like crack). At first I thought to myself, did these people go to the same RMA as I did, WTF? Not that any of the statements about what went on at RMA were any different than how I remember it (raps, staff, work detail, bans,FT, academics,etc) I just somehow came away with a different overall experience.
I think one of the main reasons is..
I was a decent size fuck-up prior to going to RMA. To the point where I had been arrested a few times, the last time being serious enough that I was going to be sent to jh for a number of months. During the process I spent a few days locked up and pretty much decided I'd do anything it took to avoid having to go back. Well I decided that until I was back on the street;) My parents ended on finding RMA, showed me all the literature, made me fill out the application, and made me talk to old Lon (who actually painted a picture that was fairly accurate) on the phone before they let me choose a)jh b)rma. It was an easy choice. May be not so easy once I arrived and the realization that there really wasn't an underground where I could get weed, drink, and get laid without getting caught. I think the fact that at some level I made the choice to go helped my over all experience. I also felt like I always had the option to change my mind and go with option a if I wanted to. Even at it's worst I never thought seriously about changing my mind.
I was at RMA in the era when S.R. still worked in the kitchen. I had probably been there 4 months when he jumped up on the bar with a bunch of buckets of food and went absolutely fucking bat shit yelling at people about wasting food. Blah blah blah I make this great food and you just
throw it away. 1) the food wasn't good 2) students for the most part made the food 3) you're going to have an aneurysm if you don't chill out you crazy self righteous hillbilly dickhead. No matter, his performance as someone kids can respect (because they fear him) earned him a position directly managing kids. Given some of the other staff members SR was more than qualified for his new job:/
By more qualified I mean more qualified than some of the most fucked up students that CEDU ever saw.. The threads about CW are so true. She is pretty much everything people have said about her, no doubt. She drove me fucking nuts with all her mind games.. At least she was pleasant on the eye. My hat goes off to the guy from Philly.
-10mile
I think one of the main reasons is..
I was a decent size fuck-up prior to going to RMA. To the point where I had been arrested a few times, the last time being serious enough that I was going to be sent to jh for a number of months. During the process I spent a few days locked up and pretty much decided I'd do anything it took to avoid having to go back. Well I decided that until I was back on the street;) My parents ended on finding RMA, showed me all the literature, made me fill out the application, and made me talk to old Lon (who actually painted a picture that was fairly accurate) on the phone before they let me choose a)jh b)rma. It was an easy choice. May be not so easy once I arrived and the realization that there really wasn't an underground where I could get weed, drink, and get laid without getting caught. I think the fact that at some level I made the choice to go helped my over all experience. I also felt like I always had the option to change my mind and go with option a if I wanted to. Even at it's worst I never thought seriously about changing my mind.
I was at RMA in the era when S.R. still worked in the kitchen. I had probably been there 4 months when he jumped up on the bar with a bunch of buckets of food and went absolutely fucking bat shit yelling at people about wasting food. Blah blah blah I make this great food and you just
throw it away. 1) the food wasn't good 2) students for the most part made the food 3) you're going to have an aneurysm if you don't chill out you crazy self righteous hillbilly dickhead. No matter, his performance as someone kids can respect (because they fear him) earned him a position directly managing kids. Given some of the other staff members SR was more than qualified for his new job:/
By more qualified I mean more qualified than some of the most fucked up students that CEDU ever saw.. The threads about CW are so true. She is pretty much everything people have said about her, no doubt. She drove me fucking nuts with all her mind games.. At least she was pleasant on the eye. My hat goes off to the guy from Philly.
-10mile