Any fellow CTY nevermores?

There was a camp thread on BHB, and I was wondering if there's anyone else here who knows the REAL lyrics to 'American pie'

LOL yes! 4 years baby! And another 4 as an RA! DIE DIE DIE!

ETA: Oh my god am I old enough to be an RA when you were there!? Where did you go? I RAd at Skidmore.

3 years at Dickinson College here...

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Posted by ppwbride

3 years at Dickinson College here...

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Wow, I was 4 years at Dickinson! Let's see...'91-'95 I think? When were you there? I had my first kiss in the Hub!

I was at Towson (YS program) in '93

and Hopkins in '96

I was supposed to go again , but I could never afford it! I also always dreamed of being an RA, but that never happenned either. (I didn't want to be away from FH for 8 weeks..I'm a dork)..

But seriously, CTY has been one of the most memorable and meaningful experience of my life...so unique, and I made some lifelong frineds...I seriously wish I could go back. It was just always such an amazing group of people...we had our own litter world..and I LOVE to run into fellow CTYers

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Posted by marymoon

I was at Towson (YS program) in '93

and Hopkins in '96

I was supposed to go again , but I could never afford it! I also always dreamed of being an RA, but that never happenned either. (I didn't want to be away from FH for 8 weeks..I'm a dork)..

But seriously, CTY has been one of the most memorable and meaningful experience of my life...so unique, and I made some lifelong frineds...I seriously wish I could go back. It was just always such an amazing group of people...we had our own litter world..and I LOVE to run into fellow CTYers

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LOL I still have my mix tape if you feel like getting nostalgic! RAing was great--I can't believe I got paid for playing! And I met some of my best friends there.

I'm still in college, so I could technically still RA

One of my friends from CTY was a TA I think last year.

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Posted by nov04LIbride
LOL I still have my mix tape if you feel like getting nostalgic! RAing was great--I can't believe I got paid for playing! And I met some of my best friends there.

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Can I guess what's on the mix tape?
- Instanbul - TMBG
- Rock Lobster - B-52's
- American Pie
- At least one REM song

CTY (Or as FH likes to call it 'Nerd camp' ) was such a great experience. Exposure to so many different people really helped shape who I am today.

I always refer to it as 'nerd camp' Those were the days


great mix..and depending on where you were, there was also forever young..

And for us it was 'it's the end of the world as we know it'

and even a little bit of 'shiny happy people'

I had my first slow dance at CTY

And my first little boyfriend

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Posted by marymoon

BTW, re any fo yu on the CTY alumni site? I remeber getting an invite, but I don't know if I ever got a chance to sign up. I remember they used to have these HUGE CTY reuinions a long time ago..but I never went and stopped hearing about them

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Nah, but all my CTY friends are on friendster with me.

wish it knew what CTY was....

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Posted by shorty the pumpkin

wish it knew what CTY was....

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a camp place. not getting into the details because it was a dorky decade for me i am finally managing to live down!

My parents never let me go to camp - they always said 'we have a pool, and the beach is 2 minutes away. WHATTYA NEEDA CAMP FOR?!?'

Well, except for drum major leadership camp one summer, 'cause the school paid for it because I was the queen band dork.

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Posted by shorty the pumpkin

wish it knew what CTY was....

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CTY is alot of thing. they have a lot fo different programs..but I'll focus on the coolest which was the camp.

You would take the SAT in 7th grade to qualify for the program..it's Center for Talented Youth btw (but on trps we'd telle veryone 'Can't Tell You')....

And it's a 3 week program (you can slo go for 2 sessions-6 weeks) where you go and take basically a college course in a chosen subject for 3 weeks and there are activites after class, and then you have study hall and night. it's basically work hard, play hard. But it's SO much more than anything I can describe. it just brought together the most awesome bunch of people and created a culture all it's own. There are songs, plays, poems and movies that are all 'CTY'...stuff that we all watched or sang, or read or listened to...

it was SUCH a blast. And a lot of people went year after year and then became RA's (you lived in college dorms)..i became a lfietime thing. I went to two summer sessions and participated in some other programs too.. I would have loves to go for more summer sessions, but even with'scholarships' it was too much money...and my birthday is at the beginning of the year, so I had less time that I could go.

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Posted by marymoon

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Posted by shorty the pumpkin

wish it knew what CTY was....

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CTY is alot of thing. they have a lot fo different programs..but I'll focus on the coolest which was the camp.

You would take the SAT in 7th grade to qualify for the program..it's Center for Talented Youth btw (but on trps we'd telle veryone 'Can't Tell You')....

And it's a 3 week program (you can slo go for 2 sessions-6 weeks) where you go and take basically a college course in a chosen subject for 3 weeks and there are activites after class, and then you have study hall and night. it's basically work hard, play hard. But it's SO much more than anything I can describe. it just brought together the most awesome bunch of people and created a culture all it's own. There are songs, plays, poems and movies that are all 'CTY'...stuff that we all watched or sang, or read or listened to...

it was SUCH a blast. And a lot of people went year after year and then became RA's (you lived in college dorms)..i became a lfietime thing. I went to two summer sessions and participated in some other programs too.. I would have loves to go for more summer sessions, but even with'scholarships' it was too much money...and my birthday is at the beginning of the year, so I had less time that I could go.

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ahh, thanks Jenn!!! I remeber getting that letter after the SATs in 7th grade, but I'm the oldest of 3, and Dad had just opened a business, so there was prob. no money around that time.