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Question by Jake: Is the college life really like the TV show "Blue Mountain State"? I'm in high school and i always wondered if the college life is anywhere close to how "Blue Mountain State" makes it out to be? Best answer for Is the college life really like the TV show "Blue Mountain State"?:
Answer by slightlyshady101
Not really, but it depends where you go. No matter what though, College is *amazing*. Seriously.
Answer by Peace Love
My college experience has never been like the ones I see on television. My college experience has consisted of working straight through, taking as many classes as I can and taking summer classes in order to get finished and get out and begin real life. I think those that get involved in activities on campus have a more television-like college experience. The sororities/fraternities and clubs and organizations are very fun and memorable to a lot of people.
Answer by matt m-h
Only for the athletes and the hardcore party-ers. Most people have a routine that they follow that includes: getting up, eating, going to class, going to work, and doing homework. If they find time to hang out with their friends and go to parties and whatnot, it isn't every day. Maybe one or two days out of a seven day week at most. And also, there are more and more people going to colleges close to home, be it due to financial reasons or personal reasons. So that means more and more people are treating their college years as extensions of high school - keeping the same group(s) of friends and not bothering to make any new ones.
Answer by SOUTH WEYMOUTH
At bigger schools, but only for hardcore partiers. 90% of colle ge isn't like that at all. When I went to college 9 years ago, I had a routine: get up, eat, go to class, hw, eat, class, hw, eat, class hw etc. Throw in a couple of fraternity meetings, student council meetings, and other extracurriculars as well as a part time job and that was it. BMS is a great show, I love it, but it is completely fictional and designed for entertaining people and making us laugh. It's a satire and parody of what college football in America is like, which is what makes it so funny. Hope this helps.
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Gabriele (R) said he was acting out of love for the Church
Pope Benedict's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele has been found guilty of stealing confidential papers and sentenced to 18 months in jail.
Prosecutors had called for a three-year sentence but it was reduced because of "mitigating circumstances".
Speaking before the verdict, he said he acted out of love for the Church and did not see himself as a thief.
Gabriele had denied the theft charge but admitted photocopying documents and "betraying the Holy Father's trust".
Defence lawyers had asked for the charge to be reduced.
Paolo Gabriele was accused of stealing and copying the Pope's documents and leaking them to an Italian journalist.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says official Vatican media have almost totally ignored the trial since it began and morning radio bulletins have omitted to mention the story.
'High moral motives'The verdict was delivered after a deliberation of at least an hour by judges.
Presiding judge Guiseppe Dalla Torre gave a verdict of three years but then cut it to a year-and-a-half on the grounds of lack of a criminal record, his apology to the Pope and past services rendered to the Church.
The verdict brings to an end a week-long trial that has revealed an embarrassing breach of security at the highest levels of the Vatican.
On the last day of the trial, defence and prosecution lawyers gave their closing arguments, and Gabriele made a final appeal.
"The thing I feel most strongly is the conviction of having acted out of visceral love for the Church of Christ and of its leader on earth," he said.
"I do not feel I am a thief."
His defence lawyer, Cristiana Arru, accused the Vatican police of irregularities and failures during their investigations.
She asked the court to reduce the charge to common theft or illegal possession, saying Gabriele had high moral motives although he had committed an illegal act.
Meanwhile prosecutor Nicola Picardi said Gabriele should be given a three-year prison sentence "with a perpetual but limited ban".
During testimony, the three judges presiding over the court heard how Gabriele used the photocopier in his shared office next to the Pope's library to copy thousands of documents, taking advantage of his unrivalled access to the pontiff.
He would later pass some of them on to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.
In 2010 Mr Nuzzi released a best-selling book, entitled His Holiness, largely based on the confidential papers and detailing corruption, scandals and infighting.
ConfessionIts publication sparked the hunt for the source of the leaks inside the Vatican, leading to Gabriele's arrest in May.
Police also told the court how they found thousands of documents at Gabriele's home, including some original papers bearing the Pope's handwriting. Some had the instruction "destroy" written by the Pope in German on them.
Although Gabriele has entered a not guilty plea, prosecutors say he confessed to taking documents during an interrogation in June, a confession he later stood by in court.
He told prosecutors he hoped to reveal alleged corruption at the Vatican, and believed that the Pope was being manipulated.
Gabriele is widely expected to be pardoned by Pope Benedict, his boss of seven years.
"I feel guilty of having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would," he told the court earlier this week.
Our correspondent says the Holy See wants to see rapid closure of the scandal, as this weekend the Church is beginning what it calls a "year of faith", a series of initiatives aimed at reviving Christian faith in formerly predominantly Catholic countries currently seeing creeping secularism.
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