The KoT shows no mercy.

Sorry. :(

He also said something about a “full on BSD Facebook group”, which we have but suck at promoting.

I guess I must have gotten a vision from one of his evil relatives. Whatevs.

and was totally impressed that they all read BSD. The RUTS told me that he invited all of them.

As a fetus he thought, “That Zug doesn’t seem that amazing”

The rest, as they say, is history.

I wasn’t sure if I’d ever see a Dawson’s Creek reference on here.

growing up with that show on the air and having the last name Dawson. The sheer willpower it took to not punch the throngs of people who brought that up in the face has probably qualified me for a Nobel Peace prize.

And the worst part, there’s a little patch of woods behind my house and if you hike about fifty yards in, there’s a creek there (technically it’s a natural spring, but to the casual observer, a creek)

Further complicating things are the Pirates tickets I have tomorrow night…

I’m known for complaining about student tickets on this site, and I promised to stop complaining, but I’ll retell my own history with the ticket system to help you guys out. I can’t tell you what to expect, since I don’t know how voracious the freshmen will be this year for tickets. However, the general trend so far is that the tickets have gone very slowly.

I got tickets my freshman year without any problems (and that was 06, a year after our B10 champ run).

Sophomore and junior year, however didn’t go as well. Sophomore year it wasn’t as organized a process as they have now. No pre-registration (although I don’t think there’s a prereg for freshman anyway), and no separate class sales. So they had every student that wanted tickets on ticketmaster at the same time and it was a disaster and tickets sold out in 90 secons.

Junior year they implemented the pre-reg and class sales. Went a little better, but I still didn’t get tickets because my class sold out in 60 seconds (The senior class didn’t sell out for 10 HOURS). The tickets were also not electronic, so students would pay 200 some dollars for season tickets and resell them on eBay for $1500.

This year if you’ve been following the sales at all, the tickets have been plentiful. Either because of the elimination of possible scalping or the bad economy, it has been extremely easy this year. The senior class didn’t sell out. The junior class took hours to sell out. I don’t know about sophs, but my sister got tickets this morning, so it must have been the same situation. I don’t know how it will be with freshman this year. Like my freshman year, you’re coming to PSU the year after a great football season. Obviously there are no guarantees.

A few tips:
1. Have everything ready to go for the sale (credit card/debit card, PSU ID#, etc. Whatever the Student Central site told you to have, make sure it’s right next to your computer). Whatever the Student Central site told you to do, make sure you follow it to the letter.
2. Get the official US time online, sometimes (like my comp clock was) the time is way off, which could be disastrous.
3. DL Firefox if you don’t use it already. Internet explorer’s glitchyness is what cost me tickets my soph year.
4. Be on the site early so you’re ready to go, and reload the site when it gets close to the time of the sale. They wont display anything on the Beav’s ticketmaster page until the sale begins, so you want to keep checking. But, DO NOT reload the site after you see the “waiting in line” thing, you’ll lose your place in line.
5. Relax. I have a feeling it’s not going to be a problem given how my sale went (and my class is the largest class in PSU history, and they didn’t even sell out), but even if you don’t get tickets, they’re planning to have a re-sale thing at some point, so you still might be able to get tickets to some games this Fall.

Best of luck, and welcome to PSU.