What nicknames does/did your school or university have?

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1. In the Atlanta area there’s ‘Hooch’ high school (Chattahoochee), ‘Chee’ h.s. (Apalachee), ‘D-Town’ (Dutchtown h.s.) & ‘Agony Spot’ for Agnes Scott College. I’d love to hear what else you know!

2. Bulldogs. We are all Bulldogs. There are no other mascots. Only bulldogs.

3. UCF aka U can’t finish. Otherwise they are the Knights. And were the Golden Knights for a while.

4. Bucks County Community College:

   BuckU

5. Fairleigh Dickinson University = Fairleigh Ridiculous

6. Mt. Pleasant High School -> Mt. Pregnant

7. St. Mike’s

8. Texas Cocaine University, Texas Construction University, Technically Christian University

9. Udub (University of Washington)

10. U
    Can
    Study
    Buzzed

11. University of Spoiled Children

12. Went to a lovely high school in North Austin, TX called Westwood. Nicknames were Wastewood, Weedwood, and Wasteweed. We were an IB school with alot of smart kids but also alot of drugs. Since we were really good with math and liked drugs we had alot of really good drug dealers.

    Edit- Remembered another good one. I lived in Little Rock, AR for a short period. There was an all girls catholic school called Mount St. Mary’s and the nickname was Mount St. Mattress. There was also a school for the deaf and their mascot was the leopards.

13. U can’t finish is a classic

    I got pissed one day I was late for class due to parking, so I came up with U Can’t Fucking Park, or the child-friendly U Can’t Find Parking

14. Titans… Remember them?

15. My high school was the Kirkweed Pot-oneers (mascot was the Pioneers, and it was an affluent school with a lot of bored kids smoking ganja). A neighboring all-girls Catholic school, St. Joseph’s, was known as St. Jo’s Hoes.

16. Johnson Inhales (Johnson & Wales)

17. I went to Georgia State and some common nicknames were “garbage”, “worthless”, and “why is this building halfway across the city?”

18. UMass Amherst also known as ZooMass Slamherst

19. My high school’s nickname was Scandalweed.

20. My friend went to Whetstone HS in Columbus, OH. A lot of people called it “Slippery Rock”

21. Beverly Hillsborough, or Pillsborough… you get the gist of the issues of my hometown

22. McLah (pronounced MICK-lah)

    Because it was Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA)

23. I don’t think any of them had nicknames 🙁

24. In my dad’s day, the state university was called “Nam” because “everybody goes and nobody knows why.”

25. South Park (School was near a park on the south side of the city) then the TV show exploded into popularity and the name took off.

26. University High School:

    “Uni”

    Or

    P(uni) pronounced as puny (derogatory)

27. There is a junior college here called Southern Union but a few people call it Southern Onion.

28. Ridgehood (actual name was Ridgewood) lol

29. “Old School”

    The town I grew up in had two high schools, and the old school was nicknamed, well, “Old School” lol the funny thing is the old school was torn down and replaced with a brand new school a couple years ago but carries the same moniker since it’s the old legacy still.

30. San Diego High = Daygo

    Wasn’t as popular with the white kids unless we were trying to sound cool.

31. Claradise

32. Golden Bears
    UC Berzerkly

33. Ohio University = Harvard on the Hocking

34. We always just called it Sendicott….good ol EC

35. The University of No Help (especially for us out of staters)

    Also the University of No Holidays

36. University of Neverending Construction

37. “Jewniversity of Pennsylasia” and “Not Penn State” were two of the more common ones.

38. Indiana has Ball State University, they call it Testicle Tech.

39. We had a couple for Youngstown State University (YSU).

    Y ou’re
    S till
    U neducated

    Or

    Y ou
    S crewed
    U p

40. Harvard on the Hocking. Ohio University.