Tickets!

Woohoo! About an hour ago I bought my student season tickets for 2008 Penn State football!! And my roommate Jon got his as well, and I’ve already written him a check for them. He agreed to sell his set to me, so now I have a guaranteed second ticket available for when my cousin Jonathan comes out for the Michigan game and when my buddy Mike (hopefully, assuming he can get off work) comes out for the Oregon State game. Jon will get first crack at whichever couple games he wants to go to, since he was so kind to let me buy his season ticket set, which would leave three other games for me to sell the tickets to other friends.
The ticket sale as a whole has gone much more smoothly this year than last year’s total free-for-all. How they did it this year was allot a certain number of tickets to each class, thus divvying up the 21,500 student tickets, and having each class buy their tickets online on a different day. They also had everyone who wanted to get tickets pre-register back at the end of May. For grad students, they allotted however many tickets that grad students bought last year (around a thousand?). Then the remaining tickets were allocated according to what percentage of the Penn State-University Park undergraduate enrollment is in what class. As a result, the juniors got the biggest allotment (28%, or 5,880 tickets) since they’re the biggest class (the biggest in Penn State history, too), then came the seniors, and so on. I haven’t heard how the freshman and sophomore ticket sales went the last two days, but the senior ticket sale on Monday took about nine hours to sell out. In contrast, the junior ticket sale on Tuesday sold out their entire allotment in a mere 90 seconds!! So I definitely wasn’t gonna take any chances, and made sure I was ready to go with all the stuff I needed right at 7:00:00am this morning! I didn’t wanna risk getting shut out, that’s for sure!
So far I haven’t heard of any grad student not being able to get tickets who tried to get them. I haven’t bothered to check yet if they’ve sold out by now either. But I know for sure, in addition to me and Petters, that Jeff [Frame], Kent, Walter & Ethan all got tickets in meteo, and Dan, Tracy & Amanda in PSCG got them too. Post a comment here if you got them too, so we can keep a tally!
Alright, time to head in to campus. Advisor meeting at 9 to talk more about my paper. I’m really looking forward to getting this pushed out the door finally. Maybe next week??