Before he was governor, he was a Coog

VP candidate Tim Walz briefly attended UH in the mid 80s!

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/tim-walz-university-of-houston-19754726.php

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I had no idea of this before reading that article. Very interesting!

Maybe he can campaign down here in the next couple of months? That’s pretty cool. I just missed seeing him on campus I guess by a few months.

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Chron link if you can’t open the SA link:

VP candidate Tim Walz was a Houston Cougar before becoming a governor (houstonchronicle.com)

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Did he leave when the courses got tough?

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I don’t know man….im so disenfranchised with government in general, both at the federal and state levels…

Not one of the four on the ticket do a thing for me……I wish we had better candidates on both sides.

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Intro to Geology?

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Hey, I struggled in that. But I didn’t quit. I buckled down and started cheating.

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I couldn’t read that with the paywall. What’s the readers digest version?

He started at UH before moving back home to Nebraska to finish college.

Professor Lytwyn is no joke

While in TX, he took some East Asian studies classes at UH.

Both his degrees are from lesser known universities in MN.

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“It’s only cheating if you get caught!” -Al Bundy

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Can’t read the articles but elsewhere I read it sounds like he was drifting around mentally after losing his father to cancer.