ATV comes home to finish his degree.

According to ESPN LA's Peter Yoon, Alterraun Verner is taking advantage of his time off due to the NFL lockout by coming back to UCLA and finishing his degree in Applied Mathematics. It's men like him that make me proud to be a fellow Bruin.

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In middle school, other kids teased him and called him “Brainuerran.”

I think it’s apparent from the “clever” nature of that nickname that those other kids could have used some of what ATV has…

by Tydides on Jun 9, 2011 10:19 AM PDT reply actions

And that is why

those kids probably went to U$C…

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jun 9, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions

ATV = Class Act

The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Jun 9, 2011 1:37 PM PDT reply actions

Applied Mathematics?

How can anyone major in anything where the answer is not a matter of opinion. Having to have things come out exact doomed me when I thought (for a semester) that I would be a math major.

All kidding aside, I salute him for doing this. (I salute anone who majors in something that’s truly hard.)

by Fox 71 on Jun 10, 2011 1:14 PM PDT reply actions

If the lockout last awhile,

he can alway become an actuary.

by Gen2Bruin1987 on Jun 10, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions

That's what I always loved about math.

Once you get the answer, it’s not up for dispute. But I too switched…from math to poli sci and then urban planning. I do wish the answers were in the back of the book however.

Congratulations to ATV…how absolutely cool is he! ATV should be the new cool.

Go Bruins!

by uclaluv on Jun 10, 2011 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Mad Respect to ATV, but Applied Mathemetics is NOT "widely regarded as one of the most difficult majors in South Campus"

This is not meant to disrespect ATV whatsoever, but Applied Math is probably one of the easiest South Campus majors. Applied Math is a very practical and useful major that certainly isn’t easy, but to say it is one of the most difficult South Campus majors makes one question the journalistic integrity of the author. You might be thinking about Pure Math, which is indeed one of the most difficult majors on any campus.

That said, it takes a true scholar to return to school and finish a degree after being paid multi-million dollars playing professional sports. And for that, I have nothing but respect for ATV.

by Nick McGhie on Jun 11, 2011 6:26 PM PDT reply actions

North campus majors ranking system :P

by Bruin'96 on Jun 11, 2011 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I was told differently by multiple anectdotal sources...

but if you insist that there are many other UCLA South-Campus majors that are significantly and inherently more difficult, I will take your word for it. I’ve modified the fanshot above.

by BruinMW on Jun 13, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions

yeah somehow i doubt it is one of the hardest. i was a south campus engineering major in computer science (hard, but i would never say the hardest major there either).

i would say out of everyone i knew in south campus, the absolute hardest major was probably electrical engineering. depending on specialization it had something like 210 to 225 units, so it was not only difficult but hard to finish in 4 years.

by hans007 on Jun 14, 2011 10:13 PM PDT reply actions