It couldn’t be worse than my old high school! I admit I haven’t followed the X-Men since the late 1980’s, but I’d go. Give me a chance to learn to control my powers, learn neat stuff, and even get in some travel and adventure, and it sounds like a good life to me. Imagine talking religion with Nightcrawler or Japanese culture with Wolverine! If you’ve got to die, you may as well die having a good time and fighting the good fight! Besides, I’ve even got a good superhero name!
Siege
Well. I went to the school next door for a while. No more than two or three towns away, at least, mid-Westchester, and I kept seeing parts of towns I know being used as reference drawings.
High School: Electrocuted twice. Bomb threats on a semi-monthly basis. Only two were real, though. Half a mile from a major correctional facility, and there was the occasional escape. (I live where you get ‘sent up the river’ to.) Still have a scar on my hand from a knife fight. Three deaths that I’m aware of. Food poisoning on a random basis. And the football team liked to jump on people in the halls. No, literally, just gangtackle. They only did it to me once, though.
The teachers set off at least two explosions that I’m aware of, explained the usage of drugs in very interesting language, and several of them had no idea of their subjects.
Doesn’t seem that much different. Fine. Giant irish tree. Meet army surplus flamethrower one guy had hooked to the underside of his car. (Yes. It’s a sport.)
At least Magneto doesn’t hit on his students.
What’s a “Xaiver”?
Is that anything like 5-flavor Life Xaivers?
Please tell me what title the Rampaging Irish Tree appears in. I’ve been stuck pretty recently to Astonishing X-Men, which is ace.
I’m guessing Black Tom Cassady got mutated again. Am I right?
Unless it’s changed in the past twenty years or so (most of my knowledge is by osmosis and threads on here), you don’t get to pick your name – Xavier does.
You better hope you get something better than Maggot, Iceman, or Marvel Girl.
I don’t remember that being the case… kitty pride got to pick “sprite” when she started.
You sure about that? I could have sworn when she joined the team, she wanted to be called Sprite and wear her own outfits but got smacked down by Xavier, who named her Shadowcat and made her wear the standard uniform.
I could be misremembering though. As I said, most of my knowledge is via secondary sources.
No, not totally sure, but reasonably certain.
The first issue where she wore her own uniform Xavier did tell her that she’d have to wait till she was an official xman to choose her own outfit, but she still ended up wearing her damn rollerskates on a mission.
I thought that she chose the name shadowcat later when she wanted to be more ‘adult’… but then again, I haven’t read those issues in, jeez… wayyyyy too many years (now I feel old).
HELL NO!
The X-men have the highest fatality rate of any super team in the Marvel Universe.
Bar none.
Xavier went for years, not even trying to use the Media to improve the image of mutants.
And weapons are barred. By Jeebus! I’d surround the school with 88mm cannon if I was running it. Not even light weapon emplacements.
Nuts to Xavier.
Yeah, but the nearly always “get better.” 
Yeah, you could actually look at this as a kind of benefit, in a way; by joining the X-Men, you’re much more likely to be killed in a dramatic and heroic way, nobly sacrificing your own life for the public good and to boost readership of your magazine, rather than dying in a more conventional way such as heart failure or at the hands of anti-mutant skinheads.
And though it’s not an official policy, it’s practically a lock that at some point down the road you’re going to be resurrected in some highly implausible fashion, again probably when magazine sales are at a low. Let’s face it, the proles in the Marvel Universe who aren’t associated with the X-Men or other superheroing groups probably don’t have near the resurrection rate that Xavier’s people do.
And when the planet does get invaded again, as it most assuredly must at some point, would you rather be living in a neighborhood of faceless non-mutants that practically screams “splash panel scene of destruction,” or surrounded by other powered individuals who, assuming the invasion occurs in your title or a crossover, will almost assuredly triumph against all odds?
Just in terms of the mortality issue, I would think that you’d want to be involved with the school on some level just as a precaution, unless the nature of your mutation grants you a powerful constitution and a long life otherwise…say, for example, if you became an Irish tree.
And when we get to the heart of the matter, Bosda, honestly now…in the cosmic wink of an eye that we are all given here on this green Earth, would you really prefer threescore and ten years living in relative “safety,” whatever that means for a citizen of Marvel Earth, or twenty-five years or so years of high adventure, during which time Anna Paquin will almost certainly have to touch you long enough to absorb your powers?
I’m just going by the films.
Storm, Jean Grey and Rogue are at this School?
Nuff said. 
I’m rereading all my old X-Men comics, and IIRC, in Uncanny #139, Prof. X suggests “Ariel”, which Kitty doesn’t like, and Storm suggests “Sprite”, which she accepts. So it seems that Kitty, at least, was allowed some input into her original codename.
In Uncanny #149, she comes up with the rollerskates/gold pants/lightning bolts atrocity. She’s not allowed to chose her own costume until the late #160’s, I believe.
For the record, I would have been at Xavier’s in a minute.
Yes, they are, but the school as a whole is overwhelmingly male-populated.
If you’re not one of the lucky chaps who winds up with Ororo or Dr. Grey or Rogue or Lorna Dane, you’re going to have to do what they do in prison and settle for, say, Iceman.
Black TOm and the “New Bortherhood” of mutants attached the school in the recent issues of “X-men” not “Uncanny X-men”
Hot mutant chicks. But if you do come to harm your mutoid parents could sue, sue, sue on a no win, no fee basis. That Xavier must be loaded.
I am such a dork because I’d have to look at the academics. If they compared as well or better than my current school options, then I would attend. Otherwise, the only way I’d go is if I had some dangerous, hard to control power.
I would go, but I would have prefered it if it were before the school went public. Back then, all you had to worry about was Magneto coming and trying to blow the place up. And frankly that sounds like fun. Who doesn’t want a chance to use your cool ass-kicky powers to try and beat up Magneto?
But now? Now there’s all the protests and crazy students, and all that other shtuff. Okay, so I’d still go, but I’d look back fondly on the good old days.
Oh, and I’d only go if I had cool powers. Who wants to go and be the ‘Amazing Newspaper Boy’ or something like that?
Why yes, yes I would.