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Damor

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  1. Great points and discussion, thanks all. I'm not super in touch with current med school admissions, but agree that what I have generally heard is that it's better to crush your major with eye popping numbers at Reputable State than to "show you can handle a challenge" with a more middling performance in a brutal major at Gunner U . For all the bullshit about "holistic evaluation," it's still the numbers that get you in the door. I am involved in the residency process, and aside from idle curiosity, IDGAF where you did undergrad or what your GPA was. I'll use your major to stereotype your personality. It's then all about your med school and if you can get some comparative data out of them these days, and at least for now your non P/F USMLE. For better or worse, medicine is still about playing the long game. The points about trying to do engineering without the mindset are very helpful, because the best guidance I want to give him as he decides is for him to find a path that is right for him and leads to fulfillment and contentment in the end (see @jimmyjazz above). If that's in medicine then great (I have my own reservations, cynicism, and concerns beyond the scope of this thread) and I'll be behind him 100%, but having an off-ramp or branch point to find his way is also important, as I've seen too many cases of "medicine or bust" that end unhappily. Didn't mean to let that take a negative turn, though, because right now he sees a wide open superhighway in front of him, and I'm excited to give the best guidance I can as he makes his way. Because as much as we'll miss him, he ain't moving back in.
  2. Thanks, y'all! He will actually get in-state tuition because he's a member of a Native American tribe with historical ties to CO on my wife's side. We had actually thought that only applied at CSU since it's the land grant university, but it's any CO state school. Somehow we missed that for the first year his brother was in school at Western. A niche situation to be sure, but worth pursuing if you think your kid could possibly be eligible. He wants to go to medical school, so his options for a major are pretty wide open. My guidance has been to be sure he picks a major he both enjoys and could find an alternate career pathway in if he decides not to go the med school route. That would probably be biomed engineering (whatever that means) if he goes to Mines. He wouldn't really be taking advantage of the things they're best at unfortunately, although I keep pointing out to him that he could get a minor in Space Mining. Chicks would dig that.
  3. Kindly indulge a proud dad in a little bragging... He got his acceptance today from Mines which, although he fit their admitted profile student pretty well, I didn't consider a sure thing at all. Really proud of this great kid. He's also accepted to CSU, and got their top tier OOS scholarship offer, although things like that will change since he'll have to get reclassified as in state when the dust settles at any CO school. Haven't heard from CU yet. It'll get interesting now that he has some choices. I feel like the student body at Mines (collaborative fun nerds) is his tribe, but despite being great at the maths, engineering hasn't been his main mindset for undergrad. He'll have to decide between that and a more open and bigger experience at CSU. Interestingly, one of his good friends (and a great kid) also got into Mines, which I thought was pretty cool for a mediumish HS class of ~120. We'll see if that affects his thinking. Good luck and Godspeed to all you Surly parents as the crazy season accelerates!
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    Vinyl

    Thanks. Despite my trepidation about an all-in-one, the Spinplay does look nice, and would cost less than putting the JBL with a decent set of bluetooth speakers. Not many reviews out there yet, though it looks to be better than the junk out there on Amazon. I guess I need to decide about the simplicity of that (great for a dorm) vs the flexibility of adding bluetooth speakers he can take places.
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    Vinyl

    I'm out of my element here, like a child wandering into the middle of a movie, but my son wants a setup for Christmas and I'm trying to figure it out. It'll be going off with him to his dorm somewhere next year, so the use case isn't going to be audiophile hipsterism cred, but something functional and space-efficient that won't hurt too much if it gets screwed up. I quickly eliminated the all in one units as I understand they're hot garbage. What I was leaning toward at this point was something with a built in phono amp and bluetooth transmitter. That way I could get him a pair of portable bluetooth speakers which could serve a dual purpose when he wants to take them to do outdoors stuff. Or if he wants to get some wired speakers at some point, he could go that route. Wirecutter, which seems reasonably reliable, likes the JBL Spinner BT for that purpose, but any other ideas or thoughts about that plan? I'd like to keep it in the neighborhood of $400 for the turntable.
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    RIP, Mani

    Second Coming? Damn. I was pretty crazy about them, and they're still all over a lot of my playlists. Waterfall is a masterpiece. And Second Coming wasn't terrible in retrospect, nothing was going to live up to their earlier stuff.
  7. I use the Nest one and it works fine. Google has its own issues anymore, and I think like pretty much all of them they can be exploited by LE for "emergencies," but they haven't done any of the "voluntary partnership" bullshit that Ring has. Mostly I just wanted to say that Flock can get fucked.
  8. What's your secret? Every rant I send through his web contact goes ignored or gets a form response full of non sequitur platitudes and ignorance.
  9. Congrats! I took my boys on a trip out there a couple years ago and we drove by the campus -- what a beautiful place to be! If there's still a fly fishing class there taught by Mac Brown (not that one), don't let him miss it.
  10. I think you answered your own question, @'stache. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater.
  11. And there it is. Damn, girl. It's like First They Came for our wave in the dismal tide. @immamac how do we pin this to the top of each page?
  12. Well, it's literally called a urinary diversion, so...
  13. I openly admit I have a LH problem, as this was the fourth time my son and I had seen them this year. Thought it was a spectacular show, and I had a much better "old man yells at cloud" experience at the Moody Center this time. If you dug the show, you owe it to yourself to see them at Red Rocks. They're a natural fit for that place.
  14. Dumb Austin parking question amnesty, plz. We're going to see Lord Huron at the Moody on Thursday, and this is the first time I've ever paid for VIP anything. We get access to enter at 5p. I reserved parking at Garage R over by Scholz, but it doesn't officially start until 5p. My preference would be to get there early and get something to eat /drink at Scholz, then walk over to the venue by 5p. Will I be able to enter the garage between say 3-4p, or is it all state employee access until then? Do I need a different plan? It should be evident I haven't lived in Austin in a long time.
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