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I don't, but my Son's childhood best friend goes to St. John's in Minnesota and LOVES it. Granted, he went to a Benedictine High School, but they offered him a ton of need and merit aid. The St. John's Football Corch back in the 80s and 90s was kind of a legend for being a good dude and the opposite of a Bobby Knight style asshole.

There it is. HTTR.

Uh. Guise. GUISE!!! Im starting to get a tingle.

Every Carleton grad I’ve met is fucking smart and cool.

I’ve made this joke before in this thread, but when Oregon played Colorado, that’s a lot of rich California kids who didn’t get into their first choice UC school.

True. Texas State and North Texas are D-I. OTOH, if you aren't going pro and looking at business, law, or medical school post graduation, would you rather have paper from: Bowdoin or North Texas?

A school like Middlebury, Tufts, or Bowdoin, which are near impossible to get into academically, will give A LOT of preference to a top tier athelete who can pass the academic sniff test.

I've said this many times, depending on the school, the price isn't usually the price when talking D3 schools, depending on your income. If you are middle class, after need and potentially merit aid, the cost is often 1/2 to 2/3 less than the listed price. Don't look at that sticker and immediately swear off a school. It's worth reaching out to the coach, having a conversation, throwing in an application, and seeing what the school offers you. Your child doesn't have to be resigned to the Greek IM field at second tier state U.

Australian Actors mostly end up going back to Australia. Same for a lot of New Zealand actors. Outside of the odd Mel Gibson, they all go back. Pearce eventually left Melbourne and moved to Amsterdam with his second wife, a model, but 90% of the time when an actor from down under doesn't have the career you thought they were going to have, it's because they hated Hollywood and left.

With Societies, it depends on whether they are charity based or science focused. A charity based society should either be funding research or charity efforts and most of that money should be going out the door. A scientific society usually is a member based organization that also publishes/runs conferences to help cover the cost. Doesn't mean the executives aren't well paid, but their primary mission is more internal focused than external. There's a big difference between the American Chancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

I'd roll Doctors without Borders for international. The real green light moment for me was during the Indonesian Earth Quake when they basically said: We have enought money, send it somewhere else. They caught a lot of shit for turning away donors, but that's just how they roll. Also, they are the canary in the coal mine on international situations. When they announce they are leaving or call for intervention you know its about to go down. Their work in Rwanda in 94 is fucking legend.

The Red Cross is well known in the DC non-profit community for inefficiency, wasteful spending, and other shady practices. World Central Kitchen is on the ground in LA if you are looking for a national non-profit with sterling ratings/reviews/reputation and don't have the time/energy to sort through local relief orgs.

My only differences is vintage car and truck content. As Jerry Wayne Longmire puts it: If you can't find an agreeable woman to while away an afternoon in a vintage camper with a bottle of Old Crow, I'm not sure we can be friends. That kinda sums up my algorithm as well.