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Bateshorn

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  1. Nein. Most of my family are UT grads. I went to Bates to strike out on my own. Neither of my kids even looked at Bates. boy 1 might do UT law after Trinity. But that’s not really legacy in the way you mean. Interestingly, Amherst was notoriously legacy friendly, even by NESCAC standards, but they abolished legacy admits 2 years ago, and it’s putting pressure on all the other Baby Ivies. funny story, when the Williams rep talked to my sons school, he was asked about legacies and his reply was to the effect: “it can be a small boost, but it doesn’t compare to all A’s. We don’t like to see B’s at Williams.” what an ass
  2. Travel hack: Get a cheap ass pocket knife sharpener and keep it in your suit case. Like an accusharp or something. it will put an edge on those dull ass ikea knives in every airbnb if you plan on cooking. Just be sure to get one that will get through airport security.
  3. A watch is literally the only jewelry I wear, and I wear it whenever I leave the house. I rolled a Hamilton Khaki on a Nato for close to 15 years, which I only took off at bedtime. I now have a Sinn 856 UTC, which I wear whenever I go out, but it's kinda heavy on my tiny, child like wrists, so I take it off when just sitting around the house. I'll wear a mechanical watch until they put me in the ground. I'm strongly considering a Tudor Pelagos 39 as an everyday watch now that I've have some disposable change. I digg the Sinn, but as I mentioned, it's kinda heavy and uncomfortable for me.
  4. Danke, sir.
  5. That's my point about East Coast Becky. The further from the top 10 you get the more schools have to start accepting lower qualified men than women in order to keep some gender diversity. As my wife put it: not every girl want to be consigned to four years of 'experimenting with girls" because the talent pool of male applicants was so poor.
  6. I had a good friend whose brother worked Admissions at Princeton before heading off to law school. He told me one year they let in all the qualified tuba applicants because they were graduating a bunch of tubas. He said that after some point, there is literally no difference between the applications, so you start doing shit like that. So yes, a random lottery is probably appropriate for the top 10 schools once you set the pool. I was being reductive and jokey about Y chromosomes, but my point about gender still stands: one you get outside the Top 20 universities, and the Top 10 liberal arts, balancing the gender in your class starts becoming an issue, Men just don't apply and go to higher Ed in the same numbers.
  7. As a related aside, a group, which does not need a hand up, but is also discriminated against, is high achieving women in higher education. When my boys were applying for school, one of the jokes is the worst demographic to be in if you wanted to go to an elite school is "East Coast Becky" ECB is vice president of student council, captain of the field hockey squad, first chair of the clarinets, and lead in the high school play. Becky is from an East Coast state with garbage public higher ed, like Maryland or New Jersey, and desperately wants to go to Stanford or Michigan, but she definitely doesn't want to go to Smith or Bryn Mawr. Her opposite, who does get a hand up, so the class isn't 75% women, is literally any chump with a Y chromosome.
  8. I mean, your points are valid, but the Asian Tax is real. And to my mind, no different than discrimination against Jewish students 100 years ago. That doesn’t mean this decision is correct, but to be clear: admissions offices are terrified that if they don’t trim Asian acceptance rates, they’ll dominate an incoming class after you reserve sits for legacies, athletes, donor kids, etc.
  9. Did we have a shot at him? If so, what happened? Didn’t want to take on Colt? Did Butterteeth fuck it up? If he went to Michigan, wouldn’t have been pay for play.
  10. Look at the ocean. Swim in the pool. RIP. Sorry for his family.
  11. Part of the reason I have Max is so I have access to the full WB animated back catalogue
  12. I always interpret it as he has a weird strike zone, but he calls it pretty consistently. As opposed to Thomas and Alito, who are Angel Hernandez on roids.
  13. It's a big win in aggregate for democracy, but to play the cynic a bit: the GOP has gerrymandered virtually every state it controls to the max, Jack. With the NC Supreme court flipping conservative and overruling the previous state Supreme Court anti-gerrymander decision, the GOP controlled legislature is likely to push the map to 11-3 or even 12-2. The last ungerrymandered GOP state is about to be dealt with. OTOH, a ruling in favor of independent legislature theory makes the state constitutional anti gerrymandering statutes/laws in Maryland, NY, California, and Colorado very dicey suddenly. That's probably 20 competitive seats right there. And that doesn't account for if Gretchen Whitmer and the MI legislature decided to do a mid decade redistrict as well, or if Oregon strikes the Senate qourum rule preventing the unified government from doing what it wants. Again: it's a good thing in total, but they also very quietly shut another door for the Democracts to get out their self imposed habit of fighting with a hand tied behind their back.
  14. Lotta cars posted in this thread who don’t seem to mind having a long scratch line all the way down to the paint on the passenger side of their vehicle.
  15. Because you never interrupt your enemy when he’s busy destroying himself.
  16. Get on the water in smaller boats with multi-ton carnivores above you on the food chain, well….that’s pretty much the definition of fuck around and find out.
  17. This. It was perfectly enjoyable throw away shoot ‘em up. The chick is smoke.
  18. As somebody pointed out: at some point if they’d been trapped, somebody would have had to drop a deuce.
  19. I read an article about explosive compression. At that depth it happens so quickly, your brain wouldn't even register it. Also, did anyone tell these rich Nimrods that James Cameron made an Imax documentary of the wreck? You don't have to get into a poorly built soup can to see it.
  20. idc how cheesy this movie is. The Kurgan slams, goes very hard.
  21. This makes me feel so much better about Delta lobbying to add flights to DCA, which already running 10 million over capacity.
  22. I had a buddy that owned a manual 93 turbo for awhile. It was a cool car, but required more active gear management to avoid turbo lag than any car I ever driven. If you weren’t almost prescient in your downshifts, the car could be down right dangerous to drive when you needed power.
  23. I always felt McCarthy was a more engaging writer to read than Faulkner. The trick with Blood Meridian is to stick with it. It has an engaging narrative that will pull you along, but it takes a bit to arrive. Glanton is an underrated character in the book. People spend so much time focusing on the Judge and eventually his antagonistic relationship over the Kid with Tobin, that they miss the more traditional bandits on the run storyline of the Glanton Gang that powers the book.
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