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Bateshorn

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  1. Yeah, but the Japanese Navy, and their long accurate torpedos, put the fucking hurt on us early in the war before we could bring our air power to bear. I think our sea record at Guadalcanal was 1-4-1 or something like that.
  2. In a coincidence from earlier in this thread, my wife and I were at Universal for Harry Potter (Me: Gryffindor, Wife: Ravenclaw). And we’re walking back to our hotel, famished as fuck, so we wandered into the Margaritavile because we could get a seat. Both of us are trying to eat semi healthy, and eventually the waitresses leans in and says “Everything on the menu sucks, I’ll have them throw together a couple of small Ceaser’s with chicken, with a side of fruit”. also, I hate Parrot Heads with a passion.
  3. I think I read a quote from Jerry Jeff Walker to the effect of Jimmy Buffett has always been a businessman first. Everything else is an act. I don’t think that’s how he phrased it tho.
  4. Surly law dogs should correct me, but I don’t see how the Commanders are going to be able to hide their books from discovery in the coming civil suits. Which is the NFL’s nightmare.
  5. I mean, my Mother in law was Latvian and born in a displaced persons camp after VE Day. I’m all too aware.
  6. Sounds like Putin is going to try the all stick approach until the Ukrainian’s drag him back to the table.
  7. If you followed WW 2 in the East, this is SOP for the Russian Army.
  8. The one core truth of the Surl is everyone eventually shows their ass.
  9. I forgot to mention: we did not hire a consultant. When I find something to obsess over, I do it to exhaustion. That was college research. So, we had that part nailed down.
  10. A guy from my HS went to Sarah Lawerence in the early 90s. He was in multiple open relationships when he came home for Xmas his freshman year. It was like 8-1 ratio. The ratio was so bad that the straight girls who wanted dick didn’t care if they had to share. Assuming you aren’t talking Varsity Blues, consultants, IMHO, do two things: the hard work of crawling the sub rankings, programmatic strengths, lurking College Confidential to get a sense of accepts/rejects, as well working your High Schools Naviance. From there they develop a tiered list of schools which is realistic. We all want to think our kid can go to Princeton or Stanford. But they almost certainly won’t. The hard part is being honest and developing a list of Matches and Reaches that meet your child’s needs and you can actually get into. Then developing an application that will “stick” on the admissions table. They also work as essay consultants. Depending on how much they cost, that can be anything from light editing and creation brainstorming, to more or less writing your kids essay. And the Essays are so important. AO’s read thousand and thousands of terrible essays. Tired takes on a trip to Europe, or building houses in Appalachia. A thoughtful, well written essay is the golden ticket to getting to the final admissions round and charming your regional AO to fight for your application when the tough decisions are being made. The SAT/ACT thing, imo, is mostly about practice and test taking technique. I think with a couple of guide books and dedication you can jump your score pretty dramatically. Two things: 1. Have your kid take a practice test of each kind and see if they have a preference, then focus on that. Don’t just do the SAT because that’s what you did. 2. if Money is tight, there is free SAT online prep, officially sanctioned by the College Board, on Kahn Academy.
  11. Years ago we passed on a well connected Hill staffer because they bombed the writing sample. We hired a young woman out of college who could write, with little political experience. I knew we could train her up. She’s in management now because she also excels at that, but first and foremost, we need strong communication skills. She was also exceptionally easy on the eyes (no pics, cause I don’t want to get fired).
  12. It’s a big problem. As my wife puts it, if you actually like the D, you have to put up with some terrible dating dynamics in college, otherwise you could just go to Bryn Mawr. I know this website is a lot of engineers and STEM majors, but there are a lot of jobs that require/need liberal arts education. The ability to write is an incredibly valuable skill, and one that is hard to find. I have to deal with a lot of people with terrible writing skills. It’s core function of my job.
  13. Middling Law School talk not going away. Boy #2 got a 19K a year merit offer from NC State, which is already cheap as as an out of state school (41k, tuition+room/board-add ons). Shits scrambled.
  14. To say he has a difficult tenure here would be an understatement. Thoughts and prayers to his family.
  15. Which is probably where the Russian hackers/propaganda are focusing all their energy right now. China was always going to fuck with us. That’s to be expected. The French going soft is a real problem.
  16. Part of the theory on bringing France into the security council was they would act as the back up nuclear shield for Europe if the British ever backed out, which has always been a concern for continental Europeans, and ultimately proved true. The danger in Le Pen is she does withdraw from NATO/side with the Russians….forcing the Germans to go nuclear.
  17. Speaking of Elite schools, Varsity Blues strikes again. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/08/us/college-admissions-scandal-mark-riddell-sentencing/index.html On a related note, if you have a smart, talented HS athlete, but not scholarship worthy, you should explore preferred admissions at a D3.
  18. Also: Healthcare. It’s no joke when I describe America as a health conglomerate with an Army. For a lot of rural areas, Health care is the one guaranteed career. The problem is, the demand and pay is much better in the urban areas.
  19. This already goes on. For every Susie poor but smart your let in, you gotta cover that with a wealthy dipshit Chad. Or until the latter Trump Administration, a wealthy kid from China.
  20. For schools like Bates that chose to eat their seed corn (going on a building spree during the Aughts instead of investing in the endowment, it becomes a brutal cycle of raising tuition, then having to give huge discounts via merit and need grants to get kids on campus. Also, I can’t begin to describe to y’all the low quality of female talent at those NE liberal arts schools. The best looking girl while I was there would have barely been a soft 7 at UT.
  21. For sure. It’ll be analogous to the mid 90s when everyone relaxed their standards cause Gen X was so fucking small.
  22. Well, Yes. But more importantly, does she Live, Laugh, and Love?
  23. Boy 1 looked at it, beautiful but a bit too fratty for him. It’s got an interesting back story in that in the late 60s it was on the edge of bankruptcy when a prominent medical CEO, who was an Alumni, made a huge stock gift that was the largest constant dollar contribution ever. The stock was the company that made the Daikon Shield. Richmond liquidated the stock right away, before the scandal broke, and the school now has an endowment over 3 billion for 4000 ish students. Fortuitous timing.
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