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  1. 4 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:


    My daughter did this at Mizzou. Honors program, OOS tuition offset by scholarships and she established residence for years 2-4 Graduated honors program from the J school in strat com Magna Cum Laude.

    Seems like 1/3 of Mizzou is from Dallas, another 1/3 from Chicago, which is where she lives now. She’s crushing it.

    One other thing - she bartended/worked in bar/grill jobs all 4 years, so her social intelligence is off the map excellent. She knows how to read people very well. My son’s first W2 came after graduation from Uncle Sam and he has trouble relating to civilians.

    I was going to say when someone mentioned Mizzou being hit hard lately, their claim to fame has long been the J school and with the complete demolition of making a strong career in Journalism that started the last 15 years, it's not much of a draw.

  2. On 9/26/2023 at 8:02 PM, Beau Vine said:

    I made the mistake of commenting, "Are the shingles really worse than that?" to a person who had had shingles, and as shitty as those shots were, shingles are apparently waaaaaay worse.

    I just had the Shingrex vax. I heard like you did and was prepared for the worst. Really, to be honest, I was kinda anxious about it for a few days before.

    These old people are full of it. The DTAP shot hurt worse. Covid shot hurt WAY worse.

  3. 1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:


    Used to be zima for us, in some type of beverage bottle. Plain went in a sprite bottle. The rest depended on the color of jolly rancher you put in it for flavor.

     

    Parrot Bay Rum in a Sonic Slushie bro was a high school all-timer for the incognitio drinko.

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  4. 14 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    with Tech it was a guy that kicked a field goal at halftime to get free rent for a year at lynnwood townhomes.....he made the kick and got the free rent and the Tech field goal kicker had a really shitty day so mike reached out to the guy from halftime

    the funny thing is he had to give up the free rent at the time because that was "illegal compensation"......Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree were ask by a reporter a few games later what they thought about their new teammate Matt Williams and they both said "who" and the reporter said your new field goal kicker and they said "oh you mean lynnwood".......no one on the team knew his name they just knew him as lynnwood

    That;s funny, but this is waht he was probably talking about, from the other (bad) UT: 

    ORANGE AND WHITE NATION

    Eight years ago, Derrick Brodus was pulled off the “frat couch” to kick against MTSU

    https://www.wate.com/sports/orange-and-white-nation/eight-years-ago-derrick-brodus-was-pulled-off-the-frat-couch-to-kick-against-mtsu/#:~:text=Fast-forward to game day,suited up for the Vols.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Dude that's not the intent.  I'm currently paying full fare plus expenses for a 4 year MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in the UK. I'm all about Liberal Arts and I'm happy to pay for a liberal arts degree for my kids. But if Economics wasn't a component of it and if the brand prestige of the institution wasn't globally top tier, the choice of university or college would have been something much lower cost. 

    Bates is a prestigious name in Liberal Arts, @Bateshorn, so your experience is a valid one. But liberal arts at a 4 year, non-prestigious school, at full boat tuition, and without the inkling of a career plan or post-graduate plan, is probably not a great investment. Seems like a reasonable stance.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    working towards a plan and enjoying your childhood aren't mutually exclusive.  but you're right in that there is a line parents have to straddle between responsibly developing your child's talents and nurturing their emotional livelihood.

    I think you are being smart and being proactive never hurt. It doesn't necessarily mean it will help in the long run as the child's personality and capabilities and intangibles will determine what happens, but if you are doing it right in a nurturing and responsible way (which it sounds like you are) it can't hurt.

  7. 1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

    I mean, it's possible for the Tulsa or OkState grad to do it......if they graduate top of class with honors and get into Warton or HBS for MBA.  But a BBA from a non T-20 isn't going to get you shit in elite finance. 

    Oh for sure, 100% agree with you. The rare top of the class who has network already in Wall St. can potentially do it if he crushes the interviews and superdays, but I was calling out the dad of the Tulsa business school guy who said "lots of Tulsa University business school guys are getting into JP Morgan Chase and Blackrock and GS" when in reality it was one guy in the Marcus division of GS and actually zero at Blackrock according to the link provided.

    I went to McCombs and there weren't a lot of those opportunities out of undergrad who did that from UT, was my point, much less a less reputable school.

  8. 32 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

     

    Goldman and JPM were trying to build out their personal wealth management arms at that time.  There were lots of hires (and a couple years later lay-offs) associated with those branches.  I'm not offering that as an explanation for your anecdotes, just chiming in with what we were seeing.

    Gotcha yep that checks out. And now with DJ Solomon on the hot seat for that bad bet and trying to sell GreenSky at a loss, those opportunities are dried up I assume. 

    And I’m not trying to knock TxSt or Tulsa specifically but for the knowledge sharing of this thread so parents aren’t thinking their kid at Tulsa or Oklahoma State is going to get the same recruitment opportunity for analysts in finance and banking at top and mid firms that only a handful of McCombs kids will get out of undergrad.

  9. 7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Nope, we have Sewell Park. @Beau Vine   

    Man, If I could have gone there to study vs. the UGL I would have studied more. Not saying my GPA would have been higher, but.... 

    Plus fuck Lubbock. I like the smell of cows, but not cow shit. 

    To be fair, we didn't visit Texas State and it wasn't on our radar.

    Things change, and sounds like things have changed for the better, as my opinion of Texas State is frozen from 25 years ago(when it was called Southwest Texas State or something) and I was at UT, but...it felt like a second tier school all around, from the second rate Greek life to academics to floating the square or whatever that whole thing was and back then most of the Texas State students would drive into Austin for the weekends for the house parties and 6th street and football games anyways, so there wasn't a real sense of Texas State having much of an identity outside of UT rejects who wanted to be adjacent to Austin and UT.

     

  10. 17 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

    Some random thoughts from my two kids' college app experience...

    For those of you considering Arkansas, why not take a look at Auburn?  It's a cool college town, about an hour from ATL, the campus has a ton of new buildings and the people are some of the most polite folks I've met.  Even when drunk.  Also, it rains and stuff grows there.  Also, they have an unlimited supply of Southern blondes.  It's not Harvard but they do a reasonable job of educating folks and a high ACT or SAT score will knock tuition down to close to in-state levels.  They have the big football stadium and a great gameday atmosphere, but are not as pre-programmed and as money oriented as UT athletics.

    We visited UT-Dallas and Texas A&M, and before our visits I had UTD ahead of TAMU.  Afterwards, I would have been OK with my kids picking TAMU but not OK with them choosing UTD, even with a scholarship.  During our visits, we started talking about the "Rah rah" of each campus, meaning how much did it feel like you were part of a community while you were there, how much school spirit did you see.  A&M did that better than anyone else.  UTD tried but didn't have it.  UTD felt about as exciting as going to college in Richardson sounds.

    However, UTD put an emphasis on the low cost of education, via scholarships, and how they tried to connect students to job opportunities.  If you are poor in Texas but smart, want an engineering or business degree, and just need a cheap place to get a good education and get started in the world, UTD may be for you.  Your kid may miss out on the "college experience".  They really need a walkable "west campus" student housing area to get more energy on campus.

    We visited NC State for our engineering kid.  Great engineering school.  Not so great everything else.  A huge engineering campus, but it was a short bus ride from the "main" campus.  The football stadium was miles away, but they had a nice softball stadium right in the middle of campus and it seemed like the entire campus was at the game when we were there.  Everyone in Raleigh will offer you a biscuit with your meal.  They should all be 400 lbs just because of the biscuits.  The airport was small and kinda sucked, but they do have direct flights from Austin.  Trees and plants everywhere at a time when Austin is just starting to dry up.

    I tried to get both of my kids interested in Cal Poly .. a STEM-ish school in a great location in California.  No interest.   I still think it looked like a nice place to go to school for a kid that wants to "get away".

    I would rather have my kids at Texas State than Texas Tech, if they whiffed on the better Texas schools.  San Marcos vs Lubbock is no contest IMHO, and we know a lot of kids that are enjoying Texas State.  In Lubbock, the dust dusts you.

    UTSA -- never been but had to go pick up a car near there in May.  Much nicer than I thought it would be.  They are working on the "rah rah" and becoming San Antonio's team.  Seemed very promising and I was happy it was part of the UT system, but I don't know much about the academics.  I work with a UTSA grad who loved it.  Will be interesting to see if they ever build an on-campus football stadium or keep using the Alamodome.

    UDub aka Washington -- beautiful campus, awesome stadium, great transit.  Kinda cold and dark in the winter.  They mentioned that counseling was free and would be available for anyone that needed it during the winter.  Yikes.  The closest thing we saw to UT.  Their homeless are way, way crazier than our homeless.  Their museums are way, way cooler than our museums.

    And, for your engineering kids ... some schools let them directly into engineering their freshman year and some delay the decision on getting into their major until their sophomore year.  My engineering kid did not want to go through an entire senior year of college apps and a freshman year of competition just to get into an engineering major.  Texas A&M and Washington do the delayed thing, Texas does not.  If your kid is choosing engineering and headed to a school that has a competition for different engineering majors during their freshman year, be sure to have that conversation with your kid.  They might go to a school intent on a chem E major and get slotted into civil engineering.

    UT had an interesting listening session.  It was all kids who had changed their major.  They all told their stories about what they thought they wanted to do when they got to school and what they actually learned they liked while they were there.  Lots of kids do that and don't be surprised if they go to school to study one thing and pop out on the other side with a different major.

    Your experience is similar to mine.

    You didn't mention at Auburn, every educational session loves to tell you that Tim Cook went to Auburn.

    The only difference is I think TTU > Texas State.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Grimas said:

    Lots was the wrong word - the dean of the finance department told me "some" their recent graduates got positions at BlackRock and JP Morgan.  In 21-22 class, they had 221 graduates with 41 in finance where 97% either got jobs or are in grad school.

    Employers of students graduating in finance that year include:

    Baptist College Ministries BC Shumen BKD CPAs & Advisors BOK Financial Cinemark Theatres Deloitte EY LLPFellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) Fleming Construction Group George Kaiser Family Foundation Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase & Co. Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. Northstar Wealth Management Nuance Communications Verizon Volkswagen Group of America Walmart Corporate

     

    Interesting thing Tulsa offers is a 100% guarantee you will find a job within 6 months of graduation.  (What that really means is they will pay for your first semester (or year? I don't recall) of grad school if you don't land a job.)

    https://utulsa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2021-2022-FDS-Report.pdf

    Agreed “lots of” was not the appropriate words as in that link nobody from that year, not even one, were recruited to Blackrock.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I have at least five former students who have gotten jobs at Goldman straight out of Texas State, because we have a badass undergraduate student-managed investment fund course.  

    Is that 5 per class? 5 in total? Either way, that's awesome for you and your school, but 5 doesn't equate to "lots of" in the recruitment cycle for finance IMO.

  13. 2 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    30 Highly-Respected Public Universities That Accept More Than 50% Of Students Who Apply

    • University of Alabama – 80%
    • Arizona State University – 90%
    • University of Arizona – 87%
    • University of Arkansas – 79%
    • University of Colorado – 81%
    • University of Connecticut – 55%
    • Indiana University – 82%
    • Iowa State University – 90%
    • University of Iowa – 86%
    • Louisiana State University – 76%
    • University of Kansas – 88%
    • University of Kentucky – 95%
    • University of Massachusetts – 64%
    • Michigan State University – 88%
    • University of Minnesota – 75%
    • University of Missouri – 79%
    • University of Nebraska – 79%
    • The Ohio State University – 53%
    • University of Oklahoma – 73%
    • Oregon State University – 83%
    • University of Oregon – 86%
    • Penn State University – 55%
    • Purdue University – 53%
    • Rutgers University – 66%
    • University of South Carolina – 64%
    • SUNY - University at Buffalo – 68%
    • University of Tennessee – 68%
    • Texas A&M University – 63%
    • University of Utah – 89%
    • Virginia Tech – 57%

    Virginia tech surprises me. I had always heard it was a premiere spot, like Georgia Tech but a tad bit worse.

  14. 8 minutes ago, Renarka said:

    And June is one of the least dreary times of the year here in Eugene.

    UO if you want a medium sized town with nature all around. 45 minutes to the ocean. 45 minutes in the other direction to the mountains.  If you are an outdoor person, it is the way to go but Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing. It can really hit people when we hit that stretch of 8 or so months of cloudy.  I can speak directly to UO as I work here if you have any particular questions.

    Udub if they want the urban experience. Seattle is a fun city.  Personally, I'd rather send a kiddo to UW but UO is a great experience as well.  Housing costs are expensive in both. 

    My best friend went to UO. He was born and raised in SF, but couldn't get into any good Cali schools, and UO was easy. He's 15 years older than applicants today, but when he was going to UO it was known as the Bay Area safety school where kids in SF go who want a party school with decent education and career prospects.

    And Oregon Ducks football fans are surprisingly rabid and delusional.

  15. 1 hour ago, Grimas said:

    U of Tulsa has an impressive business program that has peaked some interest with one of them but with only 3000 students, it may be a tough sell to actually live there. (Lots of business school kids getting hired at JP Morgan and Blackrock)

     

    No offense, but the bold?

    There's not "lots of" McCombs kids getting into IB, PE and hedgefunds. Hard for me to believe Tulsa is a hot bed pipeline for Goldman and Blackrock.

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  16. 19 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    If nobody is paying attention in a meeting, and nothing is harmed, the meeting is useless and/or their attendance is useless. 
     

    Whoever hosted that meeting should be deeply and dishonorably ashamed of themselves. 

    Agreed, but I'm talking about situations where meetings are had, people aren't paying attention and things are harmed.

    There is one guy who, like clockwork, will ask to repeat the question every single time telling on himself that he is never paying attention. 

  17. 59 minutes ago, Okie State said:
    1 hour ago, FunDip said:
    I'll give the other side of this coin that is my pet peeve. People showing up on meetings and then being dead silent, multitasking and doing other things, and not engaging in any sort of social small talk or niceties. It's basic human behavior to smile and fake like you are enjoying yourself, you would have to do it in person, but when you can just mute and scroll on your phone and not pay attention, it kills the vibes and is just constantly awkward. 

    I'm referencing people who are disrupting the flow of the meeting so we can listen to their jokes because they can't help themselves. Half of the people in the room are scrolling their phones or typing away on their laptops. All of this leads me to believe the meetings really aren't all that necessary or productive.

    Or, half of the people scrolling on their phones and not paying attention is part of the reason there is a push to return to work and increase productivity. They ruined it for us all!

  18. On 9/23/2023 at 9:20 PM, Okie State said:

    People who aren't funny, but feel like they have to crack jokes in every meeting. There's a time to lighten the mood and there's a time to shut the fuck up so we can get to the point and leave.

    I'll give the other side of this coin that is my pet peeve. People showing up on meetings and then being dead silent, multitasking and doing other things, and not engaging in any sort of social small talk or niceties. It's basic human behavior to smile and fake like you are enjoying yourself, you would have to do it in person, but when you can just mute and scroll on your phone and not pay attention, it kills the vibes and is just constantly awkward. 

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