Earlier in the topic you were talking about LeBron and Jordon; how you gonna claim you don’t know any celebrities?
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I probably could have said “No celebrities are coming to mind” to be more accurate. I didn’t even think of sports to be honest. If they said think of a high performing sports person it may have prompted me but I probably wouldn’t have them over for dinner.
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Same in that regard.
…unless they’re buying.
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Waiting for you coach to send out your next training block is like waiting for the next episode of your favourite show. You have some idea of how the story is progressing but you know there will be a twist or a surprise in there too. The suspense is just too much …
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As a 5’ft 0 person, I usually use my height as an excuse to get people to grab plates and set machines up for me (when I bother to use them). I also tend to use it as an excuse to avoid accessories since almost everything is too big
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I’m waiting for college decisions so…
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I absolutely loathed that time. Came from a family where almost no one had gone to college, real small town, didn’t think I would be accepted anywhere. Applied to any school I could, every day checking the mail was a little panic attack. Didn’t you mention Columbia in an earlier post?
Worst part for me was not hearing back at all from my dream school, actually accepting at another school, only to later be accepted into my dream school. I couldn’t turn down the offer, so I had to call the first school and tell them “Sorry, I know that I accepted, but I am actually not going to show up.” Turns out, Yale gets fairly angry when you cancel an acceptance.
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Yeah, but I want to go to Brown more than Columbia now.
Their program is better and I don’t want to die doing the Core Curriculum.
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My old french partner spent a year at Brown, absolutely loved it. Any idea what you are hoping to study?
Slavic Studies and Behavioral Econ
Columbia doesn’t have behavioral econ and its slavic program is pretty crap. all the good professors are actually employed by barnard
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Slavic studies ehh? A bit unusual, but certainly sounds interesting. Very specific focus there, which could be perfect depending on what you’re looking for. Best of luck with the college hunt!
Thanks!
I’ve been borderline obsessed with the USSR since 6th grade and finance companies (I want to do management consulting) don’t give a crap about major, so I thought I’d take the 4 years to essetially geek out
Also, have you noticed a lack of people in the lifting/athletic community interested in the humanities? Everyone seems to be into STEM, and not just fitness related STEM fields like exercise science
Programming, chem and bio seem especially popular
Well, I am a political science major, so I’m definitely more humanities (even though I’m going into nuclear engineering for my job… yikes). I think a lot of athletes tend to study humanities, I’m thinking recruited athletes at my school tend to disproportionately study history, English, or political science in comparison to the stem fields. So no, actually can’t say that I’ve noticed that, though I will certainly be ok the lookout for it now.
I should probably ask for help. I’m 5 foot even as well, and I’ll usually put myself in some sort of risky situation, where I’m ever gonna fall, jump and twist something, or something is gonna fall on me.
My husband is usually the one to witness these things.
He’s always like:
“You need help?”
In which I reply, “No. I got this”
Few seconds later something comes crashing down, and he’s like:
“ Shoulda let me help”
I reply, “I’m fine!”
But I’m not. Whatever falls always hits the very top of my head. With a shit ton of force.
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Some people need to take more personal responsibility for their lack of progress. Way too many want to blame that they don’t have the perfect program.
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I confess that, upon arrival of my 0.5 Captains of Crush grippers to the office today, my first action was to sneak into the toilet with them and see if I could close them (I can) before bringing them to my desk so that I could avoid being emasculated if anyone saw them and asked me to demonstrate.
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You’ve been reading too many beginner posts again, haven’t you, dog?
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What nuclear engineering job are you going into where a poly sci major gets you into it?
I actually was in a linguistics program and took a year of Russian language in college before I went the STEM route. I only remember how to count, colors, a few nouns and verbs, and one sentence that I made myself remember, which I won’t try to Anglicize here but which basically translates to ‘I don’t speak Russian very well’.
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I’ve had friends that went to Brown, loved it.
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At least you didn’t get caught up in that whole Yale Thing.
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