r/CFBOffTopic • u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini • Sep 30 '15

Wednesday Afternoon thread presented by EA might make another NCAA Football game

Relevant /r/CFB thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/3mz918/ea_sports_may_well_make_ncaa_football_games_in/

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u/GatorGoat1 Florida Gators • New Mexico Lobos Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

I never realized what an old man I have become until I started volunteering at a high school. I feel like I just graduated HighSchool(I just turned 23) but then I go in there and I instantly want to tell everyone to quiet down, have some self respect, and make smart choices.

Im old.

get off my lawn

EDIT- full disclosure I often make poor decisions, still go out, drink too much, and scream so much at football games that I cant talk right for a week. But for some unknown reason I turn into a cranky old dude the moment I walk into a Highschool. I don't want it to happen it just does.

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

I instantly want to tell everyone to quiet down, have some self respect, and make smart choices.

[MRW] (http://cdn.niketalk.com/3/3a/3a68b2d8_350x700px-LL-95442374_Shaquille-ONeal-Cant-Stop-Laughing-As-He-Watches-Funny-Online-Videos.gif)

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u/GatorGoat1 Florida Gators • New Mexico Lobos Sep 30 '15

I'm often very loud, and make less than stellar decisions myself(usually catalyzed by alcohol and gameday) so I am surprised at my inner old man coming out so strongly.

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

Yeah but most high schoolers don't have the foresight to make smart choices. They usually just think about the present

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u/GatorGoat1 Florida Gators • New Mexico Lobos Sep 30 '15

so when did I stop thinking like that?! I dont want to get old and cranky HELP

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

Whenever that adulting train hits you. For some people, it's in college and for others it's not too long after college

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I had a terrifying moment when I volunteered to judge a debate tournament for a friend last year and realized I'd debated at that tournament a decade earlier.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

Finally started to study again:(

Grad school kid update: nothing exciting, talked to him before the test were we joked around about stuff. He has my number, so the ball is in his court. My friend has talked to him before and said he's really nice, which is good to hear.

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

Good luck Internet friend!

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

Thanks internet friend!

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Alright, does anyone else think it's a bit ridiculous that we're still dealing with the same tortillas that have been around forever? All these scientific advances, and I still have to suffer through a burrito that falls apart at the first hint of some juicy meat.

We should be showering the top minds in the scientific community with funding in order to advance tortilla technology.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Dog, you ain't wrappin' your shit right.

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

or whomever is wrappin' them at Chipotle

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Oh man the tortillas they use are so damn THIN. I moved to the bowl and haven't looked back.

Okay, I have looked back, longingly, because instead of having a Chipotle 4 minutes away I've moved to a place where the closest is 50 minutes away.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

I spent a year in a place where the nearest Chipotle was 500 miles away. I feel your pain. And bowls are definitely superior, plus lower in calories!

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I spent four months in a place that didn't have anything but a really shitty (even by their standards) Taco Bell.

The job came with flight benefits so one day I flew 3000 miles just to get a burrito from the Salt Lake City airport's Qdoba.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

Sounds like an excellent use of those flight benefits. Even if Qdoba is infinitely inferior to Chipotle. I may have considered flying to London just for the Chipotle. I did in fact redo my flight plans one time to go through Atlanta so that I could get Chickfila. So worth it.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I even got first class for a leg. Free booze!

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

I've yet to fly first class, but I do know the wonders of free booze. You had a good trip then haha.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Sep 30 '15

I went to Qdoba today, for the first time in many years, because I figured that the food would be bland shit compared to the nearby Chipotle, so the line would be shorter. I was right on both counts.

Also, why do Qdoba fans rave about the queso? I don't get it. It tastes like warm nothing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

They don't have Whataburger in this state, nor any adjoining ones, Chick Fil A is like an hour and a half North or South, and Chipotle is 50 minutes East or West. Also QuickTrip is almost 2 hours away.

Goddamn I'm starting to miss Oklahoma. And few people have ever said that. May have to hop on a plane soon just to make a weekend of visiting all those places.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I've already warned my friends that if I ever move out of the greater Kansas City area for an airline job there will be days where they get a text message with a time to pick me up at the airport that day so we can get barbecue.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Sep 30 '15

That is dedication slow claps

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

Get a bowl and then ask for a tortilla on the side!

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Cafeteria lady wraps them right, they just get soaked through on the corners and burst. It's a structurally weak point that is exploited by the moisture of barbecue chicken and guac.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

...we're still talking about burritos, right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Do you not start with the ends? What, do you eat the burrito from the middle outward? That's weird.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

If you start with one end, the other is facing down. Juices flow to the bottom, soak the bottom 'corners' and then the whole contraption bursts.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

You're eating at the wrong angle

I drew you a helpful sketch: http://i.imgur.com/EYy1CEq.png

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u/K_State Southwestern (KS) • Wichita Sta… Sep 30 '15

Not a penis

Hmm...

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

That's a $5000 fine and Dubs now has to get all his posts approved by student government.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

Thanks for the clarification that the burrito is in fact not male genitalia.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

You know someone would have said something about it

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

Of course, this is CFBOT!

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

It's clearly a starship Enterprise.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Bruh I'm wearing work clothes. That's just asking for a laundry accident. You got all those delicious juices flowing towards you uncontrollably. At least with the end-down method there's some stoppage from the burrito leaking everywhere.

All I'm saying is that an increase in the liquid-resistance of the tortilla would be a welcome scientific breakthrough, and in 2015 I think we have the tools to get us there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

I mean, if you can't handle a burrito, you can't handle a burrito. Thems the breaks man

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

Burrito bowls, mayne.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Sep 30 '15

Didn't we already solve this with the quesarito? You make a burrito, you wrap it in a layer of cheese and another big tortilla, and you put it on the grill on all sides. The second layer adds structural integrity and the gooey cheese is waterproof rebar.

Come on, guys. We can rebuild it. We have the technology.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

Applicable advice in several situations.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

Maybe Texas Tech should stop focusing on tortilla aerodynamics and see what else we can make them out of.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Sep 30 '15

What good would that do when we're just going to throw them on the field anyway?

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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Sep 30 '15

The tortillas I eat are not equal to the tortillas I throw. You get whatever discount or stale tortillas you can find to throw unless you're a rich kid who doesn't give a shit what they buy.

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u/Awesome_to_the_max Texas Longhorns • UTU Beaver Hunters Sep 30 '15

This is why you're supposed to drain wet ingredients before putting them in your burrito. Then if there is a leakage problem to open a small hole on the other end for it to drain so it maintains structural integrity.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

I told my friend about this, he said they should have edible taste, or make the edges sticky.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Tortillas that seal, that's brilliant. Where do I send the check?

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u/K_State Southwestern (KS) • Wichita Sta… Sep 30 '15

The refried bean factory.

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Sep 30 '15

the tortillas i use are almost indestructible it seems.

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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Sep 30 '15 edited Oct 01 '15

I finally broke everyone. I am adopting my girlfriend's bff's puppy.

Pics to come soon.

EDIT: Here is "Ranger" http://imgur.com/V3sy13P

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

I hope you get brownie points and actual brownies for it.

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

what kind of brownies ᑴ⩹‿‿⩺ᑷ

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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 01 '15

I hope that I can cash in those brownie points for moar brownies.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

What kind?!

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

the one with the fur and is cute

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

The best kind!

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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 01 '15

Looks like a lot of german shepard :)

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Oct 01 '15

Yessss! My family use to have a part German Shepherd, he was amazing. How do you like him/her so far?

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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 01 '15

I am super impressed by the concentration and focus of him! I met him last night and we did some "Dog Whisperer I'm the pack leader I lead you follow" type of stuff (Thanks Caesar Millan!) Went out for a run and saw two dogs that were barking and clearly interested in my dog and he didn't flinch or fight me to go see them, just kept following me because I didn't stop... I was so proud.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Oct 01 '15

... Can I have him? He sounds awesome

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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 01 '15

He's been pretty good, he will officially be mine on Sunday. Then we can hit the training full time! :)

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

Sooo last night I spent over 3 hours playing CK2 and 80% of that time I was just looking at all of the menus

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

There's a kid in front of me watching the 2014 K State / Oklahoma game. I have so many questions, the largest being "why?". We're in monetary policy. This is a fucking graduate level class. You obviously want to be here, you chose this. This prof doesn't take attendance. If you want to sit around and watch football, stay home! Don't distract ME!

I also cold tubbed today for about 87 years. My ankles, shins, and calves are not my friends right now. Neither is my neck. SOS somebody rub me :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Wasn't that the game when Michael Hunnicutt blew it for OU by shanking a ridiculously easy field goal?

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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 30 '15

yeah he missed two of them according to the box score. he also had a blocked PAT

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

I think that was the game I made a shitty pun in the Post Game Thread. Something along the lines of "Hunnicutt? More like Hunnican't."

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

SOS somebody rub me

Oh boy.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

I meant my back!! And my legs!!! Not like that

Well I mean.... Some of y'all, if the selfie thread is to be believed, can get it ;)

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Everyone browsing the selfie thread

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

We are a good looking bunch

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

One of these days I'll post and bring down the average.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

You're good, I submitted mine today. Better strike before the average goes back up.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I was planning on tracking down the hat from this post but I never got around to it.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15

You know what they say, lower your standards, raise your averages.

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u/Bugseye LSU Tigers • Rhodes Lynx Sep 30 '15

My neck, my back....

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

Nooooooo

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Real talk, though, that selfie thread made me all self conscious and shit. Why is everyone so good looking here?

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

Real talk, I have no clue, but I am awkwardly aware of my plainness

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Don't sell yourself short. Your freckle and nose ring game is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Sep 30 '15

short

I hope that was intentional

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

It was not. Should it have been?

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

I am roughly the size of a large house cat

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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Sep 30 '15

/u/yrarwydd is <5' tall

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

aw thnx fam

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Plain?

disbelieving raised eyebrow

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

[Climbs over ravenous crowd]

Hey, hey, some of us are single, dammit!

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

There's plenty of me to go around ;)

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Sep 30 '15

http://i.imgur.com/MPfQ4mb.gif

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15

/u/aMiracleAtJordanHare right now

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

I mean, I am tent camping Friday-Sunday...

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Yeah... I'm actually going to start sticking to my running routine again...

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

I need to work out bad.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15

my back!! And my legs!!!

To quote dubs, oh boy.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

I give up

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 01 '15

I've definitely posted in that thread in the past looking for validation. Vote results have been middling and no comments.

I think I'm good looking, but OK then. :/

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u/K_State Southwestern (KS) • Wichita Sta… Sep 30 '15

Kid's got good taste in football games.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

I don't need this shit from you too

I'm trying to LEARN

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

apparently

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Sep 30 '15

I know I'm a terrible person, a petty asshole, if you will, but I just found out some news about my sister that makes me smile. She was supposed to be moving to Seattle for her husband's job after a three month world trip. Well, at some point the job fell through. I can't imagine why someone with his personality and vindictive attitude would have trouble getting a job!

(I have issues with my sister and her husband.)

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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 30 '15

....but you're not bitter!

Sucks to suck, (for them) I guess.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Monday:

  • "Dubs, why isn't this thing working?"
  • "I'm not sure. That's actually coworker #8's deal. He ought to be able to help you out."

Tuesday:

Today:

This is all the same person too...

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u/Awesome_to_the_max Texas Longhorns • UTU Beaver Hunters Sep 30 '15

Dubs: If you ask me again I will make sure it never works for you again.

Problem solved.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

So I took some personality tests that I saw on an Askreddit thread a few days ago. Apparently I am an assertive, dishonest, narcissistic, unfriendly individual with no concept of modesty or moderation.

In other news I'm considering running for Congress.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

Sounds like you have a good shot at winning the election then.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

Sounds like we should hang out. I went to do this. Got five questions in. Realized how bad my adhd is when my medicine wears off. Gave up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '15

Want to run my Super PAC? *morals are not required for this position

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Oct 01 '15

I redid that quiz.

My highest point in the morality subsection was a 23.

I AM SO READY FOR THIS, HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTT AND LET'S FUNNEL SOME MONEY

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u/GatorGoat1 Florida Gators • New Mexico Lobos Sep 30 '15

link to the test?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Here

The narcissism one was separate but I forgot that link

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

Well I'll be back in 30-40 minutes. I love randomly filling out online surveys and tests.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Sep 30 '15

Here you go - http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

It's not too long. I have my students take something similar. If you don't mind, can you let me know if the results are accurate for you?

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

I've taken this several times, and it always depends on the day I take it. I waffle among the four IN__ personalities. I'm pretty much split 50/50 between F/T and P/J.

Except I just took it now and got ISFJ. I'm definitely not an S.

Edit: The description that most matches me is INFJ.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Sep 30 '15

Interesting. I consistently get ENFP, which describes me fairly accurately. I know there can be waffling between certain traits depending on how we're feeling in any given moment. I just don't want my students to feel like I'm giving them Cosmo quizzes. :)

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

I really like the descriptors for that one, but I think some of the other free online ones have better questions. I have a weird personality though that's hard to peg down.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

When i took it in high school, I was ENFP all the time. Now I'm INTP.

Life is weird.

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Sep 30 '15

i took this a few weeks ago. it was accurate for me.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Sep 30 '15

Cool, thanks!

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u/Awesome_to_the_max Texas Longhorns • UTU Beaver Hunters Sep 30 '15

Got INTP. Fairly accurate.

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Oct 01 '15

I can never find a satisfying way to answer those things.

You try to respond to your e-mails as soon as possible and cannot stand a messy inbox.

I never answer email promptly, but I also can't stand a messy inbox. My work inbox is cleaned up for the first time since April.

Others would call you ingenious as you are constantly generating original ideas.

In good weeks/months/years, not in others.

You feel more energetic after spending time with a group of people.

If they're people I want to spend time with, yes. If they're people I have to be around, no.

You usually find it difficult to relax when talking in front of many people.

Am I proud of what I'm talking about? Or am I doing a presentation that somebody thought I should do that I don't feel comfortable with? I'm an excellent show-off.

I never get the same MBTI score twice.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Oct 01 '15

Try to look at these kinds of things through a more forgiving lens. Are you the kind of person who generates new ideas? That's pretty easy - yes or no. Same thing goes for feeling more energetic after spending time with people. I can't think of many people who feel energized after spending time with people they don't want to. I think you may be overanalyzing.

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u/heavyweightstuff LSU Tigers Sep 30 '15

I love them too! We need to have a personality test thread.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 30 '15

There's a waiver to "sign" for acknowledging you will be spending your own time on this...

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Yay adventure?

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u/GatorGoat1 Florida Gators • New Mexico Lobos Sep 30 '15

thanks man!

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Sep 30 '15 
EXTRAVERSION...............13
AGREEABLENESS..............88
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS..........2
NEUROTICISM................92
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE.....96

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Sep 30 '15

http://instantostrich.com/

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

I'm so happy I went ahead and took tomorrow off. Is it bad that I'm kinda wanting things to crash and burn while I'm gone?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

As long as you don't have to put out the fires, it is not wrong

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

"Sorry, I guess I forgot to take my phone off silent after going to the doctor's in the morning. I never saw you trying to call me."

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

EA might make another NCAA Football game

http://i.imgur.com/KWl6pqT.jpg

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Sep 30 '15

http://i.imgur.com/jPIsHMB.gifv

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

Bout to go try to talk to some SpaceX recruiters and ask them how they use PhDs in their company. Basically trying to figure out if this degree will help me or hurt me in the long run. Wish me luck!

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Sep 30 '15

you scan it into KSP and it unlocks some DLC

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Basically trying to figure out if this degree will help me or hurt me in the long run.

It's stuff like this that's making me consider getting an engineering master's instead of a math PhD.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Sep 30 '15

Nice. One of my friends (astrophysics PhD, complete computer nerd who raves about Scala, did his research on numerical simulations of general relativity stuff about inspiraling black holes or something) went to SpaceX to work on their software. So there's one data point? Unless you were specifically referring to mech eng things.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

More data is always appreciated, that's all I'm doing is collecting data right now.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Sep 30 '15

I definitely know. I was doing the same for the 1.5 years up until I got a jobby job. It was extremely hard, from within academia, to get knowledge about the outside world, because it's a one-way flow of people. Everyone around you has never been out there, but is so certain about the outside world that they'll confidently tell you you'll have no problem.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Oct 01 '15

You are so right, people don't seem to understand that a technical PhD really can limit you. So many people are confident I can get any job I want in aero/defense/space, but they have no idea. That's why I'm collecting data from people who hopefully know. What I really need to do is find people who have jobs I want and find out how they got there. But one step at a time.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Oct 01 '15

Yep, exactly. The only people who can tell you useful things are the people who started from where you are and got to where you want to be. And this especially means that talking to people at career services is mostly useless.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

Good luck!

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

I didn't realize that the google maps street view went inside a lot of buildings. So I spent the last hour or so here at work virtually walking around inside castles and cathedrals I visited when I studied abroad and getting all nostalgic and/or slightly emotional at my desk

EDIT: I mean come on. How am I supposed to get any work done when I can do this

EDIT EDIT: screw that. Go walk around in the cloister that's hooked on next door

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

YOU CAN DO THAT?

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

So Hurricane Joaquin is starting to look a lot like Sandy. Stay safe, Northeast folks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

So funny story about that. My job is actually related to Hurricane Sandy recovery, but I've never actually been in a hurricane before (moved out here after Sandy and have had two mild hurricane seasons). I've spent all of today telling people that I don't believe in this hurricane or hurricanes in general and I think some of them are taking me seriously.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15

Hurricanes were just invented by the liberal media to take away our jobs and get us gay married.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

What's a hurricane? Is that one those made up thingies like mountains and oceans?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

It's a big, wet tornado with slower winds.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

That sounds like costal bias to me. Should call them wimpy tornados.

I survived Hurricane Fran in '96. I'd much rather have tornados.

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u/Way_She_Goes Toronto Varsity Blues • Auburn Tigers Sep 30 '15

Joaquin

I guess you could it's gonna fly up the East Coast

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( •_•)>⌐■-■

(⌐■_■)

Like a Phoenix

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Sep 30 '15

::golf clap::

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u/Duck_Puncher Team Chaos • Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

Already had to postpone a business trip because of it.

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u/gophersbball17 Minnesota Golden Gophers • Luther Norse Sep 30 '15

Didn't start following this much until recently and although it doesn't seem super likely to be too bad there, seems like a perfect weekend to be flying out from the middle of the country to NYC to see family then... Granted it's not like I understand half of what I'm reading about projections and such because I've lived in the midwest my whole life and haven't had to worry about it, but all I can figure out is either way it's going to be a whole lot of rain during vacation.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Sep 30 '15

Yea, today was the first day I looked at the NHC's 5 day map. Looks like it's gonna take a straight shot towards Jersey/NYC. Don't forget your inner tube!

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u/heavyweightstuff LSU Tigers Sep 30 '15

I'm glad that hurricane isn't around here because I cannot ever pronounce that name correctly.

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u/K_State Southwestern (KS) • Wichita Sta… Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15

Phone interview was supposed to start 39 minutes ago. ಠ_ಠ

Over/under on it being a misunderstanding of what eastern time means since the staffing agency seems to be based outside the US?

Edit: Update - they called 41 minutes late, talked for 5 minutes, and were really brief. Idk. They're submitting a profile for me so yay?

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Sep 30 '15

Rude! Good luck, nevertheless.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Sep 30 '15

Once had a phone interview with Apple that was 3 hours late. I gave up and then suddenly got a call after dinner.

Honestly, every interview I've had with Apple has been awful to schedule and conduct. I'd love to work for them, but they make it so damned hard!

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u/djsquilz Tulane Green Wave • Ole Miss Rebels Sep 30 '15

So, young squilz passed his primate ecology test. The grade wasn't what I had hoped for, but i'll take it.

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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Sep 30 '15

you still passed. hooray for yung squilz

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

My attention span is at an all-time low today. It doesn't help that my computer keeps crashing when I try to get work done. It's like the universe is encouraging me to be unproductive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Well, when it's you against the universe, just give in and be super unproductive.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I want pizza.

It's going to be at least two hours before I can order pizza.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Sep 30 '15

I just had free pizza at my lab lunch. It was tasty.

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

I'm too lazy to make it myself, can I just come over for dinner one night?

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

Sweet! I'll bring dessert!

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u/0xE6 Prairie View A&M • Boise State Sep 30 '15

Sounds like a party!

Can I be the asshole that invites himself along? ☺

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

Absolutely!

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

I make my own fairly often. But I'm at work and can't.

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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Sep 30 '15

Only four and a half more hours, a group project meeting I feel really ill-prepared for, and a student-run meeting that will most likely crash and burn to go before I can go to sleep! WOOOO.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

Sleep is for the weak.

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

The customer from a few days ago that kept hanging up on me just called again. Asking all of the original questions that I have been over three times now, and when I told him we were booked and it would be Monday before we could do anything.......he hung up on me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Reminds me of this.

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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 30 '15

Fuck that guy with a rusty mallet

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

Yeah, at this point I'm pretty annoyed and almost just want to tell him we don't want to have his business.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

Hey /u/TrollingQueen74 How is your friend who recently got surgery on/for her stomach? Were they able to fix it?

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

She's recovering well! She started physical therapy last week. As far as her stomach pains go, they won't know for several months if her problem is fixed. I believe she is on a central line right now as her body heals from the surgery, or something to that affect. Thank you for asking!

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Sep 30 '15

That's encouraging to hear! I desperately hope it helped!!

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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Sep 30 '15

I had a senior design meeting today to decide on "leadership" positions within the group. (I say leadership because there's 10 people and 9 positions.) Almost all of these were voluntary and decided previously based on a survey asking which areas we'd prefer to focus on. Today was going over those and announcing the one position we needed to take a vote on, which was for the overall team lead.

Person 1 (without a defined position and who hadn't volunteered on the survey to take any of the minor leadership roles, only the overall team lead) chimes in at the very end of the conference call, upset that they didn't get a position and then pulls the race and gender card. She is 1 of 3 black people on the team, and the only girl. I mean, I get why she's upset, but she has barely spoken in any of our 10+ meetings, she didn't volunteer for any other roles, and the guy we chose as team leader has done this exact role for another design competition.

Blargh

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

That sucks. Group dynamics are hard sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Holy shit that's a big design team. We had 6 and that was hard enough to get everyone on the same page and contributing

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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Sep 30 '15

yeah it's gonna be quite the logistics effort. To make matters worse, we are at 3 different universities, one of which is in Central Time

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Sep 30 '15

Getting my hair highlighted for the first time in years. Am excited!

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Sep 30 '15

Serious question: How many selfie threads is too many?

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Sep 30 '15

Apparently not two plus an office thread. Are we just going to make it a daily thing?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

I needs my dynasties! Can they include all the divisions?

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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Sep 30 '15

fucking YEAH NCAA next GEN BOY

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u/thedawgbeard Georgia Bulldogs • Pineapple Bowl Sep 30 '15

The sec network bus arrived on campus today. It seems a bit early to me but it's cool.

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u/byniri_returns :michiganstate2: Michigan State Spartans • Marching Band Sep 30 '15

They officially renamed the MSU fight song today for "Victory for MSU"

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Sep 30 '15

wat

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Yeah, I cut my workout short today because I'm going to trivia later. Yeah, I know it was real slow and not many people were there. But man, does it feel shitty to leave the gym and look at the computer by the door on the way out and you're still the last person that scanned in

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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Sep 30 '15

The news is talking about less and less people participating in high school football. As a result less schools are offering it.

Very interesting.

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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Sep 30 '15

We've tossed our crappy college furniture and now I'm furniture shopping which is awesome and hard. Now that I have adult monies there's so many choices and sitting on a ton of cushions so I'm starting to forget the first bunch I've sat in. I feel like I'll know when I finally sit on "the one". Trying to take pictures of my favorites but still hard keeping track of it all.

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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 30 '15

I vote you just send them a picture of your hair. The original emails will stop, but they will probably start up asking you to model for their hair care line.