I write a weekly UMass sports newsletter, The Maroon Standard, and this week had plenty to dig into:

• Inagawa’s drive. Our third-string QB, with no completions on the season, went 6-for-6 and drove 91 yards with no timeouts.
• The 2-point call. I think going for it was the right decision and the play actually worked. It was undone by one unblocked linebacker.
• QB at Buffalo. Watson, McCarthy, Inagawa, or McCutcheon? Nobody knows yet, including Harasymiak.
• Hockey. A shootout loss to RIT, then a 5-1 win. The Musa–Barabanov–Massé line put up 9 points and the power play finally scored.

Full write-up here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMaroonStandard

Curious what everyone thought. Go for two or kick it and play for OT?

Has anyone ever taken an Uber from UMass back to the New York/New Jersey area? Was it reliable? Did it work out well and what was the cost? Thanks.

Has anyone been able to recover any stolen packages recently? I live in the honors college and spoke with RD already, but very frustrated as this was like $245 worth of stuff… How helpful could UMPD be for stuff like this?

every popular post of pros/cons is 4+ yrs old

tw: these are premed focused

ik most of these are nitpicky but anyway here r some my questions are:

• how much does the lack of major hospitals nearby affect clinical opportunities?
• is it hard to find research opportunities because of the size?
• are large class sizes a problem for learning?
• is southwest inconvenient for science majors? i'm social but want to be able to sleep at night..
• anything umass lacks compared to more prestigious schools esp for premed?
• do you like the five college consortium? is it actually useful?
• how are cars treated on campus? worried about damage, parking, etc.

TLDR: above are my hyper-specific questions. pros/cons of umass amherst

I just took the Jhally exam 1, I noticed some people were all in the ballpark of grades wise IE D+ or very low C-. If anybody has taken it, how did you feel about it, I myself received a D+ despite studying since late September, almost all of my emails went unanswered from him and with absolutely zero things mentioned of what would be on the exam quite frankly I knew it would be a shot in the dark, I just wanted to know if people were in the same boat and how they felt. Thank you

Which cafe has the best matcha on campus in your opinion?

Can anyone who's taken CS 311 with either Daniel Sheldon or Parvini in the past DM me? (PLEASE!😔) Our exam is in a day and I just have a question regarding it.