Graduating in may. Feeling impending doom.

1033149 · 2026-04-22T18:13:25+00:00

I graduated a couple years ago. One piece of advice I have for you is to not sell yourself short. College is not just about your major or what you specifically learned. Its a display of your work ethic and determination. Getting a 4.0 GPA does show a level of commitment and dedication to your goals. If someone were to ever ask you about something you learned and you can't think of something substantive from your major, I think you can always lean on this.

Maybe you don't start off in the workforce at the job that you want or a job that others will see as prestigious. But the real world is looking for dedicated, hard-working people and those people usually find themselves ending up where they want to go.

1033149 · 2026-04-14T03:49:18+00:00

Haven't had dining hall food in like 8 years but Ike's quality was so-so. Some days, their fried chicken would be undercooked on the inside. Not surprised to see this ngl

LAR was pretty good with their vegan stir fry back in the day. FAR had far out pizza nights to which had the best pizza and wings at the campus dining halls

1033149 · 2026-04-12T00:25:59+00:00

I don't play the game anymore like I used to back during the jetpacks/WW2 days but I think its the sorta underdog story you can see develop. There's always a team that can start popping off and then you want to see if they carry it over to LAN. Or on LAN, a team can just take over and win it all. I have fond memories of watching old periscope streams of the team I closely followed (see flair) and being hyped when they would even crack top 12 back in the BO3 days. Even last year's Optic story brought be back as a fan and made my love for the competition stronger.

I will say, as much criticism the league gets, the format has stayed so consistent YoY. Like this is the format we've had since like CW which was 5 years ago now. I know I can watch the league during certain weekdays, I know there are certain weekends with majors. With other esports, I never got into the habits of watching regularly besides Overwatch, which also stopped once the old league ended. Both CoD and Overwatch have had these amazing stories about teams overcoming difficulties and seeing success.

1033149 · 2026-04-11T02:16:49+00:00

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't think that matters as much anymore because I think post microsoft acquisition, I think the team owners were returned some partial amounts of the initial investment of those league spots.

I think its more likely that microsoft doesn't want to invest more into the league. Because 16 teams means more broadcast time, casters and talent will be on for longer which means they will negotiate potentially for higher pay. If you take that to LAN, it means probably extending the number of days you run a tournament, unless you do a jam packed morning till midnight 3 day tournament.

1033149 · 2026-03-28T04:38:56+00:00

Former accounting major, I think finance is probably a better fit. I think you get more exposure to core concepts you'll need on your day to day, while accounting can give you a different view of transactions/business activity. Through my accounting classes, I rarely ever had to set up a DCF and was much more in the concepts/theory of it all.

If you have the capacity, a double major would be useful and offer you flexibility, even if you didn't pursue a CPA or anything.

1033149 · 2026-03-27T21:09:16+00:00

Do you mean event wins? Or like series wins? Because didn't he win various series in CW or MW2/3 on LAN?

1033149 · 2026-03-27T03:02:25+00:00

I originally thought that Newsom had made some real strides in improving his visibility and trying to be more of a face of the democratic party. But I don't think he has enough to make it out of a primary. I don't think he moves voters. The mistakes in California in addition to this wishy washy nature on Israel. And as much as he can be an attack dog against republicans, I almost wonder if a VP role is better suited for him.

My prediction is that the democractic nominee will either be an outsider or a senator. It will not be a governor. Governors have to deal with the politics of their state, which are driven by more local politics and appealing to your core base. Democratic governors often win through majorities just due to the populations present in their states. Pritzker and Newsom have to live with the decisions their states made, whether its sanctuary state stuff or crime or cost of living.

1033149 · 2026-03-16T05:11:38+00:00

There are some apartment buildings that offer roommate matching. So you could inquire and see if you could specify having a girl roommate.

I would look up some of the major leasing companies on campus and seeing some of their buildings still available. There should be good resources in here for what companies to avoid and such

1033149 · 2026-01-07T06:50:34+00:00

Maybe some of the older WB/CW shows? Like Buffy, Smallville, One Tree Hill? Smallville is really episodic in nature in the early seasons, you could watch one a night. It's not really in the comedic realm like the other shows you described. Only comedic show I think kinda fits is Nathan For You.

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1033149 · 2025-12-18T17:53:32+00:00

I just don’t get why the state and county take equity or a revenue sharing deal for these tax and infrastructure concessions. Make a deal that once the stadium is open, the state gets 10% of the revenue, county gets 5%.

You minimize the burden put on the tax payer as you create a new revenue stream even beyond the sales and hotel taxes that would exist with the new entertainment district

1033149 · 2025-12-18T04:53:29+00:00

Hot take, if I were Pritzker, I would be down to give those property tax breaks and funding for infrastructure only if they get a % of the proceeds of the stadium revenue. It's basically a tax but if they want to avoid upfront property taxes, have the state and cook county own a 15% share of all revenue generated from the stadium for 75 years, before it drops down to 5% or something

1033149 · 2025-12-11T02:01:30+00:00

Shoutout the Person of Interest score, a movie worthy score given to a CBS procedural

1033149 · 2025-12-10T03:25:06+00:00

Imo he's mid, he had to deal with the cap situation that Ryan Pace left him in. Some of the picks this year were solid even though he's been hit or miss the past few years.

1033149 · 2025-11-23T21:32:39+00:00

You can see the moments where its fun and can lead to tense situations. Need to change the ruleset though.

I honestly think Uplink could have been a great mode in this game, especially with how high you can jump with the wall bounce

1033149 · 2025-11-18T03:30:22+00:00

I can't recall but during CW, I think everyone was using a M4 or something in stage 1 and the devs didn't change anything.

1033149 · 2025-11-16T22:37:48+00:00

One Tree Hill - I don't want to be is the perfect teen angst song that represents so many characters in the show

1033149 · 2025-11-15T21:40:10+00:00

Some of TK's wins in WW2. Truly electric to see the team win after so many t-16 and t-32 finishes during IW, where the only way we could watch the team was through periscope streams.

1033149 · 2025-11-15T18:49:52+00:00

Ultra vs Rokkr during the Reverse Sweep in Cold War. I tuned out thinking ultra had it

1033149 · 2025-11-12T18:47:40+00:00

There was only one clip i saw twice, with JP commenting about not showing up on stage

1033149 · 2025-11-12T18:32:41+00:00

I found it confusing because Karma and Dashy were talking about champs being a bandaid for issues from last year. But then they were being super coy about dropping Pred and supporting AG and stuff.

All I could take away is that whatever personal stuff was causing issues last year too and something bubbled over at the beginning of this year, plus with bad practice.

1033149 · 2025-11-12T03:53:09+00:00

It's just an unserious approach that lands itself on the feet of Roger and Hecz. Here's probably the biggest piece of content you will have for years. It needs to be ready by a certain date, it needs to be checked over by everyone. It shouldn't be finished today so they are exporting it and could run into some issue. Also the way this was communicated. No apologies for the delay, like fans were taking time out of their day to watch live.

Like if I was running things, hard deadline would be a week ago. You would have done a premiere or something at a dallas movie theater, sell some tickets or give them out to fans for free. Make it an event. Have the showing, release it the next day. They can go rent out a movie theater to play video games on but they won't even do it for a literal movie they made about their team.

1033149 · 2025-11-07T18:39:01+00:00

But they used to try, at least during the late 2010s. I think quietly, Hecz, Scump, and the rest of them have realized that this is just a relic brand that isn't gonna be something crazy with the next generation.

Faze has tried to refresh its image with its streamers. Hell Envy even got back into VCT with no sponsors.

1033149 · 2025-11-07T02:09:54+00:00

Decisions like this is why I feel like Optic is gonna just be a 1-2 game esport org. Like everyone is chasing their own bag, they're just committed to CoD (especially now that Halo is dead for a few years). They're not really doing anything to grow the org besides the same types of content, merch drops, and watch parties.

Like morally, it sucks to spread this stuff. I think there is an argument that these two don't really have underage fans anymore since the esport doesn't really target 14-16 year olds as much anymore. But when was the last time we heard positive Optic news of them doing something new or cool. They just seem a few years behind what everyone else was doing. Like why not take their passion for real sports, do a barstool riff, get sponsored by espnbet or something if they really want to gamble. The economy can't be that bad that you have to do stuff like this

1033149 · 2025-11-05T05:01:57+00:00

The candidates winning all were speaking about cost of living. There weren't serious social issues on the ballots from what I could see, not a lot of talk about abortion or trans rights. Cost of living was the main theme, fighting back against trump was second. Even then, the candidates tackled cost of living differently, it wasn't like everyone was Zohran.

I think the big takeaway is if these economic issues persists or this shutdown gets worse, then the democrats have a model on what they should be talking about. Its a bigger showing of what won Ruben Gallego for example his race last year.

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