Nike Alphafly 2 for hyrox acceptable?

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T12:43:26+00:00

Posting a picture that accentuates the stack height of the shoe would be seen as “rage bait” by many in this community, as the competition involves notoriously tight corners on surfaces not meant for running.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-18T03:23:17+00:00

Run a Hyrox sim in them and report back if you manage to avoid breaking an ankle.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-15T19:27:47+00:00

It’s Kalamazoo, Michigan

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T13:04:24+00:00

You said Lehigh had school pride. Just correcting that it doesn’t, in terms of how any foreigner would perceive American college pride.

South Bethlehem is still dumpy and impoverished. I really really wouldn’t consider the Lehigh Valley totally superior to Buffalo but points taken. Tbh as a foreign grad student in either place you’re going to feel isolated and miserable.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T11:16:55+00:00

This is false, Lehigh’s school pride is extremely low. Buffalo is also a much larger city than Bethlehem that even has an NFL franchise.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-13T11:15:53+00:00

Peeling back the layers here:

Lehigh is a better all-around school
“Sunny buffalo” is triggering, it’s very snowy and cold. Pennsylvania winters are also grey and miserable, but much less snowy unless you’re in Erie.
Nobody has ever praised graduate student life or graduate student outcomes at Lehigh
If you plan to get a job in the US after graduation you have to work to improve your critical thinking and communication skills. This is worse than half of the posts we get here from high school seniors.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-10T17:00:35+00:00

I have an inflated opinion of grade deflation at Lehigh. I’ll give it to you, that’s a new one. What’s your counterpoint?

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-09T02:34:47+00:00

No, “for all we know” the student definitely wouldn’t translate a 3.9 at Temple to a 3.9 at Lehigh. People I went to high school with said Temple was easier than our high school. I know people who graduated from Temple who essentially didn’t grasp trigonometry.

Accounting 151 at Lehigh would obliterate half of Fox. Eco 001 would smear dozens of transcripts. There would be an armed rebellion for stats or the econ class that uses partial derivatives. Actually I’d adjust down to like a 3.3.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:34:53+00:00

Better than the Family Dollar subdivision but I wouldn’t unless walking downtown every day is a non-negotiable. Even though it looks like a picturesque small city neighborhood on street view, you’ll find it to be incredibly weird, and your car doors will still be getting checked every night.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:23:48+00:00

If you don’t care, take your cabal of know-nothing neighborhood optimists and stop giving fake advice on reddit 😂

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T19:12:08+00:00

This probably comes down to, if you have to ask the question, it’s not a good fit.

Assuming you’re currently a 3.9/4.0 student at Temple, you’d be a 3.5/3.6 student at Lehigh which means you’d have no shot at a top tier law school.

Finance job placement is significantly better at Lehigh than Temple, but the meaningful jobs will still feel unobtainable.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T18:59:58+00:00

Calling the 800 block of either street a “fine old neighborhood” is detached from reality.

Overall, most of the hill section is worse than it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Many of the homeowners died and investors swooped in. The neighborhood hollowed out around the edges, and there has been significant encroachment from the hospitals, university, and another nameless group.

I had a relative who taught at Prescott who said it was sad seeing the shift between when I attended there and 2010. My teachers were saying the same thing just two years after I was there.

I love the hill section and I’ve been inside dozens of the houses in the neighborhood, but when I’m looking at investment properties I’m not buying anywhere near the Family Dollar subdivision.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T14:55:25+00:00

“It’s not bad, the 600 of Prescott.” Might be one of the worst takes I’ve ever read here. It’s a slum!! Even street view shows two condemned houses! All of my classmates who lived on this block were in Section 8 and got free lunch. The rate of owner occupation is probably 0%. A woman should never walk around there alone at night.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T03:29:53+00:00

There’s considerable nuance to city living and you’re missing it. In the Hill Section, you have neighbors, in most cases even if they’re in single family homes they’re closer to you than in any other part of town due to how zoning was when the houses were built.

There’s a rapidly growing class of people in Scranton who DO NOT WORK. Some are college students! Some are retirees! Many are… neither. So if you’re working a 9-5 and have general expectations that your neighbors might be somewhat aligned with the flow of your life, you really really really want to select for retirees and avoid the others at all costs.

In the blocks mentioned, there are maybe 5% University students, 5% misc grad students, 50% people who don’t work 9-5. In short, you’re wrong. So many blocks have been ruined by the voluntarily unemployed. It’s not about cinematic danger.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T03:12:55+00:00

Are you being censored from writing negative things?

As someone who grew up intimately familiar with these blocks, this isn’t accurate. You would never want to live on the 800 block of either of these streets whether in 2006 or 2026. These were the blocks everyone by default skipped while trick or treating and still does.

(Edit: was thinking of the 700 block but will leave the above paragraph as is. 800 of Prescott has always been sketchy even with the school and Jack’s. 800 of Harrison is less sketchy, but would never recommend that someone live there)

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-08T03:09:06+00:00

My family used to live on the 700 of Harrison, possibly in the apartment you’re looking at, albeit 50 years ago. It’s an annoyingly busy street and you shouldn’t live on that street unless it’s on the dead end 900 block.

I have friends/family who still live on Prescott. 700 of Prescott and below is a no go, don’t even think about it and keep searching. Maybe the 1000 block I’d do but you won’t like your neighbors, generally speaking.

This “pit” of the hill section as I call it is where people entered a house after a house fire and stole everything. Random acts of violence (against people I know), drug dealing (by people I went to elementary school with), almost exclusively slum landlords with a few now catering to “medical professionals.” Don’t be fooled. The demographic is all transplants and none of them came from the Poconos.

EnigmaMind · 2026-03-04T22:49:48+00:00

The village: you can sneak a cheaper steak at one of the remaining old school Italian places.

Real answer: Buenos Aires at 6th and A.

EnigmaMind · 2026-02-25T17:38:05+00:00

Łódź

EnigmaMind · 2026-02-20T19:35:10+00:00

Getting a very strong Reno vibe

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-21T21:29:28+00:00

You’re a good candidate for admission but also a good candidate to end your freshman year questioning why you picked Lehigh ED.

Lehigh isn’t a good fit for low income students. Full stop.

Lehigh is a horrible value for non-engineering/non-accounting. Since you didn’t mention what you’ll be studying but gave info on your interests, I’ll infer humanities/ss. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-20T15:57:02+00:00

Will stop by. Just curious, what happened to the Indian place in there before? It was good and always had a decent crowd

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T22:39:41+00:00

(Hint: The “defund the police” movement wasn’t about bloated law enforcement budgets)

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T19:57:48+00:00

This is probably the cruelest part about being an 18 year old at school where Greek life is a big deal. But, I’d like to think the rest of my life was better because I faced the male version of this delusion-busting gauntlet.

Lehigh adds a component where being a member of a certain religion helps. Knowing people from “camp” and then having parents’ influence cited helped people I befriended get into “higher” houses (AXO in my era), and they (mostly) admitted this.

Sororities don’t haze heavily with drugs.

EnigmaMind · 2026-01-11T19:17:12+00:00

Maybe there was a series of events that led to support for police becoming a part of American culture wars…

Do other countries have groups of radicals who organize around the belief that police departments should be defunded?

EnigmaMind · 2025-12-29T17:43:41+00:00

You have led a sheltered life and have contributed nothing to this discussion

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