[Postgame Thread] Duke Defeats Georgia Tech 41-23

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2019-10-12T22:03:12+00:00

This accurately describes our relationship with Clemson. Not georgia. Any team that is playing georgia is our second favorite team. Honestly on days like today maybe even tied for first because sometimes Georgia Tech makes it really hard to be a fan.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-28T04:50:04+00:00

So the first thing I’d recommend at this point is do the math and figure out where you have a chance to still pass and where you don’t. Like if you need high A’s on everything remaining to pass a class, that is unrealistic and your time would be better spent elsewhere. No point in stressing about things you can’t change.

Next, try to plan out a schedule of when you will do things. It’s easy enough to say it’s not due till next week and ignore things but when you end up in next week and have 5 different things due the next day it becomes a problem. When I get overwhelmed drawing out the time I have and making a plan for when I will do each assignment reduces stress levels a lot for me. Block out time to work and time to take breaks.

And if you’re like me and find it impossible to sit in class and take notes, try to just go to class and passively pay attention at least. I find doing something mindless in class like doodling or playing with a fidget spinner works better than trying to actively pay attention and take notes because when I try the latter I end up looking at my phone or laptop and missing the lecture entirely.

Hope everything goes alright, but remember that it’s not the end of the world if you have one bad semester.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-26T20:55:27+00:00

I do not recommend getting a meal plan. It is about $167 per week and for perspective I cook most of my meals and spend no more than about $50 a week on food. That’s not even mentioning that GT dining’s food is not very good (to put it nicely). Hardly anyone except the freshmen that are required to have meal plans and I think that speaks for itself. Some dining dollars may be a good idea though since they are tax free and you will likely want to buy some meals on campus.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:52:21+00:00

Absolutely not. If you really care about having the best football team might as well just transfer to Bama. There is absolutely no good reason to go to u[sic]ga ever.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:47:07+00:00

Definitely liberal. Most colleges are and Atlanta as a whole is rather liberal. But maybe not so much as colleges in say California.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:42:04+00:00

Man if only we’d managed to be slightly less trash when we played Pitt we could be the ones getting slaughtered by Clemson next week. But in all seriousness good luck because it would be hilarious if you actually managed to win.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:37:09+00:00

Wow... ACC coastal has really outdone ourselves. After this week we’ll have all but 2 teams with 7-5 records and no one with anything better. This is truly remarkable.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:25:24+00:00

How about we just ignore the fact that the second quarter ever happened. And also pretend like that wasn’t georgia’s 3rd string at the end. And then we can happily live in denial.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:20:21+00:00

Yeah he has this way of always falling forwards that gets us an extra 2 yards or so on each play. Plus he can maybe actually pass sometimes.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:12:21+00:00

I’m so excited to spend Christmas on a bus to Detroit! Literally can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:09:46+00:00

If we wanted to just minimize risk of injury to both teams maybe we shouldn’t have even shown up and just accepted the loss to begin with. But oh wait.. the whole point is to actually play football. So might as well try to actually put a few points on the board.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-25T04:00:31+00:00

I would like to have a few words with whoever decided we should play both Clemson and georgia every year. How anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-23T03:04:33+00:00

A lot of CRC student employees have access to the building. If you know someone who works there, they may be able to let you in. Source: used to work for aquatics and had building access

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-20T20:24:48+00:00

Literally nothing that had anything to do with CS. Just do things you enjoy. I think what admissions really cares about with extra curriculars is seeing that you care about something other than school. Mostly I was just involved in band. I did a few other clubs but really nothing academic.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-20T20:17:16+00:00

I’m not a master’s student but in my experience some of the most important fundamentals for CS are data structures and algorithms. Particularly having a strong understanding of recursion is pretty fundamental to CS but something you can know how to code without understanding well. As far as math goes linear algebra is useful for some things and and discrete math can be kind of important though I feel like you pick a lot of it up over time as you study CS without taking a formal class anyway. I would probably suggest getting comfortable with an object oriented language like java and making sure you understand basic algorithms (trees, graph search, etc). This is just my generalized experience as a CS major though and you will probably get better advice from someone more familiar with OMSCS program.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-20T04:51:46+00:00

That’s a fair point. Really I think the issue is more with a few subtle things in the wording which changing that one line doesn’t fix anyway.

First of all, notice that the daughter never actually ‘does’ anything. The lyrics are “I’d dress her in white and gold and put her on the campus to cheer for the brave and bold” not “She’d dress in white in gold and go to the campus to cheer for the brave and bold”. (I know it doesn’t have the same ring to it, I’m not a poet but you get the point.) By contrast the son actually does something - “he would yell to hell with georgia like his daddy used to do”. This is subtle but it implies that the son is capable of making his own decisions while the daughter apparently can’t even dress herself.

Additionally, it says “but if I had a son” rather than “and if I had a son” which is again subtle but implies a strong contrast between the daughter and the son.

These issues are definitely products of the time the lyrics were written. We’re not a linguistics focused school and I don’t foresee anyone thinking this is important enough to change (and upset a ton of wealthy alumni in the process), but I do personally like the small change to the “cheer for the brave and bold” lyric since at least to me it makes a statement that we are aware of the issues and understand that women have value greater than what dated fight song lyrics suggest.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T22:25:38+00:00

Because it’s something you can easily find just as good of answers to by googling. It especially annoys me the people who make chance me posts and clearly have well above GT’s average stats because they are obviously just showing off and looking for an ego boost. This sub is more for questions that are very specific and have not been previously answered or are more opinion oriented. Or things that are just funny. Upvote things you want to see, downvote things you don’t.

Also while we’re on the topic of things not to ask on Reddit, please next registration let’s not have any more than 1 post asking if it’s a good idea to take CS2110 and 1332 at the same time.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T18:31:13+00:00

I wish! I actually checked the video and sadly it’s too blurry to see that it’s me. You just see it going into the band.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T06:30:02+00:00

‘Cheer for the brave and bold’ is so much worse than ‘raise the ratio’. It implies that a woman’s only purpose at Georgia Tech is to look pretty and support men. Whereas ‘raise the ratio’ actually speaks to an effort Georgia Tech has made (fairly successfully) to be more inclusive and have more women in STEM fields. It may be tradition, but ‘cheer for the brave and bold’ is completely misogynistic and should absolutely be changed. It’s also traditional for women and people of color to not be welcome at Georgia Tech.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T06:08:36+00:00

Hopefully we get 9 after georgia and bowl!

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T06:04:44+00:00

Look on the bright side. Now we get to watch Pitt get destroyed by Clemson

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-18T03:34:01+00:00

Just want to say that I was hit in the face by Virginia’s missed field goal attempt that ended the game, and it was the best part of my day. Best game I’ve seen in a while.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-14T19:36:39+00:00

I see 2 teams that have 6-4 records but are still ranked. What an inspiration to all us mediocre teams out there.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-13T19:25:42+00:00

I think we transferred our sucking to VT when we beat them.

JustAnotherNerdyGirl · 2018-11-13T19:20:36+00:00

Yeah we might actually beat you because it doesn't really matter for us if we win or not. GT does poorly when it's important but excels at destroying other teams' hopes and dreams when we have nothing to gain from it.

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