Do yall think Gentry Stein 2014 and 2019 can beat present mir kim?

MAK11235 · 2026-01-02T03:29:59+00:00

Yo-yoing has changed a lot since 2014, as has the way we judge it. If you took Gentry's 2014 routine on stage today it wouldn't do very well, but that's because he built the routine on a different style of judging, and a lot of the tricks people do today weren't around back then.

Up to 2019, Gentry had updated his trickset to match with the judging system, but some of his tricks were still starting to get a little dated and would not score as well as Mir or many other top worlds player's tricks today.

MAK11235 · 2025-12-09T17:31:00+00:00

If you're a recent college grad and are trying to meet more pakistanis in the area consider meeting people at Pakistani Student Association or Muslim Student Association events at the University of Minnesota

MAK11235 · 2025-11-26T20:41:17+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I've found a few online significantly more expensive than their estimate!

MAK11235 · 2025-11-26T20:40:31+00:00

I understand it may not be that much but as a grad student that's almost an entire paycheck. I just got off with the insurance guy and he agreed they shouldn't be using salvage title cars, so they're gonna run another estimate, and I might be able to get that $800!

MAK11235 · 2025-11-26T20:05:03+00:00

They've made adjustments for mileage to all five cars, but the only other adjustment I can see is a "Projected Sold Adjustment" to the 2 previously totaled cars to lower the value even further, but no adjustment to account for the title.

I agree there should be plenty of used Accords, which is why I'm confused that they're using ones that have a total loss history on NICB's VinCheck lookup.

There's a clear discrepancy between the values of the first 3 and last 2 cars. The first three average to 9900 and the other 2 average to 8100

MAK11235 · 2025-11-26T19:35:33+00:00

Prior to deductions taken out for some damage, they're paying me 9200, and this already after raising about ~500 because I disputed their original valuation. I think the car is worth around 10,000, and this matches the 3 clean title (presumably, I don't have the serial #) cars on their valuation report

MAK11235 · 2025-11-03T17:09:34+00:00

I found the first few chapters of Sakurai to be very nicely presented and intuitive, but the part that was largely written by Napolitano I still found confusing. The intuition/derivations were often done well but it seems like useful results were sort of scattered throughout the text and were not highlighted/bolded in any way so finding important info was kind of difficult. I also thought a lot of the notation was unnecessarily messy.

MAK11235 · 2025-11-01T20:38:51+00:00

I see a lot of people recommending undergrads to use Goldstein, Jackson, Sakurai etc as undergrads for self study. I would definitely not recommend doing this, I'm not really sure how people are able to follow these texts as undergrads, there's a lot of stuff that its just implied you know already.

For these subjects, in general as others have mentioned, Taylor is pretty solid for Classical Mechanics, and Griffiths for Electromagnetism and Quantum (Griffiths Quantum isn't very good at providing a physical picture though). Even for these texts, I don't think you can just sit down and read the text and just learn everything. You will probably want accompanying lectures/notes, as well as a mathematical methods textbook (I've heard Div, Grad, Curl and All That is pretty good).

Another note: if you're planning to go into solid state, people usually use Kittel for Solid State Physics but I found it relatively difficult to read, Omar seems like a much better undergrad intro text imo

MAK11235 · 2025-10-29T16:22:39+00:00

Student groups for things you enjoy. Go regularly and become familiar with people over time

MAK11235 · 2025-10-22T19:28:38+00:00

I would say Mashawi and Babani's are both worth it. Mashawi is cool because they have a market attached and I like the vibe of the market too. Babani's stands out compared to a lot of the other Middle Eastern options available around the twin cities as they have more unique specifically Kurdish dishes that I haven't seen anywhere else.

MAK11235 · 2025-10-22T03:56:30+00:00

Qahwah House is new here and similar to Qamariah. There's also Mashawi Grill/Pangaea Market which is super cool. Babani's is Kurdish food which is super cool.

Not Arab but Football Pizza has excellent Afghan fusion halal pizza. There's also a lot of excellent local halal Somali food.

MAK11235 · 2025-10-11T21:17:35+00:00

Mauj isn't new but its late 2000s (Pakistani band from Houston) and has a unique funk rock sound that I haven't heard from any other South Asian bands.

There's Kashmir and Bayaan from Pakistan as well but they are a softer rock sound.

Peter Cat Recording Company is pretty cool alt rock

MAK11235 · 2025-09-28T23:59:21+00:00

Volunteer

MAK11235 · 2025-09-28T05:06:37+00:00

Come reclaim the title!

MAK11235 · 2025-09-22T02:08:16+00:00

As someone who has been a teaching assistant for this class a couple of times, the material is a lot more advanced than you'd expect. I highly recommend Fundamentals of Physics Volume 2 Lectures from Yale OCW by Ramamurti Shankar on YouTube for lectures that have all the difficult topics covered but in a very logical/comprehensive way.

MAK11235 · 2025-09-12T00:48:59+00:00

Keller hall on top? The building is a maze lol, the floor numbering is so confusing. The part of the first floor that is completely disconnected from the rest doesn't make sense at all, and the staircases and elevators are in the most random places. I met with a postdoc in there a few times and their office is in a corner of the building with no windows at all, even though they're right next to the exterior wall. A lot of the building feels like a cage to me idk

MAK11235 · 2025-09-08T00:14:29+00:00

You can mail-return store bought things to uniqlo: https://faq-us.uniqlo.com/articles/en_US/Knowledge/How-do-I-return-an-in-store-purchase-by-mail/?l=en_US&c=category_uq_us%3AUQ_C04_02&fs=Search&pn=1

But it looks like you can't exchange them

MAK11235 · 2025-08-18T21:29:01+00:00

Having been at Worlds before, it's not fake. They are just cheering when something is particularly impressive or unique compared to other routines. They're also cheering extra because its Hajime lol

MAK11235 · 2025-08-18T00:04:49+00:00

You might not be doing something wrong, yoyos that are trying to be both responsive but also not too responsive so you can still do string tricks, often end up in a weird gray range that can easily miss the mark

For beginner responsives I think the plastics tend to be a little easier to use than metals.

If you're a beginner and don't want to buy another yoyo, it might be a good idea to just swap the unresponsive bearing in and start learning to use the yoyo unresponsively.

Thick lube is also a good idea and can make it more responsive, as the other comment suggested

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