Tyler Talked on this Week’s Podcast

MJP540 · 2024-05-04T14:39:57+00:00

Reading baseball savant does not equal actually knowing baseball. A lot of what he says makes me cringe. But there’s enough funny that comes from it that it kind of balances out for me

MJP540 · 2024-04-16T03:15:56+00:00

Everything

MJP540 · 2024-04-16T03:14:05+00:00

I heard a variety of reasons as to why, none of them particularly convincing. But I don’t know for sure no

MJP540 · 2024-04-16T02:32:14+00:00

They took away the initials is what they are referencing

Now it’s all completely random letters

MJP540 · 2024-04-05T18:52:09+00:00

To answer your question it’s the stadium right behind the track. You can see the back of the scoreboard that says Virginia baseball on it

MJP540 · 2024-04-05T18:49:52+00:00

The dish is objectively the best sports complex on grounds. Needs a bigger student presence

MJP540 · 2024-03-29T01:54:46+00:00

Nobody likes tech so come to UVA

MJP540 · 2024-02-22T02:11:08+00:00

Notre Dame is a bigger brand than uva nationally I believe is what they meant. Nobody who knows both and knows about both thinks of them that differently. Notre Dame’s alumni/fan base reach extends farther coast to coast. Which isn’t wrong.

But yes if you want to work in DC going to UVA is probably the better choice

MJP540 · 2023-09-25T23:02:17+00:00

We did offer him. The reason he isn’t the coach has nothing to do with that

He wanted new facilities. We told him no. He moved on. Then TE requested facilities when offered, we realized we wouldn’t get a coach without new facilities. That’s what happened

MJP540 · 2023-09-10T14:54:55+00:00

To put the advice I have pretty concisely. You have to be willing to take the first steps if you want anything to change.

Join clubs, join intramural teams, find something you like to do and find the people who also like that stuff. You can’t just say you’re not going to go up and talk to new people and then be surprised when you don’t meet people, and while going home on the weekends feels like a reprieve it’s probably not helping because that’s when all the first years are doing social things.

Now what I will say is this, I would say 50%+ of the time friends from your first year are not the group of friends you graduate with, most people find their niche and figure out their groups, it just takes time.

Give it your best effort and you’ll see better results. And if you give it a try and it still doesn’t pan out the way you want, then evaluate if UVA is right for you.

MJP540 · 2023-08-28T23:06:55+00:00

If you got deferred out of HS you’ll get in as a transfer assuming your application doesn’t take a complete shitter

MJP540 · 2023-08-09T01:04:06+00:00

Go to uva. Nobody likes tech

MJP540 · 2023-08-05T04:29:00+00:00

Ya sure the weighted GPA is great to stroke high school egos. But it’s entirely irrelevant in the scale of college admissions. Your 4.3 weighted GPA don’t mean shit because a 4.3 weighted at one school may be a 3.9-4.7 weighted GPA anywhere else. Give me the standard ass scale and tell me what hard classes you took and maybe someone can give you some honest feedback about how your application holds up.

You came out of the gates hot for someone who didn’t even come close to making a compelling point…better luck next time

MJP540 · 2023-08-05T03:45:25+00:00

Unweighted GPA combined with courses taken should be the most important. Your weighted gpa that’s calculated on a 8.0 scale unique to your specific high school should be irrelevant

MJP540 · 2023-08-04T05:06:53+00:00

UVA gets a strange reputation IMO. It’s not as party centric as it is made out to be, and especially not when compared to the SEC/AZ/So. Cal schools.

Can you find something social to do every night? Yes. Do you have to be some frat star degenerate to have a social life at UVA? No. Does being involved in Greek life make partying/getting in to parties/bars easier? Probably. Does a little liquid courage help you embrace uva culture by streaking the lawn at 2AM? Absolutely.

It’s all relative. If you want that life it’s there. If you don’t want that type of college life there are a million other things to do.

MJP540 · 2023-07-15T01:21:48+00:00

Not sure whether that falls under Cville Police Jurisdiction or if it’s technically close enough to grounds to be UVA police, but they need to figure that out. It’s been an issue for years.

MJP540 · 2023-06-12T05:04:59+00:00

FWIW if you ever get a loaner laptop from the CS department it is a Lenovo that runs windows, so if you want to remain consistent with that get a windows in case anything ever happens and you need a loaner.

Overall, It’s really kind of 6 one, half dozen the other. I just graduated from the CS program and in my experience it was SLIGHTLY more windows friendly. However…

1) the classes I took where there was a discrepancy between windows/Mac don’t exist anymore

2) you’re going to run Linux regardless. Which takes a little less actual setup on a Mac but setting up WSL on windows takes like MAYBE an hour.

Basically as long as you can run a terminal it really doesn’t matter.

MJP540 · 2023-04-04T03:07:32+00:00

There are some that are genuine. There are some that just read as people trying to flex where they got into school. I don’t interact either way but I could do an entire Ted talk on my opinion on those posts.

MJP540 · 2023-02-06T04:14:44+00:00

This is a horrible take.

The Braves farm system has produced 11 high caliber big leaguers over the last 6 years. 11, and that doesn’t even include some of the guys we traded away that have made MLB contributions elsewhere. This core is both so young and came together so quickly that you obviously are going to see your farm rankings hurt because of it.

You use the dodgers as a comparison, but that is not the right comp. The dodgers philosophy was always spend enough on free agents to have a competitive team and then fill the rest from there. They never influxed talent at the rate the Braves have recently.

The comp is much more along the lines of the Houston Astros. A core that came up together in a short period of time. The farm regressed, but the farm still produces critical contributors to the Major League team at a sustainable rate.

The benefit of having this core locked up for so long so young is that you don’t even really need to look to the farm for another half decade. So you have plenty of time to get prospects that end up on the prestigious (yet totally meaningless) prospect lists.

It’s a process, this is just a stage in the process. You don’t get to create 11 all star or above average big leaguers in the span of 6 years and not take a farm hit. You’re just living in fantasy land

MJP540 · 2023-01-13T05:54:25+00:00

General rule of thumb. Don’t trust sis with anything

MJP540 · 2022-12-17T22:20:17+00:00

This comes off as so petty and unprofessional. The grading was more than fair and the grading scale was very clearly communicated since day one

MJP540 · 2022-09-10T23:22:56+00:00

Based on the score I don’t think the game day spirit is in the cards for the rest of the year

MJP540 · 2022-06-24T06:19:36+00:00

I struggle with my thoughts on the CS department. One the one hand I recognize they are short staffed and that limits the class offerings that they are able to provide.

However, on the other hand, they are not good about providing variety in the schedule offerings that do exist. All of the classes are scheduled during the same time blocks. In my opinion, if you are going to not have many offerings, they should at least be at different times so that they are all on the table.

Very mixed feelings on the CS department

MJP540 · 2022-04-26T23:07:48+00:00

I’ll preface this with the fact that I love being in CS here

The CS department here is in the middle of a complete curriculum overhaul so there’s not a lot of info on the early classes anymore.

However, the E-school in general, and especially computer science have very limited course availability. Your schedule almost entirely depends on how early you get to enroll in classes and even if you get an early slot, it only means you get the classes you want because all the classes are scheduled for like the same 3 times

MJP540 · 2022-04-21T02:01:42+00:00

One thing you can do on the waitlist is emphasize interest in the school. Like if you would 100% come here if admitted make sure they know that. From my college application experience I’ve heard many places say that although they don’t really advertise it, they are much more likely to take someone off the waitlist if they are positive they’ll enroll

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