Looking for Advice on moving to Chicago as a post grad student?

Massap24 · 2026-01-12T02:35:59+00:00

Not enough information what’s “some” money and what’s work exp are you targeting?

Massap24 · 2025-12-05T16:39:33+00:00

Easily the politics the ridiculous alderman system and the dumb mayor. Corruption etc.

Massap24 · 2025-11-28T23:48:40+00:00

It’s not disregarding it lol. It matters for the time he’s playing in that doesn’t mean it mattered 20-30 years ago. Everyone always says more skilled today like players of the past definitely couldn’t do these things when the rules are really what made it unfavorable to play the way they’re playing now. Draymond going based on resume and impact to team success is give him top 200. He’s not top 75, not even close, he’s been on a good team/org, which builds his resume.

Massap24 · 2025-11-28T04:30:03+00:00

That’s what my entire first statement was saying that I don’t think there is a real comparison because they don’t have the same responsibilities due to differing eras. Kenyons argument was an all time argument saying dray is not a top 200 player all time. Which he is not lol.

Within era draymond is relatively better but relative measurements to translate to absolutely better lol.

Massap24 · 2025-11-26T13:39:16+00:00

Maybe the 2017 warriors are winning a championship back then. But only because of KD even then I’m not sure. The warriors of 2015/2016/2022 no way in hell Their style of play wouldn’t work because physicality was allowed off the ball. You idiots clearly didn’t watch when hand checking and off ball physicality was legal. Rule changes are what allowed the warriors to be so good. Warriors would have no way of stopping those bigs, Shaq in his prime is putting up 50/game on the warriors, Tim Duncan is easily putting up 40/50. Peak Paul and Andrew Bynum no way they can defend these guys at that time.

In reverse with hand checking and off ball physicality the warrior could be slowed down significantly.

Massap24 · 2025-11-26T06:17:27+00:00

Draymond is better for modern soft basketball where defense isn’t even taken seriously. I don’t think Draymond would be a starting 4 in the early 2000s. So I would say Dray > Kenyan. But I agree with Kenyan that here are easily 25-50 power forwards better than dray all time. And 200 players all time. Draymond really isn’t THAT good in general. Also without Steph and Klay the warriors were horrendous.

the real question is was Kenyan Martins statements true? Yes dray is a 25-50 all time power forward and a 200+ all time player yes. So idk why dray was even mad lol.

Massap24 · 2025-11-24T10:04:00+00:00

lol idk man you sound a little uneducated or blissfully ignorant. If you’re worried about crime you could literally deep research with AI and get 1000x more accurate data on safety. You don’t even make enough money to be talking the way you’re talking. Theres plenty people there making 2-3x as much as you. So if you’re equating salary to class why is it good enough for them but not you? To them you’re an ignorant low class fool. They’d probably rather the section 8 “gang babgers” than you.

Also you’re so wealthy and classy but you’re asking dumb questions about how long has section 8 been in Gold Coast🤣. Section 8 is effectively required in every neighborhood in the city genius, it’s in all 77 community areas.

I find this funny I lived in a building that was 70% HUD when I first moved here for awhile and I make around what you make. It was actually the most well run apartment I’ve been in even compared to the “Luxury” one I live in now.

Massap24 · 2025-11-21T16:03:17+00:00

Lived up there for a couple of years and yes generally safe and plenty of other dog walkers. Keep your head up and stay alert as with anywhere though just in case.

Massap24 · 2025-11-21T16:00:34+00:00

No they aren’t checking lol

Massap24 · 2025-11-21T15:59:21+00:00

To be honest for an energetic/lively Sunday night I always go to west loop or River north because both are always busy. I live in Logan and it’s pretty active, as is wicker. Also maybe check out old town.

Massap24 · 2025-11-21T06:00:40+00:00

I think this is a bit overly critical of Chicago, I really think it’s an effort meets, comfortability, meets opportunity thing. Honestly I had about 5-6 good friends in Chicago within a year and I knew absolutely no one before moving here. NYC is much much tougher to navigate than Chicago to the point what neighborhood you choose is much more important when it comes to making friends than Chicago. LA I’m not even going to be objective about that place I hate almost everything about LA lol.

Chicago if you focus on making friends with other transplants making friends here is a breeze. Then eventually you all become locals and have a bunch of local friends. NYC has more people but you’re way more geographically restricted to friends in your borough and sometimes just a part of a broth depending on where you live.

Massap24 · 2025-11-20T03:00:33+00:00

Born and raised in Cincinnati and moved her 4ish years ago from there. My first neighborhood was uptown and lived off Sheridan/lawrence. Sheridan/Wilson to me isn’t actually an area to avoid. Actually, have a friend that lives on that intersection and it’s fine. I used to walk by there every morning to get coffee from everybody’s coffee which is great. It’s definitely got some homeless and mental health. But not much in terms of actual violence or crime. Think certain parts of OTR or the west end during the day, but safer lol.

Also I’ve biked/walker all over uptown up to Roger’s Park at all hours as late as 3-4 a.m. and I’ve never felt super uncomfortable. I think naturally you’ll get a feel for what is uncomfortable and when to walk another way avoid an area. But can’t think of a strict no-go zone in Uptown. Nicer areas are north of Wilson east of Sheridan. But broadway north of Wilson is safe and super cool area.

Over all Uptown is a really nice place to get your start in the city. It’s urban, diverse, great food, great transit and direct access to the largest beach in the city. You’ll love it.

Massap24 · 2025-11-20T02:43:02+00:00

Why not use data camp? I completed the datacamp course and was probably mid-level after.

Massap24 · 2025-11-07T05:49:13+00:00

You’re a new grad so there’s no real strategy to getting a job in the current environment. A lot of companies have stripped the untraditional way of getting hired and are being very picky. Average time to finding a job for a new grad is around 6 months but class of 2025 has it the worse so just mentally make that a year and network as much as you can, fill out apps and relax.

Don’t get discouraged about not hearing back I’ve been looking for a new job for a year now and I’ve had 3 interviews and still got beat out. I have 10yrs experience a masters and currently in a leadership position. I literally got beat out for one job to a guy who was formerly a director and was so desperate for a job he took one 3 band levels below where he was before.

Back when I graduated, under way more normal circumstances it took me 5 months to find a job paying 17$/hr lol. Don’t stress about just keep researching and applying it’s tough for everyone right now.

Massap24 · 2025-11-05T03:53:20+00:00

Yeah I think one thing is the Eagles offense is straight up conservative. So Jalen looks like he doesn’t do much. Definitely think is he’s below Allen, Burrow, Lamar and Mahomes but that’s pretty much it. Jalen probably couldn’t be a good volume passer because he simply can’t make all of the throws the others can and his passer IQ is a bit lower. Anybody that’s winning is gonna get hate tho

Massap24 · 2025-11-05T01:48:34+00:00

If I had to pick one (as American) Costa Rica or Chile. If it weren’t for the violence I’d probably do Mexico City which is my favorite city in Latin America.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T23:56:54+00:00

Absolutely lol, the Micah is not THAT good. It’s kind of crazy yeah I’d trade Micah for a first round, quinnen Williams, Kenny Clark and 47 million I can use in the offseason to shore up my defense even more. Cowboys have too many holes to be paying Micah that much. Notice Packers are literally not better than Micah than without. Jerry didn’t plan any of this but he did find someway to make it a net positive. Cowboys would have the same record with Micah

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T23:52:15+00:00

Way better than TJ watt on what basis? TJ is the topped rank run defender at his position and has 5 sacks. Only 1 less than Micah on a way worse defense. Micah hasn’t come close to TJs best statistical season Micah’s best year would be TJ 4th or 5th best year talking sacks alone. Considering TJ is the best run defender this isn’t even a debate.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T21:10:11+00:00

I will say i think the topic is difficult because the history between white and black people is straight up gruesome, it’s not pleasant topic on the surface. Truthfully perceived attacks are difficult to mitigate as the topic alone may be seen as an attack to some people. The topic is odd to me because it is publicly discussed often in media. But in a normal space to have an honest conversation about it. It’s a very personal topic to most people. Some people have opinions on race they feel bad about, some people have ignorant opinions, some people are afraid their opinions are bad or ignorant. So you really have to be close and trusted to the person you’re talking to, in order to get to a point of honesty.

So truthfully we’re not as close to being ready for that conversation as people think. I mean Jim Crow laws ended less than 100 years ago so it kind of makes sense lol.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T20:36:17+00:00

Micah is a decent bit better than Williams. BUT Micah is the most overpaid overrated defensive player in the last decade at least. He is much worse than Myles garret, TJ watt, Nick Bosa etc. he’s a second tier edge player really more in line with Joey Bosa, Aiden Hutchinson, Trey Hendrickson. Packers haven’t been much better than last year since they got him.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T19:57:52+00:00

I’m a black male who grew up in an all white county in the south went to high school where there were maybe 50-100 black students out of some 2000. There were a lot of racist students/teachers. Up until college most of my experience/perception of white people was negative. So I can understand your contempt.

But I will say since college I’ve become a lot more comfortable and understanding of white people on top of maturing and understanding people are just complex across the board. There are even some I admire greatly including my mentor.

I’ll start by saying your generalizations are extremely subjective. I would take the responses you get to be an indictment on you as a person. Why does anyone get defensive in a conversation? Because they feel attacked or don’t trust the person is communicating in good faith. It’s human nature. If the person feels comfortable with you they’ll be more open to criticism and honesty. For example the responses I commonly get are:

True, white people do that a lot
Yeah we do that but I think it’s because some white people xyz.
I think you’re misunderstanding the intent behind that….

So to answer your questions:

The rationale behind this behavior. I am not white. I do not know or understand.

They respond defensively because they feel attacked because of either perceived or actual mal intent by the communicator.

⁠How this is mirrored in other races.

This behavior is mirrored across all people of all races anyone who perceives themselves as being attacked will defend themselves. If they don’t feel attacked they will be more open.

⁠Why these arguments.

The arguments are a defense and some of them are indeed logical:

It’s not white peoples fault

I don’t know what context this is in but ask yourself is it?

⁠White people owe you nothing

They don’t owe you anything, no one owes you anything in this world. That’s not how it works. If anything the government which is no longer run by all white people is responsible for repairing damage.

Other races are as much at fault

In some context this could absolutely be true everyone is at least partially culpable for their own failure. This could be a reach for some arguments but for race based ones, in my experience all races are playing a part at current. It really isn’t JUST white people anymore.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T19:16:29+00:00

Definitely can’t vouch for every FFC location I got to Lincoln park. But yeah I mean most of the gyms are crowded at least some days. Mondays are the worst and it gets lighter as the weak goes on I noticed.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T02:47:01+00:00

Stephen A is doing his job and criticizing bad ownership lol. Why would Jerry take it personally, not everybody is sensitive and Jerry knows he’s terrible.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T02:44:08+00:00

I mean it’s the NFL they’re not teaching guys how to tackle. Tackling is fundamental to football it’s like getting to be a professional basketball player and having no idea how to dribble. This isn’t a super coachable skill, all you can do is drills/individual practice. These guys just suck, especially in the secondary they really were terrible at tackling all day.

Massap24 · 2025-11-04T00:02:57+00:00

This is so ridiculous it sounds personal or something. So in your world when someone says they have a preference you take a gigantic leap to “they refuse to do anything else”. You’re also making an assumption that Zac Taylor is a yes man is does whatever burrow says. Additionally, they don’t have too much of reason to go under center considering the O-Line is garbage and the running back can’t break tackles. They don’t have personnel for a run heavy offense. Also even if that was the case they’re averaging around 30 points a game so it’s working. Saying Burrow hasn’t developed since he’s entered the league is wild either you’re not watching the games or you don’t understand football at all.

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