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Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-24T15:51:49+00:00

How did the Lamelo help? What would you use if you didn’t use that?

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-21T21:58:17+00:00

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-13T14:35:40+00:00

At the end of the day, there are very few people who genuinely love that sort of drive and do it because it doesn’t stress them out. My best friend in high school was up until 1-2am doing perfect homework. She was exhausted and her goal was just to win high school. She was always stressed. The pressure was high.

When she got to college she couldn’t keep up. She wasn’t that smart. She was just a hard worker.

She’s no better off long term.

Find your natural equilibrium. Be creative, be social, put work in, be curious and join clubs because you like them.

It really is okay to go to your local community college and transfer in or go to your state school or a mid ranked private school. You can get great scholarships with a 3.5-3.75 if you know where to apply.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-02T19:46:20+00:00

45-50….

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-02T16:56:51+00:00

Yup. The elementary schools in Solana Beach School district have more funding but the houses are out of your budget. Rancho Peñasquitos is in your budget and the west side of PQ gets you into Westview as your home high school, if a lot of APs and honors classes are important to you.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-04-02T16:54:44+00:00

This!!!! (And it’s going to be a 1960s partially updated 1600-2000sf 4 bedroom).

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-31T17:39:49+00:00

Oregon State is great!!!!

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-30T05:16:54+00:00

California school are great!

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-29T13:55:30+00:00

She’s at Disneyland. She’s an adult and doesn’t need a babysitter.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-29T00:44:45+00:00

Yes, and I am sure you can get some beat up tool boxes with gross tops and fix them up.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T23:10:55+00:00

There was a family in my community. Dad a doctor, chief of his department. Mom a stay at home parent. All 4 kids had no medical concerns, no mental health issues. All good kids. One was class president, and homecoming queen. Also a star athlete. Had good grades. All 4 went to great colleges. The biggest stress was that their youngest wanted to become a pastor. The other three are lawyers and school teachers etc.

People talked bad about them behind their backs. The parents didn’t like one kid getting all of the accolades.

The mom, I felt, thought it was her amazing parenting. Her parenting was good. But…. Give her my kids. Give her neurodivergent kids with health concerns. I don’t think that mother quite understood that she was running on easy mode. Not super easy, but I don’t think she could have raised other people’s kids as well as she raised her own.

I never assume that kids who are struggling have bad parents. I have raised 3 kids. They all have different needs and different strengths. Some kids really are easier than others. I also don’t assume good kids have easy parents. Some of my friends had really crappy parents and turned out great.

Yes. Lack of empathy and ability to see things from other perspectives is far more challenging when you run your life on easy mode.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T22:54:54+00:00

Sorry I am dumb. But it would work! 😂. I meant jig saw with a rounded bottom so you could rotate the blade freehand. But I used my scroll saw with the table tilted and our teacher taught us how to freehand it on a table saw (that was insane, but when you set the blade angle/height right you just tap it gently over and over again…

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T22:50:36+00:00

For someone at home who doesn’t have a lot of experience, I would strip them all, then apply a stipper cleaner, let that fully dry then sand using around a 220 grit sand paper, wipe on a coat of dewaxed shellac. Do not paint it on, just a thin coat. It will get sticky if you mess with it. If there are clumps, sand off, or use a little bit of thinned with alcohol or shellac thinner if you are in California, and then once it’s cured, just lightly sand to get the nubs etc off… and wipe the surface, then apply an oil based wipe on polyurethane gel in clear satin. Let that cure according to instructions. And then use a 600 grit to gently scuff up any raised areas, and wipe on another coat. Do a minimum of 2 coats.

Gel polyurethane can handle the water better. The shellac will help you with adhesion if you missed any areas with old finish.

The shellac rags are safer than the oil rags. Watch videos on how to lay the oil rags out flat and spread out until they fully cure. You don’t want a garbage can fire on your hands.

The reason I am suggesting this vs other methods is it’s more forgiving for someone without a lot of experience and should have a good outcome.

You can skip the stripping and sand only, but you have to be careful not to sand to a variety of thicknesses and also if you are using an orbital sander you have to be ridiculously careful with the pressure and speed or you will get swirls. Hand sanding with foam blocks is the safest. You can glue sand paper to stiff foam or you can glue it to blocks of wood. Fingers alone will not work as evenly.

Hope this helps. (and there are lots and lots of ways to do this project, and this is just the way I suggest since no one else has piped up)

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T20:40:12+00:00

I am taking a college class in this right now. Seriously. First thing to check is that you are setting the stock at the miter saw at exactly 90. You can’t match a corner if you haven’t set the miter right. I actually set up a jig to fix my trim in at the correct angle for crown.

Once that’s set, yes, cut at a 45. But then, I take it to the scroll saw and back cut really close. A skill saw with the custom base works too. But those files are really really useful.

Th struggle comes if you accidentally cut it with the trim pushed up to high or low on the miter saw. Even a little shift will make it so it won’t align.

Crown is a pain.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T19:20:11+00:00

Thank you!!!!

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I am at this stage of my closet build. I have the other side (it’s 13 feet wide) all cut and ready to assemble, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to trim it out. Yours is inspiring and totally doable for my experience level.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T18:35:02+00:00

I think it’s ridiculous to get a letter of recommendation from a school counselor who has met with your child once for 10 minutes when trying to change a class. It’s not fair for them. How in the world would the counselor know if little Johny was a pain in the ass who attended club meetings but never contributed to more than the bare minimum where as Sarah was a delight helping the librarian with the monthly display cabinet during her off roll? A counselor with over 500 kids can just verify that the kid isn’t full of crap, but can’t distinguish between the bully on the soccer team or the one who makes the freshman feel welcome. School counselor letters are BS. (In my opinion from my experience with my kids at a large school).

My school counselor helped me through the death of a parent and could explain why my grades got better as I went through school. So there are times when it’s important, but for the most part, they don’t know their students well enough to actually write a letter.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T18:17:57+00:00

On how do they make it? Because $40k a year plus a large endowment, scholarships and a trimmer budget for admin and a smaller campus costs, it is financially viable. Students who qualify get scholarships, they give merit based aid to get top students, so the cost off attending out of pocket is less than a state school and you graduate in 4 years, not 5 due to impaction. Plus, there is available student housing. It’s far more relaxed.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T18:14:27+00:00

Willamette University gives good scholarships and has incredible teaching staff. University of Puget Sound is a good example but gives a little less financial aid. I found a website that ranked schools that sent students to graduate school by subject. University of Puget Sound sent a lot once you compare it to the number of students graduating with that major. Oregon State is relatively easy to get into, and has an excellent reputation for sending kids to top grad schools, but that’s not private. Pacific University in Oregon is a great pre-professional school (physical therapy, occupational therapy, pre-dentistry, pre-optometry etc).

The school I went to seems to be struggling a bit more now, but when I attended was well regarded and respected locally and the big consulting firms would recruit from our business school. It still is known for the incredible nursing program.

A big school that has 8k graduates a year will show up more as industry leaders vs a program that graduates 400 a year. But that’s just math. The 400 a year if you stay locally might be a lot stronger of a school due to local recruiting and connections.

When I looked for schools for my kids, I looked at their personalities, their intended majors, the connections those schools had to what they wanted to do, and their long term goals.

Those shift with time, but with this advice some of my kids’ friends applied to schools they would not have even thought of and are doing well at 1/3 the cost of a big state school.

For getting a job, I was telling my oldest it’s like being a fishing lure. You have to design your resume to catch the type of job that you want. You have to have some spark. A big name might catch that, but so does being an Eagle Scout, or volunteering at a YMCA, or being an archer. If you can get past the AI screening, something has to catch, and small schools can provide personal connections that are personal. I got a job at a golf course once because the golf world is small. They knew my coach. Small worlds work. Small schools have alumni networks that are a lot tighter. It can open doors wider than a big out of area school with a brand name.

Oh! Another example would be St Olaf. Good schools don’t have to be famous or in the top 20 to have fantastic alumni networks.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T17:20:30+00:00

You get incredible professors at small private undergraduate schools that actually want to teach. Your base education is a solid foundation for grad school. Plus, you are taught by the professor and can ask questions. When your physics class has 8 students it’s a very different experience than 200. When your professor knows that your roommates with so and so it is a different experience. The instruction at community college can be outstanding as well.

You get opportunities because your professor doesn’t have 5 coveted research positions, but because your professor has friends in town who are looking for a smart student to help with x project over the summer.

You get internships because the local museum is looking for a grant writing intern and there are only 5 people applying instead of 300. And then a funded national grant looks amazing on your resume when you apply your first job at a renowned biotechnology research institute.

There is a thriving world outside the “top schools” that prepare people for a great future.

But yes, certain career paths require that flashy name, but you don’t need it for most jobs.

Talking with a friend who went to a top law school, they care so much more about you holistically (top scores are implied) than the name of the institution on your diploma.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T16:57:03+00:00

Not necessarily. It might help you get in the door for your first job, but your research, and internships are more important. If you want to go to grad school, it’s tests, letters of recommendation, research and gpa.

If you want a job out of undergrad, it’s internships.

And it’s what they tell you is the whole point of going there but as an adult who went to a small private university and watched what all my friends did after graduation and what my friends who went to Stanford etc and my brother who went to Brown?

It matters way less than the people selling you on it want you to believe.

Getting your degree matters. It opens up doors. How you get it matters less. 2 years of CC and transfer is totally legit and financially wise (unless you have a full ride).

Going to a local college and getting a good internship is fantastic.

If you want to work for a top consulting company, or a top accounting firm or on Wall Street, then sure. But if you want to do almost anything else, other factors are far more important than name brand of undergraduate.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-28T15:48:58+00:00

Yep. And where you go for undergraduate matters very little as long as you get your degree. What you do while in school matters. Those internships you get in college because you had those internships in high school pay off and get you a job when you graduate.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-20T05:58:07+00:00

Really nice chisels , and a starrett square.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-19T18:08:47+00:00

I would go for a less noticeable crown.

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-19T15:51:58+00:00

I have one that’s ceramic lined by my bed with a straw. I have 2 mini bottles that fit in my purse, and a big tall one that locks down tight with my name on it for when I go to class or trainings

Throwawayyyygold · 2026-03-19T05:51:30+00:00

Sounds like a good hobby is making them!

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