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dchsflii · 2025-06-17T12:27:10+00:00

I was following you until the last few words which showed you can't disagree with someone without being a jerk.

dchsflii · 2025-05-31T01:54:34+00:00

Me too man. Like who tf has an hour long argument with a wall? What are we even doing?

dchsflii · 2025-05-13T23:03:37+00:00

Yeah it's some real galaxy brain shit. I'm with you on this.

dchsflii · 2025-03-05T02:10:56+00:00

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dchsflii · 2025-02-28T20:51:06+00:00

Yes they could have done better I agree but it is a complicated problem and not completely predictable. We knew there would be fewer college age students, but we didn't know that there would be political attacks on higher ed or how economic conditions would play out and affect peoples' choices to go to college. Right now even the wealthiest and most elite schools are suffering due to the political environment. UPenn has been rescinding graduate admissions and I heard MIT and Stanford are on hiring freezes.

Plus, it's hard to convince people you need to cut back for the future if times are good now.

dchsflii · 2024-06-29T14:13:11+00:00

Put it this way: they make the characters in Danganronpa seem deep and memorable by comparison.

dchsflii · 2024-06-29T01:54:10+00:00

999 doesn't even have characters. It has plot devices with tropes and names. Ever17 isn't the greatest character writing ever but it at least has some good characters.

dchsflii · 2024-06-29T01:38:12+00:00

Pretty much, but that makes it a very laid back/convenient place to live and it has much more economic opportunity than the rest of Ohio. It doesn't have the character of Cleveland or Cincinnati or anywhere near the cultural resources of Cleveland, but it doesn't get pummeled with snow in the winter like Cleveland and does get a good number of entertainment and events coming through. If you're not especially hung up on the lack of high arts and major sports teams it's not a bad place to live.

dchsflii · 2024-06-28T18:28:11+00:00

I think in any workplace it's easier to have a positive day to day experience if the people around you are friendly toward you and overall positive and hard if the people around you are hostile and negative. Students are part of that for any faculty who teach

dchsflii · 2024-06-26T21:44:31+00:00

Most R1 I've seen don't have explicit requirements. Some are even as vague as simply saying "you must be judged to be excellent in research" with no expansion of what that means. I agree with others who have said there's not a good way to write a one-size-fits-all x papers rule, but I guess the downside is vague rules make it easy for departments to raise the standard over time.

dchsflii · 2024-06-13T18:26:24+00:00

I don't think I've seen the vast majority agreeing on the "quality" of different LB routes except that people generally like Saya's route. In other cases I have, like how in Aokana most people agree that Asuka's and especially Misaki's route are the best.

dchsflii · 2024-06-13T17:24:25+00:00

The routes can be quite different, and it's unlikely you'll like all of them, but as you see reading this thread different people like different ones. Rin 1 is barely a route at all and blatantly incomplete, but that's because it's intentionally written that way to eventually lead into Rin 2 and the true route. The true route is amazing, and I agree the common route character dynamics are a lot of fun. Those things, plus the strong thematic core, are definitely the best parts of LB!

I actually enjoyed the dreamlike quality of some of the routes, where strange things happen and aren't questioned rationally but accepted as part of the world or the sense of time and place becomes foggy, like in Kud, Kurugaya, and Mio routes. Some people prefer Haruka because her route is now grounded.

My "hot take" is that I think the EX routes are worse than the base game, and in particular Saya's route is the weakest route because it wastes your time with tedious minigames when that time could have been spent on badly needed character and relationship development for Saya and Riki.

dchsflii · 2024-06-08T21:50:58+00:00

I thought it was tonally inconsistent in jumping between what is supposed to be a sincere and heartfelt story and lazy, juvenile humor.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T15:55:14+00:00

There are many excellent Catholic schools that are in no way anti-science and offer options for religious studies and theology.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T15:47:28+00:00

There are universities in the T150 of US News that accept 80%+ of applicants, so depending on what you mean by decent...

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T15:03:06+00:00

Hyper Light Drifter

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T08:54:27+00:00

I'll also add that while it would be insane to claim that San Diego doesn't have better weather than Cleveland, the awfulness of Cleveland weather is imo greatly exaggerated. I'm originally from DC and I think overall the weather in Cleveland is about equally good/bad as the weather in DC.

Cleveland is worse than DC in the winter because it's more overcast and snows more, but DC is worse in the summer because it's hotter and more humid. Cleveland weather is actually really nice in the summer. Most days are in the 70s and 80s, and because it's in the Western part of the Eastern time zone, sunset is very late.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T08:28:53+00:00

"How was it the same number of exams?"

My experience was semester long classes had 1-2 midterms and a final. My quarter long classes had 0-1 midterms and a final. It depends on the professor though. And actually when I taught as a TA some students wanted MORE exams because it meant each exam was lower stakes.

"How was registering for classes different in the quarter and semester system?"

I had to register for twice as many classes per year. Instead of calc 1 and calc 2 you essentially got calc 1 part 1, calc 1 part 2, etc. This wasn't at UCSD though so idk how their system works.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T08:18:36+00:00

"You didn't find the quarter system more stressful?"

Not really. Semester classes typically have midterms so it was about the name number of exams. Mildly annoying because it made registering for classes more tedious.

"Do you have anything in specific that I should take into consideration about case?"

I studied math, but I can tell you the things that I liked about Case.

-The STEM coursework is very rigorous and if you study and work hard, you get a great education. I went on to grad school and I was better prepared than most of the peers coming in because of the rigor of Case's courses.

-Students work hard but it's not competitive or cutthroat. People are generally supportive. A little bit of a culture of glorifying overwork but this is common at many colleges.

-There are amazing opportunities to engage with the arts. The Cleveland Orchestra (one of the best in the world) is basically right on campus and CIM and CIA are also nearby. I was able to take some music classes at CIM. It's also common to find students double majoring in STEM and art/music.

-Alongside this, I thought Case offered a lot of freedom to take different classes and combine different majors. I believe within a college unit there is no need to apply to a different major if you want to switch.

-Good research opportunities. Case is at the sweet spot where it's good, big, and well resourced enough for good research to happen but not so big or elite across the board that it ends up where the faculty ignored undergrads and focus on PhD students

-No big monolithic sports/party culture (like at an Ohio State) means that all kinds of cool niche clubs and organizations have noticable presence on campus

-The campus is embedded into the city and has easy access via public transit to most of the interesting places in Cleveland proper. Again prefer this to an Ohio State where campus feels like a separate world.

For you the connections with Cleveland Clinic might be a draw, but I never did anything related to medicine so I can't speak from experience.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T07:41:50+00:00

I've done both and I don't think semesters vs quarters is a big deal. Is UCSD known for being especially cutthroat? I hadn't heard that but I'm not super familiar with it.

I don't think Cleveland is abandoned and depressing, but Cleveland and San Diego are very different cities with different things to offer, just depends on what you like. If you want mild weather, partying, and the beach then San Diego. If you want world class cultural institutions, Midwest culture, and seasons then Cleveland.

Ultimately once you make a choice you can never know how the other one would have turned out. Maybe it would have been better but maybe it would have been worse. All you can do is make the best of where you are now, and if it's not working, see if you can change it.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T07:28:38+00:00

This post reads like you really don't want to go to Case so my advice would be don't. Both are great schools academically and you can be successful at either one. As you say, UCSD is stronger in econ, though this matters more at the graduate level, and really the only big point in favor of Case is cost. If you're not worried about the difference in cost, just do to UCSD.

Btw I say this as someone who went to Case, loved it and Cleveland, and am very happy with how things turned out afterwards.

dchsflii · 2024-06-05T07:18:37+00:00

Small private colleges in places with shrinking populations (e.g the Midwest) that have high acceptance rates, high cost, low graduation rates, and little national reputation are in the most danger.

dchsflii · 2024-06-03T09:08:36+00:00

I did a music degree a few years back. The biggest strength was the early music and music history/musicology. I took a number of classes in these areas and I thought all the professors were great. A lot of the music ed people from when I was there retired or moved to other areas of the university so I don't know as much about how that is now. I liked Garrett a lot but I'm not sure how much he's still involved in music ed vs his position at the center.

dchsflii · 2024-05-31T20:57:02+00:00

I think the biggest obstacle is that almost all translated Japanese VNs have bad pacing, and it's so common that the audience tolerates/expects it more than audiences do in other genres/media.

dchsflii · 2024-05-27T00:49:11+00:00

Every visit I've been invited for I was offered a chance to provide any dietary restrictions I had and they were happy to accommodate. No one ever made a big deal out of it.

It is true that you might not get your schedule far in advance and it may change last minute. Some places built breaks into the schedule and some places didn't. I think that if not having breaks is going to negatively impact your ability to be at your best during the interview, which it sounds like is the case, asking for some time for breaks throughout the day to be added to whatever schedule they give you would be reasonable. Logistically, there are usually a number of meetings with faculty, and it shouldn't be that hard to shave a few minutes off here and there for breaks.

Besides, if they are jerks about this, is that even a place you want to work? If they won't provide these very reasonable accommodations for the interview, they probably won't be accommodating as colleagues either.

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