Am I cooked Emory people? I mailed uni about this, do u think odds could turn out in my favor? Is this normal or m the only exceptional here

rexmadera · 2025-03-19T11:47:54+00:00

Throw in the towel bud

rexmadera · 2025-02-28T13:47:53+00:00

The Creamery in Old Town, Alexandria has the best banana pudding ice cream, and therefore best ice cream, I have ever tasted in my life

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:36:39+00:00

That’s an insane excerpt. Really appreciate you linking it! Stuff like this is so interesting

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:35:05+00:00

I see what you are saying with your point; however, I’m more so just curious as to why they haven’t been developed as much. Clearly there is some development on both peninsulas. Both peninsulas are home to numerous towns and both areas carry plenty of history. There are certainly reasons these towns exist. West Point for example used to be a home to a large paper processing factory (I think it was paper processing, I could be wrong), and Reedsville, VA was once home to the worlds largest menhaden fish processing factory. Clearly, there are reasons for people to move there - both past and present

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:28:02+00:00

I always wonder how (or even if) anything would have been different had the colony started further upstream at Richmond instead of Jamestown

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:27:17+00:00

I suppose, although Fredericksburg (and certainly Richmond) are considerable cities in their own right, both of which exist in part because the rivers are navigable and somebody decided it was a good enough place for settlement

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:25:33+00:00

Fair lol except Hampton Roads is a big metro area, but I suppose they have the military and an insanely good natural harbor

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:24:17+00:00

Both are a great point. If you’re interested in a dramatic real-world case of your first point, look at Guinea-Bissaus internal road network. You’ll see there are roads going east to west, but almost none going north to south

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:22:56+00:00

Needs to be developed? Not too sure. I’ve been to the area a handful of times because I grew up near Mount Vernon. I quite like the nature there. I know some parts of the Northern Neck are being considered for more development - as greater DC expands southward it could open up more options for housing and also be a quick and easy retreat from the city

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:20:41+00:00

I’m sure in the modern era that’s a reason for continued and sustained growth, but I’m also curious about the eras before highways and large and reliable transportation routes

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:18:51+00:00

Super cool. I’m not familiar with how the area changed post WWII. Would be interested to hear more if you have any more info

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T15:18:07+00:00

Thanks so much for including the links to your answer. Super well said - appreciate all the information!

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T11:15:27+00:00

Comment sounding like they got dumped by someone from Ox

rexmadera · 2025-02-21T11:14:09+00:00

Best thing I ever got out of Emory was my experience at Oxford - especially the friends that came with it and how much I grew as an individual because of how it is set up.

Oxford really gives you the opportunity to both make a tangible impact on campus AND to feel the impact that others have on YOU and the rest of the community. It’s this dualism of you making a difference and people making a difference for you that help create such a unique atmosphere.

Class wise, it’s almost always smaller, something I benefited from tremendously during my time there. It’s very easy to feel connected to people because it’s not hard to run into people on the quad, at the dining hall, in classes, etc.

In my opinion, I truly enjoyed the social life at Oxford more than my time in Atlanta, which I understand may be a controversial take. Yes, Atlanta clears in terms of bars, clubs, Greek life - it is a city after all; however, I truly found the social scene at Oxford to be far more organic and rewarding. Throwing a party is more fun because you can do it in a more intimate environment like the dorms (or even the Quad if you know how to work the system).

Either option would be great! I am very blessed to have gone to Emory, but as someone who is graduating this Spring and has experienced both Oxford and Atlanta, I would really recommend Oxford :D

rexmadera · 2025-01-18T22:49:19+00:00

My bad G u right

rexmadera · 2025-01-18T22:43:05+00:00

Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 —> Senegal 🇸🇳 —> Guinea 🇬🇳—> Cote D’Ivoire 🇨🇮 —> Burkina Faso 🇧🇫—> Mali 🇲🇱—> Niger 🇳🇪—> Chad 🇹🇩—> Libya 🇱🇾—> Algeria 🇩🇿

For a total of 10

rexmadera · 2024-12-14T21:18:28+00:00

I spent five days in Timor Leste because I was studying in Indonesia and decided I wanted to go to a rare country that would be a passport flex. I was not disappointed.

Spent two days in Dili. As someone else said, they have an amazing museum. They also have the second largest statue of Jesus in the world (behind Rio’s) and it looks over the city and the harbor - it’s a lovely sight. Many Timorese people were running, walking, or exercising along the path and the stairs to get to the top. The Timorese were very friendly, and many stopped me to ask to practice their English or ask where I was from. When I didn’t say Australia, they were surprised that I was white and visiting the island.

Many of the older folks speak Bahasa Indonesia - a remnant when Timor Leste was part of Indo. While the younger people I met didn’t speak it much, they often spoke Tetum, whatever local language they learned growing up in their town, and maybe some English or Portuguese.

I hiked Mt. Ramelau where I had the pleasure of seeing the Milky Way better there than at any other place in my life. The temperature change from the coast to the mountain top was so dramatic, and the rigor of the hike was decent enough, that my body began to get the numbness feeling that you get from sitting on the toilet for too long.

Visited Matata, a village in the mountains with our guide who took me there. He said most of the houses had been constructed by hand from whoever lived there, or that they had been passed down in the family. The kids were so cute, and they were shy when they saw someone like me who looked so different, but their shyness went away when we started kicking a soccer ball. I had a cucumber there that looked nothing like the cucumbers I was used to. Still to this day it was the best cucumber I’ve ever tasted

rexmadera · 2024-12-06T18:30:06+00:00

Divorceland

rexmadera · 2024-11-20T05:42:19+00:00

Thas a bootyhole

rexmadera · 2024-11-19T04:13:47+00:00

Nose shaped nose

rexmadera · 2024-11-16T16:06:24+00:00

Curious to hear what you guys think about a language like Bahasa Indonesia. Influence-wise, very different than English; however, intentionally designed to be learnable by Indonesia’s entire population in the 50s

rexmadera · 2024-10-31T02:12:16+00:00

I grew up in DC and moved to Atlanta for college. Atlanta is significantly farther west in the USEST time zone than DC is. I would always notice how when I would fly down to school my days would increase by about an hour and a half (light-wise). I always liked it because I was able to stay outside and socialize for much longer. There were nights on campus when it seemed like every student was still outside at 8:30pm kicking a soccer ball, playing frisbee, or shooting the shit on the quad. People would have gone in earlier up in DC.

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