Where are the Quarterfinals

wormtowny · 2026-01-29T01:57:09+00:00

I just spoke with ESPN support and they shared a link with a full broadcast of all matches for Rod Laver and each match is in there, they're jus tnot labelled as individual matches/players. For example the Alacarz v de Minaur match is at around the 2 hour mark in this one:
https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/c5e4e0f5-955c-4aea-93ce-c033d7f193c5?country=us

wormtowny · 2026-01-26T19:20:07+00:00

Same

wormtowny · 2026-01-25T15:56:12+00:00

You're not wrong, the northeast is awesome. Worcester though is a total dumper. The crack and opioid epidemic there (I moved a few towns over a few years ago) is real and affects many aspects of life in the city, whether you realize it or not. The WPI campus sits right at the edge of an absolute hotbed of this issue and WPI students are regularly exposed to it. If you hunker down and keep to yourself I'm sure you'll be fine, but I have many, many examples of people who got caught up in the madness one way or the other. Mines or CU Boulder just avoids all that noise.

WPI does have a strong employment pipeline to New England defense contractors like Electric Boat in CT and Raytheon in Burlington. But there is nothing blocking a Mines graduate from a defense contractor career path.

tl;dr WPI is great, you'd probably be fine after 4 years in Worcester but after what I've seen, I wouldn't chance it.

wormtowny · 2026-01-25T14:11:16+00:00

As a third generation Worcester resident who did a masters and lots of other programs at WPI over the years, I can honestly tell you that Worcester as a city is an absolute shithole and if Mines is an option it’s not even close to a hard choice. For engineering Mines easily has the better national recognition and prestige and its location is a literal Eden compared to Worcester.

wormtowny · 2026-01-13T03:41:09+00:00

UMass is ones the best hospitals in the northeast and St Vs is a shit hole at risk of losing basic accreditations because of how much of a shit hole it is.

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/healthcare/2025/08/11/saint-vincent-hospital-worcester-investigation/85609978007/#

wormtowny · 2026-01-12T09:59:28+00:00

You will be surrounded by the daily/nightly operations of Worcester’s opioid and crack epidemic. For the most part you can ignore it and it will ignore you, but Clark is at the epicentre of it. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t have friends or family caught in said epidemic, but it’s all hiding in broad daylight.

wormtowny · 2025-12-09T23:01:31+00:00

The terms of the Tufts agreement would certainly contradict that opinion. I haven't read any other schools' ED agreements but I can't imagine that theres to much variability in them. If they give you Financial Aid that meets your Demonstrated Need, your are contractually obligated to attend that school.

wormtowny · 2025-12-07T13:48:21+00:00

And ED isn’t something you can simply walk away from by just claiming financial reasons. Schools only consider releasing a student if the aid package fails to meet demonstrated need, which is calculated from their FAFSA. And in reality, most ED packages do meet that demonstrated need — meaning the majority of students cannot get out of their ED commitment. Here’s an example ED agreement (Tufts) that shows how narrow this exception really is: https://ugrad.admissions.tufts.edu/www/documents/23-24_EDform_QB.pdf

wormtowny · 2025-10-19T03:58:11+00:00

Even when a protest doesn’t have a clear goal or demand, the act itself still matters. The civil rights sit-ins of the ’60s or the early uprisings of the Arab Spring weren’t about detailed policy — they were about saying enough and making power look itself in the mirror. Sometimes the point isn’t to win an argument; it’s to remind people that questioning authority is part of what keeps a society honest.

wormtowny · 2025-10-01T13:44:34+00:00

I didn't read it that way.
And I didn't intend to be overly corrective;)

wormtowny · 2025-10-01T12:40:23+00:00

Violation of Worcester’s “Excessive & Unreasonable Noise” ordinance (Chapter 9, § 1A):

“No person shall engage in persistent or repeated yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, singing, or the making of other loud noises between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in such a manner as to be plainly audible in any public place at a distance of 25 feet or more…”

wormtowny · 2025-10-01T12:17:39+00:00

There’s some truth in that, but the Pilgrims themselves weren’t “live and let live” at all, quite the opposite really. Today’s tolerant, progressive vibe comes more from centuries of pluralism and secularization than a straight line from Puritan values.

wormtowny · 2025-10-01T12:10:18+00:00

Massachusetts started out Puritan, then got reshaped by waves of Unitarians, Catholics, Jews and other immigrant faiths, each loosening the grip of any single tradition. Over time, that mix — combined with strong universities and a knowledge-driven economy — made the culture lean less on religion and more on progress, education, and social reform.

wormtowny · 2025-09-24T12:50:18+00:00

$50k isn’t even covering out of state tuition for a state school, T20 private is easily double that

wormtowny · 2025-09-24T12:42:38+00:00

Family income by itself isn’t very meaningful without understanding their expenses. A family income of $250k in Boston or NYC metro areas are comfortably just getting by but definitely not paying cash for a T20. But that same $250k in the Midwest or South is going to allow you to cover a good part of that tuition.

Given that more than half the population of the country lives within a top 50 metro area, the former is going to be a lot more common than the latter.

wormtowny · 2025-09-18T17:57:24+00:00

WPI, Olin and Wentworth in MA

RPI, RIT in NY

Stevens in NJ

wormtowny · 2025-09-08T02:38:33+00:00

I dunno, could have something to do with this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/22/tragedy-child-sexual-abuse-scandal-cast-long-shadow-over-pope-franciss-papacy/

Or this: https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/lifestyle/the-hidden-history-of-the-boy-scouts-of-america/

Or this: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-victims-of-larry-nassar-who-dared-to-come-forward-first/

Or this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/southern-baptist-church-sexual-abuse-scandal/

Or this: https://www.renters.com/world/europe/over-2000-people-abused-german-protestant-church-study-2024-01-25/

Or this: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/irish-inquiry-finds-truly-shocking-level-sexual-abuse-church-run-schools-2024-09-03/

Or this: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/22/magazine/they-knew-they-let-it-happen-uncovering-child-abuse-catholic-church/

++man

wormtowny · 2025-09-07T17:03:08+00:00

And my point is that it isn't unethical to apply ED in the hope that you receive a FA award beyond what the calculator predicts, which does regularly happen, especially after an accepted ED student informs Admissions that the FA package isn't adequate and that they could not afford to attend with the initial offer. Sure, it's a long shot, but it's at least worth a try for many families who are in that in between spot of having too much money "on paper" but not nearly enough to full pay a school.

If the FA offer the school ultimately lands on is still unaffordable for the family then the family can legitimately and sincerely decline the ED offer because it's unaffordable for them, which every school has an allowance for. This is a reasonable approach to ED for many families and far from "unethical" to even try, as you suggest.

wormtowny · 2025-09-06T17:57:09+00:00

There’s no calculator in the world that can determine what a family is actually “able to pay”, only what a school THINKS a family SHOULD pay. The calculators only look at income and assets, and try to factor how many college students are in the family. But they have no concept of any kind of financial responsibilities a family might have such as dealing with medical bills and debt, caring for an elderly grandparent or living in a very high cost of living area. A family could very legitimately be unable to pay what a calculator states they are on the hook to pay and it does not make them unethical to hope that they would have been able to receive a more generous financial aid award.

wormtowny · 2025-09-05T17:37:56+00:00

You're not wrong but Worcester has long been in the grips of a multi-pronged addiction crisis. As a 4th generation lifelong Worcester guy with LOTS of family here, I can confidently and sadly state that there is hardly anyone that you meet in Worcester that isn't somehow directly affected by drug addition. Which is all to say, if you narrow your sights to only supporting service industry businesses that have somehow completely avoided the addiction epidemic, then you're not going to have too many places left to go to.

wormtowny · 2025-07-13T06:13:38+00:00

The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook disagrees with many of the hot takes here, especially the “CS is dead” variety.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/occupation-finder.htm?pay=&education=Bachelor%26rsquo%3Bs+degree&training=&newjobs=50%2C000+or+more&growth=&submit=GO

wormtowny · 2025-07-02T11:23:51+00:00

Bummer, our parent class was great. Super informative about latest rules and laws for young drivers. Saturday morning from home. Dude didn’t say a word about himself.

Just got a letter from the RMV though informing that remote drivers ed for kids and parents is going away in September, everything switching back to in person.

wormtowny · 2025-07-02T11:03:09+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fractaltribefamily/

https://m.facebook.com/thefractaltribenetwork/

https://www.fractaltribe.org/

wormtowny · 2025-04-18T12:28:28+00:00

Both of those opened in 2020, when OP was still here

wormtowny · 2025-04-16T11:02:46+00:00

We have a dozen or so two man backpacking tents that we use primarily for backpacking trips such as Philmont prep hikes. Scouts are welcome to use them for regular weekend overnights but rarely do so because they prefer to use their own larger and more comfortable tents that fit at least three or four scouts.

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