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Post by YbrikTCU on Oct 19, 2004 1:22:26 GMT -5
What? Only three options? I'll be voting for the Libertarian candidate, Michael Badnarik, whom you didn't even list (not even an "Other" option!).
Some of you may be wondering why I'd throw my vote away like that. I live in Texas; my vote wouldn't count anyway in the Electoral College unless I voted for Bush. I dislike Bush, but I dislike Kerry just as much if not more. Finally, I consider myself to be a Libertarian, so I might as well vote my conscience to help the party with which I most closely identify to help them stand a chance of getting 5 percent of the popular vote (and therefore federal funds in the next election), especially since a vote for someone other than Bush in Texas doesn't really matter anyway.
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Oct 19, 2004 17:15:35 GMT -5
Post by YbrikTCU on Oct 19, 2004 17:15:35 GMT -5
TCU is a good place to go for political science and pre-law, so if you're leaning toward that, here might be another good place for you.
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Oct 19, 2004 1:17:47 GMT -5
Post by YbrikTCU on Oct 19, 2004 1:17:47 GMT -5
YbrikTCU, what do you think about TCU. I have been thinking about applying there, but would like to see what you think of it. I love it. I absolutely love it here. The rest of this post is a long, detailed explanation of why I love it, and admittedly consists of me bragging about my accomplishments somewhat, but that's something that I very rarely do at all and only do here for the sake of making the point that TCU is a better fit for me than the state schools where I applied. First off, let me say you don't want to come here for engineering, not if you've been accepted to A&M (and maybe LSU and Wisconsin, I don't know about their engineering programs, I just know that A&M's is probably the best in the state). I applied to Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and TCU. Got accepted to all four, got full rides to Tech and A&M, and got full tuition at TCU (all academic). I was 14 out of my class of 493 in high school with a GPA of a little over 101 (don't know what it would have been on a four-point scale, we used a weighted hundred-point scale), had a total score of 1450 on the SAT (my math was higher the second to last time I took it, and my verbal was higher the last time) and I was a national merit scholar, so it was a matter of who gave me the most money, rather than where I got in. That's the first, last and only time you'll hear me brag about my grades unless someone asks me. I went with TCU because I just had a feeling it would be the right fit. Boy was I right. Here, I'm able to continue participation in band (marching band is fun, symphonic band is fun, basketball band is VERY fun...I play trombone, by the way) and I've been able to get a lot of experience in my major, which is news-editorial journalism (fancy term for "print" journalism). I occasionally regret not going to a larger school (like when my Horned Frogs get close to doing really well in a sport and then stumble and fall, proving that small schools really do have a much tougher time), but when I think back on everything I've been able to do with at least the second best journalism department in the state (UT is the only one that might be more highly ranked, I'm not sure, although UT Arlington is surprisingly good in journalism as well), I don't regret it for a minute. Within a couple of weeks at TCU, I was able to get a job at the newspaper (the TCU Daily Skiff) as a copy editor. I quickly discovered that I'm very good at copy editing, and I really enjoy doing it. After later discovering that it's a much more stable career, a much more open job market, and a somewhat better paying job than being a reporter (not to mention that while I love writing, I hate the information gathering part of reporting), copy editing is what I want to do after college, at least to start out. I was a copy editor my first two semesters, copy desk chief (basically head copy editor) my third semester, a copy editor AND a reporter last semester (it's rare for anyone to be anything else at the Skiff the semester they take reporting), and now, in my fifth semester, I am a copy editor at the Skiff AND managing editor of our magazine, Image. All that, plus I still participate in band. I highly doubt I'd be able to have done half of that at a state school. Plus, after this semester, I'll be through all the hardest courses in my major, and I'll still have three semesters left, and I'm looking to be editor in chief of the Skiff next semester. Once again, something I couldn't do at a place like UT. On top of all this, TCU is close enough to home for me to return frequently for free food and laundry, as well as visit my parents and pets (I'm from Keller, which is about half an hour north of TCU), without being so close that my family can breathe on my neck. Plus, being in the warm climate that is Texas (why do you think I didn't apply anywhere outside my home state?) really helped a lot. When you put it all together, TCU just ended up being as close to a perfect fit for me as I could possibly imagine. To think, I originally was interested in this school because a girl I liked was also interested in it (I think she goes to Minnesota now, and I've not seen her since high school graduation...go figure). Whew, sorry for tooting my own horn. Now if only all those journalism classes would teach me how to not write all those run-on sentences...
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 2:16:03 GMT -5
My money's on Urban Meyer getting the job now.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 18:39:47 GMT -5
I might move TCU into the Heartland Conference (maybe call it the Little 12?), drop Memphis back into C-USA, move San Jose into the Pac-12, move Nevada into the Mountain West, and drop La. Tech back into the WAC. I think that might be a little more geographically appropriate, and for the most part that's what I've striven for (new Big 12 and Little 12 notwithstanding).
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 18:20:38 GMT -5
Why the ACC took BC instead of WVU is beyond me. The Mountaineers are the better team, and it's a MUCH better fit geographically.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 15:24:50 GMT -5
Gah! I'm an idiot. Honestly, I meant to put LSU in the Big 12.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 2:51:55 GMT -5
Ok, I like that new conference. I'm gonna play a little with this.
Big 12: Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Oklahoma Oklahoma State Nebraska Arkansas Alabama Auburn Tennessee Georgia LSU
Big Dozen (or Ten Plus Two): Ohio State Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Illinois Iowa Iowa State Penn State Michigan State Northwestern
ACC: Florida State Miami Virginia Virginia Tech North Carolina NC State Duke Wake Forest Maryland Clemson Georgia Tech Boston College
Big East: Florida (Florida would join the Big East for sure if it was left in the dust like that) West Virginia Louisville Pittsburgh Syracuse South Carolina Cincinnati South Florida Rutgers Temple UConn Kentucky (give the Big East yet another basketball school)
Heartland Conference (working name): Kansas K State Missouri Mississippi Mississippi State Southern Mississippi Vanderbilt Miami (OH) Bowling Green Northern Illinois Marshall Memphis
Mountain West: Utah TCU Colorado Boise State Colorado State BYU UNLV New Mexico Wyoming San Diego State Air Force UTEP
Conference USA: Baylor SMU Rice Houston North Texas Tulsa Tulane UAB Troy East Carolina Central Florida Louisiana Tech
Pac-12: USC California UCLA Stanford Fresno State Nevada Washington Washington State Oregon Oregon State Arizona Arizona State
Independents: Notre Dame (turned down the Big Dozen invitation) Army Navy
WAC: San Jose State Hawaii Arkansas State Idaho La Lafayette Louisiana Monroe Middle Tenn. St. New Mexico State Utah State
MAC: Akron Ball State Buffalo Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Kent State Ohio Toledo Western Michigan
Well, that was fun. The changes to the Big East and Mountain West and the creation of my new conference, the Heartland Conference, were particularly enjoyable.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 6, 2004 4:40:06 GMT -5
OU - 35 TAMU - 28
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 2:53:03 GMT -5
The Boilermakers have lost momentum.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 2, 2004 0:11:16 GMT -5
TCU should fire its offensive coordinator, Mike Schultz. God, he's an idiot.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 2, 2004 0:17:15 GMT -5
OK, who voted for either of the Big 11 games? There's no way either of them stacks up to UNC over Miami, Baylor over Texas A&M, or even Maryland over Florida State.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 2:18:08 GMT -5
Id rather lose to Baylor in a conference with actual compitition than win in a conference full of Baylors.... Hah. Does this site have a quote of the day? My school may be entering that "conference full of Baylors" so maybe I should be half offended, but that was good.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 1, 2004 15:46:16 GMT -5
Whoa, Lobo, long time no see. Where ya been?
Utah wins, though it may be closer than a lot of people are thinking.
Army beats Air Force, Wyoming beats UNLV and BYU beats San Diego.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Nov 5, 2004 2:58:44 GMT -5
A&M stumbled, Baylor played at the top of their game and got lucky that they caught A&M at a time when the Aggies were looking too far ahead. A&M probably shouldn't be punished quite so much for the loss. Ridiculed, yes (after all, we are talking about BAYLOR here). Underestimated by Bob Stoops, Mack Brown and Mike Leach? That'd be just stupid.
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