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Maybe, I said your mileage may very. I wouldn't ever work at a place like that, so good thing i withdrew from my Python class in college and switched majors.
Relationships still matter though. Especially the higher up the food chain you want to go.
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# | NCAA Releases Wrestling Championship Tournament Allotments by Conference Title updated!
MEH. 😕
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# | NCAA Releases Wrestling Championship Tournament Allotments by Conference Even with the first comment, it took me a bit.
...growing up a long-suffering Viking's fan...
I've always called myself a long-suffering Falcons fan. We don't need to go into why Falcons fans suffer. It's still too soon. It always will be.
The misery continues. =^/
VERY qualified.
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# | UVa QB Chandler Morris Files Lawsuit, Seeking 7th Year of Eligbility That might work in construction, but if you show up to a business in 2026 with a resume in hand for most other professions, especially software development, they'll quietly ask you to leave and apply online, and if you press the issue asking to speak with someone, they'll call security.
exactly! very well done, by a group that know their stuff. the results speak for themselves.
I cant speak to industries where people are working remote, but nothing will get you an interview somewhere faster than going to their office and getting in front of somebody face to face. Personal relationships and references have always been the driving force for any job that isn't extreme entry level plug and play or been replaced by robots.
Lots of hiring people in my opinion have no idea what they're doing and way to wrapped up in technical words that can be written down on a resume. Try to get in front of somebody important face to face. If they tell the HR to hire you they will. General intelligence and personality fits matter way more than people realize.
Your mileage may very in something like coding. Guess you need to know how to do that or you are useless. My background is in construction and construction management. Anything outside of what could be considered day labor is probably 75% relationship based.
Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Colts fan....
Baltimore lost their Football team team. 12 years in purgotory.
Orioles had to live with the exaltation of their finest players, Mark Belanger, Jim Palmer, The Ironman...
Was it 1985 when they started the season 0-23?
It appears the board may be learning from their mistakes so, there's that.
The people the board selected for the football search committee appear to have gotten their stuff all crammed into the sock and made decisions to be prepared, recognized opportunity and swiftly and decisively acted in a positive manner.
This is unusual behavior for a committee. I applaud it.
Lol. Very true, leg for that, but also true in 2010.
I think you all are forgetting the shitshow the planning board went through in confirming the Beamer Barn, then confirming the location and then finally the design itself. I'm not criticizing the designers and engineers that built it. I'm criticizing the group of non-experts that was put together to make these decisions and how ridiculously poor the process, determinations and ultimately decision were.
Here is the Hokies office that helps with internships
https://www.vt.edu/content/career_vt_edu/en/experience/Internships/find-...
https://intern.usajobs.gov/search/results/?wt=15328&s=salary&sd=desc&p=1
Government Internships overall above.
Here is one in the Public Information Office at the Supreme Court
Its time sensitive though
https://intern.usajobs.gov/job/857763500
Know you said he was taking a break from ME but here is an ME internship.
https://intern.usajobs.gov/job/858388800
Unfortunately the internships are pretty limited this year for the government since we are still in a hiring freeze.
This never fails to make me laugh
Or ears
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# | NCAA Releases Wrestling Championship Tournament Allotments by Conference 125 and 141 you have to be terrible to not get an autobid. There are only 7 teams so 5 of 7 going to NCAA and if ranked guys get upset they are probably high enough to get at large slots.
Allocations by Conference though are hard to judge. Big 10 and Big 12 have do many more teams.
Big 10 got 87 allocations with 14 teams. (6.21 allocations/team)
Big 12 got 63 allocations with 14 teams (4.5 allocations per team)
ACC got 39 allocations with 7 teams (5.57 a/pt)
EIWA 26 allocations with 12 teams (2.1 a/pt)
Ivy League got 23 allocations with 6 teams (3.83 a/pt)
MAC got 27 allocations with 12 teams (2.25 a/pt)
Pac 12 got 13 allocations with 4 teams. (3.25 a/pt)
Southern got 10 allocations with 9 teams. (1.1 a/pt)
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# | NCAA Releases Wrestling Championship Tournament Allotments by Conference Yeah without the first comment I would've had zero idea, lol.
Vikings and Orioles fan here. I barely remember 98, I was 6, but almost every other Vikings heartbreak since I remember vividly. I remember when the Minneapolis miracle happened my brother (who's the reason I am a Vikings fan) was convinced we were winning the Super Bowl at home and I told him all it meant was we were going to shit the bed against the eagles because good things like that don't happen to us. I was right.
The orioles have been bad the majority of my life. 2014 was the most fun I've ever had as an orioles fan, and I really thought they were going to win it all. That ALCS crushed me. 2023 was a close second in terms of joy but then they got swept in the ALDS..
But, largely, at this point in my life between the Vikings, orioles, and Hokies, I'm pretty numb to sports. I still watch when I can because I enjoy it, I just don't have high expectations for any of them. I try to tell myself that one day one of them will win it all, and that will make the pain worth it haha.
Well, we won the three game series between the Olympics and Four Nations so sounds like we're definitely the better team 🇺🇸
how poorly made the decisions of the "planning" board were in those days.
I tend to agree. There wasn't a single person at VT in 2010 who had the faintest idea of what college football would like in 15 years. Not one.
Ahh got it. The financial pressure is hard, especially for a kid.
Re: networking, I recommend the book the 2-hour job search. I know it sounds gimmicky AF, but it's super practical, has templates, etc.
Next, he should work with his academic advisor. Shout out to Linda Vick - I had the realization that I hated mechanical engineering my junior year and had no idea what to do. She explained to me that there are plenty of engineering students who never do engineering, but instead find other careers.
He should also talk to career services at VT - free resume reviews, practice interviews, career advice, etc.
There's a lot of cool jobs out there that would love to have someone that thinks like an engineer. Things are going to be hard with the rise of AI, but there will also be many new opportunities.
Thanks Bar, I totally agree with you. He is trying to network but doesn't exactly know where to start. I am trying to help him out with that. I appreciate any info you or anyone has.
He wants to be an engineer but he had a bad semester that kicked his butt. He took too many credits of hard math heavy classes and tanked his GPA. He doesn't have the financial backing to take 5+ yrs to get through engineering. He trying to figure it out and he's hit the panic button.
I am trying to mentor him through it but he has lost confidence and doesn't know what to do.
Thankfully, was too young to remember the Chiefs one. But the Dolphins and Raiders sucked worse than a Penn State-UVa championship game for me. Somehow, I don't recall anything from the Steelers one. Remember crying to my dad "make them stop" when someone was beating the crap out of the Vikings in one of those Super Bowls.
Since I stopped watching and paying any attention to the NFL 20 years ago, my life has gotten much better.
For technical writing, have him look into the national labs. They always hire a lot of summer students and it's a great pipeline to get into