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I never had any problems with my first RA, he was a 5th year senior and never gave me any problems. He hosted an EA Sports NCAA dynasty on his PS2 (this was a while ago) and we had about 10 guys from the hall playing it and was pretty easy to get along with in general.
Then my sophomore RA seemed like he was never there at night unless it was his turn for rounds.
I like how FSU is in there with all the non-conference teams. They pretty much are non-conference with the current ACC schedule rotation.
edit: Do I see a future one time neutral site game with a big time out of conference opponent in 2018? a la Chick-fil-A Kickoff game.
It would be pretty cool if we did some sort of military appreciation tribute during those games
This is a good tip. I was an RA and HRA. VT is one of a handful of schools that allows undergrads to be HRA's. Go speak to him/her personally. Bigger buildings have grad students studying Res Life, most of these people take the job WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. Smaller buildings have undergrad HRA. This is where you want to be in regards to RA situation. Follow the 80/20 rule. 80% will be complete douches. 20% will be cool. You'll know in first 5 minutes of speaking to them just how much you'll be able to get away with.
a few pointers for dealing with RA's:
1) the 80/20 rule applies here to but in reverse. Usually 80% are pretty cool. 20% are the polar opposite.
2) If you're partying in your room. A) keep window closed. It is way to easy to hear a party from outside the building, even on upper levels. Campus is extremely quiet outside. B) Don't be a douche and not invite the uncool guy on the hall. He will complain. If you invite him though he may not attend but he won't tell on you. C) Go to bathroom in groups. RA's are trained to hear doors closing (they leave their door open). If they hear a door opening and closing a lot, they know its a party. D) Avoid downstairs complaints by not playing loud music or jumping up and down at 3 am in morning.
3) If you're in a single sex dorm and have a lady/male friend sleep over. a) let them in through a side door on a stairwell. Don't try to mad dash through a hall. b) If you're a girl with a guy over, let them piss in the sink in your room. It's gross I know but it saves the awkwardness of the RA knocking on the door while you may be doing other things. c) Male RA's tend to overlook this but don't be blatant about it by having her screaming down the hall. Again awkwardness (but with winks and nods of approval). d) Either sleep in tell 10 or have an exit plan in morning. Walks of shame are the easiest time for an RA to catch you.
4) If your RA is being a dick. Feign interest in what he does. Many RA's are ironically kind of socially awkward themselves and have odd hobbies. I had LARPers, community theater nuts, extreme introverts, guy who collected bugs, etc working for me. If you are "cooler" than they are then be social with them and ask about the shit their into. These dick's start to ease up if they are made to feel "cool" too. High five them in the hallway and shit. It goes a long way to get you out of a JR.
5) If your RA is being a HUGE DICK. Complain. First to HRA and then to Res Life themselves. They are in East Egg, and you can walk in anytime. Fill out a complaint. They take that shit seriously.
Does anyone know if they are sticking to the design that was originally tweeted? I can only hope they didn't...
2014: Ohio State
2015: Ohio State
2016: A&M, Notre Dame
2017: A&M, Clemson
2018: FSU
2019: Wisconsin
2020: Wisconsin, Michigan
2021: WVU, Michigan
2022: Penn State, WVU
2023: Penn State, FSU
I'd like to see us have at least two big time games a year...probably too late for '14, '15, but I'd like to see us have another team for '18 '19. Tennessee immediately comes to mine.
I figured out that math halfway through my first semester. Unless you eat twice as much as the normal amount to take advantage of the 50% discount, or eat at D2 for 70% or more of your meals, you're better off using cash.
I forget the exact numbers, but back then it was something like this:
Pay $1400 for your meal plan for the semester.
Get $500 to use for food, either at really cheap D2 prices or 50% off of the cash price elsewhere.
If you never eat at D2, that means that you're paying $1400 for $1000 worth of food at cash price. You'd need to add another $400 to your plan just to break even with cash price.
D2 offers something like a 2/3 off discount, meaning that if you eat at D2 for every meal, you are paying $1400 for $1500 cash value of buffet visits.
Using these rough estimations of figures from 6 years in the past makes it so that you'd have to eat at D2 for something like 80% of your meals.
I don't know about you, but D2 was not worth 80% of my dining money.
Courtesy of Mr. Bitter's Twitter (which sounds inappropriate, now that I read it):
^ This is a great idea. I'd be happy to create a whole bunch of accounts, but I'm not sure I'll have time for all that lunacy after starting school on Monday.
I would like this a lot. Many similarities between the schools. But I'd prefer Oklahoma above any others in that part of the country. I'd also like Arkansas, I think.
What he was saying is that, if he didn't switch to OL, he would redshirt on D, meaning he would be on the scout team working for the offense, learning our opponent's D instead of our own. "Would" being the operative word in his post.
Whoa. I have light colored hair, too. I hear they're fans.
Actually someone did the math and figured out that unless you're eating at D2 for more than 50% of your meals, the flex plans are a waste of money.
hes doing the whole class online so he'll do a unit on italy in italy
I've never been so excited to see pixels in my life.
He says that like it's a bad thing. I'm more than happy that we get to play TAMU without dealing with that drama queen of a quarterback.
Come visit me in China, Horse. You have no idea....
HokieBirdOnATreadmill....anyone?
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I'd say
1) The Natural
2) Major League
3) The Sandlot
4) Field of Dreams
5) Bull Durham
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I vote Do It as long as it's not my car haha
Damn it, I just inspired myself to actually find the current numbers and run the math.
Turns out that with a Major Flex plan, without adding any Flex dollars, you'd need to spend 76% of your money at D2 to break even. And if you eat enough to make it worth adding the $220 to get the Premium Flex plan, that brings your required D2 threshold down to only 26%, but that's also $1735 worth of food.