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Post by tgo on Feb 14, 2021 20:22:44 GMT -5
I confess, I didn't see this coming why not? Surprised they would organize publicly or surprised they want to have something resembling a college experience or surprised they want to compete and further their - in most cases - life long pursuit of excellence on the playing field? I can't imagine feeling any other way if i were in their shoes. They are being robbed of so much that can not be repeated or replicated and it doesn't have to be that way.
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Post by tgo on Feb 9, 2021 21:02:36 GMT -5
any links to a stream for those who dont have cbs Sports net
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Post by tgo on Jan 26, 2021 14:58:11 GMT -5
Akinjo ignores the wide open man in the middle, tries to win it himself with a man in his face but his airball is so awful that the center grabs it and puts it in to win at the buzzer. Apparently Akinjo is pretending this was a pass, those who watched him the last two years know better, so does anyone who watches the clip. If you pause it at the 2 or 3 second mark, you can see the center is so open he is jumping asking for the ball so he can dunk it for the win.
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Post by tgo on Jan 9, 2021 19:11:06 GMT -5
great, i dont get ESPN U
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Post by tgo on Dec 17, 2020 18:45:13 GMT -5
I like the fact that GPAs and standardized test scores are no longer reported - I think providing that information colored interviewers' reports, and the interview rating is (I've always thought) one of the few things in the process that isn't supposed to be based on the applicant's "numbers." Agree completely. I tell the student in my intro when we meet that "I don't know your grades or scores and I don't care, there are plenty of people evaluating them already, that is not my role in this process." I do tell them that if they have something they need to "explain" then this is the one time to do so. For instance, your dog died the day before finals sophomore year, tell me about how that is a blip on your academic record that should be taken in to account when looking at the big picture.
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Post by tgo on Dec 15, 2020 13:42:25 GMT -5
On a slightly different note, I had my first candidate receive acceptance to the university. I have conducted alumni interviews for five cycles over ten years. It was nice to finally hear from a student that was admitted and overjoyed. Congrats. I went 8 or 9 years at one point without any of mine getting in. During that dry spell I had one I remember in particular. In 21 years of interviewing I have given out fewer than five 9 ratings and this was one of them. I described this young man as being incredibly similar to myself with the exception that they were more accomplished, more mature and better prepared to take advantage of all that Georgetown had to offer than I was as a senior in high school. Felt like a personal rebuke.
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Post by tgo on Dec 13, 2020 18:47:01 GMT -5
Speaking of aspirations, do you think that people at Cuse have a long term goal of becoming academic peers to Towson, U Mass, University of Denver, or University of Richmond so that they are no longer the last school on that list?
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Post by tgo on Dec 1, 2020 20:53:34 GMT -5
Would be great if our long slumbering men's XC team were to show some signs of returning to their glory days.
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Post by tgo on Dec 1, 2020 14:22:21 GMT -5
I don't get CBS Sports Network at home, anyone have a link to where I can watch it online?
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Post by tgo on Nov 30, 2020 16:04:33 GMT -5
Apparently doing away with the Georgetown app and going with the common app will increase applications to Georgtown quite a bit - maybe double. I don't see getting more applicants as a worthy goal and making it simple and easy to apply/be accepted should not be a goal of the school or any specific program within the school either.
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Post by tgo on Nov 29, 2020 17:51:22 GMT -5
Why not end high school grades too and just go on personal qualities? These kind of abject reforms without perspective are the kind of hot air usually reserved for tenured faculty. Better yet, let's just do a lottery to determine admissions. Make the form as simple as possible, just check a box that you want to go to GU and check boxes for your gender and ethnic make up so we can have the appropriately diverse group of students.
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Post by tgo on Nov 14, 2020 11:47:48 GMT -5
For over a decade Medical schools have always recorded their lectures, broad cast them live, and had them available to watch on replay after the fact. At least half of all students choose to just watch lectures from home rather than sit in the auditorium. I bet if in normal times college students were given the same option you'd see at least half of students to do lectures remotely as well. I feel a lot of this hand wringing over the quality not being the same is disingenuous. Why does anyone attend GU or any school for that matter if classes are as valuable as watching a Ted Talk on Youtube? Maybe you are right that there is little to no difference for a large lecture class - yet half the people in your example chose to attend in person, why did they do that? If half the people think they would learn more in person is that not enough for some "hand wringing?" Of the half that watch it later, I am sure some of them didn't attend because they had another commitment they prioritized like a job, a big assignment for another class or they might have just been hung over. Those people would have liked to attend in person but appreciated the option that wasnt as good but that would be good enough. And not all people learn well in the same environment and with the same methods, is it ok to discount them and throw away their education? For what? After my freshman year i can only recall one class that was a large lecture class. almost all of them had 10 to 25 people and relied heavily on discussion amongst the students and from the give and take with the professor. Even with the best instructor on zoom, it is no where close to the same thing as an in person discussion. I cant imagine why anyone would choose to go to college this year and if me or my children were going in to or continuing college in the fall of 2021, I would not enroll, deposit etc until there was a firm commitment that school would actually be happening. I can't fathom why anyone would.
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Post by tgo on Oct 26, 2020 10:46:01 GMT -5
Two reasons: 1. Many of the universities with on-campus population have significantly larger campuses. Duke has 3,000 students back on roughly 1,000 acres. The non-medical portion of Georgetown's campus measures 77 acres. 2. The larger reason is that DC's rules make it very difficult, which is why AU, GW, Howard, and UDC are all in the same boat. One could argue that it is successful. Last week, DC had 371 reported cases. Wisconsin, roughly 8x in population, had 65x more new cases, or 24,701, including an 18% positive rate at Marquette University. As to the helicopter parents threatening transfers if they don't get their kids on campus...well, call their bluff. Georgetown has many, many more wanting in than asking out. But I don't think we can ignore the fact that three semesters of ZoomU is going to have a negative impact on the school in the long run when our peer schools are bringing their students back to campus. I'm sure Georgetown can fill a class, but who exactly are we going to fill the class with? Also, since when is it ok, on a customer service level not to mention a moral level, for GU to say "others want your spots so you need shut up or leave if you don't like the fact that we are not giving you what you signed up for?"
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Post by tgo on Oct 23, 2020 19:39:19 GMT -5
I have to say, I supported the university when it decided not to bring students on campus for the fall semester. However, I am positively surprised that some universities were able to successfully open their campuses with very few Covid outbreaks and I see no reason why Georgetown can't steal their playbooks, at least for the undergraduates. Two reasons: 1. Many of the universities with on-campus population have significantly larger campuses. Duke has 3,000 students back on roughly 1,000 acres. The non-medical portion of Georgetown's campus measures 77 acres. 2. The larger reason is that DC's rules make it very difficult, which is why AU, GW, Howard, Catholic, and UDC are all in the same boat. One could argue that it is successful. Last week, DC had 371 reported cases. Wisconsin, roughly 8x in population, had 24,701, including an 18% positive rate at Marquette University. As to the helicopter parents threatening transfers if they don't get their kids on campus...well, call their bluff. Georgetown has many, many more wanting in than asking out. Someone is a helicopter parent is they want their kid to go to college? You are not using that term correctly. I also take issue with #1, how many acres per student do you need in order for it to be "safe" to allow students to live on and and take classes on campus? And a question, the 18% of Marquette students who tested as sick, have any of them been sick enough to need to go to the hospital? I will bet my mortgage payment the number is closer to zero than it is to ten.
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Post by tgo on Sept 16, 2020 20:45:13 GMT -5
I saw a chart posted somewhere else a couple days ago (cant find it now but if anyone else knows where that was let me know) that showed large infection numbers at several schools including Illinois and they all had zero hospitalizations. If no one is getting very sick then why so much hand wringing? It was never about the college students getting sick. It's all about the community spread. They are spreading it to the more vulnerable members of their communities and putting many others at risk. Think about all of the staff at all these universities, some who are working long hours for minimum wage. Does their health not matter? Does the health of their families not matter? And, these kids don't stay on campus. They go to restaurants, shop at grocery stores, and so on and so forth. They are spreading it into the community and the community -- not the college kids -- will suffer as a result. THATS why this matters. It is obvious to those who are at risk and/or elderly that they should stay away from many settings at this time, universities and places where youth are likely to be would be chief among them. College students don't interact with people twice their age or more and those at greater risk due to their health concerns can avoid the college and its students. That is a- infinitely easier for them to accomplish through their own actions than expecting others to change everything about how they live their life and b- a responsibility and burden that should be shouldered by that portion of the population. I agree that everyone, students included, should wear their masks, quarantine themselves when they test positive or feel sick and limit indoor gatherings as much as possible to limit the spread. maybe that is the point of this article and it is lost on me since the focus of it seemed to be how many students were infected. Regardless, if they all get each other sick and none of them get hospitalized then I am not concerned about it.
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Post by tgo on Sept 16, 2020 15:44:54 GMT -5
I saw a chart posted somewhere else a couple days ago (cant find it now but if anyone else knows where that was let me know) that showed large infection numbers at several schools including Illinois and they all had zero hospitalizations. If no one is getting very sick then why so much hand wringing?
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Post by tgo on Aug 14, 2020 13:08:21 GMT -5
Anyone care to share an interesting take away or two or even explain what the fan survey consisted of?
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Post by tgo on Aug 7, 2020 16:31:42 GMT -5
Pretty miserable for my incoming Freshman son, who already lost a good part of his senior year of high school. Seems like the right call to me since a good part of this country is still a mess (can't even keep baseball players safe with all of the resources MLB has). I think DC's new quarantine rules were basically the nail in the coffin. Trying to help him keep it all in perspective - so many people have been impacted by this pandemic in much more devastating ways, including a fellow Hoya classmate and friend who lost her husband. If you look at the anti-science, anti-mask crowd that is far too prevalent, I don't see an end in sight to this... Filo Why doesn't your son take the year off? College, especially at a place like GU, is more about the experience on campus and the things that grow you as a person aside from the academics. Remove that and also lower the quality of the education (no matter how good of a job they do, it wont be the same as being a class and getting to engage in discussion and talking about the subject matter while walking through the halls with your classmates afterwards) so why do it? Especially with the insane price tag but even if it were practically free, why make college only three years for your son? Same question to you DanMcQ and anyone else who has college age kids. Much harder decision if your child is returning instead of being a freshman.
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Post by tgo on Aug 1, 2020 15:51:17 GMT -5
On dawg talk coach Cox talked about how his guys in RI were on campus doing their summer classes and that they would be allowed to practice on day X (dont recall the specifics). Sure hope our guys are doing the same. I looked at the instagram posts from the players on the team just now thinking that someone must be posting about things that tell you where they are but no luck on that front, no recent posts.
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Post by tgo on Jul 30, 2020 11:05:07 GMT -5
is this accurate, that far more people have died from the flu & pneumonia this year than COVID? from the CDC stats Feb 1st to July 11th data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku?fbclid=IwAR1C-DKbS4lQl3rYpDLiZqpsaBHvdso-o1MEiM4YB2Kb7ZAqjatd1bCrkr0US Deaths broken down by age groups, total deaths, deaths from COVID and deaths from Flu/Pneumonia in that same time frame. Under 1 yr - 8,076 total deaths, 11 by COVID, 89 by Flu/Pneumonia 1-4 yr - 1,547 total deaths, 9 COVID, 93 Flu/Pneumonia 5-14 yr - 2,379 total deaths, 16 COVID, 127 Flu/Pneumonia 15-24 yr - 14,810 total deaths, 190 COVID, 351 Flu/Pneumonia 25-34 yr - 30,885 total deaths, 935 COVID, 1,262 Flu/Pneumonia 35-44 yr - 43,783 total deaths, 2,411 COVID, 2,675 Flu/Pneumonia 45-54 yr - 81,840 total deaths, 6,566 COVID, 7,004 Flu/Pneumonia 55-64 yr - 189,744 total deaths, 15,880 COVID, 18,724 Flumonia 65-74 yr - 288,848 total deaths, 27,167 COVID, 31,446 Flumonia 75-84 yr - 355,738 total deaths, 34,399 COVID, 39,454 Flumonia 85 and up - 449,077 total deaths, 42,666 COVID, 44,184 Flumonia No, because there's overlap between the Covid and Pnuemonia deaths since a lot of people who get Covid end up dying from Pnuemonia. It lists it on the same chart. looks to me like there are different columns, one for just covid, just pneumonia, just influenza and then a column that combines two of them and a column that combines all 3, wouldn't that account for the double counts? That still wouldn't explain, however, why there would be 60K deaths from flu & pneumonia for all of 2017 yet 3x as many in just half of 2020 so either there is a problem in the data or I am not reading it right.
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