Everything posted by Blake
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Things that annoy the HELL out of you.
I thought it was funny that he said the "Last 6 presidential election winners", but then said "Obama-Obama-Bush-Bush-Clinton-Clinton", which is only three people, just to try to make the number look bigger.
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Things that annoy the HELL out of you.
Pizza, nuggets, fries, salad, basically anything fried... Mmmm
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The Game of Thrones TV series - Season 4
Looking forward to it then :) Just watched the second episode, pretty good ending to it.
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As an engineer, you may 'only' make 60k/year to start, but there is a much higher range of salaries you can achieve, as opposed to 4 years of sales. With a 4 year engineering degree, you may be making 120k+ after 10 years of working. You're not going to get that high without a degree, even with your 4 years extra of sales work. You'll be able to pay off that 60k debt (which is a very high number, after scholarships/part time work/etc) a lot quicker. Since we're talking about engineering, a person with a degree will always get the job over someone with 4 years of sales or whatever else experience. If you want a STEM job paying 60k+ a year, you're going to need a degree. I'm not saying you should graduate with no work experience. Internships are pretty abundant for engineering, and are the perfect opportunity to get work experience during college, and offset a large portion of the cost. I'm in a very large university, in the college of engineering. 80% of the people I know get internships over the summer. If you can't/don't want to get an internship, there's other options like a research assistantship or lab worker. Like others said, it's not going to be easy, and you'll have to work towards it like its a full time job. But, if you put in the effort, the degree is definitely worth it. I'm only writing about Engineering here, I doubt it's the same for many other majors. About alternatives to Georgia Tech - I'm at the University of Minnesota, which was #11 engineering in the US when I started, and i'm pretty sure it's in the top 20 almost every year. There's a 90% job placement rate for a bachelors of engineering, with an average of 63k/year salary starting. Tuition is a lot smaller than most big schools, especially for being high ranked. It's about 15k for books/tuition. After 5 years, I have about 4k of debt total, without any help from my parents. Definitely an option to look at.
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Matt's/Winks Ultimate Ironman
Love the updates, you have the right idea with questing!
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Running RS in the cloud
Have you looked at windows azure? You can rent a server with whatever OS, or just pay to run a single application.
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2014 New Year Resolutions
I start working July 7. Don't have new years resolutions really, but if I had to say something, I'd pick get annoyed at people less easily. Also, just did my second bouldering day and bought a semester pass. So, I'd hope to get some arm strength and do a V4 maybe :) I'm doing good on mine, kept on bouldering and now I'm doing some V3s there, with some 5.8/9 rock climbing. I've never really worked out or went to the gym, so sticking to this for three months has been great. I've built up a lot more muscle, and it's a lot of fun. Doesn't even feel like working out. Also sa121 - I'll definitely pm you when I get there.
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Your Rigs and Battle Stations. Let's see them!
Those are for the times when the internet is down :P
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Your Rigs and Battle Stations. Let's see them!
Here's mine. I'll list some of the stuff in the pic. 32" TV, mostly for watching videos while I do other stuff 27" 1080p Acer Monitor Xbox One Xbox 360 Vizio 38" Soundbar Klipsch Promedia 2.1 Speaker system Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Razer Deathadder Microsoft Surface Pro Built Computer - 560TI, 2500k i5, 8GB 1800 RAM, other stuff Ibanez ART-100 Guitar - I suck, mostly for rocksmith :p I love this setup :)
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Pokemon Thread
http://imgur.com/oiUKyli
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Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
To make it more interesting, the loser has to keep Bieber.
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Bunch of questions - DIY'er and General RS.
For DIY - if you use shops, just buy green hide armor and rune. Most diyers will use shops. For quests, do stuff like Fairy Tale that will give you transportation options.
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Battlefield Discussion Thread
Me too, I miss Rush on Valparaiso
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Buying new desktop - Opinions on this quote?
I have one 27" monitor, I prefer that to dual. I got it for something like $260 on sale at Microcenter.
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2014 New Year Resolutions
I start working July 7. Don't have new years resolutions really, but if I had to say something, I'd pick get annoyed at people less easily. Also, just did my second bouldering day and bought a semester pass. So, I'd hope to get some arm strength and do a V4 maybe :)
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League of Legends
Played my first normal in 3 months, 15-5 as wukong :) 100 normal wins, 400 aram wins haha