Bear Down Wildcats

catgrad97 wrote:Chicat, simply, delivers.

I did my part. I beared down like a motherfucker this week. Now it's up to Arizona Football to do their part.

I am taking my talents to Sacramento.

Sac is ok, but the group I am joining is great. Really excited for the opportunities and work ahead, and close enough to SF and Tahoe to make heading there on a whim a reality.

So happy how this all played out and really glad to having this behind me.

Well at least it isn't Stockton or Fresno

JMarkJohns wrote:Got word today, after an attempt to grandfather me in hit a snag due to a technicality, they are officially devising a plan to correct the technicality with a custom lecturer line for me. Line is already approved. I receivers unofficial word to confirm my interest today, so next few months will find me applying/interviewing for a job created with me and nobody else in mind.

If i fuck this up, I'll need to re-examine my life's career exploits.

No pressure.

It's never easy. Position has hit a delay, but it could mean better actual position with better security and more money. All good things, except all this opens up the pool more. :/ but I'm still hearing good things. Just now likely to face more/more qualified competition.

No pressure.

JMarkJohns wrote:

JMarkJohns wrote:Got word today, after an attempt to grandfather me in hit a snag due to a technicality, they are officially devising a plan to correct the technicality with a custom lecturer line for me. Line is already approved. I receivers unofficial word to confirm my interest today, so next few months will find me applying/interviewing for a job created with me and nobody else in mind.

If i fuck this up, I'll need to re-examine my life's career exploits.

No pressure.

It's never easy. Position has hit a delay, but it could mean better actual position with better security and more money. All good things, except all this opens up the pool more. :/ but I'm still hearing good things. Just now likely to face more/more qualified competition.

No pressure.

Ok, so update:

On Monday I heard the provost unknowingly fucked over my lecturer line, turning it into a professor of practice, therefore minimizing my educational experience and qualifications in favor of non-academic practical application. I'd still have qualified, but without requirements of university teaching or minimum Masters Degree, I'd have been just another applicant instead of the applicant atop it all.

So, the delay.

Job posted yesterday.

My colleagues fought for me. It's back to a Lecturer line, it's criteria basically a mirror of my résumé. Feels good to not just be wanted, but also fought for.

All goes well, I'll apply after the New Year, and the opening closes on the 31st of January. So, hopefully by February I'll know about the next round.

Good Luck JMJ!

CalStateTempe wrote:I am taking my talents to Sacramento.

Sac is ok, but the group I am joining is great. Really excited for the opportunities and work ahead, and close enough to SF and Tahoe to make heading there on a whim a reality.

So happy how this all played out and really glad to having this behind me.

Fuckin' A. Let me know if you need any Sac advice.

Hoping you are here by March and we can flip cop cars and get tear gassed on the grid together after the Cats win the NC.

...Because I took a 1-win, 3-loss Fantasy Football team my cousin quit on after a month, juggled the weekly waiver wire, selling high in several trades, buying low in many others, playing 11 different RBs, 8 WRs, 7 Defenses, 5 Kickers, 3 TEs (I know, I know, and a partridge in a pear tree) depending on their weekly matchup en route to an 8-6 final playoff birth, knocking off the 12-2 league juggernaut by 42 points last week and the 10-4, second-best team by 39 points this week to take the Title.

I played just three players double-digit times, and my final roster included waiver wire pickups like J.Bell (week 7), O.Beckham (week 6), CJ.Anderson (week 10). Those three plus Lacey carried me the final five weeks. Previous waiver pickups included RBs Asiata, J.Hill, R.Hillman, L.Blount and WRs Mike Evans, Denard Robinson. Of the 30 name players who played a game for me, 11 ended up on IR or out these final few weeks.

Despite barely making the playoffs at 8-6, my team was 2nd in the League in points per week, losing the handful of games because I played like 6 QBs in their season's best weeks and multiple RBs who broke 25 points in a week. Good luck was not on my side. Until the last few weeks when I played Rodgers (last week) and Luck (this week) in the playoffs!

In the end, only 2 players remained from my cousin's shitty draft.

Just got gifted lower level tickets at half court for UVA at UNC on Monday night!

Go CAVS!

Just bought a entire dozen of eggs that I intend to go through by myself between now and Fat Tuesday. Then Lent starts and it's all beans from then on out. It's a religious conviction. And when I say "religious" I mean it in a full culinary sense. None of this "belief" stuff. For the next several weeks, I'll be sustained by my anticipation of that eggs benedict for breakfast, and then that lamb neck that I intend to braise for 12 hours and serve over a platter of black-eyed peas.

You could power your house for a year on the methane farts that'll produce.

My oldest got this today.

Congratulations! What a feeling that must be for you and Bonnie.

Now just make sure she stays away from Scoreonado.

fantastic!

Dorms are ludicrously expensive now anyway. Like $4000 a semester

Bear Down Vegas wrote:My oldest got this today.

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Congrats.

My son got his from Wazzu and Seattle U. He awaits his first choice .... UW. They began mailing today.

That's awesome.

gumby wrote:

Bear Down Vegas wrote:My oldest got this today.

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Congrats.

My son got his from Wazzu and Seattle U. He awaits his first choice .... UW. They began mailing today.

It's exciting. & congrats to your boy!

I'm not sure she's going to attend UofA yet - she's been accepted to Nevada Reno & UofA as of now & is also waiting to hear back from USC, CU Boulder & Whittier. Obviously I'm hoping she chooses a PAC school & Arizona above all others but as of now I'm just proud as hell & thankful she's going to have some options.

ASUHATER! wrote:Dorms are ludicrously expensive now anyway. Like $4000 a semester

I cannot believe how expensive college is these days. I was going through old stuff this weekend and found a letter of intent when I played JUCO ball. It laid out the full ride and the dollar amount of what it covered: Was under $5,000 for a full year, tuition, dorm, meal plan, books. And I remember my first year at the U of A, I think tuition was around $2,000 a semester. This was the early 2000s. Now it is almost $6,000 a semester I believe.

When I was a freshman 11 years ago tuition was like $4500/year and the dorm was about $3000. Total cost with a meal plan and books was about $9000/year. Now it is over $20,000.

Our kids better be stud athletes or very smart, or both... I aint payin all that

considering it will be at least 20-25 years before I have college aged kids...it'll probably cost 70k a year for in state residents.

529 plans FTW.

Congrats BDV and Gumby, you must be some proud papas!

So awesome

rgdeuce wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:Dorms are ludicrously expensive now anyway. Like $4000 a semester

I cannot believe how expensive college is these days. I was going through old stuff this weekend and found a letter of intent when I played JUCO ball. It laid out the full ride and the dollar amount of what it covered: Was under $5,000 for a full year, tuition, dorm, meal plan, books. And I remember my first year at the U of A, I think tuition was around $2,000 a semester. This was the early 2000s. Now it is almost $6,000 a semester I believe.

Paid $880 or something like that for out-of-state tuition. In-state was a $1.90 or something.

We bitched about it then. It is insane now. Precludes out-of-state for us. Pell Grants -- I had one -- went further back then, too.

CalStateTempe wrote:529 plans FTW.

Seconded.

gumby wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:529 plans FTW.

Seconded.

did you go with Utah's? (not an attempt to hijack, I could start thread if preferred)

CalStateTempe wrote:

gumby wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:529 plans FTW.

Seconded.

did you go with Utah's? (not an attempt to hijack, I could start thread if preferred)

Work had a seminar about it. Signed up there. (I'm in Spokane). It's through Alliance-Bernstein. Washington State also has a program where you can buy credits at today's prices to use later.

Whoa! Seattle U. with a big offer. This just got interesting.

gumby wrote:Whoa! Seattle U. with a big offer. This just got interesting.

I hear they have a good basketball program.


Just saw this posted:

gumby wrote:Whoa! Seattle U. with a big offer. This just got interesting.

Congrats gumby!

Merkin wrote:

gumby wrote:Whoa! Seattle U. with a big offer. This just got interesting.

I hear they have a good basketball program.


Just saw this posted:

Best player is named Umipig. Not exactly Elgin Baylor. They play at Key Arena, bigger than McKale!

I read that article about "Gary" becoming a fogey name. The power of Gary Cooper couldn't last forever. Gary Coleman didn't help.

Going extinct, they say?

My great grandfather's name was Adolph. Born in Prussia/Germany with it in 1874.

Talking about one person ruining a great name.

Merkin wrote:

gumby wrote:Whoa! Seattle U. with a big offer. This just got interesting.

I hear they have a good basketball program.


Just saw this posted:

Does not approve.

scumdevils86 wrote:When I was a freshman 11 years ago tuition was like $4500/year and the dorm was about $3000. Total cost with a meal plan and books was about $9000/year. Now it is over $20,000.

Budget cuts. Current ones have funding down to mid-90s totals, with inflation factored in, it's late 80s.

It's freaking scary.

I stayed home for games on Thursday. Let my son do that Friday. When I walk in after work, I see him in a Husky shirt.

He got the letter and headed straight to the mall. Guess that's his choice. Very proud. I was worried he'd get wait-listed and Romared.

Ew a husky son?

At least he didn't go to Idaho or something

Love Arizona, but not for twice the price and a lower ranking.

Thanks Arizona legislature! We weren't far behind uw at all in public school rankings 10-12 years ago. Now we're about 60 places behind.

Colleges here have been abandoned, too. Used to be state paid 70, students paid 30 (on average ). Now it's 30-70 because spending has gone elsewhere. Son wants to major in aerospace engineering. Not many schools offer that. Fortunate to be in same state as Boeing.

Education is still an investment worth doing.

A person with a degree will earn an average of one million dollars in his or her lifetime more than a person who doesn't earn a degree.

That's worth the extra tutition.

gumby wrote:...He got the letter...

Awesome!

My daughter got an academic scholarship offer from UofA four days after her acceptance letter. It's only $6k per year, but hey...I'm not sneezing at it. Now if I can just get lucky on a couple other angles, I'll be posting in this thread again! lol

Salty wrote:Education is still an investment worth doing.

A person with a degree will earn an average of one million dollars in his or her lifetime more than a person who doesn't earn a degree.

That's worth the extra tutition.

God, I hate this excuse. So tuition used to be too low? Never too high?

It's like listening to rich people who call the public schools "bargains." It's an investment worth doing for the good of the country, not just individuals. And the debt incurred is detrimental to individuals and the economy. Plus, it closes access to education on the front end.

Salty's fake law degree has done him wonders...

Bear Down Vegas wrote:

gumby wrote:...He got the letter...

Awesome!

My daughter got an academic scholarship offer from UofA four days after her acceptance letter. It's only $6k per year, but hey...I'm not sneezing at it. Now if I can just get lucky on a couple other angles, I'll be posting in this thread again! lol

Outstanding.

We await the financial aid letter. If it's similar to Wazzu's -- and he gets a STEM scholarship -- he should be able to get through with no loans. Seattle U offered $30k a year in schollies/grants/work study. Still left $15k, or $3k to $4k a year higher than UW (I think).

If he wanted to go that route, I would support it. I was very impressed with the small-school atmosphere. But can't blame him for seeking an experience that includes football Saturdays and the rest of the Pac-12 perks.

Cats and Dawgs!

Fantastic news Gumby! Congrats to you and your son, I am sure you are very proud!

UW is one of a handful flagship premier public universities. What a great opportunity for him!

I went on an interview for a job at Seattle U. Loved the campus and the atmosphere. I did not get the position, but I would love to end up there someday!

Seattle is too open minded and liberal for you dw99.

ASUHATER! wrote:Seattle is too open minded and liberal for you dw99.

Liberalism is rampant up there, that is the only downside. I think the area and the university community could benefit from a strong conservative intellectual like myself.