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terpkristin's Face The Board Answers
First off, I want to thank Ryan S for selecting me, and Antmeister for doing cutting and pasting it all into a thread. After realizing how much I wrote, I know it'll be a decent amount of work, sorry about that! And I'm sorry in advance to you all reading this, I got a little lengthy on some of my responses...
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Oddly enough, when I was in kindergarten, I told my parents I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up—specifically, a pediatrician. When I got to high school, I started thinking more about orthopaedics, but I was still planning on being a doctor. In college, I majored in physics. My plan was to get my BS in physics, but take the med school pre-requisites on the side. It didn't quite work out that way, mostly due to the wonky schedule of the required classes for physics majors (there were only ~30 of us when I started, and when I finished 4 years later, there were only 11 of us, so only one section of each course was offered each semester, if the course was offered at all), and in part due to a family crisis in my junior year (more later). However, during undergrad, I got a job at the Space Systems Lab/Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (http://ssl.umd.edu), working on a robotics project for on-orbit satellite servicing. In my senior year, they offered me the opportunity for a full research assistantship (i.e. they'd pay my way for school, if I did research, and I didn't have to TA) in the lab, for a masters in aerospace engineering, and I jumped on it. During grad school, I intended to take the pre-med courses I needed, but I was less enthusiastic than I had been during undergrad. I was really interested in both the aerospace courses I was taking and the robotic hand research I was doing. I was also taking some biomechanics and physiology courses, to supplement my research. When I finished my thesis, I realized that my heart really wasn't in medical school, and that I'd like to give the aerospace industry a try. I still maintain, though, that if I ever get bored with the aerospace industry, I'll leave and go back to school to get a PhD in rehabilitative biomechanics. I still don't rule out that possibility for the future, as much fun as I'm having in industry right now. Quote:
Yep, and I still am. I'm not as much of one now as I was then, though. Now, my hobbies include things other than sports and video games.  Something tells me there aren't too many guys doing cross-stitch or knitting, and there aren't too many comfortable wearing pink. Quote:
Not really. I get some serious vertigo on amusement park rides (weird, since I don't get carsick, boatsick, or airsick), and I don't think I'd enjoy the space environment (or the launch), based upon what I've read. When I was a kid, though, I had thoughts about it. Quote:
I guess I'm not sure what you're asking, exactly. As I said before, my BS is in physics, so I found getting my MS in aerospace engineering fairly easy. I've found a lot of engineers don't like to think the same way that physics people do...for example, many engineers I know are happy to rely on memorized equations, whereas physics people worry more about understanding the derivation and what's going on behind the equations, and can better adapt when things aren't cut and dry. So really, becoming an engineer wasn't too bad, compared to the physics stuff... Quote:
In general, no. However, when you're job-searching and you enter “aerospace engineer” as your search query, and all the hits come back for software or IS jobs for aerospace companies, it can be a pain in the butt. Quote:
It's amazing. When I was in school, I never really knew what to expect from the real world, and all the classes can't exactly prepare you for the challenge, frustration, and elation associated with actually designing and launching a satellite—even if you only work on a small part of one. Quote:
Hmm. The first car I ever owned myself was a 1996 Subaru Legacy wagon (stick shift) and I loved it. It could go places that the trucks couldn't, because of its lower center of gravity and AWD, and it drove really well. But I hate my dad's 2002 Legacy wagon (automatic) because it feels slow, unresponsive, and is uncomfortable to sit in. I love the zippieness (is that a word?) of my Mazda (and my last Mazda), but at the moment, I think it's the last one I'll ever own. I've heard that the newer Subaru models have improved the horsepower and even added 6-cyl and turbo options, so I'll consider my dad's an aberration. Subaru is also the Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster, which is a nifty cluster to see, so I'll say Subaru. Quote:
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Actually, it was Hattrick that brought me to FOFC. I found Hattrick in February 2003 through a Google (or was it Yahoo) search for fantasy soccer leagues while recovering from my first hand surgery. I joined HT, and in May '03 purchased “Supporter” in the game. When I did that, Doug5984 pointed me to the FOFC Federation, and the site. For a long while, I stayed only in the Hattrick forums, but at some point, I wandered into the General forums. I lurked for awhile and then started posting, I think making quite a few people wonder who this person was with over 1,000 posts that they'd never heard of. As for text sims, I don't talk about them much but I do lurk in the threads from time to time, especially the threads for FM/WWSM. I've played HT, FM/WWSM, and was in CW's first round of Towel Boy Basketball. I think I also tried out Fast Break College Basketball, but don't quote me on that. I like the idea of text sims, but I hate playing games on my computer. I'm a console/handheld gamer at heart, and even with a laptop (and thus the ability to “play anywhere”), I can't get into them. I do enjoy FM Handheld on my PSP, and will be buying the new version from Gameplay (in the UK) when it comes out. Even though I can't usually do computer-based gaming, HT is different, as I can log in every now and then and I can do it from work (so it's a nice distraction), Quote:
Of course I do, but I still need to get the shirt! Seriously, if I was this injured WITHOUT doing all of my own stunts, I'd have a lot of explaining to do.  Quote:
A pain in the arse? I was a tomboy, and though soccer was my main thing, I also swam in the summers. Really, most of my time when I was younger was spent on the soccer field. I'm the oldest of 3 (my brother is 2 years younger than me, and my sister is 2 years younger than he is), so I also played the “big sister” role. And, for what it's worth, I was a bit of a know-it-all. Actually, if you think of Hermione from the earlier books in the Harry Potter series, and tack on a lot of soccer, that was me. Quote:
I'll do worst first, it's the one I know for sure. A week or so into the start of my junior year of college, I got a call from my dad on a Saturday night telling me that my brother (Mike) was missing and that I needed to come home. Mike had just started college, at Hampshire in MA. When I got home, my dad told me that the school had called, saying that he was last seen on the Thursday prior, that he left his dorm room unlocked, and left most of his stuff behind. My dad, mom, and sister drove up to MA that Sunday, to see what they could see up there, and look if they had to (the police department wouldn't open a formal search for him for awhile, as enough time hadn't elapsed yet since he'd disappeared). They left me at home, to walk to the dog, and to be there in case Mike called home. Mike and I had some mutual friends, so I called them after my family left. The things I learned then were almost worse than that first call saying Mike was missing: he was doing a lot of drugs, not just the weed they did regularly; he broke up with his high school girlfriend because she gave him the ultimatum of “either the drugs or her”; his friends were worried he was in too deep. After all day Sunday learning nothing but more bad news, good news came on Monday when Mike called the house and said he was coming home to Columbia. I called my folks, who drove back from MA. He showed up on the doorstep about 4 hours before they got back, looking tired but otherwise OK. What happened after that was a mess, for a long time. He dropped out of school, after going for only 3 days, and we found out the next February the reason for him coming home: he'd gotten a girl pregnant over the summer (he let her stay over because her boyfriend was abusive, she said she was on the pill, he didn't use a condom) and wanted to do the right thing and help support the child, which she was keeping. It was a very rough time, so rough that I took off the spring semester of school completely to be with my family as we all worked through trying to get my brother to get help, and come to terms with everything that had happened. I think my family really showed then how we come together when bad things happen, and the story has a happy ending (The child was eventually given up for adoption, and was adopted by a family who truly could care for him and love him properly. My brother grew up a bit and straightened out—I think he's been clean for years—and got married to a woman he met in New Orleans. In June, they had their first kid together, Otto), but it still sticks out as the worst period of time I can remember. As for the best, I hope that when I'm old, I can look back on my life and say my wedding day, or the day(s) I had kid(s) was the best day of my life, but as those things haven't happened yet, I think the best day of my life so far was the day I got the job offer for my current job. After being unemployed for 8 months (I took time off after school just for me, but I didn’t expect it to take as long as it did to find a job), I was really down. Worse, I had one offer made and revoked at a company when I asked if they could make the offer a little better, and I had an offer made for “as soon as they had a contract I could work on.” It was quite frustrating. So when the job offer came down, and they made a reasonable offer (more than I'd asked for at the company that revoked the offer), I was ecstatic. Quote:
I don't really know that I've ever differentiated FOFC'ers by “favorite” and “least favorite.” I can't say that I have any on the “least favorite” list, I think this is a pretty good group of people (and y'all put up with me, so who am I to complain!? ). I don't have anybody on my ignore list.For “favorites” I guess I'll say that the people I talk to on a regular (sometimes daily) basis could be considered “favorites” though it may just be that I've gotten to know them the best. In alphabetical order, they are: ardent enthusiast, FrogMan, Mr. Wednesday, sterlingice, TargetPractice6. Quote:
It depends on how you define broken. I have broken my hand multiple times. Twice by hitting things and breaking it, once it was re-broken in a surgery so they could align it and pin it (when I broke it the first time, it was really bad, and didn't heal correctly), and last year I had what we finally decided were microfractures caused by who knows what. I put a small crack in one of my ribs once, by falling chest-first into the armrest at a movie theater, but I often forget about that because there’s nothing they can really do for you other than give you drugs to make you comfortable. Also, when they fused my ankle, they didn't “break” it exactly, but they did have to create bleeding surfaces on all of the bones they were fusing together (4 in total), so that when they healed, they'd grow together, so... My official answer is 2 bones broken, 1 of those bones broken quite a few times. Quote:
It's funny, I don't really think about my gender as much as I do my age. In undergrad, I was in a male-dominated major, and in graduate school, it was no different, so now in industry, it seems “normal,” as sad as that is. There are always going to be sexist twats, and as a woman, I just have to prove I know my stuff. So far, I think I've been able to do that pretty well. I've been lucky, that the program manager for my first 2 programs and the PM for my current program are amazing women. I think that even though I'm not interested in the management side of things in general, it's been helpful to learn from them, to watch how they do things, and to see the respect they command. Quote:
I'm Kristin. I'm an aerospace engineer working on geostationary communications satellites. I'm probably best known for being an amazing klutz, having had 9 surgeries to date, 8 of which were orthopaedic. I'm a console and handheld gamer, but I also kill time reading, going out on my dad's sailboat, doing cross-stitch, knitting, and going to the gym, when my injuries don't get in the way. As you may have guessed, I'm a fan of the Maryland Terrapins. I'm 6 feet tall and am currently single. I'm fiercely honest and loyal (though if you do something to break my trust, it's probably gone for good) and though I work hard, I'm pretty laid back. However, I can also be very stubborn and sometimes say things without using a mental filter, which can be a problem. Quote:
I recently learned that he is the man who made FOF. I only knew him under his FOFC screenname (screennames?!), and totally made a fool of myself asking who he was on a message board that bears the name of his game.  Quote:
Slim to none. We'll find out, though, after I'm done answering them all! Quote:
Genetics…must be something about that double X. Seriously, women ARE nuts, I totally agree. Quote:
It would honestly depend. If there was a single guy, and I found him attractive (in personality, probably more so than looks), I wouldn't rule it out. Of course, if the meet-up is like the last one, with a bunch of married guys, wouldn't happen. I don't do that. Quote:
No question, Pumpy. Quote:
I never watched The Sopranos. I have no earthly idea. Quote:
Coke for the most part, though Dr. Pepper is distributed with the Pepsi products, and I really love Dr. Pepper. Quote:
Boxers, without a doubt. And no boxer briefs. Quote:
The Beatles. When I was in 8th grade, The Beatles were HUGELY popular at my middle school, and I really got into them. Plus, they have songs that are a lot of fun to sing along to. Elvis, I can only name and recognize a few songs, and they aren't “fun” like The Beatles songs are. Quote:
Tough one. I think I'm going to go basketball here, because I understand basketball. I only started watching football in college, when I got to Maryland, and even though I’ve been watching it for ~10 years now, I still have no idea what’s going on a lot of the time. Quote:
My folks live in Columbia, MD, which is where I went to school. Basically, if you draw a straight line between Baltimore and Washington, DC, Columbia is the midpoint of that line. Quote:
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There are a lot of movies I really like, but the ones I think I could watch over and over again are: Empire Records, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s not that they’re all “great” movies but I think if I were on a desert island with only those 4, I’d be OK for awhile. They’re also the movies I tend to put on when I’m stitching, if there is nothing else on (when I do close work like stitching, I like to have the TV on so that I have a far focal point to counterbalance the very close focal point of my stitching). Quote:
This is tough, I don’t listen to a lot of “bands” for their music, it’s more about songs than the band. Right now, Fallout Boy, Linkin Park, and some old Foo Fighters stuff are getting a good bit of play on my iPod, along with Armin vanBuuren and Paul Oakenfold. Quote:
Oooh, a Batman reference! Well, I do have a bat tattooed on my right shoulder blade. Quote:
It’s one of my pet peeves when people are oblivious to what’s going on around them. I hate it when that happens, though I probably would have said “Excuse me” or something to see if they’d move. Quote:
I must preface this by saying that I’ve never played any games on the N64, GameCube, or Wii. I think at least one of my choices may change if I had. Final Fantasy VI. I love the entire series, but VI has been my favorite in the series for a looooooooooong time. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Still the best Zelda game out there, at least in terms of the ones I’ve played. One day, I hope to be able to play/try Windwaker, and I must confess to not playing Phantom Hourglass yet (it’s in my stack). Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World would probably have to go in this list, too. Both took the classic game and added elements that the platformer really needed. They really took a step forward with the series, and with platform games in general (at the time). Quote:
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I got my left nipple pierced in December, 1998. I'm honestly not sure why I did it, but it became my 2nd favorite piercing (my tongue stud was my favorite). I took it out in late summer, 2003 (click the spoiler if you want to know why I removed it, it might be TMI for some people). If I still had it, I would indeed take a shot of it and hxxp it for those who wanted to see. I used to flash people all the time to show them haha.
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Well, as far as I know MikeVic is a decent human being, so let’s go with MikeVic.  Quote:
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Ashburn really isn’t too bad. It’s a lot like Columbia, and though it wasn’t exactly “fun” living there as a kid (there weren’t a lot of things to do when you were in high school), as an adult, I can appreciate it. I like that it’s close enough to the city that I can get there if I want to (not that I usually really want to). I also like it’s proximity to mountains in West Virginia. The downside to living here is that people are jerks. Actually, people in Columbia are jerks, too, and they didn’t used to be. I think it’s a nouveau riche thing, people feel they’re special or specially entitled because they have a lot of money. I hate that kind of attitude. The other downside is that it’s kind of expensive, so until/unless I find a man to marry who makes about the same amount of money I do, I don’t think I could afford a house out here. But all in all, I like it. It’s close to work, the W&OD trail is convenient, I am close to my family, close to the water, close to the mountains, and close to the city. Loudoun County, and Ashburn in particular, are developing too quickly for my tastes. I don’t think I could really call too many places “too rural” unless it took me over 20 minutes for me to drive to a place to get groceries. That’s sort of my litmus test for if a place is too rural. Of course, in Ashburn, I’m really lucky, I have a Wegman’s 5 minutes from my place. Quote:
Robert Miles: Children (Dream Version) It’s a trance/techno song, and yes, I do think it’s indicative of one of the genres of music I really dig. I really do listen to just about everything. My iPod has classical, country, hip-hop, jazz, techno/dance/electronica, punk, pop, and alternative music on it, and probably some other genres I’m forgetting. I love music, and try to listen to all sorts. If I had to say I preferred one genre over the others, though, my top would be electronic or modern alternative. Quote:
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I think the entire package of me makes guys feel uncomfortable. More so because the type of guy I’d be interested in, the dorks who are OK with the fact that I’m not really into going out clubbing or anything, and would probably rather go to a sports bar or the movie theater than go downtown for a fancy night on the town, are probably intimidated by me. I’m 6’ tall, broad-shouldered (I was really built to be a swimmer), and I’m pretty smart. This pretty much means the geeks are scared of my athletic side and the jocks are afraid of my brains. Quote:
Well duh, she’s a woman!!!!!!!!!!! Quote:
It’s hard to say. I think if he were really the guy for me, he’d understand the FOFC thing, so it might be an indication we weren’t right for each other. Of course, I say that now as I’m single and looking, so maybe the situation would be different if it were real. Quote:
Very much so. On so many different levels. Quote:
You know, I have no idea. That’s sort of new to me, as VT joined the conference right when I was finishing school, so except for what I’ve seen on TV and read in the paper, I don’t know much about the dynamic. Quote:
I do indeed have XM. My “favorite” channels are BPM (81, a dance channel), ESPN (140), and the two uncensored comedy channels (150 and 153). I originally got it in part for MLB, so I can hear the Boston games (been a fan since I was 6 or so), and in part for the ACC games, so those are on my channel lineup as well. I can't say I've found anything that's surprised me, exactly. The other channel I’ve been listening to is the soundtrack channel, as random as that is. I think that’s the biggest surprise, that I keep finding myself flipping it over there. I don’t own too many soundtracks in my personal music collection, and I’m not sure what my fascination is with the channel. Quote:
Aww, it was no big deal. I was more upset that we didn’t get a chance to buy you a few much-needed drinks (or maybe more than a few?!) We should do another of those sometime.Quote:
An apology. A good dealership. A fantastic offer. In that order. Quote:
Part of the reason I ended up going to Maryland was to play soccer. Maryland didn’t have a fantastic team, but it was a division I school, and was a great opportunity. It didn’t quite work out like I hoped it would when I was younger. My freshman year I ended up red-shirting owing to a knee injury I got late in my senior year of high school. For all of the summer and the first month or so of the season, I was pretty much still doing rehab stuff, and started practicing with the squad as I could. I did the spring and summer training with the team, in preparation for my sophomore year. But, before school started, I realized that my course-load was going to be too much for me to balance soccer and school (I had signed up to take 28 credits or something silly like that—you only needed 12 to be considered a full-time student at Maryland), and school came first for me. I wanted to be sure to be done with undergrad in 4 years. As such, I dropped off the team, hoping to re-join my junior year. I ended up not going back, as I wasn’t ready to dedicate that much time to soccer at the cost of having to spend extra time in school to finish my degree. Given what happened during my junior year, and the resulting time I took off because of that, I think it was a good decision in the end to not play. I’d be lying, though, if I said that I never look back and think I could’ve managed it all and question what could’ve happened if I’d stayed with the team. However, at the end of the story, I still played a lot of soccer after my time with Maryland’s team. I joined the club team, which was quite a bit more forgiving about having to miss practices and games. While in grad school, I also played on a recreational coed “beer league” team and on a high level women’s amateur team in the DC area. It was in a game for my coed rec team that I hurt my ankle and became fated to never play again. Quote:
I did SAR for about 7 years, and in addition to wilderness SAR, I was affiliated with the Mountain Rescue Association and the National Cave Rescue Commission. I worked on a few missions that made national news, though none of the missions I was on really sticks out in my head as more dramatic than ANY SAR mission. The thing about SAR is that it’s a ton of people coming together for a common cause. Sometimes, there are people who are untrained in the crew (locals who heard about what happened and want to help), and it’s that kind of thing that brings out the best sides of human nature, in my experience. For some reason, the mission that stands out most to me is probably the one that was the most mundane, in terms of what I was doing. I was helping to teach an Orientation to Cave Rescue class in the area of Morgantown, WV. It seems that during classes, about 75% of the time, a real mission comes up…this was one of those times. At about noon during the class, we got a call that there was an incident at Laurel Caverns in PA, about an hour or so drive from where we were. We packed up and got up there, to find that a Boy Scout, who was in the cave on one of the “wild” tours with his troop, had fallen toward the back of the cave and they think he broke his leg. I was recovering from some or the other surgery at the time, and couldn’t go down to help look, so I stayed topside and ran the radios. I ended up coordinating a lot of the communication between everybody who needed to be involved, and to some extent, making sure everybody was where they needed to be and had the right information. At the end of the day, the kid had a broken femur, and was medi-vac’d to a hospital in PA. He was ok, though, after everything was done. Maybe it sticks out to me because he was from Howard County, MD, so was a “local” kid to me. I know, really boring. A lot of SAR can be…you don’t always find clues, you don’t always find the subject…and when you find the subject, it’s not always a happy find. But SAR demonstrates how communities can really come together, and can give anybody hope for humanity. Quote:
I broke my hand the first time by punching a brick wall when I was angry with a professor. I guess that qualifies as pretty stupid. It should be pointed out, though, that when I initially hurt my ankle, after realizing it wasn’t broken, I tried to jump on it “to see if it would hold” and that really can’t be considered very smart, either…what can I say, I wanted to get back in the game. Quote:
My initial thought was martial arts, though after giving it some thought, I also considered running. It goes without saying that I miss soccer, but it's not one of those things that you can do for a long time very competitively...as you get older, your skills decline. So though I still miss soccer (to a point of avoiding watching it and talking about it at times), it's not the one I miss most. What I miss about running is the freedom of it. All you have to do is bring a good pair of shoes and a change of clothes to work, and you're good to go, not like cycling or most other sports. However, I still think Tang Soo Do (a Korean martial art) is what I miss the most. I'd been doing it for about 3 years before I had my 2nd ankle surgery (after which I never did sports again), with some time off for various injuries/surgeries. I was pretty good, competing with other women at my belt level and, in a way, with myself. TSD combined amazing physical training with some pretty intense mental training, too. No matter how much I go to the gym now (and I go pretty much everyday), I have yet to find something that matches the level of mental intensity I got with martial arts training. Quote:
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I found HT, as I said earlier, through a search for fantasy soccer leagues back in February, 2003 when I was recovering from my first hand surgery. The game has changed quite a bit in the 4.5 years since I started playing, and generally not for the better. At this point, I’m only still playing because I’ve got my supporter paid up through May, 2008. And I suppose I must have some masochistic tendencies. With a loss this past week (when I didn’t bother to even login to change my lineup), I’m dropping back down to IV in the US, which I think will be good. I keep getting screwed in the game (I think in the first 3 games I played this season, I had half my team injured +3 or greater), and frankly didn’t belong in III to begin with, so maybe being back in IV where I belong will re-ignite some interest. We’ll see. Quote:
Alas, no. For those that don’t know, I got my tongue pierced in May, 1998, and I loved that piercing, probably more than any of my others. In June, 2004, when I had the surgery to have my ankle fused, the anesthesiologist gave me a drug that I have a known hypersensitivity/allergy to. As a result, after the surgery, I wasn’t waking up properly, and was having breathing problems (I couldn’t get air in effectively). My vitals started dropping, and the post-anesthesia nurses called in a different anesthesiologist to figure out what was wrong with me; he realized I’d been given the drug and was able to give me a counter-acting drug. Unfortunately, because of that, they insisted on keeping me in the hospital overnight (it was supposed to be outpatient) to make sure I stayed stable. As it turns out, when you’re having breathing problems, they don’t want you to put something back in your mouth that may interfere with either your breathing or their ability to treat you (though I maintain that my tongue stud wouldn’t have interfered with either). Though I’d taken the stud out for previous surgeries (where it’d be out for 6-8 hours, max, depending on how long the surgery was and how long it took me to come around), by the time they let me put it back in, over 24 hours had elapsed, and the hole had closed enough that it would have been painful to put back in, so I abandoned it. I have a hunch that when I started working, I’d have had to take it out, anyway, but it never came to that. And for the record, that wasn’t my last surgery, it was my 2nd-to-last surgery. Quote:
After 12/31/2002, you want a Terps hat? (Terps 30 – Tennessee 3)Well, if you want a hat, you’ll have to do the following: 1. Agree to wear the hat at some point while you’re cheering for Tennessee in a “public” place (at least 3 other people there who know you’re a Tennessee fan) 2. Take pictures of you wearing said hat with the people around you 3. Share the pictures with FOFC 4. If you can abide by 1-3, send me a PM with where to send it. Quote:
Well, they each have their merits, but I’ll go with sober AE calls here. Drunk ones usually mean something is “wrong” on some level, for you to get that drunk in the first place, and we all prefer a happy AE. Quote:
I’m sure some engineers have read it. I have not. It’s on my list, actually, but it’s a book that’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so it’s not like I want to be sure to read it “now” to be on top of current happenings. One day, I do want to read it. Quote:
For the record, I was never a part of the riots or anything. Now, that said, Maryland fans are quite unoriginal in general. They copied their riotous festivities from West Virginia fans (couch burning anyone) and took it a step farther. They copied some of the stupider things they do at basketball games (such as the “you suck” chant and distributing cheat sheets of information about opposing players) from Duke and UNC fans. The worse part of it all is that these “traditions” started when I was a student there, and we were asked to stop some of them (in particular the “you suck” stuff), and as a student body, we generally did. I’m embarrassed to go to football games now and see students still doing the “you suck” stuff, done by students who weren’t there when it started originally, nor when it stopped, but decided the tradition should live on for reasons still unfathomable to me. It’s not like any of the students there now were really a part of our years when those things developed (and initially died out). Quote:
As I noted above, a part of it was soccer. I think the rest of my decision really came down to money and what I'd study. I knew I wanted to be a physics major, and at the time, Maryland was ranked in the top 10 for public university physics departments. I got into almost everywhere I applied, including 2 ivy-league schools, but the other factor was money. My folks made an agreement with each of us kids that they'd pay for us to go to a state school, but if we went to a private school or out of state, they'd only pay the equivalent of the cost of the state school, and we'd have to get loans for the rest. My brother and sister both went to private schools, and my sister, who stayed in school, has a decent amount of loans to pay off. I, on the other hand, went to Maryland for 7 semesters (I took off the 2nd semester of my junior year), and with the money my parents didn't spend on that semester off, I bought a car. With grad school, they pretty much made it a no-brainer, offering me a full stipend, tuition covered, etc. What it means is that now I have no debt (except for my car), and I still got a first-class education. Quote:
I think the end to the grief is coming. Fans want to know 2002 wasn't a fluke. Unfortunately for Gary, after we won the national title in 2002, higher caliber players wanted to come to play for him. Double unfortunately, he does not coach “stars” very well. He does a much better job coaching when he's got kids with talent that he can mold into his system, not kids who come in so hot that they don't want to listen to him. Now that we've had a few “down” years, I think this year's and last year's recruiting classes will pan out much better than the “superstar” class we had a few years ago (when we got Nik Caner-Medley, Chris McCray, DJ Strawberry, and Gilchrist). Quote:
The recruit class that came in for the 2002-2003 season? Sure, they won the ACC title in 2004, but they were all in all a huge mess. See my previous response about superstars. Gary can't coach them. Quote:
Juan Dixon. He really was a kid who grew up on the streets and went all the way. Sure, he's not the greatest, but he won a national title with the Terps and then he made it to the NBA. He was so chill, too, if you saw him on campus. Good guy. Quote:
The only Maryland sports I paid any real attention to were soccer (men's and women's), lacrosse, and to a smaller extent, basketball. I could only really follow them through the newspaper, though, as my parents really aren't into sports, and I could never watch sports on TV without them coming and changing the channel. It also didn't help that they didn't get cable until I was 22 or so...alas, I don't really have any favorite moments in Terps sports history from before I went there. But even if I did, the Terps winning the National Championship takes the cake. Quote:
I have no idea, but you should check out the job openings page on my company's website. If there's anything there that sounds interesting, I'd be glad to pass on your resume as an employee referral. Quote:
The Terps give me ulcers. Ok, not really, but almost. I can barely watch them for the stress they cause me. I'm one of the fans who yells at the TV. I often feel that in tense moments, if I watch it, that I'll jinx it, so I turn it to another channel watch the game track on Yahoo or something. I do the same thing with the Red Sox. Quote:
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Hmmm. “Attractive” is not a word I'd use to describe myself, quite honestly. I think I'm pretty average. That said, I've noticed that my customer asks fewer questions of me when I sit myself near them in a way that they can see my breasts. I definitely take advantage of that one. Quote:
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Yeah, but all in good fun. They're totally different worlds, aero and civil. You'd think there would be more similarities, as both fields have a TON of rules and regulations and standards to follow, with a lot of places where a lot of margin must be applied (more so than in other specialties, I think). I'm not sure what makes us aerospace nerds so different from the civil engineers, but there seems to be something. I will say that I know 3 civil engineers, and only 1 of them knows how to program their VCR. Most of the aeros I know have the VCR as the fun toy to take apart (and pilfer spare parts from) and are building computer systems to make into custom DVR sets. Quote:
Yes, but not in aerospace engineering. Unless I want to teach or do aerospace research, a PhD would probably be more of a hindrance than a help. It won't get me any more money, and will give some of my peers in industry the wrong first impression that I'm book-smart and have only gotten as far as I have because of the degree, not because of how good I am. First impressions can mean a ton in the tiny aerospace world. As I said in an earlier response, if I were to get sick of industry, I'd go back for a PhD in rehabilitative biomechanics. Probably at a university in Australia or England, as they seem to have the most departments doing research that I'm interested in (I subscribe to a biomechanics listserv to follow the goings-on in the research world). Quote:
Yes, quite frequently. The truth of it all is that I'm good at math and science. My brain is wired in such a way that math and science really make sense to me. English and writing, on the other hand, are completely enigmatic to my brain. I really wish I were a better writer and admire those that do it well. Quote:
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A little bit, but not a ton. I try to pay attention to where people are in the standings, what games are going on, and catch the highlights, but other than the Super Bowl, I don’t think I’ve watched too many complete games. I also find I can be fairly well-informed by reading flere’s NFL WIP. If I had to say I followed a team, it’d be the Patriots, because the only football I really watched growing up was with my grandfather (either at his house or ours), because he was a Patriots fan. I think I’ve said that my parents really don’t care about sports, so I adopted the teams my grandfather followed—the Pats and the Red Sox. I guess I’m more in tune with what’s going on with the Pats (injuries, who they’re playing, what to expect), but most of the strategy and rules behind football, beyond the most basic, are above my head, so I’m pretty content with highlights and game summaries. Quote:
Nope. I’m really too stupid about football to play those games well. Plus, I’m not a fan of gaming on my computer. I’ve heard that BBCF, though, could probably be played by dummies like me. Maybe one day I’ll give it a shot. Quote:
My first guess was 350 lbs. Then I google’d the question and found out that in 2001, he peaked at 355. So now I’m guessing 360, since I think he’s heavier now than he was then, even though he did lose weight before the 2002 season. I don’t know much about head coaches in football. Sure I know big names, but I really don’t know much about them. I will say that sometimes I wonder why he calls certain plays or doesn’t bench a QB who’s really sucking, but he surely knows infinitely more about the game than I do, so who am I to say? He’s definitely the most successful coach who I remember. I seem to remember that the guy who was there before I came was kind of a dud, and then in my freshman year, they were making a big deal about Vanderlinden, who never really did much for the team. Ralph’s taken us to 4 bowl games since he came on for the 2001 season, and I think that’s the best the school has done since the 50’s or 60’s. I guess I can’t complain. Quote:
I don’t really think they need to be. We have all the trimmings of wanting to be one, but we’re not really perennially great. After 2003, we had a few down years before going back to a minor bowl last year. And, in the Orange Bowl in 2001, our game was a joke. I think we COULD be one, but I don’t think we NEED to be one. I think Maryland will always be more associated with basketball (men’s and women’s), lacrosse (men’s and women’s) and field hockey in terms of being an “elite” school. |
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Fun stuff.
Way to be detailed and stuff.
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10-24-2007, 12:24 PM
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i understand you no longer have the nipple ring and would show us it if you still had one, but could you PM me a pic of it anyway? ok bye.
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10-24-2007, 01:11 PM
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Great read!
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10-24-2007, 01:28 PM
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SERIOUSLY, I AM GOING TO RUB IT IN EVERYONE'S FACE NONSTOP FOR THE NEXT FOREVER. OH MY GOD I AM SUCH A HAPPY MAN TODAY.
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10-24-2007, 01:30 PM
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So she likes basketball players, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
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10-24-2007, 01:59 PM
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Good read.
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10-24-2007, 03:17 PM
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Excellent Read - thanks much tk!
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10-24-2007, 03:31 PM
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10-24-2007, 03:33 PM
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I don't know if you guys heard or not, but I'm the hottest FOFCer, according to terpkristin and MattJones4Heisman. I just wanted to let y'all know that.
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10-24-2007, 04:06 PM
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I think being preferred to Mike Vick is a greater honour.
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10-24-2007, 04:12 PM
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Ok, ok, so when is this Virginia area meet up going down? I need to make reservations.
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10-24-2007, 04:45 PM
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Well hell. If I'd known you don't go for married guys I wouldn't have tried to grab your ass at the last FOFC get-together.
Wait... you WERE the one with the beard, right?
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SO, if we asked to see where you used to have a nipple ring would you still flash us?
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good read. Still a great feature on this board.
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Great read TK! I didn't know you were a knitter...I am too! I'm trying to get DC into it, but the thought of teaching someone to knit via instant message is a little daunting
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10-24-2007, 09:18 PM
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Great read.
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Pumpy hasn't posted in this thread lately enough
Easily my favorite quote: "It depends on how you define broken." This is up there with Bill Clinton and "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." SI
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He'd chuck he would as much as he could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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10-25-2007, 10:01 AM
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Excellent read, tk. I learned some stuff that I had no idea about you and I was completely entertained.
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10-25-2007, 04:42 PM
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Excellent read TK.
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Hey, ummmm, terpkristin... I'm kinda shy, but... uhh... is it OK if I add you as a friend on the "Xbox Live" thing for people playing games on "Xbox Live"?
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I've never checked that website out, but I'm going to this morning...there should be somewhere online where you can form an online knitting circle...that would be so cool
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bump...unstick
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