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  1. RiceOwl
    I watched the second and third set in-person. He had a ton of crowd support from the Fairfield County crowd. He clearly got nervous in the second set and gave it away, In the 3rd set he was good, but with the amount of errors his opponent hit, it would’ve been pathetic if he’d lost.
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    Sauce on the LES is another favorite of mine. If you like squares especially.
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    I live in Hoboken now (lived in Financial District until about two weeks ago) but still am in the city multiple days a week for grad school. Would be down for a Surly meet up.
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    If you're in Williamsburg, checkout L'Industrie Pizzeria
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    I live in FiDi (though I'm moving to Hoboken next month)... Some other good places that haven't been mentioned: -Little Shop for "speakeasy" type cocktails -Pisillo for Italian sandwiches -Cedar Local for happy hour
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    Eh, depending on your destination it can work. I've made it from my financial district apartment to the terminal in 41 minutes when I timed it perfectly. PATH to Newark Penn, bus to EWR. It can also be good if you're going to midtown and can take NJT right in to NY Penn. If you're cabbing-no shot. Quicker than JFK or LGA.
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    Zadar is awesome. Spent three nights there last summer. Great outdoor bars, hopping right off the oceanside walkways to cool off in the Adriatic... Car-free downtown. Highly recommend. Hvar is also great-rent mopeds to zoom around the island and get away from the crowds of town to more secluded beachs.
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    Whoops-glossed over the fact that the other flight is into LGA... From LGA, it's only $2.75/person to the city. Q70 to Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Ave where you can transfer to the subway which will get you to Midtown. About 45 minutes of transit time. A cab will run you ~$50-60 after tip (less if there's not much traffic, more if you really get stalled).
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    1) You *should* be OK if everything is on time (especially if you have GE/Precheck). I’d definitely book this itinerary if it was a Star Alliance connection but it gives me pause that your flight back to Austin is on Delta so you won’t be protected in the event of a misconnect. There’s nothing better via EWR, ORD, or IAH on LH/UA? 2) Flat fee cab is your best option and with 5 people, not really any more expensive than the public transit options (the Air Train tickets just went to $8 and that’s before Subway/LIRR tickets).
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    If you're going to be in the village and you don't want to do pizza, Leroy House is a pretty good spot that isn't usually overrun.
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    San Matteo at 81st and 2nd was one of my favorites when I lived in that neighborhood.
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    Supposedly, Rice is starting Pepperdine transfer Cooper Chandler on Friday night. https://riceowls.com/sports/baseball/roster/cooper-chandler/7471 3.17 career ERA at Pepperdine.
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    Sure-I agree with those articles. I'm just not sure there's evidence that the counterfactual (a worsened football product) would "erase" those gains. Rice and SMU have mostly sucked at football since the SWC (and Rice since 1960) yet both remain fine universities.
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    Eh... I don't know if that's true. Is there really any evidence to suggest that conference realignment has ruined a school's ACADEMIC fate? I can think of schools who have been HELPED by realignment (TCU to name one), but none that have been truly hurt. Open to examples though! Case Western, UChicago, the Ivies, Rice, etc... All screwed themselves or got screwed by others yet all remain very competitive academically.
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    Tough break for the Stags. As for the attractiveness of women from Fairfield, there are certainly better looking ones. Quinnipiac has far better talent though if we're talking CT MAAC schools.
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    2021 NCAA Baseball

    RiceOwl replied to WBT's topic in Baseball

    This pretty much nails it. Hopefully this baseball coach will be the last coach Joe K hires. He’s been sniffing around the Duke and Northwestern jobs but I’d be happy if we just fired him so he has more time to train for marathons and blog about critical race theory. That said-I think you nailed all the main contenders. If Joe hires another Stanford assistant I will jump...
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    Essentially my plan is to apply to the M7 schools for full-time programs and if I get into one of those, I will go... I'm also applying to NYU Stern for their part-time program which is a very solid PT program. My company will pay for part of the PT program if I go that route so it'd the sting away a bit... I figure that a Stern MBA (even part-time) will give me some level of career optionality down the road (though recognize the recruiting/career change process is less cut and dry than going back FT).
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    Yup-Our Chicago and Bentonville offices are open but our NNJ office (where I work) is not yet open. Of course-Our manufacturing sites never stopped running and our field sales team was only out of stores for a month or so last spring.
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    Variety of majors-but four or five out of Econ (Rice didnt have an undergrad business program when I was there-starting it for Fall of ‘21, actually). Variety of locations-but Houston most common obviously. A couple in Atlanta and Dallas. Only 2 off the top of my head were in NY and SF which were the toughest offices to get, pre-Covid at least. Traditionally, my impression is that most consulting firms only had Dallas and Houston offices in Texas but I know several are opening Austin offices which should be great for UT grads (and Rice to a lesser extent). I think it’ll be interesting to see how consulting evolves post-Covid as I know many people like it for the travel and perks (in addition to the exit opps). Will clients still want people “on-site” as much!?
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    I've both doses of Pfizer at this point. First shot-mildly sore arm but really no big deal. Second shot-very sore arm and accidentally slept on it which made in worse. Also a bit of fatigue. Gone with 36 hours.
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    FWIW-From my class of 970 at Rice, Mckinsey hired 3, Bain hired 5, and BCG 8 to "front office" undergrad roles (i.e. Business Analyst at Mckinsey, Associate at BCG, Associate Consultant at Bain). That's across all majors though-maybe four or five of those were econ? They hired lots of ChemE majors. So whi I honestly don't think I'm particularly underpaid.. Just shy of 100k for 40 hours a week at age 25 isn't bad. Am I getting rich? No, not yet... But plenty of money to have a decent apartment, go on some fun trips, and put away 10% of my paycheck (+6% company match) into a 401k. To your point though-things were definitely less fun making 60-80k, especially when I moved to the northeast. I'm planning on applying to B-School though for the Fall '22 cycle though and have GMAT scores that should get me into a top 15. So line of site to 175-ish (assuming I do consulting post-MBA) is there before I'm 30.
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    I'm three years out of Rice (finished in 12/2017) and was an econ major who didn't have the grades for MBB so I went into CPG: Starting Salary of 65k @ large publicly traded CPG company (think KO, PEP, PG) as a junior financial analyst in DFW 18 months in was promoted to a financial analyst position for same company... Salary bump to 77k in greater NYC. Left company after two years for a different large CPG company, this one privately held... Salary bump to 96k in a senior strategy analyst role in greater NYC.
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    Yeah, I lived at the corner of Hermann and Alameda in 2016-17 and in a large apartment complex and though it wasn’t really dangerous, I did get robbed at the gas station on that corner. Close enough to the 3rd Ward that there’s some spillover. Nice apartment though and good for a bunch of college kids.
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    Are you referring to Trei? He was a Cape Cod league All-Star and is projected as top 3 round pick. Just hasn’t hit tonight but he’ll be fine over the course of a season. The younger brother, Antonio, is a good glue guy-but yes-probably going to have to work a day job unlike his father and grandfather.
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    The best Rice pitcher is Roel Garcia who’s coming off TJ. Expecting him to start Sunday and pitch 2-3 innings.

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