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So whenever I look on this sub about Skidmore I see nothing but negativity like “it’s very cliquey”, “dorms suck”, “faculty are controlling and not top notch” and “don’t waste your money”. But I’m going there in the fall and don’t notice any of those things, in my experience people are nice and also I got a great package from them. I mean I don’t see the problem really, it has a 20% acceptance rate and high median SAT/GPA so it’s gotta be rigorous, and the campus is beautiful. Ik I’m trying to defend my own school but I don’t see all the negativity on this sub

I recommend this app called “Business Deal: Fun Card Game” to play Monopoly Deal for free online. You can play solo or with friends/strangers. It’s good and usually the game flows pretty smoothly. One thing is that the bots are very dumb (like, banking Deal Breakers kind of dumb) so I win about 90% of the time, it can get boring. Otherwise I recommend it though!

There’s also this strange new card called Insurance that allows you to insure a property and get monetary value if it’s stolen, but honestly it’s pretty terrible. You get money from the Bank not the player who steals it, other players can see an insured property and know not to steal it, and you can’t modify an insured property if you want to switch a wild card or something. I usually just bank these cards.

Did y’all know they have the Fourth of July in Canada too?

>!Well, it’s just a normal day, but they still have it! It’s not like they go straight from July 3 to July 5!!<

The obvious answer is Phoenix because it’s the hottest city in the US, but it’s also dry and I’ve heard some AWFUL things about summers in other places. Specifically Washingtonians (DC) have told me summers are insane and super muggy there, even more than Floridians and other southerners. What do y’all think.

I live in NYC. I don’t like our summers but ik we have it a LOT better than many

Then on the flip side, there’s Seattle 😊

When you look at the most populated metro areas in the US like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, they all have moderate weather and access to water. LA is drier than the rest but has excellent weather, while NYC and Chicago have more continental weather but a lot of access to water. Phoenix, it seems, has neither. It's an extreme environment with an average of 100-110 degree days during the summer, and is extremely dry. Not to mention it's located in the Valley of the Sun AND has an urban heat island effect, both of which make it even hotter. It is also very dry, and the only river it has is usually dry, and the city gets very little rain. I don't know how the 5.2 million people who live in the Phoenix area get enough water or stay cool enough to live, let alone live comfortably (Phoenixians have told me, they don't in the summer). Also, if you're going to build a city in the middle of a hot desert, why build it in the Valley of the Sun where the blazing heat is even worse and becomes extreme?

I like Owl City, but my personal favorite song of theirs is definitely Dreams and Distasters. I feel like it combines classic pop elements like being upbeat and things like "feeling alive" while also talking about serious themes like loneliness and desire (we were alone on the road driving faster) and even death. And of course it has the pop message of "do your best, follow your dreams, you will succeed", but not in the same copy-paste way that a lot of pop songs do (like Good Time).

Also this song in my opinion perfectly encapsulates the vast deserts of the West. Nobody for miles on end, far away from everything, and so enchanting to the point it's dangerous. Yet still worth it. Not to mention "eyes on the horizon", "on the road driving faster" and "as the smoke billowed higher", which I associate with the West. Reminds me how much I need to go back there (I've been only to New Mexico, but this song reminds me of it).

Like, I know it's why we only ever see one side of the Moon. And I know it has something to do with the Moon's rotational speed being equal to its orbital speed. But why exactly does this make us see only one side? Does its axis separate the light side from the dark side? Also, I know that the Moon has a [very small] axial tilt, so how does that not mess things up? I'm sure all this is known I just can't really quite visualize it. Does it have something to do with our own rotation or orbit?

I'm a new driver who has a permit but is looking to learn how to drive. I've done a few practice drives with my parents in parking lots and on ~30-45mph rural roads, but it's hard to get consistent practice because I live in New York City, however I'm looking to do driving school in the next few years. One of the biggest issues I have is taking turns WAAAY too slow; like on a road of speed limit ~40 I will take a turn sometimes as slow as 15mph, which I know isn't safe if there are other cars around. I haven't been on any highways yet but I'm also worried this speed anxiety will translate into me going slow on entrance ramps merging onto traffic as fast as 80mph. I go way too slow because I feel safer but I know going this slow will not be safe if I drive in traffic. What's the best way to get over something like this?

Also, I'm neurodivergent so that hurts my reflexes, but I feel I can still do it

I'm a 17 year old in NYC looking for a summer job. Full time is best. I'm looking for something like a camp counselor or junior counselor job but I could do anything. Does anyone know any jobs still hiring? I've applied to many but either never heard back or been rejected.

I saw a spurs fan do this on the Knicks subreddit, so I thought I would do the same.

This is going to be an amazing Finals. Of course I will be rooting for the Knicks but I seriously like your team. Wemby is amazing and so humble, the Spurs are just such a likable team. Such a history of awesome humans from Coach Pop to Tim Duncan and now Wemby. I’m going to force myself to root against you because you’re playing my Knicks, but it’s gonna be nothing like the blood-boiling hate watch if the Thunder won this weekend.

The Finals itself will be awesome. Y’all definitely got the best player on the floor in Wemby (I’m all-in on Brunson and thinks he gets MASSIVELY disrespected but I’m not delusional), but the Knicks have been playing amazing and have a huge rest advantage (as well as I think a better starting 5 as a team despite Wemby tho I’m biased).

May the best team win and become the 2026 NBA champions!

P.S. Thank you for taking out the trash.

I say, get that mindset outta here! I’ve heard some people say they’d rather not sweep the Spurs because it’ll be a “dull Finals”. Definitely the minority of Knicks fans but I just wanna say, absolutely not. If we sweep we will go down in history as the greatest postseason team ever. Triple sweep, 16-2 in playoffs with 15-game win streak, highest point differential in playoff history. I could not possibly care less about a “dull Finals”.

Now, do I think we’re gonna sweep them? No. I think we can beat them for sure but not sweep. And we shouldn’t expect a sweep because we will be disappointed. But still, if we do it, I will not be disappointed because “the Finals were boring”. I get it, but just no.

[Rant] This is how the media has treated us this postseason:

After Regular Season: “The Hawks are young and talented. Dyson Daniels can guard Brunson. Hawks in 7!”

*Three straight blowouts, one of them in HISTORIC fashion to close out the series*

Pre-ECSF: “They played a sixth seed with no playoff experience and couldn’t even sweep! How embarrassing. Sixers will beat them when healthy. Maxey>Brunson”

*You want a sweep? Here’s a sweep. Couple blowouts too. 🧹🧹🧹🧹*

Pre-ECF: “Embiid was hurt. Knicks got lucky. Sixers suck. Cavs or Pistons will destroy them. Cavs are the most talented team in the East and Pistons have the best defense in the East.”

*3-0 so far, including a HUGE Q4 comeback*

“Cavs are bums. They don’t deserve to be here. The fact that the Knicks went down 20 to this team says everything you need to know. They’ll get stomped by the West.”

Moving goalposts like I’ve never seen before. All I gotta say is, keep bringing it on! It motivates us! Go Knicks!

I said it. And here’s why: Most things that could’ve gone wrong for the Knicks went wrong. Our threes weren’t going in. Our bigmen got in early foul trouble (and no Robinson). Paul George went insane in the first half and Tyrese Maxey too. And of course the refs.

And we still won the effing game. That’s how good we are. Not every game is going to be like G6 in Atlanta or G1 of this series. And we’re not going to win every game either. But that’s why seven game series are played. Showing we can win games like this is very important especially if we face OKC in the Finals (hoping we get there) with their stellar defense.

LGK! Still a lot of basketball to be played, far from over!

So, I just got off the waitlist for Skidmore College today, and I’m really excited! I love LACs (my first choice was Bowdoin, another waitlist but haven’t heard back), but Skid looks great to me. My other choice is Binghamton. I’ve heard good and bad things about Skidmore, but it seems great to me, I love nature and all that. I like an academically rigorous environment. I also am neurodivergent and am wondering what it’s like socially. There are definitely things that I like better about Bing like opportunities and research, but I wanna know more about Skidmore. Thanks! Also, I want to do mock trial but Skid doesn’t have a team, is there a way I can create one or join one that someone creates? Haven’t done it in high school but I’m very interested in law, wanting to go to law school.

So, like, I don’t really get the broken process of college admissions and prestige. I’m a HS senior with a 96 GPA with eight AP classes (plus three dual enrollment classes at Columbia) and a 1550 SAT with decent ECs. Yet I didn’t get into any of my reaches or even targets, just my safety Binghamton. I live in NY and can’t pay for OOS public schools like Berkeley. Like I know Bing isn’t a bad school, it just seems all my classmates are getting into really selective schools with much worse grades and similar ECs as me. My college counselor said my essay was really good too. Like again I know Bing is a good school but I often see it grouped into the category of “safeties” or “grouped with other SUNY schools—great value but little prestige”, and it just seems I did all this for a school that isn’t really very different to get into. Not sure what to do, this process is broken.