u/mozzazela

Wondering if anyone could help me/has been in a similar situation!
I am going to be 19 in a month and I haven’t danced in over a year besides the club i recently started at college. I did not go to nationals last year because i tore my MCL (knee injury) and essentially just never went back after that because of school and life changes.
I would love to get back into it and I’m having a really hard time not being at the same level I was over a year ago when I got injured. My goal would be to go to NAIDC next year and maybe competition ready by the end of winter/early spring 2027 so I can get at least one comp in before nationals.

my main question is what should I be focusing on strengthening/stretching etc. and how much a day/week should I practice so I don’t overdo it? I’m very use to 10+ hours a week and genuinely don’t know how to limit myself. I am extremely out of shape haha

I am a student who attends a large public state school (i am out of state though, so still pretty pricy) and I am considering switching to a small private school. I have a very weird situation as I was originally committed to the smaller school but ultimately chose the bigger school last minute because I didn’t know if i wanted to pursue engineering, which is what the smaller school specializes in.
I am a declared chemistry major now and both schools have great opportunities in this. I have an established research position at my current school though and my professor is great. he is the only reason I do not want to leave because otherwise housing sucks, cost sucks, and they overall do not care about their students.
The smaller school has decided to reinstate my decision to enter the honors program and I’m assuming they will give me better aid than the school I attend now. the honors program gives me guaranteed research opportunities and priority advising etc (stuff i do not have at my current school)

I don’t know what the right decision is, especially without specific numbers but if anyone has some insight that would be greatly appreciated. for some context I believe the smaller school would be around 10k less based on the previous package I got. I am also planning to pursue a PhD, that is why the research and connections are extremely important to me.

for some additional information my current research advisor said he would continue writing me letters of recommendations and he would advocate for me if i wanted to do my PhD there. I do not think i would lost my relationship with him but obviously it would fade with time.

Hey! I’m going into my sophomore year at a public state school (not my state, so still pretty costly) and I was wondering if someone could tell me whether it would be worth it to transfer to RPI for 2 years. I got admitted to RPI last year but ultimately decided not to go because of the price. I am curious as to what kind of merit they give out to transfers, I understand it is very similar to what they give freshman but exact numbers would be great if anyone was willing to share.
also, I am heavily involved in research, clubs, etc at my current school so I am wondering if it is easy enough to get involved as an upperclassman at RPI?