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All I’m asking is that you just set a timer that’s set to end a few minutes before your laundry is supposed to be done, and that you’re removing your clothes at least within a few minutes after it’s finished.

I just can’t believe that this is such an insurmountable task for seemingly everyone in my college. I need to be up at 5:00am for a few days in the week, so the longer you decide you want to keep your clothes in the wash or dryer after they’re finished, the less sleep I’m going to be able to get.

Genuinely what the actual fuck is so hard to understand about this?

I’m a current college Long Snapper who has a pretty extensive knowledge of the position. I know it’s a position that, especially newer NFL fans, may not know much about, so I’m happy to answer any and all questions you all might have about it!

I’m starting fall camp next week, and was just wondering if anyone had some general tips on how to survive playing at the next level? I’m playing at a small D3 and came from one of the most competitive HS programs in the country, so I don’t think I’m going to have a huge problem adjusting, but I am definitely worried about lining up against guys 4-5 years older than me.

I’ve lived within walking distance of some of the best beaches in the country for almost my entire life. Now, in less than a week, I’ll be moving to what might be one of the coldest, most landlocked places in the entire US.

The coldest weather I’ve ever experienced in my hometown is about 50F, and I’ve rarely experienced days above 80F. My family also probably owns more surfboards than we do sweatshirts lol.

I visited a ton of colleges last year in the lead up to picking a school, so I thought I share some of my thoughts on these places to help some of you make a more informed decision. Please feel free to ask questions if you have any! I still encourage you all to visit as many places as you can before you decide on a school.

Hyde Park (UChicago)

It’s definitely not in the best part of the city, but the campus and immediate area surrounding it felt very safe and interesting. It’s a ways away from the downtown center of that makes a difference to any of you, but it’s still relatively easy to get there via public transportation if you want/need to.

Evanston (Northwestern)

Very much upscale and residential feeling. There’s some stuff to do around town, but don’t expect to get to Chicago all that easily, especially without a car. Much more chill and quiet than most other college towns overall.

College Area (SDSU)

For such a big school, I was surprised that this place wasn’t all that big. There’s plenty to do on and right off of campus, so I wouldn’t be too worried, but it’s still a decent ways away from downtown San Diego. Still feels a lot like Southern California just a little more inland.

Fullerton (CSUF)

Located in OC, but feels a lot like LA. You can tell this is mostly a commuter school because there really isn’t a whole lot going on around campus. If you’ve ever visited any city in LA, you’ve visited Fullerton.

La Jolla (UCSD)

Semi-similar to Evanston, just with warmer weather and much more surfing. Ridiculously expensive, but there’s plenty of cool restaurants and places to hang out.

Irvine (UCI)

The best word I can use to describe Irvine to people who haven’t visited is “sterile”. Everything just feels like a soulless corporate park without and real interesting culture or history. It feels like a place you’d get arrested for spitting gum on the ground. Lots to do, and plenty of places to go though.

Westwood (UCLA)

Genuinely a cool self-contained neighborhood, though relatively small compared to the size of campus. LA is really impossible to navigate without a car, so don’t expect to be going far using public transportation. Lots to do, but heavy with tourism.

Watts (USC)

Genuinely dangerous, but campus security is air-tight. I wouldn’t go off campus past 9-10pm, but I don’t really see a reason why you would if you already have access to all the great things offered on USC’s main campus.

Berkeley (UCB)

Honestly pretty boring. A few decent shops and restaurants, but not a whole lot to do beyond eat and go to the local bars. SF isn’t super easy to access from campus either, but there’s probably enough to do to not be completely bored.

Claremont (Claremont Colleges)

Not a whole lot of anything going on. Really just a small college town vibe. You’ll have access to anything you need, but not much more beyond that. Also ridiculously hot during the early fall.

Cambridge (Harvard/MIT)

Extremely busy neighborhood when the weather is warm, but there’s more than enough to do. It’s also semi-walkable to downtown Boston if you have a free half-day, and everything is extremely easy to access from either campus.

South Bend (Notre Dame)

One of the most boring places I’ve ever visited. There’s a couple restaurants, but the downtown is basically just one or two streets. Also located about 2 hours away from anywhere interesting, so be prepared to drive if you want to go somewhere else.

Mac-Groveland (Macalester)

Such a quiet, chill neighborhood with easy access to the Twin Cities. Obviously quite cold in the Winter, but personally I prefer that to it being too hot. Lots of walking/bike trails, bars, restaurants, and general amenities. Still feels a little car-centric, but bikes are still emphasized a decent amount.

I’m an incoming freshman getting ready to play football this fall at a DIII school. I’m genuinely so excited and I’ve developed a great relationship with the coaches over the last year or so.

Unfortunately, after I committed earlier this year, I learned that one of our games, played on a Saturday, is scheduled literally the day before a wedding I was picked to be one of the groomsmen in. This wedding has been scheduled for over a year now, and I can’t imagine missing it.

From what I’ve learned so far, my HC does give us Sundays off entirely, so I was planning on flying out immediately after the game on Saturday evening, and returning Monday morning. I don’t think I will miss anything significant, though there is a possibility that I miss a morning lift/practice on that Monday.

I know I shouldn’t really be missing days for any reason as a freshman, especially considering there’s a solid chance I’ll start this year, but I don’t know what other option I have. How should I approach talking to my coach about this? I’m on very good terms with my coach, but he is fairly serious about accountability and showing up ready to work consistently.

I’m a Long Snapper gearing up to play my first season of college football for a high academic D3 school. I’m probably ranked around top 25-50 for my class, but I just never had the build nor any interest in playing D2 or D1.

If you have any questions about D3 recruiting or just anything about how it works as a whole, especially at a school that focuses more on academics, I’m happy to answer them.

I just wanted to share this because I think it’s worth telling you all just how amazing of a person my grandpa is. He’s been taking Wednesdays off from work ever since I was two, and it’s really just turned into a full-blown tradition to hang out with him then.

Before I could drive myself to school, he would wake up early in the morning to bring me a bagel, drive me over, and pick me up to grab lunch afterwards. He always let me pick where we went to eat, but we usually just ended up at the same few spots every week lol. We honestly both became known by the staff at probably 4-5 different restaurants over the years.

He’s 80 now, still going into work every day but Wednesday, and has no plans to retire anytime soon. I’m leaving to go to college across the country, and this will be the last Wednesday we’ll be able to get together before I leave.

He’s done so much for me over the years, and I truly cant thank him enough. I hope you can all appreciate what he’s done as much as I have. Be sure to thank the important people in your life, they absolutely deserve it.

Thank you Pop Pop ❤️

I have a rare genetic condition which one of the most common symptoms is anosmia. I wasn’t diagnosed with this condition until I was 13 and lived a relatively normal life until that point. I genuinely thought I was either going crazy or just didn’t know what smell actually was until I knew I had anosmia. Feel free to AMA

I went through the whole application process over this last year, and honestly got so caught up in trying to get into the absolute “best” school possible, regardless of where it was geographically. The bulk of my research was essentially just looking at different rankings and judging schools almost entirely based on whether or not US News thought highly of them.

Now don’t get me wrong, the quality of academics can vary wildly from school to school, so if you’re really looking to go into a career that requires you to have an academically-intense undergraduate experience, definitely take into consideration rankings and overall professor quality.

However, there comes a point where you’re just splitting hairs trying to justify choosing a school ranked 5-10 spots higher, when the lower ranked school may actually be a better fit for you location-wise.

If you truly want to stay close to home (which I honestly wouldn’t recommend in the first place), why would you even be considering schools across the country? Or alternatively if you really want to get away, why would you be looking at schools only a few miles from home?

At the end of the day, you’re going to be most successful at the school you’re happiest, rather than someone where you’re absolutely miserable, and that starts with finding a place you’d actually enjoy living.

My final decision came primarily down to location, and I’m genuinely so excited I choose the school I did because it allows me to explore somewhere new and experience an environment that’s so different and unfamiliar from where I grew up.

I know that experience isn’t for everyone, but I was considering some schools that were technically ranked higher, but would’ve either been somewhere a lot more boring or felt way too much like home; I don’t think I would’ve been nearly as excited to start college if I didn’t choose a school in the place that I did, even if that school was “better” for what I wanted to do.

Please, if you’re someone going through the application process right now, at least consider what I’ve said. I know if I heard this a year ago I probably would’ve ignored it and called myself crazy, but I think it’s at least worth getting out there for people to consider.

Good luck to you all. I know how stressful everything can feel in this moment, but you’ll get through it.

I went through the whole application process over this last year, and honestly got so caught up in trying to get into the absolute “best” school possible, regardless of where it was geographically. The bulk of my research was essentially just looking at different rankings and judging schools almost entirely based on whether or not US News thought highly of them.

Now don’t get me wrong, the quality of academics can vary wildly from school to school, so if you’re really looking to go into a career that requires you to have an academically-intense undergraduate experience, definitely take into consideration rankings and overall professor quality.

However, there comes a point where you’re just splitting hairs trying to justify choosing a school ranked 5-10 spots higher, when the lower ranked school may actually be a better fit for you location-wise.

If you truly want to stay close to home (which I honestly wouldn’t recommend in the first place), why would you even be considering schools across the country? Or alternatively if you really want to get away, why would you be looking at schools only a few miles from home?

At the end of the day, you’re going to be most successful at the school you’re happiest, rather than someone where you’re absolutely miserable, and that starts with finding a place you’d actually enjoy living.

My final decision came primarily down to location, and I’m genuinely so excited I choose the school I did because it allows me to explore somewhere new and experience an environment that’s so different and unfamiliar from where I grew up.

I know that experience isn’t for everyone, but I was considering some schools that were technically ranked higher, but would’ve either been somewhere a lot more boring or felt way too much like home; I don’t think I would’ve been nearly as excited to start college if I didn’t choose a school in the place that I did, even if that school was “better” for what I wanted to do.

Please, if you’re someone going through the application process right now, at least consider what I’ve said. I know if I heard this a year ago I probably would’ve ignored it and called myself crazy, but I think it’s at least worth getting out there for people to consider.

Good luck to you all. I know how stressful everything can feel in this moment, but you’ll get through it.

Hi! I’m an incoming class of 2030 student, and I know this might sound like a stupid question, but it’s been something I’ve been thinking about for a while.

Mac is the only school throughout my entire college decision process that I could not really find a single person, current student or alumni, in-person or online, who had an overall negative experience. Essentially every person I’ve talked to just seems to be having it have had an amazing time and could not recommend it to me enough. Is this really what the culture/environment seems to be on campus?

Obviously no college is all sunshine and rainbows, but are people just that academically and socially content at Mac? Most of the other schools I looked at there were usually a small but vocal minority who seemed to not have the best experience at the school for one reason or another, including schools of a similar size to Mac, so it just made me curious if there was something unique here that made people just enjoy there time so much.

The more I’ve thought about this, the more I’ve realized just how much I agree with it. It has nearly twice as many ads as any other game, the announcers often have to “dumb down” their calls and analysis so that the people who don’t know anything about the sport can understand it, and the theatrics surrounding the game often overshadow the game itself.

I don’t necessarily think there’s anything inherently wrong with those things in a broad sense; there’s a lot of people watching and a solid chunk of them are going to be people with little to no football knowledge, but it makes for a legitimately painful viewing experience.

The Conference Championship, Divisional, and Wildcard games are generally significantly more interesting games to watch, especially since they’re generally fairly similar viewing experiences to regular season games, just with higher stakes. Honestly even regular season games have much shorter ad breaks and there’s usually a bunch of games on at once to flip through when one does have a break.

Don’t get me wrong, the Super Bowl is a genuinely fun event and it’s a great excuse to hang out with some friends and order a pizza, but it’s definitely the worst terms of how it compares to watching any other football game throughout the season imo.

I’ve been looking forward to going to college since I was a little kid. I just graduated High School and just want to be in a place where I can study the things I’m genuinely interested in at a new environment, meet new people, and experience everything that comes along with college life.

Now, I’m only a little over a month away from moving in, but I feel like I shouldn’t be as anxious to start as I actually am. I’ve been told by so many people to just enjoy this Summer because it’s the last truly “free” Summer I’ll ever get, but it’s hard to focus on staying in the moment when someone so excited is staring me in the face.

I honestly already feel like I’m in college; I’ve done so much prep work and research that still being stuck at home feels so condensed and empty compared to everything I’m going to be able to experience soon.

I still have a few fun things planned for the remainder of the Summer, but I want to make sure that I’m actually able to *enjoy* them rather than just waiting for them to be over.

If anyone else has been in a similar situation in the past, I’d really appreciate some advice or input on this. I don’t really know what I should be doing right now especially since It seems all of my friends are dreading having to start school again, even people who I know have been looking forwards to college like myself.

I’ve been looking forward to going to college since I was a little kid. I want to study the things I’m genuinely interested in at a new environment, meet new people, and experience everything that comes along with college life.

Now, I’m only a little over a month away from moving in, but I feel like I shouldn’t be as anxious to start as I actually am. I’ve been told by so many people to just enjoy this Summer because it’s the last truly “free” Summer I’ll ever get, but it’s hard to focus on staying in the moment when someone so excited is staring me in the face.

I honestly already feel like I’m in college; I’ve done so much prep work and research that still being stuck at home feels so condensed and empty compared to everything I’m going to be able to experience soon.

I still have a few fun things planned for the remainder of the Summer, but I want to make sure that I’m actually able to enjoy them rather than just waiting for them to be over.

If anyone else has been in a similar situation in the past, I’d really appreciate some advice or input on this. I don’t really know what I should be doing right now or if what I’m feeling is even normal. It seems all of my friends are dreading having to start school again, even people who I know have been looking forwards to college like myself.

I just graduated high school and am currently preparing to play at the next level. I’ve been training with a private coach twice a week, going to the gym 3-4 times a week, and eating as much as I possibly can, but I feel like I’m not even close to ready.

I’m headed to a team that currently doesn’t have someone rostered at my position, and the only other recruit in my class who played my position decommitted at the last minute.

I’m genuinely excited to start college, but having to line up against people 4-5 years older than me in just a little over a month is absolutely terrifying.

Feel free to AMA about my situation. I’ll do my best to answer all questions to the best of my ability.

I just finished up my college recruiting process playing football, and I’m genuinely so glad it was so incredibly straightforward and fun compared to some other HS sports. I genuinely don’t know how people who play these sports deal with how insane the recruiting is, especially with how ridiculous of a time commitment you have to be prepared for year-round.

For those who don’t know, to get recruited to play in college in the US for specific sports, you can’t just play well on your official High School’s team. Instead, you have to try out for a club team in the offseason, play an extra 3-4 months worth of games and practices, and hope you get noticed by colleges.

Compared to football which is essentially all based on your performance on your High School team, with maybe a couple camps so coaches can see you in person, having to essentially give up your offseason entirely so you *might* get a chance to talk to a college coach seems incredibly stressful to me.

I know some people choose to forgo playing on their HS team entirely for this reason, but honestly that only exasperates the problems here, considering now you’re likely not going to be playing with your friends, there’s less rules around when and how you can practice, and there’s always an immense amount of pressure on you to perform at all times.

This kind of recruiting is just way too much to ask out of HS students. 16-18 year olds shouldn’t be skipping homework or being able to have a legitimate HS experience just so they might get a chance to play at the next level. I understand sacrifices have to be made somewhere if you want to separate yourself, but this just seems insane to me.

Please let me know what your experience was if you’re someone who went through this process with a sport that required you to do this. Again, I’m so happy football did not require this level of offseason dedication, though it definitely had its difficulties in its own right that I absolutely have problems with.

I’m headed to Macalester this fall after falling in love with the school and the Twin Cities, but I was really just wondering what are some things that are a “must know” for someone moving out?

I’ve lived in the San Diego area my entire life and haven’t ever really experienced a truly cold winter in my life, but I’m fully expecting it to be brutal, although I’ll be home for most of January.

What are the best spots to eat? What are some fun things to do when the weather is actively trying to kill you? What things might I not be expecting that I should know? I’m honestly just looking for as much input as possible to prepare for next month when I move out. I’m genuinely so excited to make the move!