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Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

Benne posted:

Will any Pac-12 team make it past the first weekend?

If all goes well only Utah will make it past the round of 64

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Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal

Benne posted:

Will any Pac-12 team make it past the first weekend?

God willing, no.

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.

Roger Craig posted:

I have my qualifying exam in two weeks

word. what field?

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Akbar posted:

nice, I defend next week. what are you working on?

Congrats and good luck! What's your own area?

I'm in English; the project takes videogame strategies (mostly from glitching and speedrunning) and use them to talk about how we read various 20th-century novels.

Roger Craig posted:

I have my qualifying exam in two weeks

Comps was pretty easily my favorite part of grad school. I don't actually mind the dissertating, really, but I do mind not knowing yet where my next year's worth of food and rent will come from.

thehoodie
Feb 8, 2011

"Eat something made with love and joy - and be forgiven"

elentar posted:

Congrats and good luck! What's your own area?

I'm in English; the project takes videogame strategies (mostly from glitching and speedrunning) and use them to talk about how we read various 20th-century novels.

This sounds cool, can I read this?

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
What the gently caress kind of offense is this

corn on the cop
Oct 12, 2012

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

― Corey Dostoyevsky
michigan state's prolly gonna win

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
What the gently caress

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

elentar posted:

Congrats and good luck! What's your own area?

I'm in English; the project takes videogame strategies (mostly from glitching and speedrunning) and use them to talk about how we read various 20th-century novels.


Comps was pretty easily my favorite part of grad school. I don't actually mind the dissertating, really, but I do mind not knowing yet where my next year's worth of food and rent will come from.

Those are two things I would never try to compare

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

MSU still gonna win by 30, but lol at the game so far

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

=^-^=
if MSU loses I loving quit

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Henchman of Santa posted:

What the gently caress kind of offense is this
B1G T1N OFF1NSE

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Da glove 2.0 :eyepop:

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

I'm uncomfortable at this discussion of "free strokin'" on the TruTV postgame.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Poque posted:

if MSU loses I loving quit

I'll meet you at the tower

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

Poque posted:

if MSU loses I loving quit

Izzos wild ride holds no bounds

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Lol travel out of a timeout, Izzo is going to dismember someone on live tv

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.

elentar posted:

Congrats and good luck! What's your own area?

I'm in English; the project takes videogame strategies (mostly from glitching and speedrunning) and use them to talk about how we read various 20th-century novels.


Comps was pretty easily my favorite part of grad school. I don't actually mind the dissertating, really, but I do mind not knowing yet where my next year's worth of food and rent will come from.

Political science, specifically environmental politics.

That's a neat project. I'm not sure I understand the premise, could you tell me a bit more?

For me, my qualifying exam and prelims were the worst. Being ABD is great.

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

Akbar posted:

word. what field?

Electrical Engineering. I already have an MS in genetics though; I'm working on biomedical devices. You?

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

=^-^=

Henchman of Santa posted:

Lol travel out of a timeout, Izzo is going to dismember someone on live tv

timeout, travel, 15 minute commercial break

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Poque posted:

timeout, travel, 15 minute commercial break
MSU scores four points, MTSU takes a panic time out, cue 15-minute commercial break. We come back, there's a foul, cue a 10-minute TV time out.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
What the gently caress is going on in the MSU game?

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

The Glumslinger posted:

What the gently caress is going on in the MSU game?
March Madness. That's what.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

The Glumslinger posted:

What the gently caress is going on in the MSU game?

Our offensive strategy of "run around the three point line for 25 seconds and launch" is strangely ineffective

Poque
Sep 11, 2003

=^-^=

Henchman of Santa posted:

Our offensive strategy of "run around the three point line for 25 seconds and launch" is strangely ineffective

it's working for MTSU

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Think that Cal basket probably should've stayed on the board, though glad for anything that keeps Hawaii going and embarrasses the Pac12 a little more.

thehoodie posted:

This sounds cool, can I read this?

Thanks! And sure, though I have to make it into a much better book first.

Akbar posted:

Political science, specifically environmental politics.

That's a neat project. I'm not sure I understand the premise, could you tell me a bit more?

For me, my qualifying exam and prelims were the worst. Being ABD is great.

Essentially I argue that videogame players have developed a range of approaches that can expand our ideas of what it means to read or interpret a text, especially complex texts like novels. So mostly I pair novels and games to consider questions like what it would mean to glitch a novel.

I'll stop derailing there but would be glad to talk by PM at any point. :)

elentar fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Mar 18, 2016

abelwingnut
Dec 23, 2002


mtsu hasn't missed a shot, msu has missed all but one

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

Henchman of Santa posted:

Our offensive strategy of "run around the three point line for 25 seconds and launch" is strangely ineffective

Make sure izzo is on the sidelines and not Scotty Brooks

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.

Roger Craig posted:

Electrical Engineering. I already have an MS in genetics though; I'm working on biomedical devices. You?

neat. we have a good BME program where I am. seems like a plush career too.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
lol if you don't want maximum chaos at all times

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Chinatown posted:

lol if you don't want maximum chaos at all times

I do when it doesn't involve my team as the victim

dirty shrimp money
Jan 8, 2001

Michigan State will have this lead erased in like two minutes and order will return to the world

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons
FFS rams what are you doing

dirty shrimp money
Jan 8, 2001

Chinatown posted:

lol if you don't want maximum chaos at all times

This world is too dark for maximum chaos

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



yes yes orst

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Oregon State on a run.

I respect Wayne Tinkle if mostly for surviving grade school with that name.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

Damnit VCU get it together.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
GET THAT poo poo OUT IF HERE

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Crazy Ted posted:

MSU scores four points, MTSU takes a panic time out, cue 15-minute commercial break. We come back, there's a foul, cue a 10-minute TV time out.

And MTSU just called one after a 2-0 run

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pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
This VCU/Oregon State game is good

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