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Given their small stipend, that will probably be almost required for CSU grad students unless someone literally wants to live off of ramen, not just metaphorically. On the bright side, based on some information around the web it looks like they tend to offer more than the initial stipend amount promised (by ~2K).

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Cool. It looks like there will be three GCers there that weekend. I'm not sure what to expect as this will be my first visit anywhere, so it should be an interesting experience. How many people do you think they will have that weekend?

When I had a phone interview with a school (post-acceptance) I said something along the lines of "What are the usual responsibilties in a typical work week for students, including time in a lab and outside of that?" This is a sort of indirect way of asking, if they don't mention specific hours at that point you could ask about about the normal time commitment for those responsibilities previously described.

Anyone else going to CSU for the Feb. 22-24 dates? Did not mean to double post, sorry.

Hopefully they are all non-stop!

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Still no admissions dreams, although I did have my very first zombie dream the other night. I think my brain was too tired to make much of it unfortunately. I was sleeping in my bead when I woke up to the sound of a helicopter. I looked out my window and a small group of zombies was walking to my front door. The military helicopter overhead spun up its 30mm cannon and took out the zombies but some of the bullets also tore into my house, barely missing me. I went and took cover under me bed (what a coward lol) while I waited for the helicopter to fly away. Around the same time the helicopter shot some canisters into my house (tear gas style) and a green gas came out. The gas had some kind of microorganism in it (think babel fish from HHGTG) which bonded to me brain. This gave me some special kind of vision so I could see the bad microorganisms causing the zombies. Unfortunately a bunch of them came up the stairs and under my door. One got into my brain and plucked something (I had an image of a small capacitor being ripped out), everything froze like my brain died and the dream ended. It was too bad because I thought things were just starting to get good!

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To those admitted to Yale today from the website, did a message appear in the "message center"?

I think Brett Favre deserves his due credit. If there was a Mount Rushmore of quarterbacks it would contain in no particular order Joe Montana Peyton Manning Tom Brady Johnny Unitas In the second tier we have the likes of Brett Favre, John Elway, Steve Young, Otto Graham, Dan Marino, and some others. The difference between Jay Cutler and Brett Favre is not necessarily decision making but rather execution. They called Brett Favre a "gunslinger" for a reason, because he embodied a high risk/high reward style of quarterback play. He would throw that ball into any kind of coverage because he knew that more often than not either his receiver would catching it or the ball out fall incomplete. 336 times that didn't quite work out as planned, but there has never been a quarterback with as many spectacular deep passes as Farve simply because he was willing to take risks others wouldn't think twice about. The difference between him and Jay Cutler is execution. More often than not he got it done. Yes he had some spectacular interceptions but it wasn't a careless interception, it was a calculated risk. You see Jay Cutler play and it is the exact opposite. I only watched one Bears game this year (I think it was a Monday night football game?) and I recall one throw where Jay Cutler was under pressure, running around trying to avoid getting sacked and you can see as soon as he realizes he is about to get hit by a train he simply winds up and throws it deep off his back foot without even looking where he is throwing. The result? It is underthrown by about 5-10 yards and easily picked off. Execution, execution, execution. That said, in the modern football league gunslinger quarterbacks are discouraged in favor of the more traditional pocket/mobile quarterback who can keep the game and momentum flowing in their direction. An interception-prone gunslinger would not be able to handle keeping a steady rhythym on offense.

The fact that they contacted you directly about the issue is a good sign, if they were not interested in your application I don't imagine they would have taken the time to do that so look at it in a positive light.

Congrats! It looks like you hit a grand slam there going 6 for 6.

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When you look at Russell Wilson and RG3 you have to look at the whole picture. The both have an all-star runnning back, so those cancel each other out. Andrew Luck for example has no running back and no defense so his volume of work stands on its own. Russell Wilson has a defense and RG3 does not, there is the difference. RG3 has been playing from behind almost the entire season, the Redskins have been RG3, nobody else (with Alfred Morris cancelled out), he has been the one to win games. With the Seahawks (top scoring defense in the league, among the best in pass/run), Russell has had a much better ability to play safely. He doesn't need to do all the work for his team. This ignores the fact that Russell Wilson plays with the best home field advantage in the league (I don't think anyone would argue that the Seahawks are better than the Patriots or 49ers on neutral ground). In the end Russell hasn't been as impressive simply because he has had a great team around him. This doesn't mean he hasn't done good work but it shows that he hasn't been as impressive because his body of work is less. One might argue on this ground that Andrew Luck's body of work was more and hence should win ROTY, which I could agree with, but certainly not Russell Wilson. Arm strength is overrated, see Jay Cutler. It's like he's not even trying and he hits his receiver perfectly in stride. Decision making is the most important factor as long as you have a minimal level of arm strength. Again, see Jay Cutler: I realize most of the reason Jay Cutler is bad is because his offensive line is about as real as Manti Te'o's girlfriend, but you get the point about decision making.

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