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19 hours 56 min ago Fairport

I grew up in Fairport went to McQ, parents taught (mom still does) at RIT.  Attended many hockey games at RIT growing up including their D-III national championship run in 1984-85(?).  The fans were awesome back then - student section was called the Corner Crew and they taught me most of the swear words and a few other concepts I didn't understand at the time.
3 weeks 20 hours ago In Chicago...

you see Big Ten flags hanging from apartments all over the place.  Two years ago after they had beaten us, there was an MSU flag hanging with the "S" backwards.  It helped ease the pain a tiny bit.
4 weeks 2 days ago Be honest with yourself

Are you the kind of person who will do whatever it takes to get to your desired goal?  If not, go to the name school (assuming Temple will open doors).  The prestige will buy you access you won't get from other places.  If you're truly ambitious, save the money and trust that you won't quit until you get to where you want.

I'm in a field with tons of MBAs.  The majority are from top 10 schools, but I come across a number guys who don't have an MBA and went to random midwest directional school and are incredibly successful.  They opened doors for themselves through hard work and determination.  The rest of us worked hard, but at some level, the name on our diploma helped grease the skids.
15 weeks 2 days ago My two favorite

are getting Drew Hensen's autograph (for my sister, I swear) and taking a picture with LaVell Blanchard after his senior season and thanking him for sticking through all the tough times. (I had to look up how to spell LaVell and the first google link brought me back to mgoblog)
1 year 23 hours ago Chicago

I don't know a ton about lacrosse, but I do know that it has gotten significantly more poplular in the Chicago area over the last few years.  A number of my co-workers have kids who have picked up the game at the HS and club levels and it sounds like the numbers in the youth programs are increasing each year.  It would seem that the addition of Michigan to the national scene will help spur futher growth of the sport in the midwest and we should be able to get a (near) first mover advantage when it comes to snagging these kids with increasing skill levels.
1 year 10 weeks ago This is exactly what popped into my mind

I think the picture is of a 1984 Regal GN.  My family bought a 1984 Buick LeSabre and there was one of these in the showroom at the time.  I tried to get my Dad to buy it, but it's not much of a family car.  This thing was pretty expensive in its day, but it hauled a**.  More rare is the LeSabre Grand National.  I didn't even know this existed until I saw one at a car show a few years ago.  The Regal is a better looking car.
1 year 11 weeks ago Other sports

Baesd on my limited research, it seems like roughly 25%-35% of teams in other D-1 sports get to play in an NCAA playoff.  If you make the analogy that bowl games are like the playoffs for D-1 football, it seems reasonable to think that this percentage should be generally consistent for FBS football.  In 2010, 70 of 120 teams played in a bowl game, or 58%.  If you ratchet that back to the 35% level, you would end up with 42 teams playing in 21 bowl games, elminating 14 bowls. 

I don't think may fans would miss 14 bowls and the players would have the same oportunity as their colleagues in other sports to participate in a post season.
1 year 11 weeks ago Investment Banking

I'm a 2003 Ross grad who applied for the class of 2002, was rejected, reapplied for class of 2003, was waitlisted, and then finally got in off the waitlist.  My GMAT scores and undergrad GPA were more than adequate, but my 5 years of work experience was only ok at best. I did not follow the advice below, but if I had it to do all over again, I would.

There are all sorts of paths into business school, but the one that I think guarantees the highest likelihood of success is to spend a 2-3 years as an analyst at an investment bank.  It's a tough life right out of undergrad  but you actually learn a ton (from my experiences of interacting with others) and become very marketable to many different types of employers when walking out of business school. Further, most banking analysts end up at b-school at Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Columbia, etc. with not nearly as many heading to Ann Arbor.  Ross continues to seek to up its reputation with Wall St. and one way of doing that is attracting the analysts that will someday be the MD's making hiring decisioins. Having that banking pedigree on your application will be a big asset as you compete with others for a spot in the class. It doesn't matter if you don't want to pursue a long term career in banking, just get in, get the experience and name on the resume, and get out.

Also, in your essays, make it very clear how having an MBA will help you meet your career goals.  The admissions committee wants to know that you're not just looking for a place to spend a few years and instead this degree is part of a larger plan that you have and the MBA is a critical component of that.

 
1 year 14 weeks ago Upstate NY cheers?

I grew up going to games at RIT in the early 80's and the students there belted out many of the same cheers back then.  I have no idea if they stole them from Cornell, came up with them on their own, or they came from yet another school in the region.  When I went to my first game at Yost in 2001-2002,  I was surprised to recognize so many of the cheers - now I kind of know why.
1 year 18 weeks ago Passion and recruiting

The love for the school and the program that BH showed yesterday was important.  If he gets that excited and emotional talking to a room full of reporters hidden behind cameras, I have to imagine that he has the ability to be fairly compelling in a family room with a recruit and his parents.  I'm certainly not a salesman, but I have to do my share of convincing of others in my job.  I know that I am much more successful in convincing others when my heart is in what I'm pitching. RR grew to embrace Michigan and our traditions and busted his ass (as far as i can tell) to give us his best, but it isn't the same as what BH presented.  What I took away from BH yesterday, was an enthusiasm that has the potential to be infectious with all constituents.  Assuming it is well received by recruits, it could be a pivotal component of his ultimate success, Obviously, that's a big if, but I think it is shortsighted to simply dismiss what we saw yesterday as just good PR.
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