Poly stat mono test

This rune just reads kaisa to me, as 10 stacks gives 10 AH & 10/35 adaptive, it really feels like it should be a possible rune.
Note: this assumes you only need to buy a stat and not have it active in your items, should the 2nd case be the case its much worse. Will be testing when servers are up. (p.s I will be testing if buying and undoing a buy works, because if it does this is 100% the strongest rune in the game bar none and legitimately should be having that interaction hotfixed)
I was thinking, how do we reach 10?
Start: Dorans: 3 stats, ad, hp & lifesteal.
This means we're looking at attack speed + ms as the 2 next natural stats. Atk speed is likely in your first core item, unless its eclipse in which case you're just replacing the stat order with haste instead of atk speed.
The most likely next option is AP or crit.
Now we're missing 4 stats.
Possible options and how to get them:
Crit/Ap (whichever your 2nd item didnt contain*)
Armor (Zhonya)
Haste (Flickerblade, Eclipse, manamune etc... will be easy to get)
mr (Maw, veil)
HOWEVER:
Here is the kicker: There are some stats that are extremely f cheap to buy.

1. 250g, mana reg
2. 300g, hp reg
3. AH, 250 g.
4. Armor 300g.

You could be after your 2nd or 3rd item litteraly just buy and sell these stats (as all you need to do is BUY, not have! the stats). This would of course slightly slow down your build order, but you would be looking at 25 adaptive force and a few points of AH extra very early into the game for a fairly low cost. Could be very viable after buying 2 or 3 items to complete evolutions.
Example build:
Dorans -> heartbound -> boots (10 adaptive active) -> Kraken -> Rageblade -> complete boots -> bead (buy/sell)-> cloth armor (buy/sell) -> mana reg (buy/sell) -> glowing mote (25 adaptive active) -> Nashors
Because the resell value is 70%, the gold cost to get the activation is (300+300+250) * .3 = 255 gold (assuming you have another 250 to buy mote afterwards).
This means that you can after your 2nd item get 3 AH & 25 adaptive for only 255 gold!!! This is on top of getting 5 ah & 10 adaptive from just buying a dagger + boots as your first base, thats 6 ad + 2 ah of free stats that u can get at only 1.1k gold into the game (600 gold first base).

I've been working hard to design a system where the combat stats aren't the focus of combat,
This is in the context of choices the npcs make that the player has no active control over during combat related encounters.
Here's what I've thought of so far:

1. Every dialogue option the player uses effects one of the npcs stats up or down. This can be directly or indirectly (overheard).
2. After each mission the npc has a cooldown timer and if sent on another mission stats go down.
3. While the weapon has no direct effect on combat, the quality of the gear they are given can effect their stats. For example, intimidation and morale.
4. combat encounters tally each relevant stat and distribute bonuses or penalties to a set of possible reactions. Things like "fight" or "protect self".
5. The reactions are listed in such a way that the highest on the list breaks ties.
6. Some reactions, such as "heal self", are conditional.
7. For simplicity, monsters are always hostile and "friendly type" characters only turn hostile if the player's NPC's do first.
8. Once each side has figured out what they will do a first round happens.
9. Who do they attack? I used party order for NPC's and assigned the same thing to the monsters. This didn't work out so great since it lead to the first two characters taking all the hits. The NPC's that did attack all focused the first monster.
10. Each NPC has a three wound threshold and each wound gives a large penalty to most non-heal/defend reaction values. Monsters have 1-2 (for now).
11. Each party has 4-5 NPC's and each monster groups 3-4.
12. With a lack of a good method I just assigned a one damage value to each undefended attack.

In my recent test some characters defended other characters due to a "friend" tag in the group. This led to two NPC's not attacking due to defending another person, one NPC "doing nothing" due to a "fear_goblins" tag on them, they were also being defended. Two of the characters got hit twice and the front monster got hit killed due to two NPC's hitting it.
The goblin killed was the leader, I put him in the front by mistake, the NPC leader goes in the front so I just shoved the monster leader there without thinking. They would logically go in the back of the group.
With the goblin leader dead there was a forced morale check. One goblin failed and fled, this led to another morale check due to half the group being dead. They passed so it went to round two.
The two npc's who got hit healed themselves, the one that "did nothing" now "healed ally" on the party leader as they were the closest. One NPC attacked and wounded a goblin and the party took two more wounds.
In round three, three heroes attacked due to the "overwhelming" bonus gained from being double the size of the opposing party. One chose to defend again the "do nothing" healed someone again and the rest all focused the same front goblin (Doh!).
party takes two wounds most of which are going to the party leader. they kill the one goblin and the second goblin fails a morale check due to the overwhelmed debuff. They flee.
I had originally want to do a "probability" system to choose the battle outcome from just the initial check, but couldn't comes up with a reliable system for it.
Thoughts/ideas?

Hi there I'm a student who just finished 12th grade. I'd like to pursue BTech CSE only. I kinda flunked my jee and got a half-decent score in cbse boards.
My cutoff for TNEA (pcm) is 188. I've written VITEEE and got a decent rank with which im getting VIT Vellore CSE core at cat 3. I also did well in MET for Manipal University and should be getting cse/cse spec there too. Preparing for BITSAT rn but really not sure how that's gonna go considering the competition this year.
Recently I was looking at SSN stats and I was pretty taken surprised about the avg package of ssn (16+ lpa) which is miles better than a lot of NITs+VIT and pretty close to BITS too. Is this really true?
I understand as a cbse student with a relatively bad score of 188 it might be hard for me to get ssn thru TNEA but I heard about their management quota through their aptitude test, should I go for it? Should I try for SSN, is it that good as the placement reports indicate or should I stick with VIT vellore?
I understand its a tad bit expensive but the placements look good esp the upper end of the spectrum with substantial amount of offers from microsoft and amazon among other companies.
I would also like to know about the campus life exposure etc at SSN.
Is there any other college that I should be considering but have overlooked?
Can anyone shed some light on this and help me out.

So I've been playing this game for a couple months now and I really enjoy progressing through the rides and parks, however, I always wondered if the attraction/ride earning in the stats menu was accurate. To put it the test, I calculated what I should've got in 10 mins and compared it to what I actually got. (I did not turn off my phone, I kept it awake so my visitor capacity was always almost full during this whole time) Turns out, it's a lot less. You actually only make about 63% of what the actual rate is. For example, let's say your stats menu says that your attraction/ride earnings is 1 Trillion/min you would expect to rack up 1 Trillion after 1 minute right? WRONG. In fact, you'd see that you have only earned 630 Billion which is 63% of 1 Trillion. I've done this multiple times and it always hovered around 63% mark. Therefore, if you ever wonder how long it will take to make a certain amount, simply multiply your "game rate" by 0.63 and you will get your "real rate" per min.

Headphones - Audio Technica ATH-M50X
Hey all, sorry if this post becomes a jumble but I have been troubleshooting for a while and cant find and answer.
Earlier this morning, my audio was perfectly fine and dandy, and I left to run some errands and left my pc on for maybe 6 hours. When i come back, i am getting no audio in the left channel of my headphones.
First thing I tested was to unplug and replug them in to no avail. Then I tested if it was a headphone issue so i plugged them into my Nintendo switch and got perfect audio in both channels. Then i plugged them into my mic and I got audio out of both sides perfectly fine (but i could hear myself because of the mic) , so i worry its an issue with the audio port on my pc case.
I have tried to root around in the audio settings and make sure its all balanced and the left channel isn't turned down for some reason, but all seems normal there. While i was there though, i clicked the "Mono Audio" checkbox and it cut the audio completely to both sides; I have no idea what that entails.
These are only about 6 month old headphones and they have worked perfectly up until today.
Tried googling to no avail either, just old forums saying to check the balancing.
Any advice is greatly appreciated for i am but a pc noob still.
Edit: I have also fully power cycled my pc and the problem persists

Hello, I am noob so appreciate your patient!
I setup my frigate in lxc podman quadlet, previlalged and nest and fuse are enabled! when I add "hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264" to my config.yml I get an error message "No frames have been received, check error log". the log shows the following. I appreciate any feedback as I am stuck!

2024-05-15 04:56:02.502107199 [INFO] Preparing Frigate... 2024-05-15 04:56:02.536383370 [INFO] Starting Frigate... frigate.app INFO : Starting Frigate (0.13.2-6476f8a) peewee_migrate.logs INFO : Starting migrations peewee_migrate.logs INFO : There is nothing to migrate frigate.app INFO : Recording process started: 420 frigate.app INFO : go2rtc process pid: 93 frigate.app INFO : Output process started: 431 frigate.app INFO : Camera processor started for Cam1: 437 frigate.app INFO : Capture process started for Cam1: 438 detector.cpu INFO : Starting detection process: 430 frigate.detectors WARNING : CPU detectors are not recommended and should only be used for testing or for trial purposes. frigate.video ERROR : Cam1: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process. frigate.video ERROR : Cam1: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread... frigate.util.services ERROR : Unable to poll intel GPU stats: Failed to initialize PMU! (Operation not permitted) 

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: South Asian
• Residence: DTX area in Texas
• Type of School: Public

Intended Major(s): Biomedical Engineering
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.0 UW 3.9/6 W
• Rank (or percentile): N/A
• of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 Honors 13 AP No Dual Enrollment
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Gov, AP Macroecon, AP Calc AB, AP Stats, Anatomy and Physiology, AP Literature.

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1410 (700 RW, 710M)
• AP/IB: AP World History: 3

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Orchestra
2. Science UIL Captain
3. Created an app that helps users with health issues
4. Mu alpha theta(Natonal math honor society) member
5. Gideon math and reading tutoring job
6. general volunteering with clubs - racked in 100 hours
7. founded a stem newsletter with the intent of using bionic reading to help out special needs kids
8. 3d printed a prosthetic arm
9. co founded a nonprofit related to bme

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. National Honor Society
2. National Math Honor Society
3. Orchestra UIL Award
4. Hopefully AP Scholar in July

Letters of Recommendation
Physics teacher - 8/10 didn't really have that much of a connection but was still a good teacher
Engineering teacher - 6/10 had her sophomore year, prolly forgot about me and wrote a poor letter
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
UTD(Most preferred option of school)
UT Austin
UNT
TAMU
Rice
SMU
Baylor
Texas Tech
OOS:
Georgia Tech
Purdue
Additional Information:
I'm still a junior so Ive got time to boost my apps over the summer lmk if yall know anything

I got the results of my Star reading test. I had 97-99% proficiency in all categories and a 1625-1775 lexile. I am in 9th grade. I understand this is above my grade level, but I am not too familiar with what all these stats mean. If anyone could clarify that would be great.

Greetings survivors!
New Beginnings will be launching a all new ASE 5 map cluster later this month! We graciously invite you to join us as we finish up beta testing and prepare for our community launch party! If your looking for something new and fresh in ASE then we might be exactly what your looking for!
With enhanced endgame content that brings purpose and reason for dedicated endgame breeding with powerful overworld custom bosses that's promised to put your maxed breeds to the test, these challenging bosses come in 1 of 3 tiers, but you will need good compisition, maxed stats, and capped saddles to down the highest tiers!
We also have a very large database of quests that will reward you as you play and reach milestones in your adventure while also giving you something more to chase after well into end game.
Occompanying these wonderful features to bring a new and fresh endgame atmosphere we also have a variety of admin hosted server events to keep your time with us as fun and enjoyable for months and years to come!
We would love to share our launch and experience our new beginning with you, and offer a lot for both battle harden veterans and new players alike with a very noob friendly enviroment that understands all too well waking up on a unknown world for your first time. So join us as we push forward through beta testing and be sure to be there for our launch party!
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I got a 188 on the GED Ready test but they didn't score the essay would I be ready to take the test or do I need more work?
(I didn't change the spelling errors or anything else from the test)
When looking between these proposals, the winner becomes known in the matter of moments. The proposal for automatic traffic lights (FATL) is the clear winner why you ask? Proposal FATL starts of with stating their idea and why it would be benafical to have automatic traffic cameras on the other hand the proposal against automatic traffic lights (AATF) puts down the other lacking to bring up another solution, and after word provides unconcrete data.
In paragraph 6 Baler Herald brings up the fact that by his calculations instaling traffic cameras would be to costly to be worth it. I'm going to ask you a retorical question who is Baler Herald does his name hold any weight to be compared to the data of for example, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or is he a person with absolutely no experince this right there already invalidates his argument but theres more.
Baler Herald writes an argument to propose not instaling traffic cameras and instead to higher more cops but not a single time in the argument do I see him supporting his proposal he doesn't even compare and contrast the cost of hiring 10 cops to the cost of the traffic cameras making his argument weak.
While Councilman Lorenzo supports his claim with constant stats and data Baler Herald a civil engineer supports his with unconstant data and occurances in a moment it become ever clear that Baler Herald is out of his depth and Councilman Lorenzo knows what he's talking about.

[OC Intro: The game is modded to increase basic jobs cost, seasonal events are disabled. Much of the crash details are based on NASA/SP-2008-565 Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report recommendations especially Chapter 3 "Occupant Protection".]
The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries. He has only a few minutes of APU power left, goes over the best clearing he can find, and radars it. It varies by only a few feet from the aerodynamic glideslope there. He spots it out on the cameras and circles to go after that spot. He's only at two hundred feet now. With one hand on the stick, he uses the other to open the pressure equalization valve on the side hatch, then at one hundred feet, gets it undogged. Depending on how much damage he's going to get, it's less likely to be stuck closed and trap him. The dynamic vacuum this pulls in the cockpit rips most of the survival pack data cards from that rack and scatters them across the landscape. Crap, I'm gonna need those! Refocusing on surviving the next few seconds, he turns on the radar for the final approach, takes a last look around, then straight ahead at his forward camera and PFD, he clicks his HANS and shoulder strap locks in; after that, he can barely move, but that now is better than dying in this crash with a broken neck. He's a decent pilot and brings up the flare gently. Bringing up the alpha on this delta-winged ship, he balloons a little, but keeps the nose going up and restores a zero aerodynamic sink rate just above the highest terrain indicated by the radar altimeter. The ship bumps a little in the ground effect, and he can see the radar altitude cycling irregularly up and down about five feet at a time. Rougher than it looked from higher up! The body flap protecting the dead engines hits first, and the nose comes rapidly down. It hits, the screens go blank, and Tightniks is surrounded by airbags, some lifting his feet from the rudder petals and his hand from the control stick. It's blinding, it's disorienting, it's noisy, and, to his relief, it's long! It takes several seconds before the crashing cockpit stops moving. How many times did he flip over? Did he go sideways and roll? Am I rightside up? Are we really stopped on the ground? The airbags deflate, and he can move his arms. He gets his restraints loose and inspects himself. "Uck!" he says out loud (without the 'f'). No broken bones. His pressure suit can take his blood pressure. 116/81, pulse 112, blood oxygen 99 reads off on his left arm, I'll friggin' take it!
The ship is amazingly intact from what he can tell. He can't get any readings. The systems test meter seems to be working, but can't find any voltages anywhere. The ship seems to be completely dead. Behind him, 10 passenger seats are all surrounded by airbags and the back of the cabin ends in some sort of dirt-and-gravel and there's a bit of daylight seeping in around the edges. He was the only one on board, though, so their deployment was mostly academic (they might have stiffened the structure a little during the crash, but that's probably trivial.) Tightniks gets out of his spacesuit. The air on this planet is actually breathable. He gets the hatch open, steps outside and-
"A green shimmer erupts then disappears, and you hit the ground."
The human emerges from the glowing green mist and hits the ground. Groans. Pushes against that ground, trying to get back up. Where am I? What's my name? I remember nothing. Aren't babies born naked? He's got a dark blue button-down shirt on. A uniform? A shoulder patch. Gets up, looks around. I feel really heavy. I'm not that fat, am I? He picks up a small stone from the ground, this also feels heavier than it should. He rises to his feet and holds it out somewhat (he's unable to fully extend his arm) and lets it go. The stone hits the ground near his feet quickly and with remarkable speed. It's the gravity, it's greater than it is on- ...where am I from? This is- ...not my home planet? "Oooh..."
"Ka?" it says.
What is that? It's cute, at least.
It is not tame. He has no hope of catching it on foot. The creature seems to like the berries. Maybe if I gather some of those into one place and set some kind of trap...
33s: First trap.
I got one! The human lumbers up to the trap and gets the catch open. Do you bite? It doesn't matter much to me; I'm so friggin' screwed.
It doesn't. It looks at the human with a sense of wonder, actually. A blink and tilt of the head. Seems almost to be asking, Is it you? My purpose? My savior? Once out of the trap, which is totally wrecked, he has to make a new one from scratch, it follows him around like a imprinted hatchling bird.
Wiry little fella, you are. You're going to need some bulking up to do anything useful. The- ...'trimp', I guess... The trimp seems just barely able to feed itself. The human lets him into the broken ship's intact cabin, and it curls up comfortably in a passenger seat for a nap.
1m03s: Second trap.
"Apparently the Trimps breed if they're not working. Doesn't look pleasant."
What are they doing?
The trimps appear to be androgynous, and these two have paired off in the back of the ship. They're holding something carefully within a few hours, feeding it berries, grass, and- ...corundum.
Corundum?? Whatever that is, it isn't a baby.
1m35s: Third trap.
Only it IS a baby! The third trimp he trapped immediately joined the other two in raising it. They have a strange diet of food the human has found compatible with his own body, but they also eat rocks! They're careful to crush and sort aluminate minerals from silcate ones and only eat aluminate. Actually, they don't eat aluminate, they're only feeding it to the baby.
2m06s: Fourth trap.
All four are raising the same child, who is just starting to toddle. It seems these fellas have alumina or maybe even aluminum bones. The human takes a nap and wakes to find the first child grown up and they're starting to raise a second child, all five of them.
2m46s: Huts.
The human found a working bit of electronics. He calls it a pad, but maybe it's more like a smartphone. It has plans for two residential structures. The first, the smaller one, he can build right away, but the second one needs something called "drywall", and he has to figure out how to make that before he can build it. Huts and houses, apparently.
3m13s: 10 pop, full, first farmer.
The trimp he trained to farm and make paper took an incredible 50 units of food to get bulked up to do the work, and now it's not participating in rearing the child. But less than an hour after the trimp started farming and pulping, the child was out on its own, and the trimps did not start another. The ten seats on the ship were all full. Well, eleven counting the one up front that the human sleeps in. The pilot starts exploring the area.
3m28s: Battle.
Wait, what are you do-
The hostile roars and charges at the human, but one of his trimps jumps in front of him with a stick and they fight. It started right when the human got far enough away from the ship that the hostile non-trimps away from the ship began to regard him as leaving his own territory. After the trimp defeats the first enemy, it continues after other hostiles.
3m53s: Shield I in Z1c5.
The human is easily able to recover the loot in the territory cleared by the fighting trimp. Then he sees something glinting in the- That can't be! What the heck is that? It's a data card that fits his pad. It quite clearly regards trimp combat. He gets it loaded into his pad and studies it. I can do this, it just takes some wood. He returns to the ship to discover that they had already started on a new child before the fighter had even expired in battle. The human concentrates on his research.
4m38s: Mskel in Z1c11 defeated.
The remains of this one seem rather white and shiny. It's titanium! This enemy had titanium bones! He'll store them away. They'll be useful someday, I'm sure.
5m52s: Dagger I in Z1c20.
Where are these data cards coming from? The human wonders as he loads this one into his pad, It's for a weapon it calls a dagger. He blinks. I don't know what a dagger is. I'll take your word for it, data card. Needs metal. He has gathered some, but ore is plentiful. He can just dig and smelt it whenever he wants. For now, I'll continue researching.
6m18s: Arable in Z1c21.
It's an old cave that trimps like to live in. Why weren't they able to live there before? How could these friendly critters be confined to only the exact spot where THAT thing, he looks back where he came from, not remembering that he piloted the wrecked ship to its current resting place, crashed? This is really strange. I'll let them fill up this cave before advancing further. Wait, what about defenses? The hostiles never try to reclaim territory that they've lost, so he stops worrying about that fairly quickly.
8m22s: First hut is 0.3% first ever AP.
The trimps seem fairly easy to please in terms of living quarters. Two move into his first hut and start raising a child. The human has his tent, uniform, and the heater pilfered from his space suit. Not much of a mud fan.
9m59s: Miners in Z1c30.
Oh, what's on this data card? Sl3niw? Oh, I'm holding the pad upside down. Miners. I can teach trimps how to mine ores and smelt met- 200 units of food? Each job is getting more expensive to train a trimp for. He puts his bee nickels to his eyes and spots another data card probably 10 enemies away. "Sc"? Does that means science? I can teach trimps to do science??
13m57s: Scientists in Z1c40.
Due to the expense of training trimps, the human couldn't afford to build them shields until now, he's got Sh1-3 made for the fighter to capture the science training data card. 14m02s: One head went into that turtlimp shell, that of his fighter, but two came out: his fighter still has his head on, and he managed to get the turtlimp's head off. It rushes off after the deadly penguimp in the next cell. The shields are not doing all that much good, actually, but they're better than nothing. The human picks up and loads the science data card and- Holy runny sugar-free fudge crap! 1000 food units, but it'll endow them with the ability to speak. Good. I'm getting bored with no one to talk to.
14m28s: Bloodlust purchased and AutoFight enabled (that delay after getting it is an effect of jacking up the job cost.)
As the human buries this expired little trimp warrior, he comes to the sobering realization that he has more trimp graves in his growing trimp colony than he does live trimps. And yet they seem more hopeful now than before I got to know any of them. They seem to think I'm the solution to all their problems or- Those two look east somberly, then notice that he's watching them and smile back and wave at him. ...one problem that is specific, but very, very huge for them. [The only reason I say 'east' is because that's right on a map, and the game advances right across a row, then up. I might say 'northeast' on occasion for that reason.]
20m47s: Z1c73, Miners taken.
Are you my new mining foreman? The trimp who took to the mining training has dark brown fur that lays flat on its head. It's unusual in not having any bits that stick out from its head, ahoge or whatever. This one is relatively quiet, and while it has assimilated the mining and smelting knowledge, it needs to bulk up to do any mining. Smelting is relatively easy, and getting a strong natural draft going in a furnace is almost trivial with the increased gravity. This trimp builds furnaces like nothing. And likes to nap in holes it digs right on the spot; it's weird that way. [Puchim@s Yukipo, and furnaces are not explicit in Trimps.]
21m58s: Farming in Z1c80.
The resourcing "books" are not data cards but paper scrolls, apparently lost to the trimps. It seems that they were civilized in the recent past and some calamity swept over the planet to reduce them to this. Did I have something to do with it? Amnesia sucks harder than a Dyson- ...what's a Dyson? Whatever, it sucks. This disaster happening just before I crash in the only spot with trimps still alive would be a seriously crazy coincidence! Something is really, really wrong about all this. [The author has not sought or received product placement permission or fee from Dyson Technology Ltd. or any resellers of their stuff, just they literally suck balls and made my favorite vacuum cleaner.]
23m50s: Builder in Z1c90.
They've rescued an, I dunno, gelding trimp? It just started to build a shed around the piled lumber I left to build one. It's really slow compared to me, and just banged its thumb, but it is super cute with that long reddish head fur. That particular trimp is also fascinated with pink ribbons and likes to decorate its head fur with them. Because of its inherent inability to participate in rearing children, it isn't counted in the population. [Puchim@s Io, builder on the basis of Iori seen building in 1x10.]
26m02s: Zone 2, 44 pop, 5.5s RC with Z0/1.
It's some sort of tactical manual - tactical coordination. Coordination! He's starting to sort out some trimpese on the research he has done so far. It needs a lot of metal, so they won't be able to implement it for some time. Hopefully, they're still good one at a time, but these enemies seem to be getting bigger as we go along. Uh oh!
27m33s: Gym in Z2c5.
It's some sort of training dojo or sporting arena. The human examines the ruins, I think I can back-engineer drawings for this, get one built, and see what happens.
29m02s: 1g, 47 pop, 10.8s RC with Z1/2.
The two fighting trimps now with their gym and coordination are dodging and blocking enthusiastically, and making much faster ground against the bad guys then a little while ago when it was just one trimp fighting at a time and unable to avoid the enemy hitting back.
40m46s: Fresh turkimp in Z2c74, 63 pop, 7.9s RC, Sh1-10, Da1-5, Bo1-3, Ma1-3, Hm1-3, 6g.
Oh, wow, the laborers seem really hot after this turkimp. He cooks it up and tries a slice. It's really awesome! I have to work alongside his laboring trimps to share it, but I'm getting used to the gravity now. That scroll we found back in Z2c10 really helped. Trimps' techniques and appliances for handicapped individuals, and I'm really handicapped in this higher gravity. He joins the woodcutters with the turkimp; they're the most numerous resource laborer right now, building more gyms, enough that the block/dodge ability of the fighting trimps is almost caught up to the enemy's ability to cause damage.
43m15s: Zone 3, 63 pop, 7.9s RC with Z1/2.
I'm neglecting my science and trimp scientists are really expensive. Curiously, that grey-haired one can't speak all that well, only says "Tai" and "Shijou", but it can write and draw like nobody's business. It's the only scientist so far. [Puchim@s Takanya: Online references probably still claim that she can utter the first two syllables of any word, but she can actually utter only the first two kana syllables of someone's name, most often the given name of basis human Takane Shijou, who also has that habit. (All the utterances of the puchidoru are based on the speech foibles of their basis humans except maybe Piyopiyo, where I haven't seen anything match up so far.)]
47m32s: Finally, we can make drywall and houses. 59m30s: Z3c77, 94 pop, 7.8s RC.
Oh, those poor things are really struggling up at the front. These trimps are enthusiastic and know no fear, but I still feel like telling them to stop for a while. I don't have the heart to keep them from trying while they're still doing some damage.
1h05m24s: Zone 4, 107 pop, 9.3s RC with Z3/4. 1h15m26s: Zone 5, 120 pop, 8.2s RC with Z3/4.
"What is that?" the human asks. He has three scientists. His first does all the writing, but the other two can actually speak. One of them hops up on a rock spire beside the human to reach his eye level.
At the next ridge line, over the lowest and most passable gap in the terrain, this really mean looking hovering sausage monster.
"I dunno," the scientist trimp shrugs, "But it's making me hungry. Looks like a perfectly cooked frankfurter from here." [John Morell's dubious dirigibles.]
"Oh, yeah," the human nods, "that's a blimp."
"A blimp?" the trimp tilts its head quizzically at the human, "How could you know?"
"I wish I could tell you, little buddy," the human extends his arm braces to descend the pass on the side of the zone boundary in the boss enemy's direction, then grunts, "Let's go kill it."
1h16m11s: Z1c9, 120 pop, 10.3s RC with Z4/5. 1h33m34s: Zone 6, 151 pop, 7.4s RC with Z4/5.
1h33m54s: TP in Z1c3.
"What's this?" the human asks, having picked up the little square document with the curling corners.
"Oh," the hungry scientist looks at it, "It's a garden path, follow me."
"You want to lead me down the garden path?" the human says.
"Yeah," the scientist says.
"Are you kidding?" the human asks.
"No," says the other scientist, "We don't get human humor. Listen, these fighters can't go, let them wear themselves out here, then we'll take the next group through this garden."
"Okay," the human nods, watching two more trimps join the fray as he issues the Z5 coordination orders, "they're doing pretty well after all that block training research we just wrapped up." [That's a common artifact, even in normal games, Z5 Traintacular combines with many gyms, enough population to add several trainers, affording Blockmaster, which is expensive on a run zero, plus a break on Tion Z5, a 40% all-stat increase. I don't think Zach designed it into the game on purpose, it just worked out this way.]
1h34m07s: 151 pop, 10.5s RC with Z5/7. 1h37m44s: Drop from Z6c39, TP for 3.
"Now we have these access map frags we can use to route through the old trimpopoli," the scientist explains, "Atlimpis for food, Morimpa for gems, Everimp for metal, and Impazon for wood."
"What about the garden?" the human asks.
"Well, we got lucky with Tricky Paradise," the scientist says, "but you can randomize the route and maybe get lucky. What's with that look?"
"Somehow, I'm remembering 'frag' as something that blew up with deadly pieces," the human says. [Different video games - ones with better graphics and worse gameplay Ｏ(>▽<)Ｏ]
1h39m59s: Blues back up to the top on series I...
"Tai, Tai!" the first ever trimp scientist stops the human just before he upgrades the mace and dagger to Mk.6 and Mk. 8 respectively. It has a note for him.
"Why do you keep calling me that?" the human asks, "Do you think that's my name?"
"Shijou, Shijou," it nods as though to indicate, I KNOW it is. Then it proffers its note again. The human takes it and reads, "Don't upgrade the first row equipment right now."
"Why not?" the human asks.
"Shijou," it points at the end of the mapped route, where there's a scroll sticking out of the thistles.
2h24m07s: Zone 8, 224 pop, 12.2s RC with Z7/12.
"Your settlement is getting crowded, there's Trimps in the streets, and you're taking heat. You feel a sudden strong desire to create a map, though you're not quite sure how that would help."
2h49m10s: Zone 9, 357 pop, 9.5s RC with Z8/15.
"You can't shake the feeling that you've been here before. Déjà-vu?"
The trimps really seem to like the new high capacity mansions, and the village has rapidly expanded since they started building them.
"There's something familiar about this," the human says.
"Tai," the grey one that writes clings to his arm and shows him a note that says, "Don't give up now."
"We must persist," says the yellow one has found a foothold it can grab onto and grabs the human's shoulder gently, "If you give up to early, we'll never solve this. You'll be stuck here forever."
The human puts his hand over the trimp's paw on his shoulders, then looks at him, "I can die, too."
"No, you can't," the trimp says quietly, "Please don't test that, tall one."
"Death is just another path..." he remembers.
"Gan," the grey one squeaks. [That's the first two kana syllables of "Gandalf"]
"...one that we all must take," the human continues, "The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it-"
"A green mist," the yellow trimp interrupts, "flash of fire, we're all gone and our progress forgotten. The wandering stars return to that day, and you again crash that ship- ...a little better every time."
"Wait," the human looks around, "have I been here before?"
"I-" the yellow trimp tries in futility to share what little it knows, "...or... somebody got just a little coolant into the-"
"Into the what?"
"This side up," the grey one's note says.
"Into the that," the yellow one points at the note, "It really helped. You- ...I don't think we've ever had mansions before."
Well, of course they didn't have mansions before. That was one of my ship's data cards. How did it get way out here? Will anything start to make sense?
3h02m13s: Zone 10, 387 pop, 8.7s RC with Z8/15; '28s: 11.1s RC with Z9/19. 3h16m41s: Tough snimp after food book, L10 rand dept from lo-hi-med 118/25/96, 4 Items.
"That's twice our frags led us to gem-rich Moria," the human says.
"Morimpa," the new red trimp scientist corrects, there now being 5 scientists. [There'd be more if there were more turkimp.]
"The question is how do we use all these gems?" the human looks at the village zoning plans again, "I like those mansions and all, but they use hardly any gems compared to, well-" he gestures at the pile of over two dozen thousand gems they've gathered, "-that! And still a lot of wood and lumber."
"I think there's something," the yellow one sighs, "I wish I knew more."
Quite some time later, after they're done looting that route for equipment plans, the trimps are again advancing through Zone 10, and he hears it.
"Tai?" the grey one wonders.
"Where are you going?" the yellow one asks.
"To the farm," the human answers.
"Whatever for?" the red one seems exasperated.
"Shijou?" the grey one sighs, then looks at the fighting front. It's been around long enough to remember, "Shijou!"
"You guys already get so much to eat this doesn't do you much good," the human explains.
3h32m33s: L11 112/35/78 rand sea, dropped from Z11c6 with disband, 4.
"What's wrong?" the red one asks.
The human comforts one of the wounded. Once trimps start into a zone fight, they have to finish before they bleed out. He's really bothered making them desert in front of that second turkimp. "They had a lot left in them," he sighs, rubbing his eyes, "but we can't keep that much dead turkimp at once, we have to leave it alive to use up all of this one."
"Shijou," the grey one presents a note, "We need this map right away, anyway. Don't worry about it, Tightniks."
"Tightniks?" he looks at the grey one, "Is that me? How do you know?"
"Tai," the grey one points at the top of the human's left breast pocket.
"Ah, crud," the yellow one curls its tail around in front of itself as trimps do when they're embarrassed, "Is that really a name tag?"
The human hadn't even noticed it since the green flash blew up his memory as he was stepping out of the ship.
4h04m22s: Block (sub-8h AP is only 0.3%), taking it, 504 pop, 9.8s RC with Z10/24.
It's a pretty thick book about using shields for block instead of hit points. The pad has the stats analysis. Sh3-1 is only giving us 9% of our hit points. Turning to his trimp scientists, he says, "It seems to me to be worth it."
"Let's," the yellow one nods.
"Shijou," it hands him a note, "It scales badly, but that won't matter for a long time. I think there's a way to undo it before it matters."
"Doing it." The human takes out his pad and starts scanning.
4h29m05s: L14 rand moun 137/26/80 is really good for a lo-hi-med. 4h30m52s: Hotels.
"Ah," the yellow one says, "I knew there was something. That must be it."
5h08m09s: L15 lo-hi-hi rand gard 129/28/82 (just got explorers). 5h09m32s: Picked up Wall.
"Dam," the human says.
"Damn?" the red one chuckles.
"No," the human says, "Earthen wall dam; it's a thing that makes artificial lakes by holding rivers back."
"Lakes?" the yellow one asks, "Rivers?"
"Oh yeah," the human says, "This planet doesn't have enough rain for those..."
5h48m21: Leaving Wall from about c70 to fetch Tion Z15.
"You can't resume the map from the same point if you start another," the human reads the grey one's note.
"We can go back to the same point on that route if we hold there and finish Zone 15, right?" Tightniks asks.
"Shijou!" it seems to be saying yes.
"Yes," the yellow one adds, "but we're out of Series III upgrades, and you need a fresh map route to start up Series IV."
"We should be okay," Tightniks says, "but if we have to start it over, I don't see that being a big deal." As they advance through the rest of Zone 15, Tightniks resumes his usual duties at the research desk instead building and running traps like he was before.
The trimps seem hopeful at this decision.
5h49m10s: Fresh turkimp. 5h50m16s: Zone 16, 1071 pop, 13.4s RC with Z15/75, 13m43s turkimp (skel in c1.)
"Z:16 Seriously? Another Blimp so soon?"
"So," Tightniks lowers his bee nickels and looks at the red one, "is it going to be boss fights at the end of every zone from now on?"
"Hmm," the red trimp looks up past the human at some random rock spire or cloud.
"Well?" the human persists.
"Yup," he says.
"Hmph," Tightniks grabs a Sw3-1 of the rack and advances towards the front, "Before then, we have another Mister Titanium."
"What does he like about skeletimps?" the red one asks the grey one as the human marches off.
"Shijou?" the grey one seems just as confused by that.
"He's not going back to the ship, and he's not getting himself killed," the yellow one smiles, "so I'll take it."
5h58m32s...
"Hey guys, go for the mortar!" the human suggests to his 75 fighting trimps in the Wall's boss fight.
"I can tell from your bedtime stories that you're used to the artillery in that other place," the yellow one gripes, "but fighting works differently here, there's no artillery."
And the human instantly collapses laughing, the scientists a little worried he might have injured himself in the planet's severe gravity. But he's okay, at least physically, "Mortar is the stuff between the bricks, fellas. That's is a brickimp, right?"
5h59m18s: Wall, 1076 pop, 13.3s RC, 1% AP for sub-8h finish, first L16 roll good 156/35/84 moun, 10 for the metal.
Beyond the Wall was a more edenic section of the trimpolis ruins, doubling the production of the lumberjacks. The trimps are actually really happy with the mode of all of the laborers moving between the three big jobs, along with the turkimp, except for the foremen specialized at leading the job. It isn't enough to boost their productivity, but the human goes to them with trays of sandwiches.
6h06m52s: 50 map run 0.3% AP...
6h19m13s: Zone 17, 1141 pop, 16.0s RC with Z16/94, no turkimp.
"Z:17 You climb a large cliff and look out over the new Zone. Red dirt, scorched ground, and devastation. Is that a Dragimp flying around out there?!"
"Hmm," the human surveys the new zone with his bee nickels, "Looks like crap. Any ideas?"
"You're the idea man," the yellow one groans.
"Set the map flag," he puts his bee nickels away, "We'll run a depth for practice and to load up on gems for more hotels."
"Righto," the red one gets to work.
6h44m34s: First DCP. (Draglimp Care Package; I refuse to call it a tribute.)
"Oh," the human says, "It's tame now, so it brings back gems in exchange for food?" He looks at his gaping scientists, "That's what it looks like, huh? Guys? Yo!"
"Tai..." the grey one sighs.
Draglimp, the dragimp imprinted on Tightniks, lands beside the human, drops some gems at his feet, and accepts some scratching behind its horns before diving into the food bowl.
"You tamed a dragimp???" Grey's note says.
"Well," the yellow one huffs, "I guess that happened."
8h18m53s: L20 depth of 154/27/79.
"Mapping up here?" the red one half closes one eye and tilts his head.
"Yeah," the human says while fitting together the depth map fragments, "With the coordination book not right at the end, we have an extra mark of coordination to take advantage of. Let's take our housing up to 2000 or so, shall we?"
"Okay," the yellow one says from a pile of logs, "What's all the wood for?" They had been collecting it for days now.
"The series upgrades follow a rather specific pattern," Tightniks explains, "Just on the other side of this blimp is Zone 21, where we should be able to find the Shield series V, right?"
"Shijou!" the grey one nods.
8h56m17s: 1% AP for 100 map runs, leaving it, 1751 pop, 24.8s RC with Z20/232. 8h56m54s: Zone 21...
"Ooooookay," Tightniks growls, "There is something off about this thing."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the yellow one with concern about their human starship pilot friend.
The human stoops, picks up the little green gem on the ridge between Zone 20 and 21, looks at it, huffs, and asks, "Any idea where this comes from?"
"Err..." the red one seems hesitant to say, "I think you made it."
"Really?" the human huffs, "How could that be?" Then he tosses it at Red, "See if anything reacts to it. It might be radioactive, so we should take turns to minimize exposure."
"Really?" Red's holding it now, "What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm pissed off for no reason I can figure out," the human says, "I think it's coming from that."
"Frags," the red one says quickly, "I think it's arranging a route. You're good with maps," it tosses the gem to the grey scientist.
"Shijou," the grey one says hopefully, and has a map drawn within a few minutes. [Whether it looks like the one in Puchim@s 1x61 is anyone's guess. That one annoyed me as well as Chihya.]
9h02m37s: L21 moun first roll was a decent 160/26/84. 9h21m00s: Starting run 5 of that map...
Tightniks had taken his anger out on some food and wood to build about 8000 traps. Now he's leaning against a rock spire in his increasingly tattered uniform. A nap begins, perhaps unintentionally.
Wild trimps are examining the pile, finding it unwelcoming, and also finding no place in the town, just mill about. It looks like they want to help.
"Ku?" it's a blue trimp, probably a farmer waiting for stuff to grow, climbs up on the rock spire the human is leaning against, starts patting him on the head, "Ku. Ku ku." [Puchim@s Chihya.]
9h23m09s: Still working that lap...
Tightniks wakes up from that nap, and the grey one is standing there. "Shijou," it says with a note of concern, although not much of one. The note it holds says, "It wasn't me."
"Oh, what wasn't you, buddy?" He stretches out a bit, feeling somewhat refreshed. It feels like somebody washed his face and hair while he was sleeping.
The grey one is also holding a small mirror, apparently broken off from a larger mirror and with the sharp edges filed down to make the edges safe.
The human takes it from the grey trimp and holds it in front of his face to discover that somebody has bound up all his hair into about twenty little pigtails. He touches them with his other hand to confirm. "Eh, whatever." He hands the mirror back and goes back to sleep. [Puchim@s Koamimami.]
9h30m08s: The following run...
"He's not throwing stuff every which way yet," the yellow one whispers to the red one, watching the human snoozing with his pad on his knee.
"You remember that, too?" the red one asks.
"'Remember'?" the yellow one turns to face the red one, "I s'pose that's better than imagining it."
"I remember it, too," the grey one says via a playing card sized note.
"If we're stuck in a time loop," the yellow one sighs, "maybe this cycle will be different."
"Tai..." the grey one admires him for a moment. Then thumbs in the direction of the mountain, "Heh, Shijou!" it laughs.
9h35m58s: Run 8, c9 of that map.
The scientists nap and take notes, and meditate and take notes, and draw stuff. The grey one often storyboards for the other nine because it's the best at drawing stuff. They have come up with a list, and most probably "order" (they're debating whether their ranking means "order" (sequence of things happening over the various loops) or "frequency" (what proportion of previous loops they have happened in). But they've come up with this, from first (or perhaps most often) to most recent (or perhaps least often):
- The ship crashes (they're pretty sure that happens every loop) - The human builds huts - The human teaches some of his trimps to speak and do science - The human builds houses - The human makes maps - The human builds mansions - The human blows up and gets himself killed somewhere around Z17 to Z21, often on a dragimp - The human only recently/occasionally builds hotels - The human only recently/rarely tamed a dragimp - The human only recently/rarely maps the Dimension of Anger
They're all agreed that that they have never finished the Dimension of Anger. What they are not all agreed on is that they've never done this conference to figure out whether they're in a time loop or what that might mean. [See also Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect" ...which was sort of a time loop but they weren't going back in time. It's very interesting, but its meta makes no sense - no one ever went looking for the Bozeman in 80 years? No one who went looking for the Bozeman also got stuck? No one noticed the passage of time outside the little area of space where the not-quite-a-time-loop was happening? Errr... sci-fi writers, don't be half-assed about your time loops, lmao! Be like Harold Ramis- ...what am I saying?? (That would be Groundhog Day, which grafted a time loop into a romcom; there are no other sci-fi elements. But it was a full-blown time loop and not half-assed like "Cause and Effect".)]
9h54m06s: Dropped from Z21c95...
I think it would be a bad idea to bypass that green area, as much as I'd rather not face it. Both his domesticated trimps, which are breeding up a new group of fighters, and the wild trimps he has decided just now not to open the traps for, stare at him and point in that direction. He shoulders a huge Shield V-3 and grabs an Mace IV-2 as well and announces, "We're doing it." Thus equipped, he marches off into the Dimension of Anger.
10h27m53s: Taking Pi4-2; recently had taken Pa4-2...
The group at the front had expired, and the snimp in DoAc95 glares at the advancing colony of trimps, which had halted only because of it. It refuses to counterattack the vulnerable colony and its human, instead snorting and huffing, waiting for the next bunch of 232 fighting trimps to come in range.
Tightniks runs along the line of traps, releasing the recently tamed trimps, singing a song that he doesn't remember the meaning of, that he doesn't remember was crafted by an ethnically Chinese guy out of an African language, and later mastered by two caucasians over the internet before they ever met in person. "Baba yetu yetu uliye, mbinguni yetu yetu amina..." because it just happened to be stuck in his head. [Because the Doylian author decided on a whim to. Christopher Tin got it into Civilization IV and at the time (2010 July), I made the best video for it on YouTube, which got subsequently blown to shreds when Peter Hollens and Malukah re-recorded the song from scratch in their own voices and instruments in 2014, pity with no English translation, the purpose of my video.]
Noticing the last batch of metal he needs coming out of the furnace, he waves the waiting grey scientist to fire up the forge [to use the term properly and not as the game does], for it was time to wrap up the forging dies for the Spetum IV, Mark 2 pike heads.
"Shijou!" the grey one cheers, setting aside a snack that looks like maybe ramen, and starts jumping up and down on the bellows handle.
It takes a while for the human to chip out the tip in the two halves of the forging die, and then polish it, and then heat it up in the forge, and then quench it, inspect it, and put it into service crafting thousands of new pike heads for the fighting trimps.
But only one second passed on the map frame clock (10h27m54s) four cells behind that snimp, in the case being brooded over by this huge, and if it's honest, rather concerned megablimp.
10h35m45: Portal PB, 45 He, 4.247 He/hr, 1891 pop, 22.7s RC with Z20/232, no turkimp.
The last head of the map's boss monster goes limp as one of the fighting trimps' mace heads bounces of it, and the huge thing settles on its tail, resting on the package that seems to be the prize of this map. And there's a popping sound, and then something mechanical.
Is that a scroll compressor? Tightniks looks at the package. The deflating monster's lifting envelope material drapes over everything underneath it. "Red, Shijou!" he snaps and points, "roll up that side of it. Keep this part from sucking down on the extractor nozzle!"
All ten of the scientists jump in, literally, pushing the gas in the bag towards the compressor. Tightniks as well, rolling up the front.
Until he kicks, and nearly trips over, a smaller package that might be the explanation for the reason why the center of the monster's defense seemed to be a little away from the big package he could see. It's in the right place, he realizes. He gets it uncovered and reads stenciled-and-sprayed block letters on it:
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE DOWN"
Perhaps the Dimension of Anger is so named because of the rage suddenly rising up in Tightniks' throat. It isn't so much as the free-floating aggression suddenly has an answer, there is definitely a fresh batch of rage and anger as he grips the nearest Mace IV, Mark 3 with both hands and gets it over his shoulder, its target obviously this object, anger at the realization he screams at the top of his lungs, "We are stuck in a mutha FAH-king time loop!!" His swing begins. [Tightniks almost never cusses, unlike Snugniks.]

I want to apply to top schools but I’m curious would these stats get me in? My counselor last year had a talk with me and said I had no chance for dropping a math course because of medical reasons at the time and a lot of work (that class ended up being dropped due to complains of several students). She told me after a year though that I might have a chance. this year I’m working hard in making a difference but I’m rlly unsure due to the competitive top 20 class, they have limited and almost no ecs but still. If anyone does reply I would like to get some tips Ofcourse no one knows what exactly gets anyone in but any suggestions for ecs and what to improve?
For context my school is very low income and it does reflect in the education and state tests
Taking all IB senior year + top 5% of my class, 3.98 gpa/4.0
Also: Every Stanford student from my school majors into law or engineering never Econ or finance I’m considering Econ + poli sci
Sat planning on getting more than a 1400 gonna grind all summer possibly getting a tutor to get a 1500+
Ecs: Business club president + deca president for this fall, made a project website for 1000+ students and the college and career center to gain access to resources related to business and scholarships in general
Women in corporate related Organization co founder- making resources accessible, one one one help creating a college profile and ecs, tips for classes and more and more than 500+ ppl
Volunteer at a global law related organization where I write articles, possibly editor in chief board position if accepted
Volunteer (completed some research related to corporate and mental health) & internship -> PVSA award
Teacher assistant for 3 years where I created worksheets for middle schoolers that were simplified in the fields of economics, history mainly, and ELA. Did a lot of grading aswell and provided feedback to students
GWC alumni this summer (SIP awarded)
Data analysis internship & marketing aswell, found CDS of several colleges to create stats for a website and created content for a popular platform
Mock trial for two years, planning on running this fall for a board position
Career fellowship for this summer where the company funds a project (paid)
A writer of a economics related book publishing soon where students state how they became interested in the field and a specific event they applied economics, changing their POV
Also dual enrollment: Econ course & criminal justice course
Expected this fall: democracy related fellowship for women stipend provided, UCLA business program for free, a college mentee program guiding students into top schools if I do become accepted, and other scholarships and essay contests

I am a current junior, I go to a public Atlanta suburb high school (450 kids in my senior class)

• uva is my dream school and I’d love to go here

Major - finance/mechanical or biomedical engineering
Stats:
Current act - 27 (aiming for a 32+ in coming tests)
SAT - didn’t take
GPA - UW 3.83, W 4.35
Class rank - school doesn’t rank, but I’d be top 15% of class.
Course work - AP us history, AP stats, AP pre calc, AP psych, AP human geography, AP lang, AP macro, AP environmental science, 3 dual enrollment classes online (all A’s)
Extracurriculars

1. Vice President of Foster care support club, raising around $1,500 per year for local foster cares around metro Atlanta area
2. Founder and co President of financial literacy club - teach students at our school the benefits of learning how to do taxes, and real life knowledge to help them in the future
3. JDRF Youth ambassador (I’m a type 1 diabetic) - raise and campaign money for diabetes research, and I did a hospital shadow with an endocrinologist.
4. Children’s hospital volunteering - I was diagnosed with T1D in January of 2024, so I’m doing some volunteering with new found diabetes patients in the hospital to give them a sense of calmness.
5. Held a job throughout senior year - working 20+ hours a week from fall semester, (really good recommendation from my manager)
6. Varsity lacrosse captain - 3 years varsity lacrosse player, promoted to captain this year
7. Student government involvement

Essays - I used to live in Charlottesville, so I think I’m gonna write my why uva essay about how much I miss living there and display all my memories about living in Charlottesville as a child and how it’s made me who I am today as a person.

• I also am gonna write about my recent diabetes diagnosis and how hard it was to cope back into school and sports, but how the diagnosis was a blessing in disguise and help my build my character as a person.

Please lmk what you think my chances are for some of these other schools that are on my list!
Reaches - 1. UVA (dream school) 2. Tulane 3. Umich 4. UNC Chapel hill 5. Boston college (Super good rec for here)
Targets 1. Maryland college park 2. Wisconsin 3. Georgia (in state) 4. Georgia tech (in state) - should be a reach
Safety’s 1. Auburn 2. Virginia tech
Thank you!

Hi guys applying next cycle, as I have time before then I've been applying to different internships but what would look best? Its been hard to find a law-firm internship that hires students not pursuing a JD at the moment. For reference, I will probably apply to all the T20 barring some schools based on location, and then of course some of the T50s as well.
Additionally, spoken to some adcomm officers and some have recommended I retake the LSAT, but I am pretty scared to shell out $200 for the test and then maybe get a lower score. I haven't studied since I took the test last November, and also I consistently scored 0-1 misses on the logic games, which have been removed. Any advice? I understand 170 is a good score in the grand scheme of things, but 170 just isn't what it used to be anymore apparently. Thanks again guys (Stats: 3.6high-3.7low, 170, T4-3.5)

I bought a 22' pontoon with a 2012 90hp Merc 4S and I went to service it recently. There is a broken bolt by the previous owner, bottom right of the T stat housing. The boat ran fine and I never noticed it. Not sure if it leaked or not as I didnt check... I just ran the motor with muffs for a few mins before I bought it. Fires on first crank and purrs like a kitten.
https://imgur.com/YgcySsG
The one on the upper left had blue loctite. I think the lower one must have had red + thread damage, or something.
No service history so I ordered the 300 hour rebuild kit and changed the impeller + all the gaskets, plugs, etc. It included a new T stat which I went to install, and then I noticed this.
The T stat does not have a gasket, but instead a rubber ring on the inside of it where it pops into the block.
Looks like this https://d3365vf2odvlwg.cloudfront.net/Bildeassets/REC892864T06.jpg
This broken bolt is right behind the starter and it would be a bear to try to extract... I welded a few nuts on it but that did not work either. Even had a buddy who is welding certified try with his 208V machine and no go. Tried heating it with a torch also. Liquid wrench. Nope. That bolt is STUCK. The only option would be to remove the starter, drill it out, and tap/helicoil.
I have no experience with outboards. I would think the water cooling system is pretty low pressure. What do you think the odds are it will seal with "Right Stuff" gasket maker (cleaned beforehand, for good measure) and just relying on the upper left bolt to secure the T stat? I ran the motor for about 5 mins with a hose + muffs and the tell-tail output looks great. No apparent leaks at all.
https://imgur.com/gDpISyY
But I've read you should only run them that way for 5 mins or so, so no long term testing until she is on the water.
Thoughts? I dont want to get stranded but I dont want to spend $1k on a boat mechanic if its a non issue.
It will only be in fresh water if that makes a difference.

Long story short, I was offered an alphabet agency job but dropped out after one of the polys. My anxiety and life situation was totally uncontrolled and I didn’t want to mess up my chances FOREVER by talking a poly for doing nothing that would bar me from working or nothing that would really bar me from working there.
Anyways, it’s been a few years and I’m working at a different job where I don’t have any rules. I’m in a ton of pain and my anxiety is totally uncontrolled, probably due to pain and anxiety that one day I will do something wrong that may bar me from having a job.
I don’t know if I’ll ever get a government job. If I do, I don’t think it would be one with as stringent security measures. I understand the federal laws, but I know each agency differs (a year, 3 years, drug test, etc).
I might not look to do a gov job for years, if ever. My pain doctor works with medical marijuana and I have been adamantly against if. Gummies seem to be surrounding me everywhere in dc and I don’t get it. I can’t tell a lie to save my life and I’m not planning on me becoming a liar.
Would it be stupid to try gummies or medical marijuana? I fucking hate needing narcotics. I fucking hate benzos. I fucking hate it all. I want to be able to try and relax with something make natural. I’m not saying I want to go back with intelligence, but maybe I want an administration job of some sort. Or maybe I want a job where I will stop a year out when I decide what I want to do professionally. Is it a mistake now to experiment? I’m just desperate in pain. I’m at the point where my mom thinks I’m crazy for not doing it. I’m so letter of the law I don’t want to have wine at a picnic in the park. But I don’t see myself having a gov job for at least 2 years. Is it too much of a mistake?
FYI- I’d like to do pslf. I would do nonprofit if fed job wasn’t a possibility.
Thanks.

I bought a 22' pontoon with a 2012 90hp Merc 4S and I went to service it recently. There is a broken bolt by the previous owner, bottom right of the T stat housing. The boat ran fine and I never noticed it. Not sure if it leaked or not as I didnt check... I just ran the motor with muffs for a few mins before I bought it. Fires on first crank and purrs like a kitten.
https://imgur.com/YgcySsG
The one on the upper left had blue loctite. I think the lower one must have had red + thread damage, or something.
No service history so I ordered the 300 hour rebuild kit and changed the impeller + all the gaskets, plugs, etc. It included a new T stat which I went to install, and then I noticed this.
The T stat does not have a gasket, but instead a rubber ring on the inside of it where it pops into the block.
Looks like this https://d3365vf2odvlwg.cloudfront.net/Bildeassets/REC892864T06.jpg
This broken bolt is right behind the starter and it would be a bear to try to extract... I welded a few nuts on it but that did not work either. Even had a buddy who is welding certified try with his 208V machine and no go. Tried heating it with a torch also. Liquid wrench. Nope. That bolt is STUCK. The only option would be to remove the starter, drill it out, and tap/helicoil.
I have no experience with outboards. I would think the water cooling system is pretty low pressure. What do you think the odds are it will seal with "Right Stuff" gasket maker (cleaned beforehand, for good measure) and just relying on the upper left bolt to secure the T stat? I ran the motor for about 5 mins with a hose + muffs and the tell-tail output looks great. No apparent leaks at all.
https://imgur.com/gDpISyY
But I've read you should only run them that way for 5 mins or so, so no long term testing until she is on the water.
Thoughts? I dont want to get stranded but I dont want to spend $1k on a boat mechanic if its a non issue.
It will only be in fresh water if that makes a difference.

Will be starting the process of a TS in about a year. I did 2 years of community college where everything was taken online and asynchronously. Most of my classes were writing heavy but I took a few that did require test. On some of them, I would certainly double check my answers via Google before submitting. Some was open book homework while others were exams. When I transferred to a very prestigious 4 year I stopped this completely and understand why this is wrong. I’m wondering if this is an auto disqualification, especially for 3 letter agencies. What should I do in regards to the SF86 as I’m not sure this is a direct question but something that I think would come up on a poly. Is this normal or am I cooked?

I ran a test comparing two groups: One has a mean of 3.65 while the other has a mean of 3.10. I made the graph with custom error bars using standard deviation values (0.788, 1.17) as i was instructed and ended up with a graph that has an overlap of bars. I assumed that this meant that the difference between the two groups was not significantly different but now I am conflicted because once I ran the unpaired one-tail t-test, the p value was was 0.0099 which is really small. So is there actually a significant difference between the averages? Or why can I say about the over lap of the bars? This is a report comparing consumption of food eaten by rodents in the fall vs spring btw. Also my t-stat was 2.41 so how would this tie in? Does this also indicate a difference in averages ?