Pros: Amazing music/arts scene, incredible food, lots to do; it's a fun, weird, vibrant town. Weather is pretty good most of the year as long as you don't mind the heat. It's a big city that still remembers what it's like to be a mid-sized college town. It's about the least Texas you can get while still living in Texas.
Cons: Traffic, cost of living; sometimes being the center of what's going on is kind of a bummer (SXSW). The rush to build more luxury condos means bulldozing some of the cool places that give the city its character to begin with.
I used to see Prof. Mason around all the time when I was a student at SMTD. This was only a few years before she retired, but she was still incredibly active, teaching lessons and organizing regular guest recitals and conferences on campus. It always amazed me to be in the same space as someone whose history with the university stretched back to the 1940s.
Well, as a former long-time Wisconsin resident, the Badger fans will probably be there grilling brats, already three beers deep from getting ready at the hotel, at the break of dawn. So, if you want to try and keep up with them*, I'd say around then.
*Pro-tip: don't try to keep up with them. It will only end badly.
I took a class with Mark Clague while I was doing my master's in music at Michigan, and he was one of the best professors I ever had. Projects like this where they create critical editions of scores is always really interesting, especially when they're digging into lots of old sketches and manuscripts. There's a lot of personality and detail that can be found in those handwritten scores that doesn't always come out in machine-engraved music. I've had the good fortune to be able to seem some handwritten Gershwin manuscripts in person, and it's a really amazing experience.
I did some study of Porgy and Bess while I was in school, and it's a really interesting opera that is still somewhat controversial to this day. I've never heard the opera the whole way through, but I've always been a big fan of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans version of it. It was totally groundbreaking in the way that it featured an exclusively black cast, and incorporated jazz into a traditonally classical genre. However, there's still some debate in the musicology world about the extent to which Gershwin and Heyward, the libretist, were appropriating black culture in America, and how authentic their portrayal of that culture was. It has a fascinating if complicated history, and it's really a testament to the strength of the opera that it's stil widely performed and loved to this day.
Being a prick isn't disqualifying for most college teams, but it is for Nebraska. It's a pretty uptight state; they do not like their coaches using that kind of language, especially to bash the fanbase.
That's the explanation of it that I've read. I actually like that as a plot device; it stays true to the story while also giving them license to do their own thing.
We had LeVar Burton as our speaker for the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance ceremony. He was an incredible speaker, and it was really amazing. The speaker for the main ceremony that year was Dick Costello, the CEO of Twitter, which was pretty cool, but nowhere near as good as LeVar.
This is really interseting. I had a lot of professors who had their offices in Burton Tower, but I only ever actually went in there once while I was at UM.
I guess I should have clarified and said this is from his experiences with the Medill grads he has personally hired for reporting positions and not so much ones he has read.
Of all three accounts, the high school coach's seems the strangest, particularly his recounting of his conversation with Harbaugh, which honestly makes little to no sense. I get that the situation was not ideal for all involved, but there seems to be absolutely zero self-reflection coming from Molinari. Even Harbaugh admitted that he could have handled it better. Kids getting pushed out in the transition between coaches isn't all that uncommon, and it sucks that things went down the way they did, but this guy seems to be making shit up to slam Harbaugh and save his own ass.
Also, am I the only one that finds it funny that Greenstein, as an example of how completely unprecedented Harbaugh's actions were, brings up the example of Paul Finebaum clutching his pearls over Randy Edsall's recruiting? Talk about glass houses...
My father is a journalist, and has a lot to say about Medill grads. Mostly, that they know a lot about the academic side of journalism, but don't know anything about investigative journalism or actually writing stories.
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It's been years, and in some cases decades, since most of those coattail riding shit-sippers have beaten us, so who cares what they think?
Sad to see him leave Michigan, but happy that he ended up at my other Alma Mater!
Pass.
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Austin, TX.
Pros: Amazing music/arts scene, incredible food, lots to do; it's a fun, weird, vibrant town. Weather is pretty good most of the year as long as you don't mind the heat. It's a big city that still remembers what it's like to be a mid-sized college town. It's about the least Texas you can get while still living in Texas.
Cons: Traffic, cost of living; sometimes being the center of what's going on is kind of a bummer (SXSW). The rush to build more luxury condos means bulldozing some of the cool places that give the city its character to begin with.
I used to see Prof. Mason around all the time when I was a student at SMTD. This was only a few years before she retired, but she was still incredibly active, teaching lessons and organizing regular guest recitals and conferences on campus. It always amazed me to be in the same space as someone whose history with the university stretched back to the 1940s.
RIP to a Michigan Twitter legend. Him throwing shade at that nun was one of my favorite parts of the NCAA Tournament run last year.
Jump Around motherfuckers!!!
Well, as a former long-time Wisconsin resident, the Badger fans will probably be there grilling brats, already three beers deep from getting ready at the hotel, at the break of dawn. So, if you want to try and keep up with them*, I'd say around then.
*Pro-tip: don't try to keep up with them. It will only end badly.
WEHADSUBSANDBISCUITSANDHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCK!!!!!
WEHADSUBSITWASCRAZY!!!!!!
I took a class with Mark Clague while I was doing my master's in music at Michigan, and he was one of the best professors I ever had. Projects like this where they create critical editions of scores is always really interesting, especially when they're digging into lots of old sketches and manuscripts. There's a lot of personality and detail that can be found in those handwritten scores that doesn't always come out in machine-engraved music. I've had the good fortune to be able to seem some handwritten Gershwin manuscripts in person, and it's a really amazing experience.
I did some study of Porgy and Bess while I was in school, and it's a really interesting opera that is still somewhat controversial to this day. I've never heard the opera the whole way through, but I've always been a big fan of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans version of it. It was totally groundbreaking in the way that it featured an exclusively black cast, and incorporated jazz into a traditonally classical genre. However, there's still some debate in the musicology world about the extent to which Gershwin and Heyward, the libretist, were appropriating black culture in America, and how authentic their portrayal of that culture was. It has a fascinating if complicated history, and it's really a testament to the strength of the opera that it's stil widely performed and loved to this day.
Maybe the real OC was the friends we made along the way.
To be fair, I think Sparty successfully avenged their last game against Michigan by closing the gap from losing by 29 points to only losing by 10.
Well, my undergrad alma mater is actually in Wisconsin, so technically neither Michigan or Texas count.
My alma mater beats my other alma mater. Somehow I both win and lose.
Bring back the leather helmets too?
To be fair I think Allen did finally get a penalty flag for his antics today, but you're not wrong that they still give him way too much leeway.
It's pizza time y'all!!!
Yes! I saw this live, and could not fathom how there was not a flag on that play. He had his arm pinned behind him!
This is so awesome! It warms my heart to hear stories like this, and makes me even more proud to have Harbaugh as our coach.
Also, SMTD represent!
Yeah, "Defeat with Dignity" is a total Don Draper move.
Sweet Jesus, now he's tweeting at Harbaugh calling him thin-skinned.
Dude spends the entire day arguing with and then rage-blocking anyone who dared to disagree with him, but yeah, Harbaugh's the think-skinned one.
Nope, that's pretty fucking stupid.
My hot take: fuck that guy.
Being a prick isn't disqualifying for most college teams, but it is for Nebraska. It's a pretty uptight state; they do not like their coaches using that kind of language, especially to bash the fanbase.
This does not give me a good feeling. At all.
That's the explanation of it that I've read. I actually like that as a plot device; it stays true to the story while also giving them license to do their own thing.
HOLY SHIT!!!
I live in Austin, so mostly they just care about what Tom Herman is doing.
I know that this is a smart move on their part and does not mean it's a sure thing that DJ and Mo are gone, but still, this makes me feel bad.
We had LeVar Burton as our speaker for the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance ceremony. He was an incredible speaker, and it was really amazing. The speaker for the main ceremony that year was Dick Costello, the CEO of Twitter, which was pretty cool, but nowhere near as good as LeVar.
SO MANY BISCUITS!!!
I learned Johnny B. Goode for a show I was playing in several years back, and it was honestly one of the most fun guitar parts that I've ever played.
RIP Chuck.
Hot take: WIN THE FUCKING GAME!!!
WE HAD BISCUITS IT WAS CRAZY!!!
One of my friends in high school worked as a baker at Red Lobster. He would occasionally bring bags of biscuits to school with him. It was awesome.
Anyways, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, Go Blue!
BOILER DOWN!!!
I definitely called my parents during the game without thinking about the fact that they're Nebraska alums and were also watching the game.
Inadvertent trolling for the win.
This is really interseting. I had a lot of professors who had their offices in Burton Tower, but I only ever actually went in there once while I was at UM.
Woo! Go Blue, beat my home state!
Apparently. Wow.
I've been working all night and just now checked twitter. What the fuck happened!?!
I guess I should have clarified and said this is from his experiences with the Medill grads he has personally hired for reporting positions and not so much ones he has read.
Of all three accounts, the high school coach's seems the strangest, particularly his recounting of his conversation with Harbaugh, which honestly makes little to no sense. I get that the situation was not ideal for all involved, but there seems to be absolutely zero self-reflection coming from Molinari. Even Harbaugh admitted that he could have handled it better. Kids getting pushed out in the transition between coaches isn't all that uncommon, and it sucks that things went down the way they did, but this guy seems to be making shit up to slam Harbaugh and save his own ass.
Also, am I the only one that finds it funny that Greenstein, as an example of how completely unprecedented Harbaugh's actions were, brings up the example of Paul Finebaum clutching his pearls over Randy Edsall's recruiting? Talk about glass houses...
My father is a journalist, and has a lot to say about Medill grads. Mostly, that they know a lot about the academic side of journalism, but don't know anything about investigative journalism or actually writing stories.
This list just make me sad.
My mom's side of the family are all Nebraska fans. They're still in denial about the whole Tom Osborne retiring/it's not the mid-90's anymore thing.
They've had a realistic shot of beating us the past two years, so they can't be that Rugers-ish.