VictoryBellz🌵

Fierce defender of the Double T 🌵🌵🌵🌵

[Paras @ParasVerma7454]

Job hunting is a very efficient way to lose whatever faith you had in yourself

[Nora @nora_mindnotes]

I really hate coworkers who make work miserable for everyone. We’re all here trying not to starve to death. Do your job, I’ll do mine, we get paid and go home. No need for unnecessary drama.

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

Much has been said by racists, politicians, and racist politicians (like Bo French) about Indians and UT Austin admissions. I thought I should shed some light so their racism could be slightly more intelligent.

I'm a brown kid. I grew up in Frisco, went to a massive Texas high school, and went to UT.

I would wager that the kids in this picture and I have practically the same background. Like me, they probably went to a massive, pressure-cooker suburban Texas high school, and survived the gauntlet to earn their admissions.

These aren’t foreigners. State law requires 90% of UT's freshman class to be Texas residents. 75% of those in-state seats go to automatic admission on class rank. These are Texans.

Texas, for better or worse, is one of the few meritocratic college admissions schemes in the country for a school of its caliber. The rules are simple. Today, the top 5% of a public school's graduating class is automatically accepted. There is nothing to game. You can’t fake being a competitive rower or have some consultant write your essays for you. There isn’t anything to steal; it’s all there on the table to compete for.

And the competition starts the moment the bell rings for your first period of freshman year. You are ranked in your class every single year, for us, #1 to #450. You knew exactly where you were, exactly how hard you had to compete. My year was even less competitive than it is today. The top 6% made the cut, so that’s an all-out war for ~27 kids to get auto-accepted into UT.

So we worked our butts off. Here's what my life was like, starting in kindergarten.

Every summer, before the school year started, I had to finish the upcoming year's math textbook.

I sweated over getting As, even in elementary school. One funny memory is walking to my parents' room, crying, to report my first-ever 89 on a report card.

I did Kumon, my least favorite thing in the world. I still hate that weird half-smile that is their logo.

I went to math and science competitions, where I always lost, and came home crying again. (Quite the crybaby, wasn't I!)

And everyone else around me worked just as hard. Actually, a lot of the kids worked much harder. I know people who took extra classes (zero period) just to boost their GPA. Who routinely slept 5 hours a night to nail every assignment they had after band practice. Who were distraught when they got a 98 instead of a 100. People who stopped doing things they loved, like sports or arts, because those classes dragged down their GPA.

People put their entire life force into getting into this school.

I wasn't even in the top 10% of my class. The competition was too good. I wasn't disciplined enough to hang with them. I got in as one of the 22.5% of admits who are at-large Texans.

These are American kids who earned their way into this school in the most American way possible. Competition. They were told the rules, they competed, and they got the number. And on Saturday they were in that stadium in burnt orange, screaming their heads off, like every other Texan at DKR or around the country. I can’t feel anything but pride for them. That they get to live the dream that so many of us dreamt growing up!

Kids like this have helped improve UT’s standing on the national stage. They made it out of the pressure cooker and placed well in Finance, Big Tech, and more recently, startups. They meaningfully contribute to the economies of our state and country. You should be proud of them too.

Overall, this seems like a meritocratic (albeit flawed) way for Texans to be admitted to our state’s flagship school. It’s racially blind. But politicians like Bo French are asking for something different. They want the student body to rebalance racially.

Surely they aren’t advocating for affirmative action, are they?

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

[VictoryBellz🌵 @confwashome]

@Super70sSports It would never end

[VictoryBellz🌵 @confwashome]

@Blain_Crain Stfu

[🅿️ @the_P_God]

Nobody:

People who moved to Dallas: bro you have to visit me. It’s so sick man. We have to drive everywhere but it’s sick. We have great bbq but you have wait like 2 hours for it. It’s so sick. The bars are basically all the same. It’s sick. I’m buying you a ticket. It sucks.

[Texas Tech Basketball @TexasTechMBB]

TEXAS TECH WINS IT AT THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ARENA ‼️

[Capital One Orange Bowl @OrangeBowl]

@TexasTechFB is headed to Miami!! ✈️🌴

#CapitalOneOrangeBowl

[Texas Tech Football @TexasTechFB]

Why not us.

#WreckEm

[Aaron Dickens @AaronDickens]

I'd like to thank all the dinosaurs that died in the Permian Basin millions of years ago that helped make this season possible.

[Texas Tech Football @TexasTechFB]

HIS NAME IS JACOB RODRIGUEZ AND HE'S THE BEST PLAYER IN AMERICA.

[big ounce @_bigounce]

Which bye week team from Texas has the better football team?

RT for Texas Tech, Favorite for UT.

[ESPN @espn]

TEXAS TECH 🆚 TEXAS FOR THE TITLE‼️

This will be the first intrastate matchup for the national championship in 21 years 😲

[VictoryBellz🌵 @confwashome]

@Florida_szn17 @FRZEStix @FL_Gatorman We don’t live in Alabama

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Texas Tech loses both JT Toppin and Grant McCasland to ejections and still finds a way to beat Houston at the Fertitta Center.

That's as good of a win as we've seen this season considering the circumstances.

A breakthrough moment for the Red Raiders.

[Raider Baby Billy 🌵✝️ @BabyBilly_TTU]

Sup fuckers

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

Texas fans, close your eyes 🫣

@XavierWorthy + #ProBowlVote

[Kim Jong Wood🌵🦅🦅 @KimJongTTU]

당신의 일수를 계산하지 마십시오. 분을 계산합니다.

@BUFootball

[Kim Jong Wood🌵🦅🦅 @KimJongTTU]

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