@BOyster922@quachelsey Manual labor these days is operating machinery and power tools. Burns maybe a couple hundred more calories than an office drone. Like one Snickers bar.
@questionableway Baseball is a newspaper/radio sport, football is a TV sport.
When future historians look back, they might decide screens are what destroyed this once great country (I say, while staring at a screen).
@_RiskTolerance@Empty_America@youngwerther123 I wasn't NM Scholar, but in the ballpark. I went local state school on full scholarship. I see few ways my life would be better 15ish years later had I gone Ivy, and many ways it could be worse. I had many equal or better qualified classmates and I bet most would say the same.
@sloeginpsyop@OrevaZSN It was a culture shock for me. They're Bavarian origin midwesterners, large frames to start with, but unbelievable how much their lives revolve around food. They'll eat out some, but they make a ton from scratch. It's amazing how actively involved they are in their own obesity.
@_RiskTolerance@Empty_America@youngwerther123 Big state schools usually have honors programs and smaller concentrations that if they were stand alone schools would compare to top 25.
And a NM Scholar who goes to ASU will probably enjoy life about as much as humanly possible, much better than the status grind of HYS.