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Smallville wrote:im a triple major, poli sci(BA), psych(PHD), and bus(MBA) from Columbia... get at me
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ilikebaseball wrote:majors dont matter at all. seriously. let's just nip that in the bud right now. a 4.0 in hotel management is better than a 3.6 in engineering.
Hotel Management is legit. Especially from Cornell.
Pick some joke major like Communications next time to make your point.
a TON of places its a joke, and a TON of places communications isnt. You could say that about literally every major.

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Post by sfoglia » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:01 pm

msp8 wrote:Have you ever scored above 75% on your sleep app? I have a few friends using that, and they never get above 75% despite feeling well rested etc.

And, I feel shitty about LSAT. My last two PTs, I bombed a section in each. So now planning on postponing to June. I'm far more optimistic about your potential to kill the LSAT!
Oh, definitely. My sleep efficiency was actually 50% last night, apparently, but I have scored up to the low 90s before.

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Dirigo wrote:
ilikebaseball wrote:
Dirigo wrote:
ilikebaseball wrote:majors dont matter at all. seriously. let's just nip that in the bud right now. a 4.0 in hotel management is better than a 3.6 in engineering.
Hotel Management is legit. Especially from Cornell.
Pick some joke major like Communications next time to make your point.
a TON of places its a joke, and a TON of places communications isnt. You could say that about literally every major.
Sorry but there's literally only one place where communications isn't a joke (in my mind) and that's Syracuse. At some colleges, I'm sure every major is a joke because the overall college is a joke.
mizzou, Texas, Wisconsin, Stanford, and I think both USC and UCLA all have really really good programs that they spend a crapload of money on. I've personally seen UT's facility. Its better than the law school without comparison. Sure, its a UG major, but I think some schools would beg to differ with the "joke" thing, although I'm sure many schools (including my own UG) its a HUGE joke.

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Post by msp8 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:05 pm

Dirigo wrote: Uhhh...what?
I'm no expert in hotel management but it seems like a pretty solid industry. Are you saying there won't be hotels in the near future?
No, certainly not arguing that there won't be hotels in the near future -- more that the traditional hotel is under attack from multiple directions.

With Millennials entering the workforce, they're taking up a larger share of the hotel market. And they're more inclined to look for boutique hotels, use airbnb, couchsurfing, house swaps, etc., as well as various apps that discount significantly, further eroding traditional hotels' margins. Basically, the sharing economy will really hurt traditional hotel structure, and so I find the whole space interesting. It's not the equivalent as uber is to taxis (and to delivery structure in general), but there's an analogy there.

I may also have my views skewed by my own experiences: in my city, 5 major hotels went under in the last 18 months. And whenever I stay in NYC now, I stay in boutique hotels that are far more of an interesting experience + filled with Millennials. The trouble with boutique hotels is that they need to spend more to renovate and maintain themselves as that fresh/interesting experience, again compressing margins. And they don't have the scale. They're not going to kill it the way traditional hotel structures did.

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Post by msp8 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:08 pm

zacboro wrote:I can't wait until today is over. So stressed, so much class left to sit through, and still have this exam hanging over my head at 6! I just want to go to sleep all ready, and wake up and PT. Sheesh. Also, I finally finished PT 67 RC section, went -8 overall. And there was no curve on this test AKA LSAC didn't think any sections were particularly hard (right? who knows.) ... I only missed 1 in the first and third sections, but I missed 3 each in the second and fourth. I didn't think they were hard while I was doing them, I just, I don't know.... :?
Try not to stress. You're consistently performing well. I bombed that section too, if that makes you feel better at all.

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Less partying, more right answer circling please.

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Post by Smallville » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:20 pm

nlee10 wrote:
Smallville wrote:im a triple major, poli sci(BA), psych(PHD), and bus(MBA) from Columbia... get at me
No you majored in swim. :mrgreen:
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Smallville wrote:im a triple major, poli sci(BA), psych(PHD), and bus(MBA) from Columbia... get at me
Nah, you're Clark Kent! You majored in journalism so you could work at The Daily Planet, duh.
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Post by msp8 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:28 pm

Dirigo wrote:Ahh very interesting msp.
Of course, I may be completely wrong. Do you have a different perspective on the impact of the sharing economy on these traditional industries? (I find it a pretty interesting topic)

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Triple major in algebra, religious sciences, and french toast
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J/K figured it out courtesy Manhattan
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I just got a text some some TTTTTTT law school wanting to talk about admission gtfo
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Post by leslieknope » Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:35 pm

I was feeling super anxious yesterday after sleeping like crap, so I went for a long (for me) run and went to sleep and now I feel better. I wouldn't say I feel good about the LSAT, but I definitely feel better than I did at any point the week before December (not that it's much of a comparison, considering what a trainwreck that week was) so that's something.

I'm doing a lot of convincing myself that I'm actually prepared. A part of me is convinced I don't actually have LG down because I'm redoing all the games, and that I'll open up the test to LG and won't be able to diagram any of the games and die. That's BS, brain, you stop that.

Also I was an international relations major/history minor. #TeamUselessMajors
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Post by ltowns1 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:44 pm

Smallville wrote:im a triple major, poli sci(BA), psych(PHD), and bus(MBA) from Columbia... get at me

Well...swag lol. That's all I can say about that lol

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Post by sfoglia » Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:53 pm

Dirigo wrote:
sfoglia wrote:Can someone advise on PT 37, S4, Q17, please?

I feel like I'm getting tripped up on the same thing with the difficult questions but I'm not catching what it is...

Argument is that speed limits can reduce fatalities. I selected that argument was vulnerable to criticism because of B, it assumes most drivers obeyed speed limit. TCR is E, that number of traffic fatalities was abnormally high.

I was vacillating between B and E, but went with B because the argument completely falls apart if B. But if E, just because it was abnormally high last year doesn't mean it necessarily had to be lower this year. It could have also been abnormally high this year, except that the speed limit signs prevented it? So E doesn't disprove the argument...

Why am I dumb? Someone please help.
I vaguely remember this one. E is correct because it shows the reduction wasn't due to speed. If the previous year was an anomaly (what E says), then a reduction isn't indicative of anything and therefore you can't say that reduced speed reduces fatalities.

B is kind of just irrelevant. Who cares what most drivers do? As long as some drivers obey speed limits, then they would obey reduced speed limits.

Sorry I don't have it in front of me. This is all off of memory.
Good memory! It's exactly that. "Most" is irrelevant.

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Post by msp8 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:54 pm

schmelling wrote:
Dirigo wrote: I just don't think hotels will ever be obsolete. They're pretty necessary. Boutique hotels are still hotels. And if you go to school for hotel management, you probably dream of running huge mega hotels which serve purposes in addition to merely providing beds for travelers.

I'm not saying that you're wrong. The trends you cite just seem pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Maybe a drop's difference in a swimming pool.
I did a pretty in-depth analysis of the industry in undergrad. And my opinion comes more in line with Rigo on this one. Airbnb and the like will never compete directly with hotels because they simply don't offer the same level of service or access. There is some overlap, of course, but it is more marginal than anything else. Keep in mind that one of the biggest sectors of the industry is people who travel for business, and they are unlikely to go couchsurfing or use airbnb when they are travelling on their employers dime. The boutique hotels are actually making a pretty big impact on the industry, but the traditional hotel chains are catching on, most of them already have one or more lines of boutique hotels, and plenty more in the pipeline.
Interesting.

Fair. And yeah, as mentioned, I don't think hotels will be obsolete. There was a study done on the impact of Airbnb on hotels and, if memory serves, it concluded that a 1% increase in Airbnb listings results in a 0.05% decline in hotel revenues. That does sound like a drop in a swimming pool (or maybe lake even), until you factor in the rapid growth Airbnb has, and continues to, experience.

On business: that's true. Airbnb chips away at the lower-middle hotels most of all. I'd be interested to see about the overall trend in business allowances on hotels.

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