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Let's not turn this into a big brag thing, but I was wondering where everyone's heading off to college next year and if they'll be playing quizbowl. For me, Emory or UF seem the most likely. If I go to UF, I'll probably be playing quizbowl; but if I go to Emory, it might be a bit hard to start up a club for them so I'm not sure.

Ar$oni$t$ Get All the Girl$ wrote:... but if I go to Emory, it might be a bit hard to start up a club for them so I'm not sure.

Emory had a club as recently as April of last year, when Vamsi Tata attended NGSCU's mirror of MUT, so you may not have to start up a new team.

There is a 99% chance of me attending Auburn University next year. I have researched and haven't found any form of team in existence there. I plan to start a team, but I literally have no idea how to do it.

jmannor2 wrote:There is a 99% chance of me attending Auburn University next year. I have researched and haven't found any form of team in existence there. I plan to start a team, but I literally have no idea how to do it.

https://fp.auburn.edu/stuorgs/

Kay, if you can start a team at Emory, you'll be a quizbowl hero. Seriously, there's no reason on earth why that school shouldn't have a competitive team every year, and it would be a perfect place to host tournaments.

Nick's link looks helpful. Starting a team would take some work, but it's possible. Auburn seems like a good place for a team too. It's a big school that's very close to two frequent hosting destinations. Even if you can't get much funding for your first year, you can still have a decent-sized season by just going to tournaments in Atlanta and Tuscaloosa without having to spend anything on hotels and not too much on gas. Also, and this has been mentioned before, don't hesitate to play up Auburn's rivalry with Alabama as a way to coax some money out of the student government or administration or whoever. Just let them know that Alabama has one of the best teams in the region and that you all sure would like the resources to compete with them.

Also, don't hesitate to ask for help and information from established programs like Alabama. Finally, Joey, you and anyone else attending school in the Southeast may be interested in my free e-newsletter on Southeastern quizbowl. I mail it out a few times a semester and it keeps people somewhat informed. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if interested. This goes for anyone in the Southeast (or elsewhere), including high school players and coaches.

Hilltopper22 wrote:

jmannor2 wrote:There is a 99% chance of me attending Auburn University next year. I have researched and haven't found any form of team in existence there. I plan to start a team, but I literally have no idea how to do it.

https://fp.auburn.edu/stuorgs/

There's also the standard NAQT guide which may prove useful, if slightly outdated.

I'm going to Brown. If anyone from the team can contact me, that would be great.

I'm most likely going to University of Michigan, but there is a small chance that I end up attending University of Miami in Florida. Does anybody know if there is a team there?

I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

mhawlik wrote:I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

Former WJ team member Ashu Joshi goes there, he may or may not be worth tracking down.

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:

mhawlik wrote:I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

Former WJ team member Ashu Joshi goes there, he may or may not be worth tracking down.

Are you still thinking about going to Oregon?

Bentley Like Beckham wrote:

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:

mhawlik wrote:I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

Former WJ team member Ashu Joshi goes there, he may or may not be worth tracking down.

Are you still thinking about going to Oregon?

Haven't heard back from them yet; My top choice is George Washington, who I also have yet to hear back from. Though if they don't give me enough financial aid/scholarship $$ I very well could end up at U of O. I may also end up at Clark, Vermont, or UMBC.

I'm off to RPI in the fall, if all goes according to plan

I'm off to RPI in the fall, if all goes according to plan

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:
Haven't heard back from them yet

Facebook tells me otherwise.

ryandillon wrote:

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:
Haven't heard back from them yet

Facebook tells me otherwise.

Oh hey. Yeah I got in there. Clark offered some money so the chances I'll be crashing the New England circuit went up quite a bit.

A lot of quizbowlers got into some really good places. Personally, I'll probably go to UChicago provided I get enough financial aid (*crosses fingers*). If I can't get financial aid, then it's UF. However, I also have the option of Columbia if by some miracle I get off of waitlist.

EDIT: Actually, even if I got off of Columbia's waitlist, I'd have a pretty big decision to make between it and Chicago.

I'm going to MIT for grad school next year, which I think bodes well for my continued ability to participate in quizbowl.

It looks like I'll be heading up to Michigan State for next year.

Joe N wrote:It looks like I'll be heading up to Michigan State for next year.

Nice. Two guys from DCC will be there too and both of them plan on doing quiz bowl. Just PM me or something if you'd like to get in touch with them.

I don't suppose anyone is going to school in the Pacific Northwest or has teammates who are doing so?

ryandillon wrote:

Joe N wrote:It looks like I'll be heading up to Michigan State for next year.

Nice. Two guys from DCC will be there too and both of them plan on doing quiz bowl. Just PM me or something if you'd like to get in touch with them.

I should be PMing you. Tell them to hit up [email protected], or send their contacts to us I guess. Joe came to our practice early this year, so we knew he may be coming here.

I'm going to the Jeff Hoppes school.

Congratulations on your admittance to Bird University!

Joe N wrote:It looks like I'll be heading up to Michigan State for next year.

Damn.

Fred wrote:Congratulations on your admittance to Bird University!

Let's Go, Fighting Hemispinguses!

cornfused wrote:

Joe N wrote:It looks like I'll be heading up to Michigan State for next year.

Damn.

Yeah, sorry. Lawrence looked really great, but the money wasn't there, and, well, it was at Michigan State.

I will begin graduate school at Texas A&M next year.

Maryland - College Park.

:)

Yale University.

^^^^ excellent choice, sir.

Many thanks, dear sir, many thanks.

JamesIV wrote:Yale University.

I have to say the Yale quizbowl practice on Wednesday was very enjoyable, and it was nice to meet you.

I'll be attending Harvard in the fall.

AlphaQuizBowler wrote:

JamesIV wrote:Yale University.

I have to say the Yale quizbowl practice on Wednesday was very enjoyable, and it was nice to meet you.

I'll be attending Harvard in the fall.

It was lovely to meet you, as well. [Insert obligatory Yalie Harvard-Bashing here]

Neg wrote:Maryland - College Park.

:)

Welcome to Maryland dude! I've sent you an informational email about the team - anyone else who's Maryland-bound should likewise feel encouraged to contact me/one of our upstanding MAQT representatives if you're interested in checking us out.

On a more general note, I'm very interested to see how this year's deep incoming class affects the landscape, as we're clearly in an era in which freshman contributions make an impact that would have been unheard of even three or four years ago.

Though I won't be attending Yale, I'll be living in New Haven for the foreseeable future, so I might drop in on some practices and/or help out at some tournaments.

Due to budget cuts, the US federal government is no longer paying for me to take classes at Georgetown. So effective at the end of the current academic year, I will be abdicating as Apostolic King of Georgetown Quizbowl.

My suspicion is that apart from summer open tournaments and/or random events in the DC area, I am done with playing quizbowl. I plan to focus primarily on writing and editing for a bit, and then eventually disappear entirely.

Will you ascend into the heavens like Jesus or Romulus?

I'll be doing a chem PhD at NYU, where I will try to cajole the team to host tournaments. I may help them host/direct, and I will definitely continue editing (set and--soon--subject) for NAQT, but I have retired from playing competitively.*


*at some time in the future maybe I'll play an open or something, but I have no active plans to play another tournament

I have already started work at Dow Corning, a silicones company in Midland, MI. I'm probably done playing non-open tournaments, but I plan to make it to as many opens in the area as I can.

For lack of anything better to do, I'm entering the thrilling world of the hospitality industry, with plans to eventually return to grad school. In the meantime, I'll be exploiting permissive eligibility requirements and, Seth-Kendallically, using the powers of comparative old age and cunning to triumph over unsuspecting youth.

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:

mhawlik wrote:I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

Former WJ team member Ashu Joshi goes there, he may or may not be worth tracking down.

Ashu tells me he really misses playing quizbowl and I imagine he'd be interested in playing on a team.

wexs883198215 wrote:

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:

mhawlik wrote:I am pretty certain UMiami doesn't have an active team. The captain of my high school (Ransom Everglades) quizbowl team few years ago (Jay Sridhar) matriculated to UM, and was an editor for an ACF Fall tournament few years ago, but I don't think he took the effort to create a team there.

Short answer: no, but there's definitely potential, especially if you contact the active South Florida high school teams for help in forming it (cough cough Ransom Everglades, Westminster Christian, South Fork).

Forming a quizbowl team at UMiami also would definitely help quizbowl in the South Florida area, a Great Thing. If you go to sunny, warm, beautiful UMiami, please do this.

Former WJ team member Ashu Joshi goes there, he may or may not be worth tracking down.

Ashu tells me he really misses playing quizbowl and I imagine he'd be interested in playing on a team.

I would have enjoyed starting up a team at UMiami, but I'll be attending Michigan in the fall.

EDIT: Grammar

I'll be at George Washington, where I will make sure the team goes to things.

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:I'll be at George Washington, where I will make sure the team goes to things.

Congratulations!

I'm going to UChicago where I'll do stuff.

I will be going to the University of Maryland. I have also been going there this year.

I'll go to Alabama next year. Sounds like a plan. Maybe I'll retire again, though.

I'm finishing my MS this summer and in October, I'll be moving to Chandler, AZ to work for Intel as a process engineer. Maybe I'll help Arizona State with some things while I'm there.

DarkMatter wrote:I'll go to Alabama next year. Sounds like a plan. Maybe I'll retire again, though.

You're too funny.