To be fair, the meme shows her ( Kim Yeji of South Korea) from a tense angle, unlike the one from her original viral pic
Also, afaik, they both won silver and she broke the Olympic record before her compatriot Oh Ye Jin broke THAT record to take the gold.
Basically, they’re super cool in each their way, he’s just older and prefers regular glasses over the actually pretty standard for the sport headgear she sports.
Bonus info: that cute plush elephant she has hanging from her belt? That belongs to her 5yo daughter back in South Korea.
I highly recommend this The Athletic piece about her.
One last bit of trivia: the author shares a name with a New Girl character and it’s not Coach 😛
At least they showed up. Or was this after the fourth last-minute and/or late-minute reschedule?
“Sorry. I was busy trying to find research grants so I could dodge teaching activities for the semester.”
A lot of professors are judged on how much grant money they bring in unfortunately.
Oh, I know. And I’m currently setting up audits on qualifications and alignment to our nation’s higher education standards…at a research university.
I’ve already had industry colleagues remind me of that time a major university here had a big grant puller non-chalantly say, “I never actually completed my PhD” thinking it was just gonna go down totally fine because of how much his reputation pulled research money in over the years.
Clearly a very smart human that contributed a lot, but that’s not how academia works and obviously an atomic bomb went off with fiends lined up for the scraps while the CFO weeps.
This is my big fear. If I stumble across something like this, I’m quitting for something less stressful like pest control, test piloting, or child care.
Is a PhD a required qualification in your uni? I know it’s expected, but there are quite a few well-respected academics, particularly in engineering and comp sci, who don’t have a PhD.
Clearly a very smart human that contributed a lot, but that’s not how academia works and obviously an atomic bomb went off with fiends lined up for the scraps while the CFO weeps.
I’m sorry, do you mind explaining this a bit further? I don’t understand what you mean. Thank you :)
Gear up versus git gud.
People keep saying that this guy had no kit, but I’m pretty sure you can’t buy that pistol over the counter, even in America.
Nah you totally can, they’re PCP target pistols. My local sporting goods store has several. By no means cheap, and these are doubtlessly customized as much as the rules allow, but in many (most?) states they’re not even considered a firearm.
PCP target pistols
Call me a nervous ninny, but target shooting while on Angel Dust sounds SUPER risky 😛
They are, either (iirc) 4.5mm (for womens 25m and mixed 10m) or 5.7mm (for mens 25m rapid). I’m pretty sure he’s competing in 25m rapid, which has much more restrictive rules about kit than 10m or womens 25m.
(EDIT: He was not, this was the 10m mixed team where he and his partner took silver. I had forgotten that 25m rapid uses five round .22LR target pistols and not 5-shot PCP)
Same kinda happens in industry, too.
Intern: 12 shitty slides. No appendix. Mumbles through the entire pres.
Jr/Associate: 47 immaculate slides, full appendix, 30 minutes to present, runs short on time, skips half of them and the audience fell asleep 20 minutes ago.
Senior: 10 slides, good enough but not pretty; too busy being technical for pretty slides. Serves the dessert first because that’s what we’re fuckin’ here for, the meat and potatos are there afterwards but we probably won’t have time for it because of Q&A. 30 appendix slides and ready for any question including “when is the heat death of the universe?”
Tech lead/director: 100 slides, 2 or 3 at the front called executive summary, agenda, recommendations; 2 more slides to back it up and introduce the team/rest of the presenters, and 95 other slides ready to go for whatever, spliced together from like 30 other slide decks they have for every occasion.
CTO: I don’t have slides. I have a spreadsheet; but I need you all to tell me the numbers. Here we go.
