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Michael Jones | November 06, 2019

“Has it really come to this?”  I asked myself as I looked in the mirror before stepping out of the house in my newly acquired polyester football coach’s polo-shirt.  Professor Rippetoe’s musings about high school football coaches, rang in my ears: “They oughta be taken out back and shot,” but I was, and am, determined to prove him wrong, at least in a single instance. 

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Carl Raghavan, SSC | October 30, 2019

How much should I weigh? I know, I know. Touchy subject. It’s a question that weighs heavily on many people’s minds (hilarious pun intended), and because it’s so intimately connected to how they view their self-worth and confidence, I’m going to do my best to be as honest and objective as possible.

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John F Musser, SSC | October 16, 2019

The most common things look different depending on where you happen to be standing. If you view something especially complex from an unfamiliar location, it may be unrecognizable. I ask you to consider trying to understand better, by looking at things from different perspectives..

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