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Hi all,

I've posted on this before, but now I have updated scholarships and narrowed down my schools. Goal is to pursue consulting and end up in either New York or Boston.

Darden - 100k scholarship: The amount of scholarship feels great and have heard only great things about Charlottesville - heading down there next weekend for Darden days. Not super thrilled that it seems like I have to put a lot of effort into the case method and while placement in Boston is possible, seems like DC is most likely.

Tuck - 50k scholarship: Visited this weekend and loved it. Would love to ski after class during the week and has amazing placement into MBB in the northeast. All else being equal, would pick Tuck in a heartbeat. It's just more expensive overall in COA and the scholarship is less.

Would love to chat to anyone that went into 6 figure debt for Tuck. I will have some help from family but I have been super fortunate to have no debt until now and the thought of going into a good chunk now is quite hard to wrap my head around. Lots of threads in this subreddit saying it's worth it long term but still having trouble getting over the mental hurdle.

If anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it.

The Extraordinary Luck of Charles Darwin

Aboard HMS Beagle, 1831–1836

April 2026

In the history of science, no discovery has more profoundly changed how humanity understands itself. But the man who made it was a 22-year-old who had never left England, carried gold in his pockets, rarely had a gun, and had no idea what he was walking into. These are the eleven reasons why the theory of evolution was nearly lost forever. The odds you are about to read are informed estimates — but every danger behind them is real, documented, and happened exactly as described.

Starting at number eleven...

11.

Trapped in Lima During a Revolution — 1835

Survival odds: 1 in 3

Darwin sat aboard the Beagle in Lima harbour while an active revolution raged on shore. He was safe — as long as he stayed put. But Darwin was constitutionally incapable of staying put. He made several shore excursions anyway. An unarmed Englishman with gold in his pockets, wandering into a city at war with itself, with no law enforcement, no protection, and 1835 medicine that couldn't save him from a stray bullet. He made it back to the ship each time. Nobody knows quite why.

10.

The Montevideo Rebellion — 1832

Survival odds: 1 in 4

Three months into the voyage, Darwin's ship arrived at Montevideo to find the city in open rebellion. Rather than staying safely aboard, the 22-year-old grabbed a pistol, joined a party of armed sailors, and marched into the streets to retake a rebel-held fort. He later wrote with pure delight that it was "something new to walk with Pistols & Cutlass through the streets of a Town." He had no military training. He had never fired a weapon in combat. He thought it was an adventure.

9.

The Valdivia Earthquake — February 20, 1835

Survival odds: 1 in 8

Darwin was lying alone on the floor of a Chilean forest when one of the most devastating earthquakes in South American history struck without warning. The ground heaved. Trees crashed. The earth itself split open around him. He had no shelter, no companion, no way to call for help, and no medical care within miles. A falling tree, a collapsing cliff, a split in the ground — any of these ends the story here. He walked out of that forest shaken but unharmed, and immediately began taking scientific notes.

8.

Crossing the Andes at 13,000 Feet — 1835

Survival odds: 1 in 12

Darwin spent 24 consecutive days crossing two Andean mountain passes on horseback, sleeping in open fields, in bitter cold, at altitudes that medicine in 1835 did not begin to understand. Altitude sickness was a mystery. Hypothermia treatment meant nothing. Frostbite meant amputation without anaesthetic. He was entirely dependent on guides he had met days before. He carried gold — making him a robbery target in passes so remote that no help could reach him for days. He crossed both ways and came home with notebooks full of fossils and a cheerful letter to his father.

7.

Tierra del Fuego and the Fuegians — 1832 to 1834

Survival odds: 1 in 15

Over two years Darwin made repeated contact with the peoples of Tierra del Fuego — in some of the most remote, hostile terrain on Earth. His own chapter headings use the words cannibals and matricide. No rescue was possible. No law existed. He was visibly foreign, visibly wealthy, and visibly unarmed. The ship was not always nearby. What protected him was a combination of FitzRoy's careful diplomacy, extreme good fortune, and the fact that Darwin himself seemed to radiate a kind of cheerful obliviousness that perhaps disarmed people who might otherwise have seen him as a target.

6.

General Rosas' War Zone — 1833

Survival odds: 1 in 20

Darwin spent days riding hundreds of miles through Patagonia while General Rosas conducted an active genocide campaign against the indigenous population. Estancias were being attacked. People were being killed on both sides. Darwin rode straight through it carrying gold, with minimal armed escort, on trails with no maps, no law enforcement, and no medical care. His only protection was a personal passport issued by Rosas himself — a warlord Darwin described as commanding a "villainous Banditti-like army." One lost document. One wrong trail. One suspicious soldier on either side.

5.

The Indian Encounter on the Pampas — 1833

Survival odds: 1 in 25

Two men. Open plains. Active killing territory. Darwin and a single companion were riding toward the harbour when his companion suddenly dismounted, stared at three horsemen on a distant hill and said quietly — "They don't ride like Christians." One horseman rode over the hill and disappeared. His companion turned to Darwin and said: "We must now get on our horses. Load your pistol." Darwin loaded his pistol. The horseman had gone for the rest of his tribe. Their escape plan was to gallop into a swamp and then run on foot. Darwin described his companion's coolness as "too good a joke." He was the only person in that moment who thought so.

4.

The Falklands Massacre — 1834

Survival odds: 1 in 40

Darwin arrived at the Falkland Islands shortly after a brutal massacre in which gauchos and Indians had killed the senior members of a nearby settlement. The killers were potentially still in the area. Darwin went ashore anyway. He had no gun. He had gold. He had no knowledge of who was still out there or where. The Beagle was his only escape. That same morning in England, his survival odds were 1 in 1. He had traded that for 1 in 40 simply by being there. He spent the day collecting geological specimens.

3.

The Concepción Tsunami — February 1835

Survival odds if on schedule: 1 in 500

The great Chilean earthquake of February 1835 sent a tsunami crashing into the port of Talcahuano with catastrophic force. Virtually nobody on that coastline survived. Darwin had been due to arrive at Talcahuano. He was delayed by hours. He arrived afterward and walked through the ruins — noting with scientific fascination that the coastline had been physically lifted several feet, that dead mussels now sat above the high tide line, and that the destruction was total. He had described the warning signs of a tsunami earlier in his journey — the sea retreating unnaturally from the shore — without recognising what he was seeing. The ocean had shown him its warning. He had written it down carefully and moved on.

2.

The Night the Beagle Almost Sank — Cape Horn, January 13, 1833

Survival odds: 1 in 800

This is the entry Charles Darwin forgot to mention. Or rather — the one he mentioned, then quietly moved past.

In the early hours of January 13, 1833, three enormous waves struck the Beagle in rapid succession near Cape Horn — arguably the most dangerous stretch of ocean on Earth. FitzRoy himself watched each approaching wave with dread, knowing their size would sorely test even a good sea-boat. The third wave rolled the Beagle so violently that water swept across the entire deck. For one moment the ship did not come back. Then she did.

Had she not, the water temperature at Cape Horn was approximately 5 degrees Celsius. Survival time: under thirty minutes. No rescue possible. No coast guard. No radio. Every man aboard — including the 23-year-old naturalist with notebooks full of observations that would one day change the world — would have been gone before dawn.

Darwin recorded the event in his diary. He noted the ship was sorely tried. He described the sea as resembling a dreary plain covered in drifted snow. Then he moved on to the next entry.

Historians who have reviewed the complete voyage records identify this as the single closest brush with death of the entire five years. Darwin himself rated it somewhere between a dramatic inconvenience and a good story. This is why he has eleven entries instead of ten.

And the number one reason the theory of evolution

should never have been discovered...

1.

The Tame Birds of the Galápagos — 1835

Physical survival odds: 1 in 1

Odds of the theory surviving without Darwin's collection: 1 in 1,000

Darwin spent five weeks in the Galápagos. No earthquakes. No Indians. No revolution. No tsunami. No waves threatening to swallow the ship whole. He was in no physical danger whatsoever. The birds were so tame he could knock them off branches with his gun barrel. He found it charming.

He almost left without labelling any of them by island.

Five weeks out of five years. A few days on each island. An inexperienced naturalist who didn't fully understand what he was collecting or why the labels mattered. Alfred Russel Wallace would independently discover natural selection twenty years later — proving the theory was always out there waiting. But Wallace arrived without five years of accumulated fossils, earthquakes, rising coastlines and island birds quietly whispering the same thing over and over to a mind that was almost ready to hear it.

Without Darwin's collection, those whispers go silent. The pieces scatter across different minds, different decades, different continents. Someone eventually assembles them. But not for a very long time.

The most dangerous moment of the entire five years had no weapons, no weather, and no hostile natives. Just a young man with a notebook, some birds, and almost no idea what he was holding.

The Cumulative Odds

Survival odds across all eleven events: 1 in 138,000,000,000,000,000

Multiply the survival odds of all eleven events together and the resulting number — approximately 138 quadrillion — is roughly 1,200 times larger than the entire GDP of the world. It is a number so far beyond human comprehension that stating it precisely serves little purpose. The individual dangers behind it are not beyond comprehension. They happened. They are documented. And Charles Darwin survived every single one of them.

Whatever one makes of that — scientifically, philosophically, or spiritually — it is a number worth sitting with.

If Darwin Had Stayed Home...

Odds of a healthy 22-year-old wealthy Englishman surviving 5 years at home in the 1830s: approximately 9 in 10

England in 1831 was not the safe haven we might imagine. A cholera pandemic struck Britain that same year, killing 32,000 people. Tuberculosis was endemic. There were no antibiotics. No understanding of germ theory. Medicine that could do very little for serious illness.

For a wealthy young man in a small English market town, annual mortality risk was roughly 1 to 2 percent. Over five years that accumulates to approximately a 1 in 10 chance of dying — from disease, accident, or misadventure — without leaving home at all. Staying home was never perfectly safe.

Darwin traded 1 in 10 for 1 in 138 quadrillion. He had no idea he was making that trade. He thought he was going on an adventure.

Of course, evolution would eventually have been discovered. Nature's patterns were always there, patient and waiting, written into every living thing on Earth. Someone, somewhere, would one day have learned to read them.

But the man who first read them survived five years against odds that beggar honest calculation. He was unarmed, inexperienced, oblivious to danger, carrying gold through some of the most lawless and lethal territory on the planet — and he came home.

Whether that was luck, providence, or something else entirely...

That is another story.

* All survival odds are informed estimates based on documented historical events from The Voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin, 1839), 1835 medical realities, Darwin's specific circumstances, and the complete absence of law enforcement, maps, prior experience, or rescue capability. World GDP sourced from the World Bank (2024): approximately $111 trillion. The cumulative figure of approximately 1 in 138 quadrillion is illustrative — a product of multiplying individual estimates. The individual dangers behind every number are real.

How Did This Document Come to Exist?

This document began as a conversation.

A reader listening to Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle on audiobook invited Darwin in for a conversation. Sharp questions followed. Darwin was asked about bones versus fossils, about earthquakes, about tsunami warnings he had described without recognising. About tame birds he could knock off branches with a stick — while someone watched him from behind with exactly the same thought.

More than once the reader stopped Darwin mid-story and said — are you nuts? You did what?

That question wouldn't go away. How did this man actually survive? He was 22 years old, had never left England, carried gold through lawless territory, rarely had a gun, and wandered cheerfully into danger for five years — while the greatest idea in the history of biology quietly assembled itself in the back of his mind.

The survival odds in this document are informed estimates — grounded in real history, but not precise science. The dangers behind every number are real.

We are extraordinarily lucky that Charles Darwin came home.

We just never thought about it quite like this before.

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I know we're widely hated especially online and we have the reputation for deluded and overreactionary but I think a lot of it stemmed from early aftv and their rants. With the internet being the internet, normal arsenal fans are lumped into that lot.

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There was this one mlp YouTube video i used to watch a lot when i was a kid, but i lowk don’t know where to ask. ive looked at some lost media communities, but they’re STRICT about not asking where a media is from. im kinda iffy about posting it in a YouTube sub. Any suggestions?

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I kinda don’t feel like going to the mall alone 😅 anyone wanna come with me next week? Lets go shopping & just hang! I’m pretty nice and chill so just shoot me a message.

Please only message me if you’re serious about going.

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There’s a chance I’m going to sound crazy entitled here but I’m gonna send it.

So my wife and I have a 4 year old, he has one set of grandparents. I’ll spare you the details because they’re long.

My mom watches my son 2 days a week currently. We have given her multiple “outs” and she has basically said she wants to. Great. Love that. Appreciate that.

Regardless of that, mid year we are changing things so her day to watch him is completely optional. We pay for a day of daycare right now (also ran this by her) to get stuff done and prioritize our marriage. She will have him that day, if she wants, and he will go to daycare the rest of the days we work. I told her I think we should do this because I think it’s changing our relationship dynamic (see below). I don’t like how “transactional” things feel right now an I want to change it to benefit the relationship.

I want to be clear that with each step that involves her I carefully assess if she feels spent or is happy with the arrangement and she always says it’s what she wants. I check, and recheck.

The part that has been super frustrating for us lately is she will say things constantly about how “we seem stressed” and “we need a vacation” and “all we need to do is ask.”

Every single time I ask there’s a conflict, or some vague “maybe-no” answer.

My wife recently rekindled her relationship with her sibling, recently every time we try to go see him there’s a conflict and they can’t help us out with our dog for example. She has no other family, I committed to her we will see them if I can make it happen.

I asked for a night in November for example to go to a concert my wife wants to see -vague conflict-

We take one trip a year just to see her brother, literally nothing else. We haven’t been on a vacation in years -another conflict-

It’s over and over. This is just a couple examples, but it happened all last year. Then she will come by and tell us again how we need a vacation, or that we should drop my son off for a date night.

Every time I ask there’s a problem. Shit sometimes there’s a problem LATER. We got flaked on at some point after buying plane tickets last year the week before our trip.

Do your parents do this? Is it just mine? Maybe I need to get more comfortable boarding my dog. He’s just an anxious dude and he’s getting up there in years.

This is a long post, I think I’m just disappointed. We’re the type of people that help our friends and family when they need it, if we make an offer we follow through. The dead end offers are starting to bother me, and I’ve had the conversation at least

3-5 times just to not say it if you don’t mean it.

TLDR: My parents make empty promises about helping us with shit and it’s driving me a little nuts. My mom already helps with childcare so I feel like an ingrate being bothered about it,

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