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Originally posted by Asher
pay substantially less for them and get paid substantially less in your jobs.
pay substantially less for them and get paid substantially less in your jobs.
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Not true - UK graduates going to the US get paid the same as US graduates. Similarly US graduates coming to the UK get paid the same as UK ones. The degrees aren't worth any different, just the US has a higher average wage. It's not that much higher either.Smile
For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
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I've just gone through two weeks of college . Our college starts at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:30 PM - a nine-hour workday . There is a great academic workload .
I'm happy with what I've seen so far .Comment
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Some classes (archaeology) were good, but most of em were useless or boring. I hardly remember anything I've learned in the past 4 years; partly because I have a terrible memory
And most subjects were ridiculously easy and small. The reason why at least some of them were hard was that the textbooks (if any) or classes were chaotic, vague or had bad explanations written in them.
I mean: all year long I would go out and drink, or things like that, without ever studying till exams were coming along. I don't think my friends studying engineering could be able to have managed that ^^
So basically I never needed or learned how to really work on something, so I'm sort of screwed with my thesis
Still, some interesting courses made up for that crap, a bit anyway...Last edited by Traianvs; September 9, 2006, 12:24."An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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It was even better before Governor Reagan imposed tuition.Originally posted by Oerdin
I truly believe the University of California is a one of a kind institution.Comment
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Thanks to Traianvs for being honest. Is he the only one telling the truth? Are the rest of us deluded because of a sense of nostalgia for the good old days? Or are we purposely thinking better of our alma maters in order to boost their reputations, and in turn, our prospects?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Or is there possibly a self-selection going on in the people answering the question?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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True, true. Possible.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I'm applying to colleges this year. This is my little MS paint map of places I'm applying to. They're color coded by selectivity, with red being the most selective, followed by purple, blue, and green. Yale or Stanford will be the first choice. This is a typical set of applications for an East Coast private school kid. In general, these schools are very expensive, and one might argue that these schools are overpriced. I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but they're very good. (Rice is the exception. Rice has an incredibly low tuition.)
"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
Eschewing silly games since December 4, 2005Comment
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(Rice is the exception. Rice has an incredibly low tuition.)
But it's in Texas.Comment
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Jeez, that's a lot of schools to apply to. I applied to 3, and withdrew 2 of those applications.Comment
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Well, CMU was your first choice and you easily had the credentials. You pretty much knew you were getting in. Whereas my first choice is Yale/Stanford (will be decided shortly) and anyone who "knows" he's getting into Yale or Stanford is an arrogant *******."You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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Whereas my first choice is Yale/Stanford (will be decided shortly) and anyone who "knows" he's getting into Yale or Stanford is an arrogant *******.
Except for one of my best friends in HS, who won the international science fair, got like 3rd at Intel, got 20k from DHS for the facial recognition algorithm he developed and has several times been asked to give presentations at computer science conferences. But yeah, in general that's true.
(And he was so modest that he didn't even count on Stanford.)Comment
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Hey, my retarded half-mole cousin went to Yale. It's a good institution for those in somewhat less-refined circles.
Columbia FTW.
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Some words of advice...
Nobody cares about whatever you did in high school after your first semester at any college.
If you don't get into whatever college you wanted, don't sweat it. Plan instead to attend your first choice college for grad school. Masters programs are MUCH easier to get into, they're cheaper, and nobody cares about anything except the LAST school you ever attend.Comment
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Nobody cares about whatever you did in high school after your first semester at any college.
Except for the aforementioned crazysmartkid, who has standing job offers at DHS, the NSA, etc.Comment
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