The School/Uni Thread
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It is retarded, but like everything else in the US, the happy life is only for those who can afford it. The best doctors, the best professors, the best policemen, the safest neighborhoods...
today was my first day co-teaching a 100 level course for a program I'm in. It was pretty sweet. Our students are actually pretty receptive and laugh/humor me at my corny jokes. My team-mates and the instructor are also pretty cool, so it should be a pretty good learning experience
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Haha. Not to derail here, but in the improv / sketch show I'm in, there's this one sketch about Hitler as a boy in school trying to play cruel pranks on his jewish teacher. We were trying to think of ways to hammer it home that they guy was supposed to be Jewish (in case there was someone who didn't hear that he was named Mr. Liebowitz), since Hitler never actually acknowledges it. I suggested that there be a big pile of coins on his desk, but the other guys decided to have him wear a pair of Nose-Glasses. I think we could have done both, but hey.
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No. The State schools are cheaper for in state people, but going to University of Toronto as a foreigner was about as cheap as going to an average out of state public school here.
entanglement
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It's not as odd for an Indian to prefer winters over summers. It gets insanely hot, humid and irritatingly draining at the peak of summer, the season which actually starts rather early here and lasts till even the 10th month. It is rather chilly here in the north for about a month.. it feels fresh with moist mornings, the contracted late night airs, which I personally savor greatly.
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Yea, it's the same here in Israel. The summers are long, spanning from May to October and excruciatingly hot and humid. We don't even have intermidiary seasons as such. Spring and autumn, no such thing.
So yea, it's winter for me all the way too. At least it rains. In the northern region and Jerusalem it snows as well.
Still, the high everpresent humidity in the area where I live really sucks all the juices from people.
So yea, it's winter for me all the way too. At least it rains. In the northern region and Jerusalem it snows as well.
Still, the high everpresent humidity in the area where I live really sucks all the juices from people.
MasterOLightning
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Sometimes excessively high tuitions work in the favor of students without a lot of money. Tuition/expenses at Northwestern is something like $45,000 a year. Well over half of the students come from families bringing in more than $100,000 a year. Many of those are more in the range of $250,000+. What the school does is milk these rich bastards for every cent they can, and then distribute much of the extra profit for financial aid. For my tuition, NU picks up everything beyond what FAFSA says my family contribution should be. So if FAFSA says I should pay $8,000 a year, that's all I need to pay.
Many of the people who run into problems with tuition are upper middle class people who receive no aid. If you're working class, few schools will expect you to pay much. If you make $80K, and can't pay for school, tough shit. You had the money and should have saved better.
I actually pay just around $3,000 a year for NU, plus books and food.
Many of the people who run into problems with tuition are upper middle class people who receive no aid. If you're working class, few schools will expect you to pay much. If you make $80K, and can't pay for school, tough shit. You had the money and should have saved better.
I actually pay just around $3,000 a year for NU, plus books and food.
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Indeed. I attend a state school though...it was much cheaper, and apparently the education is good enough to get you pretty good jobs in the general vicinity (not planning on moving far after graduating, so that's good for me).
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And after you get it, you get a fucking 9 to 5 job with normal income. Whats the point.
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im planning on going to a state school UW-madison. I heard it is hard to get into. Unless i would be able to get financial aid for other schools i am going to at least send in an app. To me i dont see the need to find out about the state schools (although i do plan on doing some research). The city itself just seems right for me, lots of people, parties, etc. however that isnt what comes first. I plan on going to a state college though, as my family isnt rich.
high school: im getting homework from basically every class every night (good thing its block scheudle). I have exercise/standing induced asthma so for football i decided to be manager. My inhaler doesnt always work. Everytime they close up and i push myself i seem to get bronchitis (it seems weird, but 70% of the time it happens) and i pushed myself yesterday which i knew i shouldnt have, but i think im coming down with bronchitis again (for like the 30th time in my 17 year life) and my teacher bitched at me for getting up to blow my nose like 7 times in a 50 minute period. He said grab a bunch, its like wtf and keep balls of snot in my pockets. Fucker. My nose gets icky when i blow my nose so i asked to go to the bathroom so i could thoroughly blow my nose and loogie some shit up, and i have a doctors excuse. I was hoping he would so no so i could threaten to sue his ass in front of the class because he makes me look like an asshole in front of the class. A detention would be worth it.
I have thought about grabbing a pen and stabbing myself through the eye into my brain multiple times in fantasy lit class due to boredom, the brothers grimm (wrote many fairy tales like snow white, rumplestiltskin, sleeping beauty, cinderella, among a shitload of others)are boring, but fucking fairy tales. Although they might be more explicit than their disney counterparts its boring as fuck.
high school: im getting homework from basically every class every night (good thing its block scheudle). I have exercise/standing induced asthma so for football i decided to be manager. My inhaler doesnt always work. Everytime they close up and i push myself i seem to get bronchitis (it seems weird, but 70% of the time it happens) and i pushed myself yesterday which i knew i shouldnt have, but i think im coming down with bronchitis again (for like the 30th time in my 17 year life) and my teacher bitched at me for getting up to blow my nose like 7 times in a 50 minute period. He said grab a bunch, its like wtf and keep balls of snot in my pockets. Fucker. My nose gets icky when i blow my nose so i asked to go to the bathroom so i could thoroughly blow my nose and loogie some shit up, and i have a doctors excuse. I was hoping he would so no so i could threaten to sue his ass in front of the class because he makes me look like an asshole in front of the class. A detention would be worth it.
I have thought about grabbing a pen and stabbing myself through the eye into my brain multiple times in fantasy lit class due to boredom, the brothers grimm (wrote many fairy tales like snow white, rumplestiltskin, sleeping beauty, cinderella, among a shitload of others)are boring, but fucking fairy tales. Although they might be more explicit than their disney counterparts its boring as fuck.
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A lot of people here seem to do literature. I think it's a good thing to study, but I wouldn't necessarily pay tens of thousands each year to read a bunch of classic novels when I can do that at home. Also there is no real qualification or association you can join at the end of it.
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MasterOLightning
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I agree. There are just some topics, as interesting as they may be, that just are not worth shelling out the bucks to study, unless you are confident that you can be an elite in the field and work towards being a professor, or maybe a secondary educator. I love history, but it's a notoriously bad major as far as getting a job goes. You can read as much lit/history as you want in your own time. Having good professors does enrich the material substantially, but oftentimes this is not something you can't find through other means with a little work (and a lot less invested).
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I personally find myself lacking interest in earning lots of money. I could have easily gotten into Civil engineering at an NIT, a place they say virtually assures you fantastic positions after graduation, but my interests are far from that. I'm instead at a relatively lesser-'powerful' place, but I'm working with computer sciences, and I'm coding.. something I've wanted and have been doing since I was a wee kid. Literally.. throw me in a box with a computer with not even a blanket and I'd still be happy as ever.
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