I'm pretty flat broke. It's the main reason I'm going back into programming. My problem is small business finance/taxes are too complicated for me. Also, I've been pretty strong on advising and doing whatever it takes for her to not graduate with debt. She's going to graduate in Philosophy or French Literature or International Relations or something and not have some immediate way to start paying off loans.

My 2nd kid, if she does go to Cal-arts, debt will probably be fine. It may not be a ticket to an immediate super-high paying job, but not far from that.

It would be interesting to do a study of people who work in admissions at major universities and compare their salaries to their lifestyles.

I know someone who worked in admissions to Boalt Law (retired now I think - mother of a friend). She lived in a modest apartment. But that's a public school.

A righteous mother charged in the college cheating scandal scolded others about cheating on Instragram

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These ****ing people...

I find books that I enjoy now, but just like with music it is hard to recreate the impact that a book can have on you in your youth no matter how good it is, especially fiction IME anyway. Nostalgia is a big part of it, I suppose.

lol

The parents of a friend of one my kids have college admissions fever dialed up to 11. In addition to having to retake a class the one time she got a B, they have extra-curriculars like running marathons as something she has to do. She literally finished one with her feet soaked in blood.

Lori Laughlin looks absolutely incredible for 54.

Wow. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...gtype=Homepage

$1.2M sure seems like enough to legally bribe your way in. I guess the price to get a kid into Yale much be a lot higher than that.

Pretty sure this will get you into Yale.

Are you on Medical, section 8 and food stamps?

I mean, top flight profs can make a difference, but at some level you can learn calculus or English 101 just as well at a community college.

I had a tl;dr post a while ago, but we have a business model where education is treated like a rare commodity even though we’ve got the technology to give everyone a quality education for dirt-cheap. The system we have is largely just there as a gatekeeper to make sure the Brock Turners of this world get quality job prospects.

Boalt was a super-cool dude.

I'm eating lunch and overheard 2 70~ overweight white guys who look like they could barely walk run through a list of deplorably stupid takes that I thought I'd share with you all. I missed parts of them talking about Tim apple and apparently they did a mocking thing where Obama asked "Jerome" for advice on how to fix the county and Jerome didn't know? It was weird. Anyways this is what I wrote down.

"All of the crimes Paul manafort did were done under Obama"

Democrats want reparations "I want reparations for what happened to my dad in world war 2 fighting the nazis. Thank you"

Elizabeth warren falsified her records to get in to Harvard

Last week it was all impeach impeach impeach, and now its... well... we need to wait and see evidence. Adam Schiff is a moron.

How do we elect these people? We don't? Nancy pelosi has got a bunch of liberal billionaires from Marin county backing her

Gavin newsome is an idiot. "I was lieutenant governor for 8 years and I did nothing, make me governor!"

As soon as Gavin cancelled the train trump asked for his 3.8 billion back and he came out the next day and said... well... we're gonna keep the money.

Most of the parents of the other crew kids at MB I knew seemed to be hoping their kid didn't get into some crazy school. Or at least that was the running joke.

One girl got into Michigan, which had somehow become her dream. Her parents were on the low end of MB money I'd say. At first they said no way but eventually caved.

Your daughter has been a good kid, worked hard to make good grades, goes to exhausting crew practice for 2.5 hours every day and all weekend on meets - all so she could get into a good school - and now you're going to deny her dream? It's a very seductive industry.

I'm trying to be a better person and see TS as someone who hasn't had enough love in his life and it's left him as this withered and embittered individual, and not loathe him... but I can't.

He’s like a top 1% elite climate change truther and his patter is still nothing more than cherrypicking one discredited scientist.

I've done ok at some points and I'll recover, but pride ****s with me too much to do any of those things. I lost money for the first couple years of this business and spent a couple more making like <$30k and since then have had negative net-worth, but slowly recovering. It's easy to account for income and hard to account for expenses and I'm pretty sure, looking around me, that I've done even worse than it has looked on paper.

Apparently the USC crew team is involved in this. I know a lot of the girls who weren't on scholarship dropped out after the first year - including the roommate of the kid I knew. Maybe the game is to get designated as a recruit, then just drop out of the program.

Come to think of it, the roommate was a coxswain - which are usually very very tiny people. But she was almost the same size as my kid (not my kid, just getting hard to refer to her). The story was she had a massive growth spurt after senior year. Makes you wonder.

My kid stuck it out all 4 years.

How long until DJT gaslight tweets about HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS buying their way into school?

Do I come here often? Look, I get it - places, what's my view of them, where do I stand on places, that's what you're getting at.

Paraphrasing Conversational Gambits Guy is my new favourite sketch character (which, like favourite books, is a thing adults have).

Makes sense.

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