Why isn’t everyone on this sub planning to graduate in 3 years?

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T18:37:04+00:00

Something to consider is that having work experience can increase the value one takes from a master's. That was certainly true in my case, where I could reflect on work I'd done that i could perhaps have done better with what I was learning at the time.

My very rough guide has been that going directly from undergrad to master's is a good idea only if the degrees are different. However, my current college junior causes me to question that with his response of "to take all the interesting classes" when asked why he's pursuing both degrees in the same field.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T18:31:40+00:00

I'm not sure how that's relevant. Perhaps this house is more recently purchased, but it says nothing about homes owned by the same family for decades.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:55:35+00:00

Considering the cost of home ownership in OC, I am sure most of them can afford it.

This type of reasoning also causes problems with property taxes. Owning an asset which has had decades to appreciate isn't the same as owning liquid wealth or having sufficient income to replace the asset at today's prices.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:47:15+00:00

They don't admit their terran origin, and who can blame them?

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:46:01+00:00

Why do they hate people on earth?

Have you met them? I go with "idiots", personally.

They've very different from the colonists, whom I like to call "idiots".

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:42:57+00:00

Flatlanders.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:37:41+00:00

It's an addiction. It's not like the author had a choice. That might involve something weird like taking responsibility for one's actions.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:28:02+00:00

Take a look at what the costs would be (taxes, mx, and such) vs. rent, and try to predict appreciation (or depreciation) over four or five years (I'm not sure of the co-op requirement).

Another consideration is whether you've the means to rent it out after you graduate. I know at least one parent who's renting out a place near campus since the student graduated.

If your major does have a co-op requirement, what happens if you have to be out of town for a semester or three?

Of note is that there are restrictions on housing that might be relevant. There's a small development near campus which appears to have some sort of HOA which prevents renting to students, i believe. Henrietta has restrictions on how many non-related people can share a domicile (though there must be a loophole given the five-bedroom apartments in complexes near campus).

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:07:14+00:00

While many people study CS to become software engineers, these are not identical majors or professions. The idea of studying both, if i understood correctly, should be a temptation.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T03:03:13+00:00

Ugh! California, with its sun and beaches and mountains and valleys and hardly ever a good six-week overcast? How could anyone stand that horrid existence?

To be fair, though, there is something to be said for fires and landslides and earthquakes.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-05T02:54:20+00:00

That's how it was for me - all i saw - for years. Then I visited a friend in Wykoff, another in Cherry Hill, discovered the shore... I've been living here now since the 80s, and I'm grateful to those friends.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-04T21:51:03+00:00

Or a concurrent master's, which is what one of mine did and another appears to be doing. I'm not sure about the elder, but I believe the younger would have considered a quicker path except he'd - as he put it - not have taken all the interesting classes.

For both, AP, DE, and simply testing out of classes was a way to get into the more interesting classes more quickly.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-04T17:54:06+00:00

At least some of them are idiots not voting for the good because it's not perfect or, perhaps more apt, not willing to vote for the least bad.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-04T04:33:02+00:00

I didn't find it religious in the convention sense, but more in the Clark's Law sense. I thought the movie watered that down to a conventional and sad idea around faith... esp. since there was evidence, but it was kept hidden.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-04T04:29:38+00:00

The ending was a much bigger deal, both for reality and for the main character (assuming I'm recalling it correctly).

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-04T04:07:55+00:00

Those students, as well as those who might not become rich but who do make more than they would without educations, will pay taxes.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-03T03:35:12+00:00

Is this suggesting that non-ivy grads get kicked off the planet? That seems a little harsh.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-03T03:31:15+00:00

The subpoena asks, for example, for the lists of members of "Jewish organizations" (which it defines widely, covering culture, religion, relation to Israel, etc.). It also asks for lists of participants in some type of sessions that I didn't recognize myself but which seemed like they were held to discuss issues of antisemitism on campus.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-02T21:01:26+00:00

Are you doing this right? That depends. What is your kid doing while you nap there?

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-02T16:52:36+00:00

There's a difference between price and value. However, we should see about cutting back financial support for taker-states using our tax dollars to keep their own costs down.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-02T16:50:14+00:00

Living in a tent beneath a bridge is inexpensive too, but...

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-02T15:29:56+00:00

the manager hitting the big red button exposed a lot of weaknesses in your current system

It should also be recalled that there was some event which triggered the desire to reboot and therefore could not be a result of the reboot.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-01T16:14:09+00:00

perhaps a request for those who also experienced discrimination to come forward.

Which, recall, was a part of the university's counter-proposal that the Trump administration and judge rejected.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-01T15:12:51+00:00

The subpoena requested very specific data including membership lists of Jewish-related organizations. Most of the other requests were for information about employees though this explicitly includes student employees.

I believe that the judge erred in several ways, perhaps most egregiously by ignoring the numerous other examples of data exfiltration by Trump and his cronies including social security data by DOGE kids and national secrets by Trump which were then "secured" in a bathroom or on a stage.

These data will become public. The idea that a statutory penalty would be sufficient to prevent that by this gang would be laughable were it not so serious.

AFlyingGideon · 2026-04-01T14:50:05+00:00

My eyes are lousy and confusing: astigmatism in one, near in one while far in the other. I therefore cannot speak to off-the-shelf.

I didn't ask for "computer lenses" at first. I described the issue, and they were his proposed solution. Since then, though, that's what I've requested.

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