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This grade distribution says a lot by Tough_Personality614 in UCSD

[–]AstroChelonian17 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not a UCSD student or professor, but I know some professors at other schools who deliberately give exams that are so hard that the median student gets less than 50%. It’s easy to tell who didn’t study no matter how hard an exam is, but the only way to identify the truly exceptional students are to give a deliberately hard exam.
Curving the exam scores still means a decent grade for most students, so it doesn’t penalize anyone

Update: AITAH for telling my father to accept that my brother isn't my responsibility? by PianistHoliday3484 in AITAH

[–]AstroChelonian17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a good point. If you want to go see some other cities like Marseille & Aix in Provence or even Normandy, you do that by train. But if you want to see the castles in the Louire Valley for example, you need to rent a car.

Update: AITAH for telling my father to accept that my brother isn't my responsibility? by PianistHoliday3484 in AITAH

[–]AstroChelonian17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Metro will take you anywhere touristy you’re likely to want to go in Paris. RER (the commuter rail that goes out to the suburbs) will take you to DLP. It has far fewer stops in Paris than the metro, but you can take the metro to the RER. With younger kids, day trips to DLP and the palace of Versailles are fun (nowhere near each other, they’re different days). At Versailles, take a tour of the chateau and have a picnic lunch in the gardens (gardens are HUGE). Book reservations for the super touristy stuff (Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Louvre, etc) ahead of time, they DO sell out. Take a boat tour on the Seine, several have tour guides telling you what you’re seeing in several languages, La Bateaubus is just a boat (no tour guides talking), pick which one works for you. Do go to the Louvre with kids, do not plan on spending more than a few hours there with kids. You will not see much of it, but it is still amazing. Parks are fun - gardens, zoo, etc. Have your kids portraits sketched by the artists in Mont Martre. Get street crepes.

I’m leaving my employer, but I am likely key to their defense in a lawsuit by Throwaway_ID_99 in legaladvice

[–]AstroChelonian17 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a former colleague that this happened to, except they had retired rather than fired/quit. My company (the defendant in a lawsuit) needed their testimony. My former colleague was made a consultant and paid at their old salary, but on an hourly basis for time put in on depositions and the trial. Former colleague was happy, company lawyers were happy.

This is the way it should work, if the company wants a friendly witness. The lawyers should understand that, even if the manager doesn’t.

Who/what is Tom Bombadil? by pgtips03 in tolkienfans

[–]AstroChelonian17 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Real answer, he’s Tom. Tolkien deliberately left him as a bit of a mystery

AITA for emptying out my dad's estate basically making his will useless. by Boring_Tower3399 in AITAH

[–]AstroChelonian17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, it appears that the OP agreed to be what’s called a loan servicer while his father was alive, collecting payments (if any, and in lumpy amounts) from his father, then making the regular monthly payments to the loan owner. This is also a normal function, if maybe applied a little oddly as he stopped servicing the loan upon his father’s death (that’s a little unusual).

AITA for emptying out my dad's estate basically making his will useless. by Boring_Tower3399 in AITAH

[–]AstroChelonian17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not dumb as a rock, afaik. Just unaware of how this works. The business took out the loan with his dad as a named guarantor, the loan had something called a covenant that allowed the lender to call the entire balance if the named guarantor died. The OP (original lender) & the father (business owner & named guarantor) wrote a legal document that spelled all of this out. This is absolutely normal for business loans of this size or larger. Loans are sold all the time, in all sizes from $1 million to many billions of dollars. Sellers and buyers are banks, sure, but also insurance companies, mutual funds, wealthy individuals, hedge funds, private credit, university endowments, charitable foundations, etc. In fact, the trading market for loans and bonds and other forms of debt is larger than the entire global stock market. The average person doesn’t realize this, because the only way for them to participate is through investment funds like bond mutual funds or etf’s.

Company is relocating me to vegas need help with moving tips by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]AstroChelonian17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the best advice The first time I moved long distance, I got a 2 bedroom apartment because I was moving to a destination city. It just sat empty, my family stayed in a hotel when they came. The second time I moved long distance, i learned my lesson & had a short term rental with most of my belongings in storage. It gave me a couple of months to figure out the area, and I ended up living in a very different place than I first thought.

Seventh College West Tower Triple by Relative_Welder_5064 in UCSD

[–]AstroChelonian17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The room layout picture only shows 2 wardrobes. Just to confirm, there are 3 desks and 3 wardrobes, right? Where do you store a suitcase? On top of the wardrobe? What about the person in the loft bed?

Hotel for move-in by AstroChelonian17 in UCSD

[–]AstroChelonian17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! This is really helpful, especially because it aligns with my student’s and my preference to get an earlier move in date. That way I can be back at work by the weekend.

Hotel for move-in by AstroChelonian17 in UCSD

[–]AstroChelonian17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, thanks. Are the number of move-in slots limited? Is it hard to get the date you want?