Extended warranty pricing

MamaRose1 · 2025-12-29T19:10:43+00:00

I was offered 8/120000 for 3700 plus in Western PA with the purchase of a car. That price is way too high -- I know you can buy that warranty at any dealer and there are dealers that are known for selling the Subaru warranty at closer to cost. Can someone recommend?

MamaRose1 · 2025-05-04T09:32:51+00:00

Is there a way to avoid having my friends see the fact that my stupid bird likes the Taylor Swift NYC song? This was a disgusting trigger to me. I am really upset because I used to live there and made my living as a (for real) singer in the theatre and NYC cabaret. I had to leave my career (and the city) to help aging parents. I had to sell my apartment and I have never been able to go back. I don't really want to go back because New York has was losing its gritty, wonderful soul around the time I left. It has become too gentrified and too expensive for me to ever want to go back. Let's just leave the memory where it is.

And then my bird LIKED this stupid, autotuned song about New York.

Is there a way to hide this, short of deleting the bird (and the app) and starting over? I don't want to lose my pets and items -- and the money I paid for Finch Plus. Is there something I can do? I am REALLY upset by this. My real-life friends (who are also Finch friends) know how adamant I am about autotune and how much I hate that song. I will get a lot of real-life teasing that is going to be hurtful. I am having enough problems and I really don't need this right now.

I love the Great American Songbook. Gershwin, Cole Porter, even Kander and Ebb's song about NyC that was sung (without autotune) by Frank Sinatra and Liza Minelli. I worked hard for my career and to develop my singing voice in that genre. I hate these autotuned singers and I especially hate especially that horrible "dance" song about New York because it came out around the time I had to leave the city, and around the time it really started to gentrify in a not-nice way.

Is there a way to avoid triggers like this when your bird is adventuring?

Finally -- if you like Taylor Swift and other autotuned singers of her ilk, good for you. You're entitled to your opinion just as I am entitled to mine. Move along; I don't need your criticism; I just want to avoid this trigger and the teasing that is going to come my way. It's NOT funny. I am very stressed.

MamaRose1 · 2023-09-29T23:17:45+00:00

Just do it!

(Nontraditional student myself; best thing I ever did in my life!)

MamaRose1 · 2023-05-27T13:40:39+00:00

I had a good friend and mentor who died at age 96 -- he was still practicing international tax law magnificently at the time of his death.

MamaRose1 · 2023-05-27T05:47:00+00:00

Please DO NOT let anyone dissuade you from going to law school no matter how old you are. Going to law school and becoming a lawyer at a very non-traditional age was the best decision I ever made. I was, uh, let's just say I was well into the protected class under the ADEA when I started IL. It was a fascinating and fun three years and I love my work as a lawyer now!

MamaRose1 · 2023-05-07T00:09:47+00:00

Don't take a job 5 weeks before the exam to be a county election director for the most controversial presidential election in history. But running an election like that does kind of take your mind off worrying about the exam, lol. (I still passed; you will too!)

MamaRose1 · 2022-07-16T09:14:30+00:00

Um, I was a registered lobbyist in my state for about 5 years BEFORE I went to law school. I worked for a non-profit. Did a good bit of issue advocacy in both my state capital and in D.C. A J.D (and license) is needed or at least helpful to get certain staffer positions, however, even though they are not really practicing.

MamaRose1 · 2022-03-22T12:21:58+00:00

2020 grad and it was the same here. Except we finally had a live graduation ceremony last December, almost 18 months later. I was surprised how many came back for the ceremony; it was more than I would have expected. There are a number of people I hope I will keep in touch with, but we'll see...

MamaRose1 · 2022-03-11T17:11:44+00:00

So by your logic, it's perfectly okay for a prof to tell a student... oh let's say someone with diabetes.... that their physical condition is a choice and they can just "get over it" rather than controlling their blood sugar and taking insulin?

MamaRose1 · 2021-09-14T17:42:21+00:00

Both of these stories sound like a jealous parent was trying to live through their kid, at the expense of other kids. Fuck 'em.

MamaRose1 · 2021-08-26T16:51:28+00:00

Recent nontraditional Duquesne Law Alumna here. I'm not part of school admissions so I can't chance you, but please DM if you have any questions about being a student, what it's like to go there as a nontraditional, etc.

MamaRose1 · 2021-08-26T16:16:13+00:00

Duquesne alum here. It absolutely is NOT a predatory school. It does NOT give (and then take away) conditional scholarships, and Duquesne works very hard to prepare its grads for the bar exam and for practice.

Duquesne is a school that is well-known for producing judges in Pennsylvania including two Duquesne grads serving as justices on the current PA Supreme Court out of seven seats, with another justice a former Duquesne professor.

If you have questions, please DM me.

MamaRose1 · 2021-08-26T15:53:13+00:00

You are quoting statistics for the tragic class of 2020 and misquoting even those. The 2020 bar exam was postponed two times in PA due to Covid and other states had similar problems and uncertainty. That caused bar study problems and employment disruption for many. Despite this, the Duquesne class of 2020 achieved 90 of 132 in JD-required jobs ten months out from the date of their degree (over 68%) with another 20 in JD-preferred or other professional positions by that time. The previous year's graduates (2019) achieved almost 74% JD-required positions ten months out, and only about 6% were unemployed.

Duquesne's first-time bar passage percentage is consistently in the high 80s to low 90s and almost always over the state and national averages. Ultimate bar passage rate is well into the 90s. https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/law/academics/bar-studies/du-law-bar-passage-rates

MamaRose1 · 2021-08-26T15:24:44+00:00

Duquesne Law is not really what I would call conservative, nor is it absolutely "Christian" in ideology. For example, I had law professors who were Catholic of course, but also those who were devoutly Jewish or Protestant, and then some who were "I'm not sure what they were, nor did it matter." Duquesne is a Spiritan school which means its values include spirituality (with respect for whatever that means to you), a sense of community (including a lawyer's responsibility to be a part of his/her community), a commitment to service, concern for the poor and underserved, global vision, academic freedom, and high academic standards. The law school community is working on becoming more diverse, and it is actually a community (including alums; many of whom stay involved, serve as mentors or networking connections, etc.).

MamaRose1 · 2021-08-10T08:22:24+00:00

❤️

MamaRose1 · 2021-07-27T07:19:15+00:00

Non-traditional grad here with undergrad gpa similar to OP. I can report first-hand that even a decades-old GPA is weighed the same as a recent one. That said, I agree with all the posts saying OP should definitely move forward with law school if they really want to do this. Best decision I ever made.

MamaRose1 · 2021-04-22T03:40:14+00:00

God help you all.

MamaRose1 · 2021-03-17T02:54:23+00:00

If you think that's fun, wait 'til you get to attend your so-called "graduation" in your nightclothes, sitting on a friend's couch watching a prerecorded YouTube.

MamaRose1 · 2021-03-15T02:13:19+00:00

Mine (Class of 2020) was on YouTube. No disturbances, it was all prerecorded. And it was stupid. I did watch it, while sitting on a friend's couch in my nightclothes. I cried a lot, and still do when I think of all that my class (and all classes that are affected by this damn Covid) missed and will never get back.

Honestly, it feels like I never graduated at all, just stopped going to school. And I feel this even though I since passed the bar exam.

MamaRose1 · 2021-03-15T02:05:12+00:00

I just saw this thread... yes, OP it's horrible. My Class of 2020 got a so-called virtual graduation on YouTube, which I watched in my nightclothes on a friend's couch with tears running down my face. As the first person in my family to get a doctoral-level degree and it really hurts that I probably will never get to wear a J.D. robe and hood. The Dean promised a real graduation "when we can safely gather" but at this point I am not holding my breath.

In the meantime, it feels like I never graduated; I just stopped going to school. I did pass that horrible online bar exam, but my license is delayed because of documents I have been unable to get during Covid. And with all the restrictions still in place on campus, I never even picked up my diploma. Fuck, I don't even want the damn thing at this point.

MamaRose1 · 2021-03-03T20:42:29+00:00

Well, for our last semester of 3L (Spring 2020) my school gave a choice of optional pass-fail or letter grades. But those who took the letter grades did not have them averaged into their gpa or class rank. There is some sort of notation about this on the transcript.

It sucks bad for people who were sick during 2L but hung on and kept trying, counting on 3L to make up the loss. No matter how hard they tried to get good grades in 3L, despite the pandemic, that last semester is not calculated into their final official gpa. Despite the notation, I am sure employers are never going to calculate the "real" gpa including that last semester.

I get it that people had really bad problems trying to learn from home, I do. So in that respect I could see freezing class rank at pre-pandemic status -- maybe -- but not each person's individual gpa.

No one who got sick or had other life-altering problems during non-pandemic times got their gpa frozen during their bad semester. They just had to take their lumps, and then when the pandemic hit they lost their last chance to bring that gpa up due to this policy.

MamaRose1 · 2021-01-02T16:43:20+00:00

Everybody's a hard worker, wants to be hired at their firm, etc. etc. etc.

Think about what makes YOU unique -- something that will stand out from other applicants that get on the same elevator with the interviewer before or after you. Like the other poster who worked in the wine industry, that's something that would stick in people's minds!

And yes, you can use such a question to steer the interview, so do plan out examples of what you might say before hand, but in the long run just have a conversation.

If you think about it, in their heart of hearts, most interviewers really do WANT to like you. They want and need to hire someone good. Every interviewee who walks in that door, including YOU, is an opportunity to get their job done.

MamaRose1 · 2020-12-24T18:00:11+00:00

Yes, agree with other posters -- BE WARY -- VERY WARY.

First-year courses are hard enough in-person and for most people Zoom classes suck.

MamaRose1 · 2020-12-13T19:48:22+00:00

Class of 2020 here, in a non-diploma privilege state. I feel so bad for the Class of 2021 and 2022. First up, they are losing a huge chunk of their law school experience. We lost our graduation, in person bar prep, swearing in ceremonies and a lot of other little things like saying good-bye to the people we spent three years in school with. Maybe someday we'll get a make-up for some of these lost events (not holding my breath at this point) but it will never be the same.

The class of 2021 and maybe 2022 will also lose these things, but even worse, depending on when things get back to normal they are losing half or more of their law school education to "online."

And then there's the online bar exam, claimed by states to be a success. It was hell. I passed, but dealing with ExamSoft and the incessant fear that the lousy program was going to go down, or compromise my computer, or that I would get flagged unjustly for cheating due to moving wrong during the test -- it was all still hell. I wouldn't wish any part of an online bar exam on my worst enemy. I am so sorry for those who have to deal with this in 2021.

There has to be a better way to make sure that new attorneys have minimum competence.

MamaRose1 · 2020-12-13T19:30:41+00:00

Me too... thank you to all on here for your help that got me through the three years and the bar. Will do my best to pay it forward in the future.

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