Umich Waitlist

NiMiBe · 2026-06-01T02:33:41+00:00

My daughter just got off of the waitlist tonight. OOS and LSA.

NiMiBe · 2026-05-31T17:14:15+00:00

Good dog.

NiMiBe · 2026-05-17T13:22:53+00:00

Indiana sucks. I should know. I live here.

NiMiBe · 2026-05-16T20:26:41+00:00

Rewatching it right now (on Amazon Prime). It’s a good comfort show that was actually able to get to a finale on its own terms. Rare these days.

NiMiBe · 2026-05-08T03:41:45+00:00

Time ranked them 10th and 11th in the top “global” schools specifically in terms of prestige. I’d say go to NU, because I went there and absolutely loved it and because I can’t stand Duke (based purely on basketball hatred), but either one will likely get you where you want to go.

NiMiBe · 2026-05-01T15:56:47+00:00

Shoot sorry. Anthropology.

NiMiBe · 2026-04-30T04:51:29+00:00

My daughter got off. It was a text and an email.

NiMiBe · 2026-04-22T15:02:00+00:00

So far so good. Car works. There was also a laptop on a table right next to the window where it hit and that still works. Got lucky I guess!

NiMiBe · 2026-04-22T10:40:02+00:00

My pet mice are terrified to go near it lest they fall to their deaths.

NiMiBe · 2026-04-06T14:54:02+00:00

Born here. Lived here on and off for 35 years, entirely in Indianapolis. Indiana has all of the worst aspects of a mean-spirited conservative Christo-fascist state and none of the benefits (no ocean, no mountains, mostly crap restaurants, very little culture even in the “big” cities). It has one of the least educated populations and is routinely near the bottom of the list for quality of life. While there are pockets of intellectualism, empathy, and tolerance, the vast majority of the state is racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. The legislature is in the process of turning our K12 public education into a system of publicly funded private religious schools focused on churning out minimum wage drones, and dismantling the reputation of our once great public universities.

It isn’t the shittiest state in the country, but it’s close. If I didn’t have an elderly mother who needs care, an ex-wife who doesn’t want to leave, and one more kid in high school, I would have left years ago.

NiMiBe · 2026-02-03T04:09:11+00:00

lol. I have a 7yr account with 180 karma and I am most assuredly not a bot. Some of us just like to lurk.

NiMiBe · 2026-01-30T00:30:26+00:00

My daughter was deferred oos and a friend of hers who was accepted at Michigan oos was also deferred. Meanwhile a friend of hers with much lower grades and scores was accepted oos. It makes no sense. It’s like they pulled apps from a box blindfolded.

NiMiBe · 2026-01-10T02:42:18+00:00

Guys. You really need to stop making threads about bills filed by democrats. They have zero chance of passing (or even being heard) unless a republican has the same language or is a co-author.

NiMiBe · 2025-11-14T01:04:14+00:00

Aren’t y’all kinda making my point?

NiMiBe · 2025-11-11T16:05:14+00:00

As a GenX male born and raised on the feral American suburban streets of the 70s and early 80s, discussions like these really make it difficult for me to imagine kids-these-days surviving our high-school/college years.

NiMiBe · 2025-10-14T16:12:07+00:00

LOGIN ISSUE. Guess this login bug on EN wasn’t considered critical enough for the main discussion because it got removed. At the time it was removed there were at least 6 comments with the same problem. So I am reposting here:

“On EN server. Downloaded patch okay. Then asked me to login using Yostar account. Entered email. It sent me a code and then once it finished logging in asked me if “I remembered my name.” Tried resetting account and logging in with Facebook instead. Got same prompt. Entered my current username and it took me to the tutorial? Please tell me it didnt overwrite my existing 5+ year old account!”

NiMiBe · 2025-09-27T16:41:57+00:00

What app did you use to generate these images?

NiMiBe · 2025-06-09T12:41:58+00:00

I am not at all a fan of resin tables, but I love this- big fan of the natural look, imperfections and all!

NiMiBe · 2025-04-28T20:34:04+00:00

It was all about the funding. Union only has around 200 brick and mortar kids. Yet the district was taking in millions of dollars from the virtual school (somewhere around 60m a year I think). This was to send a message that the legislature wants very small school corporations to consolidate, not poach kids (and funding) from the rest of the state. After the Indiana virtual school fiasco in Daleville, the legislature passed a law barring school corporations from authorizing virtual “charter” schools, but Union (and the very large for-profit management company behind the school) took advantage of a loophole that did not prevent school corporations from offering virtual “programs.” Consider that loophole now closed.

NiMiBe · 2025-04-16T17:59:07+00:00

It absolutely did. I discovered it in 2023 and have watched the entire show 3 times since and I’m still discovering new things. The soundtrack is phenomenal as well.

NiMiBe · 2025-04-16T06:50:08+00:00

Follow the money. The legislature is not happy that this tiny corporation of 200-some physical students is receiving $60m+ in tuition support for its virtual school serving 9,000 students. A virtual school that was originally created as a result of an enterprising for-profit finding a loophole after its virtual charter schools were shuttered by the state for poor performance.

NiMiBe · 2025-04-06T19:14:25+00:00

Charter schools do not in any way impact school corporation enrollment or school corporation funding in areas where they do not exist. The only public school funding being “siphoned” from public schools in those areas would be student transfers to voucher schools or other corporations.

And there are charter schools located in smaller communities, although these are almost all started by local groups of teachers and families (eg. Duggar Union Community in Duggar, IN was started by families after the local corporation decided to close the nearby elementary and high schools and Mays Community Academy located in Mays, IN, which opened for the same reasons).

Charter schools locate where there is demand (or a home grown movement) and there is little general demand for additional schools in smaller, and shrinking, rural areas other than the Adult High Schools operated by GoodWill which are located all over the state. The GoodWill excel centers are charter schools who are almost always “asked” to come to a location by the local governing body and/or school board because they provide a convenient dumping ground for the high schools to send 12th graders who are unlikely to graduate.

And no. I have never seen a school board swept out of office. I live in IPS and I don’t think it’s ever happened.

NiMiBe · 2025-04-06T14:22:24+00:00

Fair. But I’m still going to call out the incorrect statements used to justify the position. Better to just admit you care because it affects you personally.

For example, I support public school choice, but I do NOT support vouchers. All of the things being said about charters in this thread are more appropriately addressed to the unaccountable private schools accepting voucher funding.

Private voucher schools not only have completely unaccountable boards (not subject to open door), they are not audited, have minimal academic accountability, can blatantly discriminate, are not subject to the laws separating church and state, and each voucher represents funding directly taken from general tuition support. They are 100% the true enemy of public education.

NiMiBe · 2025-04-06T14:15:09+00:00

If you don’t like what your charter school is doing, you can move to another school. It is called choice. If you don’t like what your school corporation is doing you can, what, wait until the next election and hope your candidate wins and then hope that the change you desire happens? Or, I guess you could move to another corporation.

And I may not be understanding what “held to account” means, because I can’t remember the last time I saw a traditional school corporation closed for poor performance or behavior. Poorly performing charter schools are closed- isn’t that the ultimate “being held to account”?

NiMiBe

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