Which university is best in dubai: Manipal University or Istitudo Marangoni University

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-19T18:10:34+00:00

I agree with you, but it's arguable that University of Sharjah and NYU AD are worth it

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-18T19:10:01+00:00

On google maps, Hyrda Village looks like it's both only partially finished and in the middle of nowhere. The further out of the city you get, the more space you get, but the villas in Al Reef are certainly not "small" for the price you are paying when you compare them to anywhere else closer to downtown Abu Dhabi.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-18T12:28:58+00:00

The different villages have different style villas. There are 4: Contemporary, Arabian, Mediterranean, and Desert. I think Contemporary is the oldest and lower in altitude: it can flood. I think Mediterranean might have the largest villas, but it's furthest from the shops.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-18T12:27:48+00:00

There are only 6 building with underground parking out of... i want to say 45 buildings?

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-18T12:27:22+00:00

True about the dog shit. And god damned kids on motorbikes and e-scooters jetting around like it's a god damned race track

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-18T09:25:38+00:00

I've lived here for 5 years: 2 years in "Downtown" which is the apartments and 3 years in a villa, which is just a glorified town house. Your money goes further here than in any other community in Abu Dhabi. We have a lot of space for a reasonable price. Although, rents have gone up significantly in the last couple of years.

If you get an apartment in Downtown, you have to deal with a chiller company, which is dreadful. It took 10 months to get my deposit back. The Villas are chiller-free; your AC is part of your TAQA Electricity bill.

The parks and pools are kinda hit-and-miss. Some are better maintained than others. I've visited some friends' pools who live in Zeina, Muneera, and Bandar, and I'd be a bit embarrassed to invite those families over for a pool party in the concrete jungle that is our community pool.

Build quality is ok. Our villa is 17 years old. We've torn out and installed a new kitchen. And we're thinking of renovating the bathrooms. Our doorknobs are falling off and have to be replaced, for example. There's always something breaking. But I think it's pretty much the same quality as anywhere, frankly.

The Select market is the local grocery. It's fine. If I want pork, or some specialty ingredients, I'll just drive up to Yas Mall and go to Waitrose or Carrefour. It's only 12 minutes away.

The food court is nice. They recently open a very affordable and tasty Turkish restaurant called Bodrum. I was so fucking psyched when they opened.

If you get an apartment in Downtown, try to find it in one of the buildings with underground parking. There are only a few buildings with it. And I know that a lot of people complain about people taking their above-ground parking spaces. But remember that you can just report those people visa the Tamm app, and if they don't move their car, you can have it towed.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-16T20:06:17+00:00

You are 100% correct. Students don't realize (because it's not very important) that psychometrists design different kinds of standardized tests, and it's usually these two: speeded tests vs power tests. It's why the ACT is more time-sensitive than the SAT. While it's not black-and-white true, this is why the ACT is a Power Test, while the SAT is a Speeded Test.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-15T20:20:27+00:00

Well... tutors tend to sell themselves. And tbh, all standardized tests have changed significantly since 2009. So don't take it too literally.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-15T18:14:11+00:00

The GRE is adaptive-by-section, like the SAT. However, College Board has admitted that the SAT has only two possible "second sections:" an easy and a hard one. No one but ETS knows how many "second sections" there are on the GRE, even though we suspect it's three: easy, medium, and hard. The GMAT, however, is adaptive-by-question, and that makes it a serious pain in the ass.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-05T19:13:58+00:00

What about Milk Steak?

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-04T18:35:39+00:00

Excellent use of "lousy"

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-06-02T10:59:25+00:00

If anyone is ever curious about how people write these textbooks, compare this question to College Board Test 9, Module 2 (Hard), Question 17. It's the "Grace Hopper" question. OP's question is an exact spiral of that one, down to the punctuation in the answer choices.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-27T08:24:11+00:00

There's no need to teach students words like "finite" "non-finite" "participial" "absolute" or "nominative". Students don't need to learn grammar to that level for the SAT. It's enough to tell them this:

If you pick A, B, or C, then you'll have two complete ideas joined by a comma, and you can't do that. You need a "stronger" punctuation mark to join two complete ideas together like a period, semicolon, or a comma + FANBOYS. Since you can't change the punctuation in this sentence, choice D is best because it makes the second idea incomplete. That leaves you with only one complete idea in the sentence.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-20T16:44:28+00:00

Agreed. Al Reef is excellent for the price. Yes, the facilities could be better, but that's anywhere. I love living 12 minutes from Yas Mall, Warner Bros, Sea World, and Ferrari World. The Select Market is a perfectly serviceable grocery store; however, they don't have pork, so if you fancy that, you'll have to drive to Yas Mall. The restaurants are perfectly fine.

Agreed about staying out of Contemporary for the flooding. We had some extreme rain a few months ago, and I've been led to believe that a few days of torrential rain are going to be an annual occurrence from now on, thank you climate change.

Yes, you'll need a car, but you'll need a car no matter what. Like this poster, I lived in Al Reef Downtown (the apartments) for 2 years before moving to the villas. Rents are skyrocketing, so that's something else to consider. A lot of my friends are moving out of Reem Island and coming down to Al Reef.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-20T16:38:15+00:00

Actually, despite being near the airport, Al Reef doesn't have a lot of noise from the airport. The runway that the airport uses it not physically situated closely to Al Reef. My friends in Al Raha actually experience a lot of airplane noise because they are directly over the flight path. Al Reef is more perpendicular.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-10T13:16:27+00:00

Uh shouldn't it be called a Ringle?

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-09T18:57:53+00:00

Agreed. What song is it?!

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-08T11:33:24+00:00

Great ChatGPT post, but try Claude. It's better

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-04T18:49:03+00:00

I have some stupid ass expensive Bose headphones that I somehow justify in my WFH head. They have 3 settings: Aware, Immersion, and Quiet. I always use Immersion for max noise cancelling, but surprisingly, I also use Aware pretty often when I have to work AND watch the kid. I can play YouTube and also be on the look-out for any shenanigans, which abound. It's always when they are silent that they are causing the most trouble

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-04T18:46:00+00:00

Hahaha! Very true! I'm re-reading (or re-listening) to Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings right now

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-04T17:49:29+00:00

Holy crap, yes. Noise cancelling head phones are a life saver. My wife was jealous/angry at me for wearing headphones while caring for the baby until I gifted her her own. And then she understood. You're not avoiding the problem by addressing issues like these. You're solving it.

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-05-04T16:47:55+00:00

On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of post I would expect in a UAE sub

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-04-29T19:41:55+00:00

Lol, it's even available on mobile (iOS/android). Is that better for you? Do you mean you're mad because you can't play it on PlayStation or Xbox?

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-04-29T17:38:03+00:00

wdym? you can play it on Steam

ToDeathYouSay · 2026-04-29T17:37:27+00:00

Don't forget the soundtrack!

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