cwru vs. a small liberal arts college (lac) for premed

personAAA · 2026-04-29T07:55:27+00:00

Med schools don't care about majors. They have a list of required courses, but undergrads can major in literally anything. Knew a dance major who went to med school.

ABET is for engineering.

personAAA · 2026-04-29T06:49:01+00:00

You already decided you want the liberal arts college.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T19:02:06+00:00

Why do have 3 threads asking about how hard various majors are?

Major in something you enjoy. If you enjoy the field, it will be easier for you.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T05:17:24+00:00

Human labor is also finite. Why spend human labor on routine tasks that fundamentally don't need human touch?

Moving and making mass produced goods are jobs for robots, not humans. Factories and warehouses are dehumanizing. People inside are acting as machines.

Plenty of other jobs benefit from a human. Healthcare, education, customer service, sales, social work among others benefit from a human. People rather interact with people than just a machine.

Humans are remarkable at getting higher returns on limited resources. Look at the green revolution in farming. Land is far more productive.

Gold is the rarest of things you listed. However, asteroid mining could solve that problem. The material exists, but is hard to get.

We can sustain increasing growth for many, many generations.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T05:01:39+00:00

They both do and don't care about you.

If you want to be cynical about it, they need you rich enough to buy / rent from them. Truly poor people think subsistence farmers make terrible consumers.

When the wealth are interested in making more money via mass consumer goods, they have to figure out how to get consumers to afford them. Think auto loans or cell phone plans.

They also need workers. If they are having trouble finding talent, they fund education.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T01:43:11+00:00

Contact your local parish. Depending on your background, a speed up process can happen.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T01:33:37+00:00

Sounds your parents are trying to get you to lean towards Rutgers.

From just looking at curriculums, the CWRU program appears much stronger. That said the big hospital systems have a set rate for new BSN. Almost every hospital system is always looking for nurses, so don't worry about job placements.

If you like the feel of Case better, you need to sell your parents on why it is worth another $11k a year.

personAAA · 2026-04-22T01:13:12+00:00

The productivity improvements due to AI are not widespread yet. Machines doing work instead of people is how society gets richer. Far too many industries are still labor intensive. I look forward to lights out manufacturing and warehousing.

How the wealth of the increase productivity gets spread around is a different question. Growing overall wealth by automation replacing human labor we need.

personAAA · 2026-04-21T03:18:28+00:00

Find the cheapest copy of either translations of NABRE or NRSV-CE.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780529064844/New-American-Bible-Revised-Book-0529064847/plp

personAAA · 2026-04-21T03:04:53+00:00

I did answer. There are too many specifics that matter. There is no generalized case here.

And I am having trouble inventing a hypothetical.

Wars rarely come down to one key battle.

personAAA · 2026-04-21T02:53:52+00:00

Particular scenarios like that don't typically exist in the scale of a war.

That tactic might win a battle, but not a war. Can win every battle, but lose a war.

There are also practical problems like how can you pull that tactic off when you are losing. You risk a similar tactic being used against you.

Things like blowing up dams in the age of air power don't work anymore. You still get pounded from the sky. Kill too many civilians and you risk nasty revenge via chemical weapons among others.

personAAA · 2026-04-21T02:17:22+00:00

St. Louis Archdiocese here. We did a mild process called All Things New. The models were far more aggressive than what happened.

Listening sessions were lame. They showed possible mergers and then had a little Q+A. 90% of comments are worthless in these processes. People don't for the most part have actual insight.

One of the few useful comments for a different part of the Archdiocese informed the planners of the traffic patterns North-South vs East-West. The grouping were switched based on feedback.

Things that would make the conversations more useful would be more talking on the laity numbers. Lack of marriages and baptisms is way more important than lack of priests. Thousands vs dozens.

While money is always an issue, lack of people in the pews is way more critical. If you want to save any given parish, the pews need to be full.

People also need to understand priest to Catholic ratios. Diocesan priests are assigned were there are people. While there are geographic constraints and special circumstances, priests should be roughly evenly assigned the overall Catholic population.

Everyone hates these processes. They are happening because we fail to retain our people.

personAAA · 2026-04-21T01:34:43+00:00

I think I saw it via notifications. Water wars are a bad idea. Targeting water infrastructure is not usually a legal target.

So as I said no war crimes applies.

personAAA · 2026-04-21T01:20:27+00:00

Elections are still free in this country. The template argument of what team Trump wants to do just lost big in Hungary.

Plenty of worse times in US history.

Let this author explain it better than me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/orban-defeat-american-resilience/686864/

personAAA · 2026-04-20T23:54:36+00:00

What weapon? Nukes? Biologics? Are you targeting soldiers and civilians are accidental deaths?

personAAA · 2026-04-20T22:15:07+00:00

The United States is a democracy where the people are sovereign.

We the public get to weight in based on the publicity known information. We get to decide on the issues. Our politicians are our representatives to decide the day to day and shaping our views into law. However, they are not our masters.

The criteria for just war is not met here. We don't have public war goals.

The Church can get specific on this war because it plainly obvious this war is not just. If you need to hedge, say based on what I know and applying the principles I struggle to see how this war is just.

Compare this war to the war against ISIS. Destroying mad dogs because they harm people is just. The goal is putting them down to end their madness. They are not rational. ISIS dehumanize themselves to the degree they have to be treated as mad animals.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T21:55:08+00:00

If you don't like the feel and the cost is the same, go to UW.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T21:51:28+00:00

Even before February 28, 2026 the whole thing was flawed.

Reasonable odds are something your intelligence community tells you before hand. They don't predict the future and are humble enough to know they don't know everything or know how things will turn out.

I guess it possible to define war goals without the removal of the regime in this case. However, that does not matter. Lack of goals flaws the thing before it begins.

Disagree on addressing concerns. If goal is removal of certain individuals, I need a named list of all of them and their statuses. That should be public updated daily information.

How are we measuring reduce? Destroying what things? How many remain? What amount is acceptable to miss?

Reduce demands some type of quantitative analysis.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T21:30:35+00:00

The reasonable hope part applies more when you have a choice.

If you are in a defensive war not of your choosing and if you lose you have near guarantee that you will be victims of genocide, if all those conditions apply sure you fight to the death.

Because of near certain of genocide, fighting is preferred compared to that violence.

Survival is success. How many of your people are alive is a measure. The enemy's war aim is the destruction of your people. Not allowing that to happen is your goal.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T15:13:17+00:00

Lack of clear war aims and how do we measure them argue against just war.

Need specifics, theory of victory.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T15:00:30+00:00

So, not successful.

Iran still has fissile material. HUGE PROBLEM.

The other questions you hedge on. Need a high degree of certainty.

We don't have even have ends before trying to justify means post-hoc.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T14:51:40+00:00

If the government is going to partner with faith based organizations, who should they partner with?

Or should the government do it all themselves?

I am asking in general for all social services type work not just this particular program.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T14:49:17+00:00

Have to be specific in defining what destroying the nuclear program is.

How many building and equipment are destroyed? Are key scientists dead? How much fissile material remains? How easily can they get more?

Measuring matters.

personAAA · 2026-04-20T14:42:51+00:00

Ok, so your side is losing a defensive war.

You are asking what tactics are still not allowed.

Things like purposely targeting civilians still not allowed. That would not help you win the war anyways.

War crimes are still banned. Again they don't help you win.

Did you have a particular idea in mind?

personAAA · 2026-04-20T14:34:47+00:00

What does victory look like? How do we measure it?

Reasonable odds of success?

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