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<p>Your neighbors are, to put it charitably, graceless. Who actually goes up to someone and says, “My kid outearns yours?” Blech.</p>
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<p>Perhaps the TAs get better for the more advanced classes, but my TAs so far have not been all that great. Except for an awesome poli sci TA, but he was a law student so not in the grad school. </p>
<p>Idk, but it just seems as if Yale’s grad school is alot easier to get into than the undergrad and some grad students don’t strike me as geniuses.</p>
<p>OP, this is a dangerous thread. As soon as a post is made that offers up a myth, there are those who hold that myth too dear to hear it debunked. And there are others who somehow misconstrue all.</p>
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<p>Okay…S is a junior who plays the oboe. I’ll let you know a year from now if that one is an actual truth.</p>
<p>I do appreciate the encouragement :)</p>
<p>^Marvelous! His strategy is clear. When not practicing his oboe, he can unearth every music department planning concerts during 2012-13 of Prokofiev’s Peter in the Wolf, with graduating senior oboists from the previous year, then take his pick! </p>
<p>A shoe-in! Lucky duck. :p</p>
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<p>Haha, perhaps so. I’d appreciate it if people explained WHY something was a myth or half truth to them/for them, and perhaps say things more like: “Not ALL TAs are terrible, and not ALL large classes are bad either.” </p>
<p>Sometimes large classes are so because they are very popular, and the professor is excellent! That large may be 30 students in a small LAC with a class with a waiting list, or it may be the 400 student lecture taught by an enthusiastic professor. </p>
<p>As for the Reed thing, I think we can agree to say that Reed is not an Ivy, and on a quality all its own, and proud to be so. But the myth being debunked was just “You don’t HAVE to go to the Ivy league to be sucessful.”</p>
<p>As for the oboe thing…perhaps playing it well will help you get in.</p>
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<p>AGREED. Union College in NY, school of around 2300 has one class that is easily 150 kids…it’s a Holocaust class and the teacher refuses to cap it. The kids say it is the most meaningful class they take…and this is a school with 3-4 kid classes</p>
<p>Myth: That there is one perfect “dream” school for every kid, and that his or her life will be forever diminished if they don’t go there.</p>
<p>You see this frequently from kids over on the financial aid thread complaining that they <em>deserve</em> to go because they have worked sooooo hard.</p>
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<p>You’ve never been a kid who’s done nothing wrong, achieved everything that’s been asked of them and then more who’s then fallen in love with a school but then can’t go because of things outside their control. You’d complain too, especially if you were only 18 and it was out of your hands</p>
<p>They’re not complaining exactly, they’re just frustrated</p>
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<p>Actually, most of my high school class couldn’t afford to attend the schools they wanted to because of a deep local recession. They didn’t do anything wrong but couldn’t go because of things outside of their control. Many of the best and brightest started at CC. But, I didn’t mean to denigrate the feelings of those kids, but to point out that they are myths. Any kid can find a good experience at many different schools.</p>
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<p>I may have thought this once or twice…</p>
<p>I realize it sounds sort of “entitled” but at the same time, there is a point where you either are upset because you can’t and you worked hard or when you feel like you don’t deserve it, and need to remind yourself you do.</p>
<p>That being said, I will agree that things are worse than they seem at the time, if you can’t attend Dream School.</p>
<p>I’ll add another and say that Not All Application mistakes are pivotal to your acceptance/rejection.</p>
<p>Too many kids on the boards say something like “OMG I FORGOT A COMMA, WHAT DO I DO, WHAT DO I DO?”</p>
<p>Nothing. It’s only a comma.</p>
<p>“for geologists going into the petroleum jobs, the average starting salary for a new hire with a bachelors degree is about $73,000”</p>
<p>The pay will likely increase as the supply of those willing to contribute the atmospheric carbon spew dwindles. ;)</p>
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<p>But this was never really a “truth” in the first place. No adult with any brain cells whatsoever ever actually believed this.</p>
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<p>Why do people apply to schools they know they can’t afford? Most colleges have ample information regarding their financial aid policies and the kids could have easily estimated the affordability of the school.</p>
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Here’s a myth: * college is so completely unique and special that it can never be grouped with any other institution for any reason.
Actually, salaries probably will go up as it becomes harder and harder to find and extract oil. Even if we move full speed ahead with other sources of energy, some petroleum will be needed for years and it is getting quite scarce.</p>
<p>Many adults with braincells believe Ivy is The Only Way. So do some teens. It happens. </p>
<p>And many teens have no idea they cannot afford a school, or they can, and parents decide not to contribute.</p>
<p>Big Myth: The only schools worth talking about rank on US News & World or Newsweek. Don’t bother bragging if it’s not Top 20 of something…</p>
<p>Myth because: There are tons of schools, and ranks are often on how many students they reject…and how big of a name the school is. There are plenty of excellent “unknowns”</p>
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<p>Wow, thank you for graciously not naming the college. Honestly, it doesn’t make a difference. However, with the list that was published, all I questioned was that it could have been a better thought out list. There was Barack Obama in there! Also, many people use Steve Jobs as this easy scapegoat to prove that he went to this “random, little college that no one has heard of” and still turned out successful. Almost never will these lists mention Kofi Annan who went to Macalester, Steve Wozniak who went to Berkeley, Dan Brown who went to Amherst or Alice Walker who went to Sarah Lawrence. “*” therefore gets associated with this random assortment of state colleges that it has nothing in common with, and in effect, this perpetuates another myth which is that " the random, little college that no one has heard of" is as good or bad as University of Tennessee or the like. There is a distinct difference in quality of education and what it prepares you for in life, and that’s my only argument. </p>
<p>Anyway, since I’m not a parent and just another naive teenager, these are just my opinions which could easily be termed ignorant. I don’t contest that.</p>
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<p>Maybe if they’re brand new to this country and haven’t been exposed to our system, but people who have lived here their whole lives? I don’t for one second believe it, unless these are people who are deliberately obtuse about the presence of successful people from all types of colleges / backgrounds.</p>
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<p>[Nursing</a> students face job shortages | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://thedp.com/node/59534]Nursing”>http://thedp.com/node/59534)</p>
<p>Nursing students face job shortages
Economic downturn leads to fewer openings in the field</p>
<p>by Jared McDonald | Friday, May 15, 2009 at 1:00 am</p>
<p>Nursing senior Megan Ruedebusch has had a “disheartening” job search. Out of the 15 hospitals she applied to, only about half have gotten back to her - all with negative responses.</p>
<p>“We were told coming in our freshman year that we would never have trouble getting a job,” said Colin Plover, also a Nursing senior. Plover said he has applied to three hospitals and heard back from just one, which had already filled its nursing positions.</p>
<p>The tougher job market for nurses - typically a profession with enormous shortages - is a result of a combination of factors, including an increase in the supply of nurses and a decrease in demand for their services.
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<p>The pay will likely increase as the supply of those willing to contribute the atmospheric carbon spew dwindles. >></p>
<p>Actually, the geology academics I have spoken to recently all say that their student numbers are UP after several years of low enrollment, with a desire to go into the oil business still quite strong among the students.</p>