Roger Hicks
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Cuban Missile Crisis... Was my girlfriend pregnant or just late... Would I get the university I wanted... bending the Volkswagen occasionally...
Cheers,
R
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Cuban Missile Crisis... Was my girlfriend pregnant or just late... Would I get the university I wanted... bending the Volkswagen occasionally...
Cheers,
R
dave lackey
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Ha, ha...subtract the second one and add the draft for the Vietnam War and we had similar experiences!😛 Even the VW...Hit a German Shepherd at 60mph one night coming home from class....hammered out the fender, drove home and replaced it with a junkyard find the next day, same color even.🙂
regularchickens
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Speaking as a Utah native, downtown SLC is actually fertile ground for street photography (in addition to being a nice area to have a stroll). In the suburbs, however... you may need to change genres.
ferider
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That list might be meaningless once the OP decides what to study.
For example, specifically for Computer Science, at the moment, CMU is #1 in the US.
Also, the OP might be less interested in UK vs. US, but more in UK vs. France. There is one French school in the list, which is certainly a great school if you want to go into French politics .... for engineering, on the other hand, there is another handful of top tier French schools, at least.
Again, for the OP, I recommend to decide what to study first. Then do research based on field. If you pick computer science or electrical engineering, send me a PM.
Roland.
David Hughes
David Hughes
Just to chime in on Roger's patch.
I've been baffled about educational standards for some time. I mean look at the people with degrees who can't see a simple pattern to the f stops. Or spell "colour" correctly ;-)
Anyway, a friend of mine is involved in standardising standards in education and he reckons an American degree is worth a 1950's "A" level at the most. OTOH, he reckons a PhD from the best USA or UK is the same.
Regards, David
PS And these days the Govt. say everyone should have a degree: that hardly suggest we are talking about the top 5%, does it? And I reckon an apprenticeship is worth its weight in gold. Certainly, it's a lot more use than a degree.
I've been baffled about educational standards for some time. I mean look at the people with degrees who can't see a simple pattern to the f stops. Or spell "colour" correctly ;-)
Anyway, a friend of mine is involved in standardising standards in education and he reckons an American degree is worth a 1950's "A" level at the most. OTOH, he reckons a PhD from the best USA or UK is the same.
Regards, David
PS And these days the Govt. say everyone should have a degree: that hardly suggest we are talking about the top 5%, does it? And I reckon an apprenticeship is worth its weight in gold. Certainly, it's a lot more use than a degree.
Roger Hicks
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Dear Dave,
Hammered? Wuss! Just KICK it straight!
I was damn' lucky that National service ended a couple of years before I'd have been eligible. And of course, the Vietnam war was one of the few wars that the British never were involved in.
Cheers,
R.
Roger Hicks
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Dear David,
This indeed goes into the realms of treating universities as (not very) glorified secondary schools. My own cynical belief is that they are a sovereign remedy for youth unemployment. At least until the youths leave university.
Cheers,
R.
