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By Nokilissa on November 15, 2010 5:20 PM
“Legion, I am almost always certain you intend no affront ;)”
I, on the other hand, almost always do!
Well said, DH.
I posted in search of you at 1:09. ^^^ Saw some good SVU yday – the Christine Lahti episodes, Mariska with long hair.
Bill Ayers, a sample of 1, proves what, exactly?
being a grown-up sucks.
So if you are poor, you can go to Harvard, but if not get on line. Now so many people are getting perfect scores on SATS that who the hell knows how to get in. Poverty? What a concept.
Even an Ivy isn’t worth that much money for their average graduate. Maybe if you’re comparing it to SUNY, CUNY, or something like that. I am biased, though. I got into “better” schools than the UCs I go into, but I just didn’t see an Ivy giving me any additional value.
Denton, okay. You make good points. And I agree there are plenty of jackasses in the social sciences, including sociology, as there are jackasses in every subject and work environment.
But the field is far more complicated than you’re letting on. It truly isn’t simple or to be picked up “on the street”. Or something amusingly “obvious” as suggested by Lech. At least in my experience. I studied it for 6 years and could have continued learning enormously useful stuff had I decided to continue on in the field I’d chosen at that time (Human Sexuality). But I stumbled onto a different path in Social Work… I shudder to imagine the eye rolls that gets from you guys. Oh never mind.
Legion, I am almost always certain you intend no affront 😉
And none taken.
“Denton, 200k at Ivy’s are worth it – maybe even the fluff majors.”
I’ve encountered a lot of underemployed ivy grads with fluff degrees in Williamsburg.
Harvard has free tuition, room and board for families with income less than $60k.
http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
Our new financial aid policy has dramatically reduced the amount families with incomes below $180,000 are expected to pay, and parents of families with incomes below $60,000 are not expected to contribute at all to college costs. We no longer consider home equity as a resource in our determination of a family contribution, and students are not expected to take out loans, which have been replaced by need-based Harvard scholarship. This new program has reduced the cost to middle income families by one-third to one-half, making the price of a Harvard education for students on financial aid comparable to the cost of in-state tuition and fees at the nation’s leading public universities.