Hey whats up all you cool cats and kittens,

Here is an opportunity to focus on good things. I am researching masters programs for history. I'm sure there are all kinds of programs, so I am going to write a little about what I want to study.

I am only a quarter Jewish. My grandad escaped the holocaust because my Great Grandad (grumpa) saw Hitler speak live shortly before 1933. He saw what Hitler was saying, and had the money to start moving his kids out of Europe early. They were originally from Prague, and, obviously, it was a good move.

I appreciate what Israel has done given the cards it was dealt. So here is a simply breakdown of what I think those cards were, and what I want to continue to study:

I believe that Ashkenazi Jews have a trans-national connection to one another (depending on the individual's personal acknowledgment, of course) that has existed as long as we have been bonded by persecution from unignorably murderous, savage, and violent anti-Semitism. This transnational connection was made possible by our ability to write letters to one another because of our high literacy rates. Not to mention shared business ventures, shared family, shared community, shared... whatever it was that made Jews a people. Plus, we were all over the place for many different reasons, some chosen, many not. The hatred for Jews bubbles up and has been expressed as a number of different genocides and persecutions against Jews over the past 2000 years (at least) - carried out, generally, by groups of people from the dominant religion/lifestyle. The most loudest of these genocides for me and my family is the holocaust. Which, long story short, we all know created a refugee problem.

So, to me, Israel is what happens when the refugees want self-determination. Many people went to Israel as refugees, and the world acts like the second they landed their feet on that soil, they were no longer refugees because our ancestors were from there(?). This to me is confusing. In America we recognize that refugees who come to our country were always refugees from SOMETHING. To ignore this is to ignore what created the refugees.

since Jews didnt have our own nation, we use the language of nation when talking about Israel to empower ourselves and our futures and to bring a nation into existence that is beautiful and unsullied by the powers of anti-Semitism. But at the heart of it, it is still a nation of refugees. And this nation of refugees never fully received the justice they

i'm a college student, and i recently had to do a group project that was worth 50 percent of my grade in a class. we didn't get to choose the groups, so i was paired with 4 random people who didn't do their fair share of the work, didn't show up to the zoom meetings, and made constant excuses for themselves. i ended up doing like 75% of the project myself, and tbh, i doubt we're going to get a very good grade.

i could see group projects being a good way to teach kids about teamwork in elementary school, but in college, group projects only mean that you're forced to rely on random people for your grade, and odds are, those random people will end up being lazy and uncooperative. group projects aren't a fair reflection of an individual's effort or knowledge, so they shouldn't be a thing once students are past the age of like 12, and they definitely shouldn't be a thing in college!

Hi all, I was hoping to vent a little and gets some thoughts on some concerns I've been having. I'm not a professor, I work in a support role in the engineering department of a mid-ranked state school. I do work closely with students and TAs with their labs and build projects, so I would hope my post is allowed here.

I left a previous career in industry because I very specifically wanted to do work where I was making a positive contribution to society. That's why I leaped into a role in academia, somewhat naïve as to how things ran. The pandemic has really opened my eyes as to how much college is still a business, and we are routinely told "enrollment equals salary" as we push for new record high numbers of admits. Lately I can't help but feel that a large portion of our students have no business being here, and we actively make their lives worse by encouraging them. They come in unprepared, have misconceptions about the field, skate by, and have a hard time finding work. Now I'd be fine with saying "Well they're adults responsible for their own decisions" if it not for the fact that we either ignore their issues or go out of our way to make them worse.

- We do no real debt counseling. I have students who I can tell will struggle to find well paying jobs taking on $100k+ in debt with no concept as to how much that really is. They just know "engineers make a lot of money" and no one bats an eye.

- We misguide students on what they'll be making. Our marketing material advertises high median salaries, not mentioning they are skewed by jobs in high cost of living areas, or that starting salaries are significantly lower. The average starting salary in our region is nearly half the number we tell students they can expect to make.

- We misguide students about the job market. Experienced engineers are in demand, but entry level jobs are incredibly competitive. Yet ask incoming students where they expect to work and the majority will tell you Tesla, Google, SpaceX, etc. We profile grads who make it to these companies or do exciting work while ignoring that the vast majority have no shot at these jobs. Our career center does little more than review resumes.

- We misguide students on the curriculum. We advertise working with state of the art equipment and building high tech devices like robots. In reality only a small percentage of students will have access to the high end stuff, most will be doing 30 year old experiments on outdated equip

Never forget that you are the most important thing in higher education.

Without faculty and diplomas, there is no higher education. Advising, college sports, clubs, student newspapers, endowment management, it all disappears without faculty.

I once calculated how much tuition revenue my uni earns from my classes. It exceeds my pay by many multiples.

Every single non-faculty job on campus is riding on the coat tails of faculty. It is all optional and secondary. Yet the culture of higher ed, in my opinion, does not provide adequate respect to this fact. All these non-faculty people need to elevate their role relative to faculty because if we talked honestly about priorities, it would quickly become clear that non-faculty are by far the most dispensable of all.

He goes on to say that this will make birth rates drop and his plans for how to get more men into women dominated fields. https://www.purdue.edu/president/messages/annual-open-letters/2201-med-openletter-full.php

Difficulties in terms of:

a. racism

b. administrative issues

c. possible bias or misunderstanding

d. workplace problems

P.S. I don't mean to offend anyone but I do wish to gain an insight into what things will be like for me :)

I've seen people from the slums entering college because they didn't have to pay. Free technical books rentals at uni's libraries, free housing for the poorest students that come from other cities (have to prove income to be eligible), free lunch and dinner (in some unis only, in others you have to pay from 50c to 2 USD, though) and some undergrad research scholarships.

We've got free cancer and AIDS treatments. Free ambulances. I've seen poor, old ladies that sell corn at Sunday's vegetables fair that had a life-changing eye surgery that made them see again. If they had to pay for it, they'd go blind long before their death. FFS there are cochlear implants and organ transplants for free in some cases.

Paying 15%-25% over 10x+ crypto profits? Man, just take it.

I'm not saying there aren't problems. You have to study to be accepted in the universities and if your parents had money in the first place, you could prepare yourself better going to the best private high-schools. The lines for some health procedures are long enough, but if your condition is chronic (AIDS, cancer) or life-threatening (e.g. a car accident), you're assisted on the spot. Violence is still a big thing, mainly due to a huge wealth gap, and hopefully there are people fighting to give better conditions to as many people as possible. Not everything is perfect.

I'm also not saying that all tax money is rightfully used - I'm not such a fool. But I can't imagine living in a country where I had to pay a hefty amount to call an ambulance. If I had to pay for my college degree in the old days, probably I wouldn't have gotten any, as my parents were quite humble.

Being libertarian or communist or capitalist, we live in society, and people tend to forget a good society is one where the maximum amount of people has their basic needs met.

People also tend to forget that things they take for granted, such as the structures for calling the cops, sewage treatment, electricity on the bulbs, water in the taps etc. are generally paid with taxes. Don't want to pay taxes? Fine, get your own private security, buy yourself a water reservoir and build your own power plant. Might as well declare independence.

Imho, not wanting to pay taxes doesn't put you far away from people in the Pandora and Panama papers. Want to make sure taxes are rightly used? Participate and get engaged in social participation programs. Get involved. Be part of your community.

If you live in a country where there are such socia

Also vegan milk has to be offered as an alternative to cow's milk. The main option doesn't have to be vegan food, but looking at the menus at my local university's cafeterias, most often it is. Almost all the restaurants are now offering vegan food on the main line. When I started my studies there was usually just one vegetarian option and vegan food had to be asked from the staff and it was usually not that great. So a huge difference from that.

Source: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12259217 (in Finnish)

Here's the article through Google Translate:

>Add vegetarian food, oatmeal alongside milk, veggie options at the top of the line - this is how the new recommendation changes student-priced lunches

>Katriina's Vegetarian Restaurant was allowed to exclude milk and buttermilk of animal origin from the selection. In the past, they had to be served in an otherwise vegan restaurant in order for students to receive Kela meal support. >Markus Kauppi has often had to ask vegan food separately from the staff in student restaurants. Photo: Niko Mannonen / Yle

>Weera Walden, 29, a student from Jyväskylä, is satisfied. He’s vegan, meaning he doesn’t eat animal products, and now the vegetarian food options at student restaurants should improve.

>- I think it's a super good thing in terms of ethics and ecology, he says.

>Vegetarian options are increasing and red meat is declining in student restaurants, a new meal recommendation for college students is instructing. It came into force at the turn of the year.

>Vegetarian food should now be found in place of the first main course option immediately after salads.

>In addition, vegetarian drinks alongside milk and sour milk of animal origin must be available in student restaurants. Milk and buttermilk can also be completely replaced with plant drinks.

>- There's the idea of ​​a punch. The goal is that the vegetarian alternative would no longer be a special diet that would only be available on request, but would be available to everyone, says Kari's designer Sari Miettunen.

>The restaurants must follow the recommendation in order to be able to dine at a lower-than-usual student price with Kela's support. The recommendation has been prepared by Kela and the State Nutrition Advisory Board.

>According to Miettunen, student restaurants have offered vegetarian options for a long time and have been pioneers in this matter.

>He believes that sales of vegetarian food will gradually increas

I feel so low and feeling depressed. I'm actually crying.

My certificate just came through the post. I'm in so much debt and got this qualification.

I wanted to be a biomedical scientist but my higher diploma is in biology.

I actually hate myself right now.

I tried so much. I wanted to achieve this goal

Edit- the annoying thing is that I didn't even drop out of my third year or anything

I don't give bad reviews lightly, but Higher Education robbed me of $70. They did this by selling me a cheaply made knock-off grinder (photos attached) and then refusing to accept a return. Higher Education are criminals who are damaging the name of an American Company, Cali Crusher, as well as trust in local businesses.

I brought the clean and unused grinder back into Higher Education, along with the receipt, and proof that it was a knockoff. The Owner's reply after acknowledging that it was fake grinder was: "No returns. No returns, no exceptions. Do you want me to keep repeating myself?" This is the most unprofessional and disgusting way of doing business I've seen from a RVA proprietor outside of Seibert's Towing.

Selling cheaply made knockoff goods for premium price of $70 and refusing to accept returns is simply criminal. The Owner has made this practice his policy, and for that reason Higher Education does not deserve your business.

Photos of Grinder: https://imgur.com/a/3G6kUVj

PS: The Grinder is fake because:

1. It visibly doesn't have Cali Crusher Homegrown's patented 4-Way Quick Lock System.

2. The Star logo is in the wrong position, it should be beneath the "A".

3. It has a cheap plastic pollen scraper, instead of Cali Crusher's signature guitar pick shape.

Is that about it?

I remember when UVU (formerly UVSC) was deprecated as "UV High", an open-enrollment party school where the classes were super easy.

Lately I've been seeing some very knowledgeable and talented CS/IT graduates from UVU.

What's been going on over there?

Any Wolverines or employers have insight?

I'm wondering if there's anyone here who's done a bachelors degree in Norway? How hard is it to study a specific topic in a second or third language?

I've passed B1 level in Norwegian but I haven't really been able to use the language as much as I should since I work in an English speaking company with English speaking colleagues, and I'm surrounded by friends and family that want to speak English.

Any insight would be great, thanks!

EDIT: I meant I passed B2 level 🤦🏻‍♀️ sorry, I don't know why I typed B1, probably because I still feel like I'm at B1 level 🙈

I F19 moved to Europe in search of work but was disappointed. The conditions and prospects were terrible, without knowing the language you can hardly do anything worthwhile, so I decided to return to Ukraine. I have a bit of money saved up to allow me a few months for transition.

-Is it worth moving to Kyiv from [basic central-Ukrainian oblast center]? Do salaries there make up the cost of living?

-Is it possible to get into IT in Ukraine without a degree?

-What are the best places to look for jobs?

-What professions would you recommend.

I feel sad and frustrated and don't want to keep working as a slave for twelve hours a day in a foreign country, living in worker dorms with old hags for 500 dollars a month.

How common is it for people who are the first in their families to graduate from higher education to have relatives who ignore or belittle their accomplishment?

(This is going to be a tad long! And this is officially my first post on this subreddit)

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But he stills adds on to the point of having a job and still the need for doing ministry and even try and auxiliary pioneer when it allows because the job is up until Armageddon ONLY and the rest (being spiritual, attending meetings, being active in the ministry, and having healthy relationship with the congregation) is required.

My father was an elder for as long as i can remember. My childhood family friend (absolute PIMI) and I started our higher education almost around the same time so we were in a different city (for college) and that's when the higher education thing actually became "A THING" (at it's peak) and both of our dads were getting counselled around this topic. Both of our dads were a lil strong on the education side and they had some financial issues too (like being an elder with responsibilities and to have care for a big family like ours with children and his parents depending on him is not an easy task.)

Mind you, My friend's dad was coordinator and my dad was the secretary in the congregation at the time. So with those reasons along with educational reasons, they decided to step down. That was a huge step. I remember my mom telling me, there are other reasons too.. but for most part, he did this so that you can have a secure future with a good job in this "WORLD". So make sure you don't do anything that will make him leave speechless for the decision he took. I've been living with it till date.

I'm a PIMO from a long time. Long before my dad even stepped down, me taking any decision will be criticized and viewed as my parents being negligent towards their parental duty from when i was a kid. And that's awful. Coz even with all these PIMI stuff at home, my parents were the sweetest. And they've done the best for me. Like the best (LMK, if you wanna know why I'm compelling on this point). And there are other factors too why i wanna stay PIMO for now.

Now what i need help with is with all this zoom meetings and not going to KH long and i think they have loosened a bit ( I'm assuming this cz i just came back home from my city of work). My dad will not negotiate or come to terms with anything unless it is intellectually challenging him. I mean i don't want to stress again the point on how he respects knowledge and intellect. So if there's any thought provoking stuff that will help him wake up, I'd give it

Hi, I'm from India and pretty much every major university in India uses English as the medium of instruction because it's considered a neutral language and also because it's the global language of science and commerce.

The only exception I've found are the humanities courses in liberal arts colleges which are often taught in local languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, etc, and which may also require knowledge of classical languages like Sanskrit and Persian.

So which language do they use for higher education in your country? Do they teach in English or in your local language? If it's the latter, how do they deal with foreign students who may be unfamiliar with the local language?