Big Bear In Europe

Next party: French-themed!

I took this quiz and they said I should watch The League, Portlandia and Comedy Bang Bang.

Universities can probably save a lot of money by not installing any more of those blue safety lights.

I'm only going to post these two more posts from legallyobligated. (the blog actually isn't very long). this one about how money doesn't fix poverty, which might resonate with you and this one because it's about how they stuck together to pay off her debt, kinda what I envision us doing. =P but we'll do it in a more glamoous way of course.

Because more cuteness is always welcome but now, with science!

Berlin is weird

Fixed/growth mindsets keep following me! I saw this quote on themeetcute: “If I accept the other person as something fixed, already diagnosed and classified, already shaped by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a process of becoming, then I am doing what I can to confirm or make real his potentialities.” —Carl R. Rogers (via fyp-psychology)

Late addition: on procrastinating

Responses

1. OMG I can't believe you posted this. I kept banging my head on my desk reading it! It's taken me 3 days!

I  think my main problem with trigger warnings -besides those listed is this: "A trigger warning, they wrote, “serves as a guarantee that students will not experience unexpected discomfort and implies that if they do, a contract has been broken.” I read an article - maybe you sent it - where a person was "triggered" by the name, Steve - the name of her attacker. Of course, no one could know that. And if you've had a traumatic experience, reading about a terrifying experience may trigger the memories but so many things could. Particular smells, sounds, tastes, experiences. The real problem with trigger warnings is that they 1) they trigger you needlessly on the syllabus before you even get to be triggered and 2) it mistakenly guarantees you peace of mind. But I did appreciate the idea that shielding people from their fears is a bad idea. It's like the peanut allergy crisis all over again.

2.I don't understand how this is good for the investor. For instance, Purdue is $40k/year out of state. If an investor gives a promising student $160k and gets 15% back over the next 10 years, and the kid makes $100k/year, that's only $150k at the end. And those are the highest terms proposed and a salary that is clearly above the norm. Furthermore, if the guy wants to take a year off, it seems like he can without consequence. Or take a low-paying job. Won't colleges have to slash their prices for this to be viable?

3. Yes. =P Well, you are in any case.

4. I'm not so confident in this article. They say that the Chinese don't value education as highly as we think they do and they cite that only 4 percent of China’s population has a college degree but only a small proportion can get into Chinese colleges or afford to send their kids abroad. China is also trying to beef up their technical and vocational schools for their future workforce needs - something that their parents are rallying against because it seems to shunt their kids towards a lower tier. Also, China places great emphasis on education. You can't really get a great job without being highly educated - or at least it's much more difficult than America. (I think 1-2 of China's 10 richest people doesn't have a college or high school degree. I guess Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates also don't but that's a little different).

In any case, I think people will take from this article that Chinese people aren't actually that smart - which might be good news - but I think the better take-away is that children, nay people, do better if they're expected to do better. It'd be great if every child could be treated with the belief in their ability that Asian students are.

5. Scrambled egg breakfast sandwich? Sacrilege!

6. Very interesting. And it's true what they say about cars. More people drive in these public-transit friendly cities than people realize.

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2. In what ways?

4. WAY off. =P They're probably around the same age though.

5. Takes one to know one. Also, I kinda want to know what health insurance I should get. I pay seemingly endless bills but haven't tried other options. I really have no idea what a better option would be.

6. Haha true. Or any picture of Ross next to the poo emoji. Poo is happy even when Ross is sad.

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1. If you're going to be such a policeman about what the NFL does, you'd think there'd be an oversight "mom" committee to make sure the players don't get into trouble. Actually, the more I think about it, this doesn't seem like a terrible idea. I mean they're in their early 20's playing a brutal sport for millions of dollars and far from friends and family. They should have someone full-time to help them adjust and manage the image of the NFL and make sure they don't get into too much trouble. This would be a great Disney movie. =D

2. True, the only people who would benefit from that regime are people who insist on eating their own cultures' foods and nothing else. I guess they can't have dinner parties then and they'd have to eat by themselves at a family-style meal...

3. Maybe. But wouldn't that just give too much publicity to #blacklivesmatter?

5. Law schools don't have to have all their skin in the game but shouldn't everyone have some skin in the game? Students, law schools, the ABA and lending institutions?

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3. Yeah, I definitely couldn't relate to kids who didn't know their multiplication tables. =P

I guess our school did this too - we would have advanced classes for each of the subjects. I don't even remember how we remembered which class we were going to but somehow we did. And on top of that, we had an extra gifted and talented program for when we got bored getting ahead in our advanced reading classes. We were also very lame.