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sldivzklhc
10y ago
I went to a school like that. They provided grant-only aid to cover tuition and living expenses for students from most of the US income distribution. I think you will have a harder time finding sob stories about my classmates (at least sinc
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10y ago
It doesn't seem like the selectivity/prestige effect applies to people who go to for-profit schools. Since prestige is subjective, for-profit schools can market themselves as prestigious while expanding to provide seats to anyone
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10y ago
Here is the city's info: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bicycleboulevards/ The boulevards do not actually block out a section of the road for bicyclists. They are entire roads that optimize for low-speed neighborhoo
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10y ago
>Since Smith is 2 lanes each direction with a dedicated turn lane and is parallel to and has the same speed limit as Mimosa, while Mimosa cuts through several residential neighborhoods, has the same speed limit but is one lane each way w
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10y ago
I had a grant-funded summer internship at a military institute. They gave me a 1099, with all the money filled in to a box that indicated I didn't owe tax. Got hit with self-employment taxes and a penalty two years after. Pretty sure I
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10y ago
>Undergraduates don't have the specialized knowledge required to teach or to contribute substantially to research. Graduate students, however, do both of these jobs. I don't think grad/undergrad is the right distinction he
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10y ago
So if it costs 1% of the budget to move .1% of the population in 1 year, it would cost 10% of the budget to move 10% of the population in 10 years. Clearly a major expenditure but totally doable.
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10y ago
The statement is ambiguous, so it can still be valid. However the use of "length" twice in the same sentence to describe both the dimensions parallel and perpendicular to the crack is likely to confuse some readers. Some people&#x
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10y ago
Office space is about twice as expensive in SF as it is in San Jose. And it seems to me there are more people attached to living there, whether it's the city lifestyle, rent control, or prop 13, to the extent that people are commuting