Geeks Without Borders in Eugene, OR rebuilds and redistributes old computers to those who need them. Maintains them too. They operate mostly in North America.
My oldest high school friend earned his PhD and is now on tenure track at a branch of UT. He paid for it all by working like a demon. He had a good chunk of savings when he graduated. He is the most productive person I have ever met. This is including raising two children and GMing several multi-year pen-and-paper RPG campaigns. He's smart enough, but not a mad super-genius. He's done it all with an inhuman work ethic.
A 19-year-old girl I have known since she was in her mother's womb danced (read: stripped) her way through college, graduated with a 4.0 average too early for her nursing program (they won't take her 'til she's twenty). So she has a year off, with no debt. New car. She already makes as much as I do, and I'm a software architect with a decent job.
I have another friend with four bachelor's degrees, is a professional dancer, masseur and piercer. He owes over $100k in school debt, mostly to the federal government, a bit to private parties. He earns his living doing amazing custom carpentry. Never plans on paying the federal stuff back, he can't, realistically, unless he devotes a good chunk of his life to it, and you only get one.
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I am suddenly struck by the urge to dual boot on my 8.1 laptop. Is Android-x86 prefect and wonderful?
Geeks Without Borders in Eugene, OR rebuilds and redistributes old computers to those who need them. Maintains them too. They operate mostly in North America.
The web site seems to be down at the moment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks_Without_Borders
My oldest high school friend earned his PhD and is now on tenure track at a branch of UT. He paid for it all by working like a demon. He had a good chunk of savings when he graduated. He is the most productive person I have ever met. This is including raising two children and GMing several multi-year pen-and-paper RPG campaigns. He's smart enough, but not a mad super-genius. He's done it all with an inhuman work ethic.
A 19-year-old girl I have known since she was in her mother's womb danced (read: stripped) her way through college, graduated with a 4.0 average too early for her nursing program (they won't take her 'til she's twenty). So she has a year off, with no debt. New car. She already makes as much as I do, and I'm a software architect with a decent job.
I have another friend with four bachelor's degrees, is a professional dancer, masseur and piercer. He owes over $100k in school debt, mostly to the federal government, a bit to private parties. He earns his living doing amazing custom carpentry. Never plans on paying the federal stuff back, he can't, realistically, unless he devotes a good chunk of his life to it, and you only get one.