My wife and I have self-diagnosed correctly several times, specifically:
1. lyme disease
2. kidney infection
3. knee tracking problem
4. pinched sciatic nerve
Now, I'm a chemist and she's a biologist, so we are not novices at researching, but we have no medical training. But I'll point out that the sources we used to form a diagnosis are a lot better than the one that this news stub cites;-)
It's all about money. Education is one of the most profitable industries in the country and is still growing in this bad economy. All the Universities need to do is get some high-minded PhD eggheads who never encountered the real world to persuade policy-makers that every kid needs a liberal arts education.
I'm graduating this month with an MS in Chemistry, also got a BA in Chemistry. As a TA I have taught 10 lower level college chemistry classes. In the non-majors classes, about 90% of the students couldn't have cared less about what they were supposed to be learning and their work through the semester proved they were not thinking about chemistry at all. So my point is not to say the kids were stupid or condemn them, they were smart and realized they could just reach a class consensus in the hallway about the right answers to the problems. What I don't understand is why the f__k people have to take so many classes on topics they don't give a rats a** about. It's all about money. Education is one of the most profitable industries in the country and is still growing in this bad economy. All the Universities need to do is get some high-minded PhD eggheads who never encountered the real world to persuade policy-makers that every kid needs a liberal arts education.
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My wife and I have self-diagnosed correctly several times, specifically: 1. lyme disease 2. kidney infection 3. knee tracking problem 4. pinched sciatic nerve Now, I'm a chemist and she's a biologist, so we are not novices at researching, but we have no medical training. But I'll point out that the sources we used to form a diagnosis are a lot better than the one that this news stub cites ;-)
It's all about money. Education is one of the most profitable industries in the country and is still growing in this bad economy. All the Universities need to do is get some high-minded PhD eggheads who never encountered the real world to persuade policy-makers that every kid needs a liberal arts education.
I'm graduating this month with an MS in Chemistry, also got a BA in Chemistry. As a TA I have taught 10 lower level college chemistry classes. In the non-majors classes, about 90% of the students couldn't have cared less about what they were supposed to be learning and their work through the semester proved they were not thinking about chemistry at all. So my point is not to say the kids were stupid or condemn them, they were smart and realized they could just reach a class consensus in the hallway about the right answers to the problems. What I don't understand is why the f__k people have to take so many classes on topics they don't give a rats a** about. It's all about money. Education is one of the most profitable industries in the country and is still growing in this bad economy. All the Universities need to do is get some high-minded PhD eggheads who never encountered the real world to persuade policy-makers that every kid needs a liberal arts education.