Gmail does the same thing with the banner at the top...but unlike my hotmail account gmail had NEVER filtered a valid email as spam. Nor has Gmail given me more than just a couple junk mails in my inbox during my whole use of Gmail unlike hotmail where I usually end up with at least 5-10 spam messages a DAY in my inbox! Time for Hotmail to take a lesson from the Google team:)
1.) I was educated k-12 in a private school system and during one summer took a class at my local public school and was horrified at the lack of discipline. In a private school after you were disciplined 3 times for the same thing you were expelled. So perhaps its time we have 2 levels of public schools; one 'standard' school and one school for those who get expelled from the standard school. Send these few trouble making kids to a more strict school and let the rest who want to learn stay at the standard school.
2.) The food in these public schools is awful! How can you start your day with pop and candy and be expected to concentrate? If you have ever seen the documentary Super Size Me, it gives a great example of a school whose students (supposed troubled students) were served only healthy food and they had a wonderful success rate with less discipline problems. And the cost of the healthy food was just about the same as a standard unhealthy public school lunch program.
3.) Stop letting these councilors drug up the kids. When my niece was about 8 the councilor told my sister my niece had A.D.D. and she was going to prescribe riddlin for her. My sister took her to 2 different doctors for opinions and was told that my niece in no way had A.D.D. She was told by one of doctors that many of the schools had begun pushing riddlin on parents to make the overcrowded classrooms easier to handle with overly passive kids.
**Even thought abolishing public schools isn't an option, there is something to be said for private schools. I was taking to a friend of mine from India and over there all most all the schools are private. The few that are public he said were terrible and only the troublemakers went there. Just a thought.:)
A co-worker of mine brought up this point...How does the volume still work since you slide your finger about the center ring to increase/decrease the volume?
Agreed! These listing are not realistic at all. I looked at the criteria and they are using some really meaningless stuff in there. Like asking the dean if there were any outstanding faculty members. One outstanding faculty member does not make up for the 7 other poor faculty members.
They never take into consideration the things that really matter, like how well the profs teach. Not to mention the things that are so hard to measure in a study like this, subjects like sexism. Many of the women in the engineering college have changed majors cause they just couldn't take it anymore. I remember when I was asked if I was sure I was in the right class that this was for computer science majors. It is the worse feeling in the world to not feel welcomed because of your gender.
Probably close to 1/2 the teachers I have had over the years in the computer science department either could barely speak english or thier accents were so thick it didn't even sound like english. The one that stands out in my mind the most is a prof who spoke broken english and was trying to teach a 400 level cs class for the first time (and the last for that matter, said he would never do it again). When we asked him a question alot of the time we would get black stares back cause he didn't understand us.
And it's not just the compter science department. My boyfriend and I have both had our share of problems with a couple of the math profs too. He ended up with one last semester that passed 4 out of 30 people in a subject matter that simply was not that hard. He would test on topics not in the book or covered in class. How is that an assesment of what you learned?
I had one math prof that would give out tests that had nothing to do with our classes. He would just randomly throw things on these tests from other math classes. And these question were far from simple algebra they would make people in calc 2 turn green. The only way people passed his class was to do demonstration problems on the board and answering questions the class had for extra points. I don't think he taught even 1/2 the classes that were held.
There is no way these ranking could even come close to demonstrating these problems because the deans of each department don't want anything to do with it and pretend it's not happening. Want to see a real evaulation, ask some of the students.
When people ask me if they should become engineers I say YES but when they ask about my university I tell them that if they want a real education go somewhere else.
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Gmail does the same thing with the banner at the top...but unlike my hotmail account gmail had NEVER filtered a valid email as spam. Nor has Gmail given me more than just a couple junk mails in my inbox during my whole use of Gmail unlike hotmail where I usually end up with at least 5-10 spam messages a DAY in my inbox! Time for Hotmail to take a lesson from the Google team :)
1.) I was educated k-12 in a private school system and during one summer took a class at my local public school and was horrified at the lack of discipline. In a private school after you were disciplined 3 times for the same thing you were expelled. So perhaps its time we have 2 levels of public schools; one 'standard' school and one school for those who get expelled from the standard school. Send these few trouble making kids to a more strict school and let the rest who want to learn stay at the standard school.
:)
2.) The food in these public schools is awful! How can you start your day with pop and candy and be expected to concentrate? If you have ever seen the documentary Super Size Me, it gives a great example of a school whose students (supposed troubled students) were served only healthy food and they had a wonderful success rate with less discipline problems. And the cost of the healthy food was just about the same as a standard unhealthy public school lunch program.
3.) Stop letting these councilors drug up the kids. When my niece was about 8 the councilor told my sister my niece had A.D.D. and she was going to prescribe riddlin for her. My sister took her to 2 different doctors for opinions and was told that my niece in no way had A.D.D. She was told by one of doctors that many of the schools had begun pushing riddlin on parents to make the overcrowded classrooms easier to handle with overly passive kids.
**Even thought abolishing public schools isn't an option, there is something to be said for private schools. I was taking to a friend of mine from India and over there all most all the schools are private. The few that are public he said were terrible and only the troublemakers went there. Just a thought.
A co-worker of mine brought up this point...How does the volume still work since you slide your finger about the center ring to increase/decrease the volume?
Agreed, I am a chic who weights 115 lbs and there is no way I can wear a mans small.
Agreed! These listing are not realistic at all. I looked at the criteria and they are using some really meaningless stuff in there. Like asking the dean if there were any outstanding faculty members. One outstanding faculty member does not make up for the 7 other poor faculty members.
They never take into consideration the things that really matter, like how well the profs teach. Not to mention the things that are so hard to measure in a study like this, subjects like sexism. Many of the women in the engineering college have changed majors cause they just couldn't take it anymore. I remember when I was asked if I was sure I was in the right class that this was for computer science majors. It is the worse feeling in the world to not feel welcomed because of your gender.
Probably close to 1/2 the teachers I have had over the years in the computer science department either could barely speak english or thier accents were so thick it didn't even sound like english. The one that stands out in my mind the most is a prof who spoke broken english and was trying to teach a 400 level cs class for the first time (and the last for that matter, said he would never do it again). When we asked him a question alot of the time we would get black stares back cause he didn't understand us.
And it's not just the compter science department. My boyfriend and I have both had our share of problems with a couple of the math profs too. He ended up with one last semester that passed 4 out of 30 people in a subject matter that simply was not that hard. He would test on topics not in the book or covered in class. How is that an assesment of what you learned?
I had one math prof that would give out tests that had nothing to do with our classes. He would just randomly throw things on these tests from other math classes. And these question were far from simple algebra they would make people in calc 2 turn green. The only way people passed his class was to do demonstration problems on the board and answering questions the class had for extra points. I don't think he taught even 1/2 the classes that were held.
There is no way these ranking could even come close to demonstrating these problems because the deans of each department don't want anything to do with it and pretend it's not happening. Want to see a real evaulation, ask some of the students.
When people ask me if they should become engineers I say YES but when they ask about my university I tell them that if they want a real education go somewhere else.
And how about some sizes for chics too! Im 5' 3" and there is no way I can where a mans shirt.
Just to say I loved the bathing geeks in green light shirt better than any of the winners. I would buy a couple of these for me and my boyfriend.