Last time Minneapolis hosted the All-Star game, the Royals won it all. So no worries here.
You and your sabermetrics.
the alma mater leads the way in Minnesota, but this is one top-ten list I'm glad they are not on nationally.
No surprise there in MN, but three Arts Institutes on the national list?
For-profit education. My experience with a similar institution's housing arrangements makes this unsurprising. In 2001 I was paying $1200/month to share a two-bedroom apartment off Highway 13 in Burnsville.
IIRC, we paid $800 or $850 per month for a two-bedroom apartment in a grad student housing complex in San Diego in 1988-89, before moving to a private complex (because the "grad student housing" was filled with undergrad dude-bros, because most grad students couldn't afford to live there).
Man, I'm glad I went to Stout. My last three years there were spent in a 5-bedroom apartment that was about $1000/month total. Pretty doable on a DQ salary.
I really wish my folks had taken a moment to have a conversation about how I was going to pay for my housing. I didn't get much help figuring things out when it came to higher ed, so I wound up making too many preventable mistakes, some of them very costly.
Same for my wife. No one told her it was not the best idea to just take all of the loan money whether she needed it or not. Her sisters are currently making the same mistakes, too.
For me, it's
I really wish my folks had taken a moment to have a conversation about how I was going to pay for my housing higher education. I didn't get much help figuring things out when it came to higher ed, so I wound up making too many preventable mistakes, some of them very costly.
Yeah, that too. I just finally finished paying off my culinary school student loans.
Thank goodness for the GI Bill after I got out.
In my case, my dad promised to pay for the equivalent of the U, which turned out to be about half of our out-of-pocket for the Alma Mater.
Things are a bit different for the Boy, on three fronts.
First, we've been saving for the kids' college since they were very young, and received some generous gifts from the various grandparents over the years that were sunk into college savings. The 529 account innovation has been huge, both because of tax-free accumulation on the accounts and because we use automatic deposits to the accounts.
Second, the employment environment for youngsters today is much, much different than it was back in my day. I was able to secure full-time summer and full or almost-full time winter break employment every year, and managed to save several thousand dollars per year toward my school expenses. In contrast, the Boy has found it very difficult to find any paying employment. Local employers won't take him because he won't be around during the school year.
Third, I enjoyed access to heavily subsidized Perkins loans as an undergrad. These loans did not even start charging interest until 9 months after graduation, and then the interest charges were again stopped for the five years I was in grad school. Basically, I was making money on those loans. Stafford loans today are not nearly so generous.
I've been saying it for awhile now, but I think this country is in for some sort of higher education tuition/loan crash (or maybe it'll just be a huge trade school/community college boom) unless some very significant changes are made. Whatever happens, I just hope everything is settled out by the time my kids are at that age. (and, from your descriptions and what my parents tell me about my younger brothers, that FAFSA is abolished.)
Absent a major shift in the economy - or in employers' expectations - I'm not sure we'll see the current demand for undergraduate education diminish much. With so much of our economy wrapped up in services - financial services, health care, IT/IS services, and - yep - (higher) education services - it's much more difficult to make it without that BA or BS than it was even a generation ago. (That's not to say it can't be done - skilled tradesfolks can do very well - but that it's much more dicey than when we had a strong industrial sector. Those jobs aren't coming back.) Unless employers adjust their demands of entry-level workers, new economic sectors emerge, or we have another economic meltdown, we can probably assume the current enrollment pressure (and ever-rising tuition) will continue to be a huge hurdle for students and their families.
There's definitely room in the marketplace for better "Career Technical Education."
With the obsession about No Child Left Behind-driven mono-focus on math and english test score-proficiency, there's not been a whole lot of room in school budgets for serving the broad array of needs represented in high schools, particularly in California and other low-funding states.
Our school district is very socio-economically diverse, with a large chunk of working class/working poor families, and over 50 pct hispanic, many of whom struggle with college prep courses. As a consequence of how we incentivize school districts, the parents of the high-track kids have to fight every year for attention and services. The logic is, of course, that those kids will be fine even if neglected institutionally, because they are almost all going to be UC-qualified, and those who aren't will be CSU-qualified.
As a policy wonk, I am frustrated by the over-emphasis on standardized testing that is very narrow (not much beyond math and english), and on the disinvestment in alternatives to the college track. While my kids' school has a vibrant FFA program, the shop program is nonetheless weak. Not every kid is interested in going to college. We have to offer options that serve those kids' needs too.
As a parent of high-achieving kids, I am frustrated in a different direction -- the feeling that the school district is disinterested in serving the interests of my kids. Case in point (and humble-brag): my youngest just recently qualified as a National Merit Semi-finalist, but the school's counselors effed up and didn't file the paperwork to qualify her for Finalist status, despite us asking multiple times over a six-week period. They did get a waiver from the National Merit folks that allows her to qualify (almost all semi-finalists become finalists; it's just a paperwork thing, basically). But, jiminy. Pay SOME attention to your star kids too!
No surprised to see Wash U and Grinnell, two "Hidden Ivies"
A year+ out with some perspective, Buffalo was actually a decent place to live. I was personal circumstance that made that a hard year. In a different situation, I could see myself there.
I enjoyed my two weeks there (two one week work trips. Lots of beer consumed).
North Buffalo is practically the suburbs. Three more years and I can leave that lousy demographic.
I'm completely immersed in The Goldfinch, but I can only read it in little bits, mostly on the bus and at lunch. I stumbled off the bus yesterday morning, still just half-awake, and felt downright drunk just from reading about what Theo had been drinking. I'm in the Las Vegas section and I'm getting all jumpy and nervous and I want to know what's going to happen because it's not looking good (then again it hasn't been looking good ever since that bomb went off in the beginning) and now I have to put the book down and I don't want to and . . . AHHHHHHH!
I haven't shared much during the process for fear of jinxing it, but it's finally official: next month, I'll be leaving the law firm I've been clerking at for the past three years and heading over to St. Paul to take a position with the MN Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Hat-tip to CarterHayes and Jeff A for their suggestions and insights over the past few months. I took what you fellas said to heart and I couldn't be happier with the outcome.
congrats, dude!
Thanks!
My bus goes right by there! Another Citizen in downtown St. Paul. I haven't seen Will yet; I assume he's hiding. Or I just don't get out enough.
I haven't seen Will yet; I assume he's hiding.
He's lying in wait to take a photo of you when you least expect it.
(But big congrats to you, Coc! Sorry to see you leave downtown Mpls., though.)
sean & Pepper - I was just thinking about where the change in location puts me in proximity to other Citizens. I rather liked the lunch-caucuses in Mpls and will miss the ease of connecting with folks, but now we have a quorum in StP!
If you dislike walking far but don't mind some waiting, the Green Line is pretty close. The final stop is 1.5 blocks to where I am and I think about the same distance from The Pirate.
Let me know when you get settled and we can arrange a mini-caucus. Despite my disparaging remarks when Will started here, it's bustling enough during work hours.
Will do.
Is the Gopher bar still there? Classic St. Paul joint. Coneys and Schmidt beer. After getting married, we lived in the Gaultier Towers for a year in Lowertown.
It is ... well, the exterior signage is. I haven't been inside in about 6 years.
Congrats to that.
Appreciate that, bud - It's a few miles closer to WI anyway!
Congrats again, especially now that it's official. I may ask to pick your brain from time-to-time if/when vet-related topics emerge.
By all means!
Congrats! (Now that you've got that out of the way, do you want to help me find something?)
Thanks! Happy to help in any way I can.
Right now I'm finding it be mostly a waiting game. I have 11 applications out currently, and a 12th should be done tonight. I've only gotten a single rejection so far. Another oversized handful of applications will be sent by the 31st. Lots of things I'm really excited for, so patience is in short supply.
I know exactly what you're talking about - my job career search lasted 16 months. After a while, even the rejection letters were a welcome sign that my applications were being reviewed. I was astonished at how many applications resulted in absolutely no follow-up. I hope that's not your experience; it's pretty demoralizing.
Good news! May you find much happiness and satisfaction working there.
I hope so too.
Best of luck, Corny.
That sounds good. Congrats!
Glad to hear this is working out for you, Corn!
Appreciate all the well-wishes, both for the new kiddo and the new job. I really do love this place - brightens my world every time I visit.
Horray! There is baseball tonight! And its on network tv!
The MLB should really think about doing something about how long it to fit the playoffs to start. Seems like its been a long time since there's been any baseball.
well, I dont think they were expecting a sweep and a 5 game series.
My joke got auto corrected to death. It was supposed to say it seemed like it took forever for the playoffs to start because none of it has been on a channel I can watch.
I've advocated having multiple options of when the WS starts based on having at least one day off for each pennant winner. Like, it could have started Friday.
Still need to verify a cable subscription if you want to stream it, though.
I met a guy tonite at work who also grew up in Panama (Canal Zone).
We were both there in 1966-1969. He was older than I, but we shared many of the same experiences - he lived at Fort Kobbe, me at Albrook Air Force Base (jungle, ginnips, sugar cane, iguanas, sloths, snakes, coati mundis, trips to Panamanian islands, Jungle training). Fun to catch up on shared experiences.
jungle, ginnips, sugar cane, iguanas, sloths, snakes, coati mundis, trips to Panamanian islands, Jungle training [...] Fun to catch up on shared experiences.
Last time Minneapolis hosted the All-Star game, the Royals won it all. So no worries here.
You and your sabermetrics.
the alma mater leads the way in Minnesota, but this is one top-ten list I'm glad they are not on nationally.
No surprise there in MN, but three Arts Institutes on the national list?
For-profit education. My experience with a similar institution's housing arrangements makes this unsurprising. In 2001 I was paying $1200/month to share a two-bedroom apartment off Highway 13 in Burnsville.
IIRC, we paid $800 or $850 per month for a two-bedroom apartment in a grad student housing complex in San Diego in 1988-89, before moving to a private complex (because the "grad student housing" was filled with undergrad dude-bros, because most grad students couldn't afford to live there).
Man, I'm glad I went to Stout. My last three years there were spent in a 5-bedroom apartment that was about $1000/month total. Pretty doable on a DQ salary.
I really wish my folks had taken a moment to have a conversation about how I was going to pay for my housing. I didn't get much help figuring things out when it came to higher ed, so I wound up making too many preventable mistakes, some of them very costly.
Same for my wife. No one told her it was not the best idea to just take all of the loan money whether she needed it or not. Her sisters are currently making the same mistakes, too.
For me, it's
Yeah, that too. I just finally finished paying off my culinary school student loans.
Thank goodness for the GI Bill after I got out.
In my case, my dad promised to pay for the equivalent of the U, which turned out to be about half of our out-of-pocket for the Alma Mater.
Things are a bit different for the Boy, on three fronts.
First, we've been saving for the kids' college since they were very young, and received some generous gifts from the various grandparents over the years that were sunk into college savings. The 529 account innovation has been huge, both because of tax-free accumulation on the accounts and because we use automatic deposits to the accounts.
Second, the employment environment for youngsters today is much, much different than it was back in my day. I was able to secure full-time summer and full or almost-full time winter break employment every year, and managed to save several thousand dollars per year toward my school expenses. In contrast, the Boy has found it very difficult to find any paying employment. Local employers won't take him because he won't be around during the school year.
Third, I enjoyed access to heavily subsidized Perkins loans as an undergrad. These loans did not even start charging interest until 9 months after graduation, and then the interest charges were again stopped for the five years I was in grad school. Basically, I was making money on those loans. Stafford loans today are not nearly so generous.
I've been saying it for awhile now, but I think this country is in for some sort of higher education tuition/loan crash (or maybe it'll just be a huge trade school/community college boom) unless some very significant changes are made. Whatever happens, I just hope everything is settled out by the time my kids are at that age. (and, from your descriptions and what my parents tell me about my younger brothers, that FAFSA is abolished.)
There's definitely room in the marketplace for better "Career Technical Education."
No surprised to see Wash U and Grinnell, two "Hidden Ivies"
Latest FilmWise Invisibles; I've managed 5 of the 8
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5 6
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Speaking of movies.. *checks calendar* Oh, I suppose that was yesterday.
Yeah, it's going to be tomorrow or possibly Thursday.
Delayed FKB coming this week too.
Look out, Hitman, the hipsters are coming.
A year+ out with some perspective, Buffalo was actually a decent place to live. I was personal circumstance that made that a hard year. In a different situation, I could see myself there.
I enjoyed my two weeks there (two one week work trips. Lots of beer consumed).
North Buffalo is practically the suburbs. Three more years and I can leave that lousy demographic.
New Guy, are you out there?
I haven't shared much during the process for fear of jinxing it, but it's finally official: next month, I'll be leaving the law firm I've been clerking at for the past three years and heading over to St. Paul to take a position with the MN Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Hat-tip to CarterHayes and Jeff A for their suggestions and insights over the past few months. I took what you fellas said to heart and I couldn't be happier with the outcome.
congrats, dude!
Thanks!
My bus goes right by there! Another Citizen in downtown St. Paul. I haven't seen Will yet; I assume he's hiding. Or I just don't get out enough.
He's lying in wait to take a photo of you when you least expect it.
(But big congrats to you, Coc! Sorry to see you leave downtown Mpls., though.)
sean & Pepper - I was just thinking about where the change in location puts me in proximity to other Citizens. I rather liked the lunch-caucuses in Mpls and will miss the ease of connecting with folks, but now we have a quorum in StP!
If you dislike walking far but don't mind some waiting, the Green Line is pretty close. The final stop is 1.5 blocks to where I am and I think about the same distance from The Pirate.
Let me know when you get settled and we can arrange a mini-caucus. Despite my disparaging remarks when Will started here, it's bustling enough during work hours.
Will do.
Is the Gopher bar still there? Classic St. Paul joint. Coneys and Schmidt beer. After getting married, we lived in the Gaultier Towers for a year in Lowertown.
It is ... well, the exterior signage is. I haven't been inside in about 6 years.
Congrats to that.
Appreciate that, bud - It's a few miles closer to WI anyway!
Congrats again, especially now that it's official. I may ask to pick your brain from time-to-time if/when vet-related topics emerge.
By all means!
Congrats! (Now that you've got that out of the way, do you want to help me find something?)
Thanks! Happy to help in any way I can.
Right now I'm finding it be mostly a waiting game. I have 11 applications out currently, and a 12th should be done tonight. I've only gotten a single rejection so far. Another oversized handful of applications will be sent by the 31st. Lots of things I'm really excited for, so patience is in short supply.
I know exactly what you're talking about - my
jobcareer search lasted 16 months. After a while, even the rejection letters were a welcome sign that my applications were being reviewed. I was astonished at how many applications resulted in absolutely no follow-up. I hope that's not your experience; it's pretty demoralizing.Good news! May you find much happiness and satisfaction working there.
I hope so too.
Best of luck, Corny.
That sounds good. Congrats!
Glad to hear this is working out for you, Corn!
Appreciate all the well-wishes, both for the new kiddo and the new job. I really do love this place - brightens my world every time I visit.
Li'l Wayne makes you dumb, Sufjan Stevens makes you smart.
and Beethoven makes you super-smart.
I like(d, I guess, he sucks lately) Weezy and while I never took the SAT, I did have pretty high scores on my ACT. Hrmph.
I only took the ACT, and none of the bands I listen to are on the list, so it makes sense.
I took the SAT. Black Dice is on the graph, but just so far to the right you can't see it.
Paul Molitor is reportedly getting a second interview with the Twins.
LEN3 calls it "at least" the third meeting about the job. Don't know how many were "official" interviews.
Mientkiewicz also has had a full second interview.
Did Led Zep rip off a Spirit song for Stairway? The Onion explores with Voices on the Street.
Horray! There is baseball tonight! And its on network tv!
The MLB should really think about doing something about how long it to fit the playoffs to start. Seems like its been a long time since there's been any baseball.
well, I dont think they were expecting a sweep and a 5 game series.
My joke got auto corrected to death. It was supposed to say it seemed like it took forever for the playoffs to start because none of it has been on a channel I can watch.
I've advocated having multiple options of when the WS starts based on having at least one day off for each pennant winner. Like, it could have started Friday.
Still need to verify a cable subscription if you want to stream it, though.
I met a guy tonite at work who also grew up in Panama (Canal Zone).
We were both there in 1966-1969. He was older than I, but we shared many of the same experiences - he lived at Fort Kobbe, me at Albrook Air Force Base (jungle, ginnips, sugar cane, iguanas, sloths, snakes, coati mundis, trips to Panamanian islands, Jungle training). Fun to catch up on shared experiences.
jungle, ginnips, sugar cane, iguanas, sloths, snakes, coati mundis, trips to Panamanian islands, Jungle training [...] Fun to catch up on shared experiences.
oh yes, my youth was quite similar as well.