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  1. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    Not entirely true. He/she cannot hold themselves out as possessing a specialty in a board certifiable specialty, but they can practice as physicians. And I know of at least one who does: washed out of his residency at Mass General decades ago, but still practices general medicine. Although, for...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Classic education

    When it came to translating high school Latin (let alone Greek: that was reserved for the smart kids), I confess that my own adolescent efforts were pretty mediocre- although I do remember snickering and having fun with some selections from Catullus and Juvenal. Trying to teach drunken college...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I rate HR types at about the same level as you rate, "the Boys." They usually have very little comprehension as to the day to day needs of a particular department, but they are entrusted to the role of corporate gatekeepers. They're the same type of squirrels who were employed as guidance...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I dated one like that when I was 17. She had very grandiose plans of becoming a surgeon: I remember her arguing with her parents at her sixteenth birthday dinner over where she'd do her residency, and in which specialty she'd get her board cert. The closest she got to it: certification as an EMT...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    If ever there were an area where the Boys from Marketing deserve to be drawn and quartered, it's in regard to these for- profit unaccredited schools. They're notorious for their high percentage of student loan defaults, and for pressuring their students to incur even deeper debt through loans...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/02/stanford-just-made-college-free-for-more-than-80-of-american-students/ Better late than never: Lizzie, you can now attend Stanford without cost.
  8. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It Follows (2015). Save your money.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    My wife and I have both had to deal with that from members of my family. Accusing us of being "book smart:" the implication of having no practical knowledge base being pretty obvious. But when they're seriously ill, or have a legal problem... guess who they call?
  10. ChiTownScion

    Lunch, Anybody?

    A bowl of chicken cacciatore made up by my wife as "something simple."
  11. ChiTownScion

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    Our local library has two sites and a bookmobile. Sunday hours are only 1-5 PM, but apparently, that's enough. Annual budget is around $7.8 million.... but you'll never hear me gripe about taxes, at least when it comes to schools and the library. It's money well spent. One of the nice things...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I think that the only kid in my class (It was "a Jesuit preparatory school," not a high school.) who didn't get at least a baccalaureate was a kid whose dad passed away in his senior year and left him a heating & air conditioning business. One of those "had to work to keep the family together"...
  14. ChiTownScion

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    What? No Starbucks?
  15. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I'm actually surprised it's that high. 20-25% would have been my guess.
  16. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    Even after I had graduated law school and passed my bar, my dad was haranguing me to take the fire department exam because it would provide a "secure income." Of course, he still loved trotting me out to his more white collar friends and neighbors as, "my son, the attorney." The thing that...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    That was one of the refreshing aspects of going to law school at night. Most of my classmates were working people, and their day jobs ran the gamut: physicians, accountants, cops, a firefighter, truck drivers, school teachers, paralegals, insurance adjusters, active duty military (officer and...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    My dear sweet wife harangues me continually about "collecting junk" centered around my hobbies, but she has her aspect of the same malady. If someone is throwing out a decent wood table, chair, or other furniture, she'll load it into the Odyssey, take it home, sand it, strip it, stain or paint...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    Never had him, or even heard of him as a member of the faculty. I did have an old prof who was an assistant prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Trials. I'll never forget his comment regarding the change of following orders from an absolute defense to a qualified defense under the old Articles of...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    Sounds as if you did. I think that to be educated requires determination and unrelenting perseverance- and that comes into play whether one is an EE undergrad at MIT or thrown into the adult world without ceremony and has to rely upon self education. What we really hope to acquire at the end are...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I think that the real losers in a scenario like this are the students that you could have had as classmates. I only speak for myself here, but I learned far more from my peers in college than from my profs. The 50 minute lectures and the reading assignments are only the starting points. It's the...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    I went through Marshall late 70's early 80's. Night school 3 years, then full time days. They were transitioning from the days of Dean Noble Lee- when about 3% of an entering One L class could expect to graduate- to a saner model: guess they finally figured out that 97% would never be cutting...

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