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09-23-2021, 02:18 PM #101
Utah and U of Washington are both commuter schools for undergrads, meaning the majority of the students live with mom and dad and commute in to class every day (who the fuck could afford to live in Seattle as a student these days?). So the undergrad vibe you get at both is much different than schools in traditional college towns like Oregon, OSU, and Washington St. Less house parties. Less social cohesion. For grad school, this phenomenon is less important (at least for me).
Good private schools in the west with access to skiing and traditional college vibe include Colorado College (C Springs, non I-70 access to Breck and A Basin; where the Airforce guys go to find chicks) and Whitman (Walla Walla, Bluewood). Both may not be Cal Tech but I know STEM grads from both who have gone on to accomplish great things.
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09-23-2021, 02:21 PM #102
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The laboratory performs broad research, in the areas of Earth time variable and static geopotential and geomagnetic fields, Earth orientation, surface deformation, characterization and change, tides, land ice mass evolution, global and regional sea level, and airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry. The laboratory also supports many NASA missions in fundamental and core capabilities including satellite radar and laser altimetry precise positioning, pointing, ranging, timing, geolocation and calibration and validation. The laboratory is a leader in the design, development, implementation and application of airborne and spaceborne geodetic laser altimeter technology and instruments including NASA’s Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) and the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Lidar (GEDI). The laboratory is the home of the Space Geodesy Project which encompasses the management, development, operation and maintenance of NASA’s Space Geodetic Network that is comprised of the four major space geodetic observing systems: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning by integrated Satellite (DORIS) system. It is also home to the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System dedicated to the archive and distribution of space geodesy related data sets; as well as the home to GEODYN, NASA’s state-of-the-art geodetic parameter estimation and precision orbit determination system.
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09-23-2021, 02:27 PM #103Registered User
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AP is similar , it's all based on passing exams and results in relation to receiving college credit. I would argue AP is more widely accepted/acknowledged nationally and IB is newer kid on the block. Don't EVER go to a bunch of helicopter parents and question the supremacy of either one.... My kids are at a IB school and most of the parents acts as though an IB diploma will get you into Harvard. I had a funny conversation about the odds of ending up at one of the true blue chip uni's with my daughter by just listing the schools that we agreed as first tier, number of freshmen slots, college entrants, top 5% of them, legacy, high net donations and the odds are staggering AND the saddest part is it's like 5th grade math with most parents not being able to figure out the odds BUT I still buy Powerball tickets so.....
MOST parents can't separate themselves from their proud helicopter myopia to realize that 4.0 doesn't equate to shit anymore and their 87% percentile kid is going to state U or a overpriced third tier private school. Had a conversation with a casual friend who's son is same age as my youngest about his kid wanting to go to USC.........................I didn't have the heart to tell him that his kid's ranking many hundreds down in a class of 400 plus and under 3.5 gpa won't get it. Same guy think his kid has a shot to play college baseball even though he's playing JV as a junior.
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09-23-2021, 03:14 PM #109
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09-23-2021, 03:22 PM #110
I’m of the strong belief that the name or rank of the school you go to for undergrad does not matter.
Find somewhere he’s stoked on going that fits your budget.
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09-23-2021, 03:28 PM #111
Matters when undergrad is just a stepping stone to med school.
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09-23-2021, 03:33 PM #112
That's my attitude as well. As others have mentioned, a CC where you can then transfer into an elite state school is definitely the best bang for your buck and way most youth go to college these days. This will only increase in the future. In Washington, UW-Tacoma or UW-Bothell both allow you to transfer into UW-Seattle and your degree looks no different. UW-Tacoma is by far and away the most diverse school in the state.
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09-23-2021, 03:35 PM #113
Curious what that is based on.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...here-s-n982851
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09-23-2021, 03:35 PM #114
A lot less than your MCAT score
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09-23-2021, 03:40 PM #115
Reread that article…
“So, in the end, it might not necessarily matter where a person went to college. It’s the fact that they did.”
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09-23-2021, 03:49 PM #116
i don't see education as a transactional step leading to a job, but part of the growth of an individual into a benefit to community
at the same time, there really isn't a reason to come out of school with overwhelming debt
and the cost of uni has outsprinted salaries & cost of living since i was in school
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09-23-2021, 03:54 PM #117
Excellent observations. My wife taught at an IB school. Honestly, many of the teachers and the education sucked just as bad as anywhere else, but due to the very high test scores, the school, parents, and community thought they were just that freaking awesome. When truth is, many of those parents were ivy league grads and damn successful in life, MEANING that odds are their children would do freaking great no matter how good/bad their school was. They had au pairs at home, tutoring a plenty, stable home lives with well educated parents who gave their kids every learning opportunity possible outside of school. I mean geez. Some of those kids had already visited the Louvre and seen half the globe before they even got to primary school. Haha. So, yeah. IB vs AP. At the end of the day, if your daddy went to Harvard, then odds are good you'll get to go too regardless of which status your HS education has tacked on to it. Nothing to get too hung up on either way. Neither should be "bad."
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09-23-2021, 03:59 PM #118
Rereading implies I read it a first time. But I did just read it. Really, that was the first link I saw that halfway took the opposite side of 'strongly believing undergrad school name does not matter.' A bunch of people take the opposite side of that argument. I'm asking what your conclusion is based on.
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09-23-2021, 04:21 PM #119
I wholeheartedly reject the notion that education should lead to a job, that education should be vocational.
I also reject most measurements of a colleges quality, especially US News.
And any argument that links salaries to colleges is the most base and stupid principle of all.
It's about the experience, the trip, the work, the people, the place, the curriculum, the vibe, the history, the culture.
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09-23-2021, 04:55 PM #120
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Another plug for Harvey Mudd. It’ll be similar academically to Cal Tech but with the other Claremont Colleges around, there’s more diversity than a STEM-focused school. And it’s plenty rigorous if that’s a goal.
I went to a Claremont school and skied 50 days/year, but Harvey Mudd students typically study more. Plenty of climbing around. And the school would give us a car for free and pay for our gas whenever we wanted to travel for anything skiing/outdoor related.
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09-23-2021, 05:02 PM #122
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09-23-2021, 05:06 PM #123Registered User
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University choice
For sure, plus free climbing and camping equipment to borrow. The programs for sure still exist but I think they’ve become a bit more formalized than when I was there (basically the Wild West of getting any and everything reimbursed).
Also the schools pay for your alcohol 5-6 days/week. Harvey Mudd at least used to have a hard liquor licenses and give it away for free, pretty crazy in retrospect but nice as an 18-year-old to stay in the campus bubble.
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09-23-2021, 05:09 PM #124
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09-23-2021, 05:12 PM #125
Ah, the sunny day keg.
We can thank Nancy Reagan for the end of that tradition.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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