8/3 Berkeley now ranks 70, while UCLA ranks 50. Williams College
is #1.
http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list
\_ Forbes hates public education. A less ideologically biased ranking
has Berkeley at 22 (which is still a fall from the golden years):
http://tinyurl.com/4476z5m (US News and World Report)
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2/4 UCB 19th in private donations for 2009 behind #1 Stanford and #9 UCLA.
http://tinyurl.com/yjojbhe (LA Times)
List of Top 20: http://tinyurl.com/y8n3nye (Wall Street Journal)
\_ advice to UCB fundraiser committee: Ask not how you can
get more donations. Ask why you are not getting donations.
\_ why the fuck should i donate to a place that told me my undergrad
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1/6 http://tinyurl.com/top100schools
UCLA is ranked above Berkeley. UCSD is ranked above
Berkeley. Irvine is ranked one below Berkeley.
Berkeley has seriously gone done in the past
two decades. I'm not surprised.
\_ These aren't "best schools" these are "best value" rankings.
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9/26 Cal vs. Oregon: Were you surprised? </sarcasm>
\_ I was not surprised the Oregon scored 42 points. I was surprised
\_ I was not surprised that Oregon scored 42 points. I was surprised
that Cal only scored 3.
\_ Not surprised they lost. Surprised at what a thorough ass-kicking it
was on both sides of the ball. Cal couldn't even put up a TD.
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9/23 I'm in grad school part time, and the professor I was trying to get
to advise me just sent me "What you suggest (remote, part-time, topic
formulation) doesn't fit my advising style..." Does anyone know
what "topic formulation" might mean in this context? I come with
funding from work, but the topics I can choose are somewhat limited.
Could be a reference to that...
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2/8 Why does UC suck so hard? I did undergrad at UCB and I hated it.
Professors couldn't teach, class workload was high, and the system
was designed to "weed out" students and demoralize them rather
than teach and encourage them. I always got lower grades than I
deserved for the amount of work I put in. I don't know if this was
because of the curve which insists that 50% of students should get
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