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bnozzles
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What is the point of going if you aren't going to find out what that school offers for your major?
I think most prospective college students intuitively know that only a few d-bags will actually stick to the major they pick in HS (if they pick one at all) anyway.
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Again, what difference does that really make? Generalizations are good for compressing information, but they are horrible for applying it individually.
That is like saying that generally drug dealers come from low income areas; you come from a low income area, therefore you are a drug dealer.
First of all, your analogy doesn't even make sense because the type of fallacy involved hasn't been made by anyone here.
Secondly, I don't think you got the memo that generally accurate statements are reasonable to make in a conversational context. When having a discussion, you can make claims without needing to carve out every exception to the rule, especially when the claim is probably true in 95% of cases.
You might want to stick to having arguments about esoteric biological shite. I'm sure there is an H1N1 thread for you to troll somewhere.
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re: Apparently some posters think LSU >= Harvard, academically
Posted by bnozzles on 8/26/09 at 12:41 am to Keys Open Doors
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True, but those are probably not the people deciding between going to LSU debt free or taking on some debt at an Ivy League school.
Not sure. But I'd bet the two posters quoted in the OP fall into this category too.
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But this doesn't take away from the fact that LSU is a great school.
Goes without saying.
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A generalization is Harvard>LSU period. Whatever LSU offers, Harvard does it better.
You're interpreting a generalization as a categorical statement. Generally, whatever LSU offers, Harvard does it better.
Your argument is like someone rejecting the notion that the U.S. is a better country than Mexico because Mexico has better beaches. Yea, you might be right if most people were SCUBA divers.
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You have to look at what the school offers for YOU and YOUR major.
There are a negligible number of HS seniors obsessed with a specialty to the point they're investigating shite like which schools have the best synchrotrons. I'm glad there are a few 17 year old d-bags like you out there, but again, we're talking about a general rule here.
re: Apparently some posters think LSU >= Harvard, academically
Posted by bnozzles on 8/26/09 at 12:15 am to Keys Open Doors
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Actually for high school students who know they want to go to med school or Ph.D programs after college, going to a state school is a great idea because undergraduate GPA, standardized testing, and research experience are the only three things that really matter.
Research experience will be relatively similar at a top school and a large state school and standardized testing won't be impacted by what college you go to. However, undergrad GPA can definitely be easier to predict for a smart kid going to a state school.
That's fine, I'll yield to yall on the med stuff. Definitely not an area I know or care that much about.
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However, if someone is not sure or if they want to enter law or business, I would definitely suggest they go to the best school possible and start making connections.
Welcome to 95% of the students at LSU.
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LSU is one of very few universities in the country with a synchrotron, and it is essential for the line of work I plan on getting in. And as an LSU student I have nearly free access to it. Whereas I have seen shipping containers from Ivy League schools that have sent their experiments down here (and paid for it).
Making a generalization about the quality of a school based on esoteric BS like this is a little short-sighted on your part.
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You are assuming LSU is the end of the formal education road for any of them.
No I wasn't. But it sounds like your friends were assuming (as HS seniors) that they'd end up with a high GPA from a school they never attended (LSU) and a high score on a graduate-level standardized test score they hadn't yet taken. If your friends were actually smart, they would have demonstrated a little caution and taken the "safe bet" for high lifetime earnings by attending Harvard UG.
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And LSU offers opportunities in my field that few other universities have, Harvard included.
Explain...
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The people I talk about could have applied to Harvard themselves and had a realistic shot of getting in if they didn't want to 1) spend so much fricking money, 2) go so far away from home.
If your friends are:
1) dumb enough to think that the hefty price tag for Harvard isn't going to result in lifetime earnings that will dwarf what they'll make with their free LSU degree;
2) too emotionally immature to leave home for a chance to attend the highest regarded learning institution in the world;
they probably didn't get into Harvard.
And even if they did, they certainly don't represent the overall level of student intelligence at LSU.
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No, I am not.
It is just that I never associated with stupid people in my studies. Maybe it was just me.
Right, because the intelligence of students at universities is best measured in a "stupid vs. not stupid" dichotomy.
I'm sure the quality of the discussion for a randomly assigned group project in a class at LSU is just as valuable as one at Harvard, because students at both schools fall into the "not stupid" category.
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Just because folks are smarter at one school doesn't inherently mean that they received a better education.
Why doesn't it? Even if we pretended that all is equal across the vast universe of undergrad professors, materials, labs, libraries, etc. in this country, you're forgetting that peer learning is a very large component of education.
99.9% of these kids will have never been this far away from home in their life. And certain demographics of people (well represented on this team) have been known to have weird reactions in situations like this. Combine that with the stress of a season opener and this might translate to not covering the spread.
Apparently some posters think LSU >= Harvard, academically
Posted by bnozzles on 8/25/09 at 11:14 pm
Some comments from the Andrew Hatch NYT article thread ( LINK)...
-TulaneTigerFan
-parnold
Jesus H. :lol:
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LSU has the highest quality students in the country
-TulaneTigerFan
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The education you get at LSU is no worse than one from Harvard
-parnold
Jesus H. :lol:
*builds $1B stadium, doesnt test plasma height vs. kickoffs*
Posted by bnozzles on 8/22/09 at 6:02 pm
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The kick is up — and into the video screen.
Tennessee Titans rookie punter A.J. Trapasso's boot in the third quarter of the opening game at the new Cowboys Stadium hit one of the 60-yard long high-definition video screens that hang about 90 feet above the field.
Trapasso pointed up at the board when the ball dropped straight down. Officials were slow to realize what happened until Titans coach Jeff Fisher threw his red challenge flag to get their attention.
Trapasso and veteran Titans punter Craig Hentrich both hit the screen during pregame warmups, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says there are no plans to raise to the massive screens any higher.
LINK
*also doesn't test practice facility structural soundness*
It's very possible Loston is waiting on an ind. study test
Posted by bnozzles on 8/20/09 at 2:42 pm
A couple of people have posted claims that Loston is waiting on a test score for a correspondence course... and the overwhelming reaction so far has been: "BS!! you get ur scores like the same day!! something fishy is going on!"
As a former TA that graded tests for two lower-level independent study courses, let me tell you... At this time of year there is a HUGE backlog of crap to deal with.
A lot of kids enroll in the max # of independent study courses over the summer and dont get around to finishing until just before Fall semester starts. I think many of them are in a situation where if they don't finish they will get some of their Fall classes purged--because your independent classes count against your total number of hours, and there is a cap on that, etc.
And even though with our tests everything was multiple choice (albeit hand-written), you'd be surprised how long they can take to grade and then log into the system....especially when there is a lazy TA who is trying to catch up on his own shite before the start of the semester, and the prof doesn't give a damn, etc.
I always gave the football players highest priority, but that was only because I knew their names. :lol: I'm honestly not too confident Miles' staff really tries to intervene with this stuff. And even if they did, I'm sure some profs would tell them to go f*** themselves unfortunately.
As a former TA that graded tests for two lower-level independent study courses, let me tell you... At this time of year there is a HUGE backlog of crap to deal with.
A lot of kids enroll in the max # of independent study courses over the summer and dont get around to finishing until just before Fall semester starts. I think many of them are in a situation where if they don't finish they will get some of their Fall classes purged--because your independent classes count against your total number of hours, and there is a cap on that, etc.
And even though with our tests everything was multiple choice (albeit hand-written), you'd be surprised how long they can take to grade and then log into the system....especially when there is a lazy TA who is trying to catch up on his own shite before the start of the semester, and the prof doesn't give a damn, etc.
I always gave the football players highest priority, but that was only because I knew their names. :lol: I'm honestly not too confident Miles' staff really tries to intervene with this stuff. And even if they did, I'm sure some profs would tell them to go f*** themselves unfortunately.
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that huge sumbitch didnt keep up for bout eight or six feet fore he fell gave up.
...because he made too many groceries
Paragraphs? That looks more like a huge fricking string of single sentences to me... :booboo:
Yo, I found a pic of the Whooping Holliday. I think there is only 1 of these cranes left in the world. :lol:
re: Worst written 2 paragraphs in history of LSU sports articles
Posted by bnozzles on 8/18/09 at 6:14 pm to Srbtiger06
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Dude needs to realize his target audience and dumb it down a good bit
I wonder if someone here could translate this into South Louisianian?
I'll email it to him if posted. lol
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