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Forum: School and College Life Topic: gifted? genius? |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2011, 3:49 pm
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Replies: 115
Views: 22,363
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| Meh. 3.5 standard deviations above the mean, for whatever that's worth. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Shut up, Birthers! |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 8:22 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,196
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| Right now there is no evidence to base claims of forgery on. Nobody has had time to compare it to other birth certificates from Honolulu that were issued close to that time and nobody has had a chance to do forensic tests on the birth certificate. Historians might always wonder why Obama hid his bi... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: So I failed my Master's Degree today |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011, 6:36 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 18,780
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| Please tell your parents. They will be disappointed that you lied, and should appreciate that you came clean. You need support in a time like this, and they can give it to you, but only if you let them know you need it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What the worst part of having ASD for you? |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2011, 1:14 am
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Replies: 88
Views: 7,915
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you get strange comments? Is it related to AS? |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2011, 1:08 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,157
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| All my life, I have gotten alot of unusual remarks, to the point where they're not so unusual. I'm pretty sure it's because of AS. The other day, I was minding my own business in a book store and a man came up to me and said "you have a very unusual and powerful energy about you." I simply thanked ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Parents on the spectrum |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 11:01 pm
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Replies: 274
Views: 228,927
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| It occurs to me that if you undercut your husband when you disagree with him, it makes it harder for him to interact with your son and reinforces your son's disrespect of him. One thing that seems odd to me is that your son calls him insane, and accuses him of being incapable of thought. Unless thes... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Not sure if I should have kept my mouth shut? |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 10:30 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,458
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| Did your friends care? If they don't care, why do you? Is it important enough to you to alter your relationship with this person if he continues to make jokes you don't like? |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Can I Get Into Grad School? |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 10:27 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,703
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| The GRE really isn't that much more difficult. Scoring well is more a matter of knowing how to take a multiple-choice test. What your program will accept will depend largely on the program to which you apply. In many cases, it's most important that your interests line up with the department's areas ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: How is or was your high school social life? |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 10:19 pm
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Replies: 120
Views: 32,424
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Caught off guard |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 10:18 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,114
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| Another reason professors may react poorly is the mistaken belief that you are a non-disabled student attempting to get out of doing your share of work. This can be particularly problematic when the disability is not readily apparent to the casual (or ignorant) observer. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: What is/was your major in college? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 4:49 am
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Replies: 104
Views: 18,806
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| I was thinking the same thing. You really need two separate categories, with Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and other similar fields falling within the realm of social science. Humanities tends to refer to fields such as Languages, Literature, History, Philosophy,... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: College Education vs Autodidactic Education |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 4:43 am
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Replies: 48
Views: 7,894
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| I will agree that you seem to have a remarkable antipathy for a system of education with which you have very little practical experience. If this is indicative of the manner in which you self-educate, it creates grave doubts in my mind about the quality of the education you are providing for yoursel... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Costs of operating a college |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 4:16 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,943
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| In point of fact, the base costs are not solely on the students. All public schools heavily subsidize education through tax money from the state. Private schools frequently benefit from endowments, which allow them to subsidize the cost of education as well. Research also frequently brings in consid... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Unpleasant situation with my classmate again |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 4:11 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,959
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| She's probably experiencing two separate stressors in the situation you describe. First, she's having difficulty with the material. Second, she is, as Lene points out, recognizing that you do not have a great deal of patience with her inability to understand the material. You say that she 'babbles' ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Does just having a degree actually make your life betteR? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 3:57 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,789
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| I have a tendency to graduate amid really bad job markets. I finished my BA just after the 9/11 attacks, and my PhD just as the most recent recession was busy turning the employment outlook in my field into its best impression of a sucking vortex. On the other hand, I've always been able to land a j... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: "Show your work" |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2010, 9:13 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,411
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| It's worth noting that in many industry situations, it is important to be able to describe what you have done in a calculation, so that others can repeat the process precisely even if you are no longer present. |
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