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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller Cornell bashing eh?
The general consensus is that if you're accepted to college at 12 years old, you're probably pretty smart.
But the general consensus is also that if you only get into Cornell, you are not able to get into normal colleges. Cornell is famous for being the place to "buy degrees". They are the school whose IT program only prepares you to be an entering freshman at MCC (the same projects are done for first semester of MCC as capstone for Masters at Cornell, but at MCC isn't a one week, no help project and at Cornell it is less of a deliverable and you have lots of assistance.)
Buying of degrees at Cornell is a major point undermining the view of the American education system abroad. Even the "other" Cornell laughs at Cornell degrees and won't accept Cornell students in easily. America's most important author of the century wrote heavily about the problems there.
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The book linked is "WLT: A Radio Romance"; Is that what you meant to link?
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If he was really a genius, he could have gone to MCC, for example, and been challenged.
Really, getting into college at 12 is impressive, but not THAT impressive. Think about the fact that nearly all US students get that option around at 15 anyway. My fifteen year old niece is part time in college, for example, and it's just normal for her school. They mix high school and college classes often these days. Since many colleges just repeat high school material for the first few years. Since college isn't an impressive challenge, doing it at 12 isn't all that impressive unless the school and program are impressive, Cornell is about as far from impressive as you can get without going to Phoenix.
What's impressive is that some high school decided to actually work with this kid. I know dozens of people that could have done college classes at twelve... if their high schools had not been designed to hold them back and refused to let them move forward when they were ready. You don't have to be special to do college at 12, you have to be lucky to have been one of the .001% given the chance to move that quickly.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
The book linked is "WLT: A Radio Romance"; Is that what you meant to link?
Yes, goes in depth on the problems down there in Ithaca.
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@Mike-Ralston was ready to go to college around 14 but in NY, for example, that's not allowed. Both the high school laws forbid him not to be in high school and the SUNY campus rules forbid him to be on campus. So while he was ready for college at that age, the lack of ability to officially graduate from high school blocked him from going. Remember that there is no entrance requirement for the SUNY CC system, you get to prove yourself in classes rather than with entrance requirements. So "getting in" to college young means nothing (especially as the SUNY CC schools are harder than Cornell) other than that someone was willing to let you be on campus at that age and that some high school was willing to give up their funding to let you go. Other than that, it means zero as anyone can go to a decent college... anyone.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Mike-Ralston was ready to go to college around 14 but in NY, for example, that's not allowed. Both the high school laws forbid him not to be in high school and the SUNY campus rules forbid him to be on campus. So while he was ready for college at that age, the lack of ability to officially graduate from high school blocked him from going. Remember that there is no entrance requirement for the SUNY CC system, you get to prove yourself in classes rather than with entrance requirements. So "getting in" to college young means nothing (especially as the SUNY CC schools are harder than Cornell) other than that someone was willing to let you be on campus at that age and that some high school was willing to give up their funding to let you go. Other than that, it means zero as anyone can go to a decent college... anyone.
As long as they pay for it.
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@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Mike-Ralston was ready to go to college around 14 but in NY, for example, that's not allowed. Both the high school laws forbid him not to be in high school and the SUNY campus rules forbid him to be on campus. So while he was ready for college at that age, the lack of ability to officially graduate from high school blocked him from going. Remember that there is no entrance requirement for the SUNY CC system, you get to prove yourself in classes rather than with entrance requirements. So "getting in" to college young means nothing (especially as the SUNY CC schools are harder than Cornell) other than that someone was willing to let you be on campus at that age and that some high school was willing to give up their funding to let you go. Other than that, it means zero as anyone can go to a decent college... anyone.
As long as they pay for it.
Exactly.
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Found at Walmart.
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@scottalanmiller haha I've seen the commercials for that thing.
When you walk into a dark bathroom, the toilet bowl lights up with a dim light. So as to not blind the person entering, or anyone sleeping in the connected room.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller haha I've seen the commercials for that thing.
When you walk into a dark bathroom, the toilet bowl lights up with a dim light. So as to not blind the person entering, or anyone sleeping in the connected room.
So many thoughts, so few should be said!
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller haha I've seen the commercials for that thing.
When you walk into a dark bathroom, the toilet bowl lights up with a dim light. So as to not blind the person entering, or anyone sleeping in the connected room.
I'd never seen that before.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller haha I've seen the commercials for that thing.
When you walk into a dark bathroom, the toilet bowl lights up with a dim light. So as to not blind the person entering, or anyone sleeping in the connected room.
I'd never seen that before.
It can be quite a surprise when you're a party guest at someone else's house. But they are actually kinda neat.
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@RojoLoco Until you realize how nasty they have to be.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@RojoLoco Until you realize how nasty they have to be.
Well, you don't have to touch it... it has a motion sensor. But I certainly wouldn't want to change the batteries.
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@RojoLoco I wouldn't mind it, if it didn't require batteries / cleaning with a pressure washer.
Imagine trying to clean the bowl with that thing in there, you'd have to remove it every time, and then clean it on top of it.
I'm sorry learn to use the limited night time light that there is to find your way to the toilet.
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Finally my neighborhood is being finalized for GreenLight Fibre Internet service!
Time for that 1Gb pipe!
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Finally my neighborhood is being finalized for GreenLight Fibre Internet service!
Time for that 1Gb pipe!
Don't know Greenlight. Is this before or after the church seized our home to turn it into a baptismal?
