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Post by KPGv2 »

OtomotO wrote: post #169
ericmcer wrote: post #62

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Are those numbers a sum of the total benefits or something? It seems insane that a campus security guard is making 170k.

It seems insane that you need campus security guards at all oO

My university had a police department because it is, as one might expect of a flagship state university, an enormous landmass with billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment, plus about 6,000 full-time residents living in university-owned housing. Residents of a certain class of people who are prone to doing stupid, illegal shit.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by croemer »

KPGv2 wrote: post #304
croemer wrote: post #199

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One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound). It's hard to judge from the outside as you haven't shared the actual writing from UW. I would probably cut this from the end of the LinkedIn post, this makes you look like you're possibly trying to blow this out of proportion for attention: > I'm schedu…

> That would mean you'd just take 2 years instead of the normal 4? FWIW my wife was a fourth-year the start of her second year at uni because she'd tested out of a ton of basics or taken dual-credit courses in high school. I was a fourth-year the end of my second year. I AP'd my way out of 6 hours of English, 14 or so hours of Spanish, 8 hours of physics, 8 hours of calculus, and a hodgepodge of psych, sociology, etc…

Only saves time if you consider being in university a waste of time instead of an opportunity to be free to learn what you are interested in and surrounded by like-minded people.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by KPGv2 »

turbojet1321 wrote: post #139
impendia wrote: post #41

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I'm a university professor, and this is batshit crazy. Who ? As in not "they" or "the university", but who within the university? Can you tell where the directive is coming from? If this comes from, say, the Provost's Office then this probably can't be handled internally. (The position of Provost is the #2 position at a university, and the provost usually runs the show while the President or Chancellor goes schmoozin…

The head coach of football gets paid $4mil a year (4x the president) and is the highest payed employee. The top 7 staff are all sports related. Is this, like, common in the US? It seems batshit insane to an outsider.

My university's athletics program pulls in so much money and some of it funds academic programs. No money goes from academics to sports.

So the athletics department is not only self-sustaining and self-funding, but it funds academics as well.

It's basically as if Man U sent some of its profits to Manchester University.

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Post by campbel »

isotypic wrote: post #157
simonbw wrote: post #91

I went to UW a decade ago, and back then it was pretty common knowledge that you don't fuck with software and the class registration system. Registering for classes was really competitive and they were really strict about making sure that no one had an edge over anyone else by being able to write code. There were plenty of rumors of people being expelled for using scripts to try to get the classes they wanted right w…

I am somewhat surprised issues of scripting and trading even exist in the registration system. Staggering enrollment times over a few days, with new waves every 20 minutes or so, mostly solves scripting issues since you are only competing with a fraction of the student body now. Giving courses waitlists once they are full, instead of allowing people to just directly register once a spot frees up, makes trading imposs…

I went to school about 20 years ago and we had staggered online registrations. Surprised the best solutions haven't propagated further.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

nayuki wrote: post #301
LAC-Tech wrote: post #284

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You are so much more polite than I am. Admirable.

I would love to see examples of your sassy writings. Maybe I could learn a thing or two about responding to people. Note that I've become more cynical in these 10 years that passed. I was, let's say, more charitable with people in the past.

Well, here's the post that made Paul Graham block me on X:

https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778912158404997494

Also briefly made me popular on Nigerian Twitter, which was fun :)

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Post by creer »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #211
DannyBee wrote: post #188

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No they can't have a conversation when they know of a non waivable conflict.

Surely they could refer the enquiry to the bar association or something in this jurisdiction. How would the lawyer even know, without conversation, that there was a conflict?

> Surely they could refer the enquiry to the bar association or something in this jurisdiction.

They might but in many cases wouldn't even do that because they still wouldn't get paid for it. Doesn't matter, you don't need them for that.

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Post by lostlogin »

croemer wrote: post #312
KPGv2 wrote: post #304

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> That would mean you'd just take 2 years instead of the normal 4? FWIW my wife was a fourth-year the start of her second year at uni because she'd tested out of a ton of basics or taken dual-credit courses in high school. I was a fourth-year the end of my second year. I AP'd my way out of 6 hours of English, 14 or so hours of Spanish, 8 hours of physics, 8 hours of calculus, and a hodgepodge of psych, sociology, etc…

Only saves time if you consider being in university a waste of time instead of an opportunity to be free to learn what you are interested in and surrounded by like-minded people.

Oh it’s great. But depending on what country you are in, it could be the difference between a lifetime debt, and economic freedom.

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Post by sudosysgen »

loeg wrote: post #280
sudosysgen wrote: post #253

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You normally pay per credit, so not quite, and also that way you'll have lower grades, fewer chances to get internships, and make less connections.

UW charges the same fixed credit rate for 10-18 credits/quarter then adds significant per-credit fees above 18 to explicitly discourage super high courseloads.

Yep, pretty common, at least they allow it though - mine wouldn't let you take such a courseload unless you had a stellar academic record, and they would require grades significantly above average to recognize equivalent classes from lower education.

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Post by fakedang »

KPGv2 wrote: post #302
dylan604 wrote: post #179

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Because even if you "win", you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you. If you loose, you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you. So the lawyer wins either way.

> Because even if you "win", you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you Oh come on, that's like saying when you involve engineers to build a bridge, the only people who wins are the engineers because you have to pay them.

Engineers don't get paid more when a project gets further delayed.
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