I have a kitchen table.

Great for beer pong.

Free and yours to take.

i've heard that the rec pool and hickey pool are free for students, but does that mean you have to be taking summer sessions to have free access? im not taking SSI or II but am im davis all summer and am baking and wanna swim a few laps...so is it free then, or do i have to pay to get in even though i'm still a student?

btw just out of curiosity does anybody go swimming in the rec pool often? how crazy-crowded does it get on an average summer weekday?

Since when did craiglist make you give them an email address and phone number in order to give things away for free?

I'm moving to a new apartment and I don't feel like hauling all my stuff over. If you are interested in any couches, bookshelves, tv stands, dressers or the tv, send me a text. I also have every past issue of Scientific American and Discover for the past 3 years or so and yaoi manga. On top of that, free clothing for girls size 14-16 and women's size 1-3.

You have to move the stuff yourself. I don't have a car. And I'm in the process of moving after being at school from 8 am to 8 pm ><

My number is 949.413.2144.

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Hello!

I'll graduate with my Bachelor's in Secondary Education (English) with a minor in Spanish in May 2010, and now I'm trying to figure out what to do after I graduate. I go to Missouri State University, which is nothing grand or prestigious, but it was free, and I was able to save money that I hope to apply towards funding grad school.  I should hopefully graduate with a 4.0, and I am in the honors program, so I'll graduate with general and departmental honors.  

Now, onto post-graduation.... Ever since I picked my major, I've always known that I do not want to teach high school forever.  I like kids, especially juniors and seniors, but I don't think I would be satisfied teaching high school for a long time because I like the idea of being able to move-up and switch titles some day.  I chose this major, though, because I knew I'd be able to get a job almost anywhere with it if I needed to, and I knew that I could teach while working towards something else I want to do. 

I want to go straight through and get my Master's, but I'm not entirely sure what program I want to do.  The administration route sounds appealing to me because it'd allow me to still work with kids but also add in more parent involvement, and plus, I really like paperwork, having more control, etc.  I've also thought about getting my Master's in English and then possibly working on a PhD one day in order to teach at a college level, but but I'm afraid that if I don't end up getting a PhD, I'd stay at a high school and teach for my entire career.  Does anyone have any advice on which one sounds best for me?  

Also, I'm at a loss for how to even go about deciding where I should begin to apply to grad school.  I'll be getting married next year after I graduate; at that same time my boyfriend will be graduating with his Master's and is applying for a job in D.C.; do you know of any schools I could consider in D.C.?  If he doesn't get the job, we could go anywhere.  Any suggestions as to where I should begin my search?  I'm worried that I'll have trouble getting into grad schools considering the average, public, state university that I'm coming from.  Finally, do most grad schools offer funding for those types of Master's programs, like perhaps through something like a graduate assistantship?  Would I even have a chance at getting funding considering my undergraduate university? 

Sorry for so many questions, but thank you for your help!

UC San Diego recommends we save UC Berkeley, UCSF, UCLA, and UC San Diego by cutting more heavily from, or possibly shutting down, UC Santa Cruz, UC Merced, and UC Riverside. You can read the proposal here.

Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal gone to the UCs, or just the hard reality of pragmatism?

Hi, I am an upcoming freshmen and I have been stressing out about and putting off doing all the research for student loans and it's getting close to that time where I need to have had it done and over with. Could anyone give me some advice as to where to start? Are there certain student loans that are widely accepted as "the best"?
Thanks in advance for any information you can give me.
-Adri

I've posted here before and I loved that advice that I received. I'm writing now because I've been spending time on College Confidential and it's really starting to make me nervous...I'm nervous about everything at this point. 
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Hello everyone, I have a few questions. First off, I will be a senior in high school next year, and plan to pursue Social Work as a major in college. However, I am having a lot of trouble finding a school that fits my needs (which aren't much). I would like to attend a school that is in/near a decently sized city that offers Social Work, room and board, and will not cost me an arm and a leg. I currently live 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the few schools near here that offer Social Work cost far too much money (most of the schools that offer the major tend to be private). Also, I would prefer to get away from here (preferably closer to NYC, but that's likely asking too much, I'm afraid). This leads me to my first question... is it true that you get more aid when you attend a private school, and that it in turn makes the crazy tuition costs they have less crazy? Also, can anyone offer me information/personal experiences regarding schools that seem to fit my description above?

Also, I'm not sure if it is phrased this way on the FAFSA or not, but when things say "total household income" does it literally mean the total of those living within your home? I ask this because my father just moved out, and basically no money is brought into the home if he is not counted.

Oh and lastly, this past year I began attending high school online. I am wondering if there are any other people here who graduated from an online school, and what your experiences with it have been like later on (specifically with college admittance).

Thank you for any possible help!

It's official: UC Davis plays Cal in football on Sept. 4, 2010. The game will be played in Berkeley.

Hi,

I'm going to begin with an explanation, because I think the question will be easier to understand after I explain. Sorry, it's long!
So my college history is sort of a mess. I graduated high school in 2007, and took some college classes while I was in high school senior year. My grades were not stellar, and I withdrew from one during the winter semester. I never took the ACT or SAT. Honestly, my cute little charter arts high school probably didn't prepare me for that. After that, I didn't have any money, because I had a really crappy job that didn't give me enough hours. I also could not apply for financial aid because my mother would not go and dig out her tax information. The community college I decided to go to had a monthly payment plan though, and I went with that. I was constantly negative in my bank account. Since I wanted to be available for work hours whenever they would call me, I took online classes. Unfortunately, I was withdrawn from all of them. I could not really learn what I needed to online, and was progressing with really poor grades. Not only that, but part of the reason behind that is due to the fact that my computer was really ancient, and it took forever to do one thing. 
The following semester, I had a better job, but too many hours to work. I couldn't do all of my homework, because I had no time. This has pretty much been the case for the last year. I have a ton of W's on my transcripts, and one Y, and some C's, a B, and one A. My high school grades are mediocre. They aren't horrible, but they aren't great. I am in credit card debt up to my ears thanks to a jerk room mate making it impossible to afford school, and I still owe my school money, despite owing the bank $1500.

Basically, I want to just start going to a university. I have a couple picked out that I like. I don't think my grades meet these people's standards though. I certainly don't have much community service/life experience either, to write about. I have spent most of my high school/college life working. The reason I want to attend one of these universities, is because they have the major that I want there. Its a little bit of a more difficult major to find ( East Asian Studies). I am sick of community college, and I feel like I am playing ring around the rosie with the whole financial aid process. I am nearly 21, most college kids my age are sophomores by now, and I barely have my English completed, with up to Japanese 102. I wish I would have buckled down and gotten really spectacular grades during high school, I really wish I had, but I didn't. What I really wanted to do was go straight to the university, but due to my grades, no SAT's, and lack of finances, I couldn't. What would you guys reccomend as the quickest path to getting into a university? I am interested in Cal State,University of California, or San Francisco State.
What financial reccomendations do you guys have? I have applied for scholarships several times, and I get nowhere. I am not eligible for much financial aid, because both of my parents have decent jobs. We are your regular white, middle class family. I was able to finally complete the FAFSA last semester, because my mom finally gave me her info, and I was only eligible for unsubsidized loans. Any tips, advice, or food for thought would be greatly appreciated! I know I screwed it up big time in the past, but I do love school, and I wish to succeed :)

Hi :) I'm an upcoming high school senior, and I have a couple of questions that I can't really get answers that click for me :/

My biggest concern, is that everyone's going to apply for college soon, and I have yet to take my SAT. I know that's bad, but it was always that we didn't have the extra money, or we weren't around for me to take it, or the room was full once we did have the money. I'll probably take them in October, but I've heard you can only take it once your senior year, so I guess I have one shot and that's about it. My question is: was anyone else in the same boat? Or what would you recommend I do for studying? A couple of my friends parents say it's not worth it to study everything and that it's not worth taking more than once or twice. On the other hand, one of my friends mom spent over $500 in tutors, classes and books for her. I DID find an online course for $70, and I'm wondering if it's worth it?

My second question is about gap years - taking a year or two off after high school before college. Ideally, I'd like to go to the University of Delaware, but will probably wind up doing the SEED program (2 years of school at a community college, then transferred to UD), but I just don't know what exactly I want to do. I feel like if I try to catch up and hurry with applying for college for Fall 2010, I'll get stressed out and hate everything and not be able to handle it. My question is - did anyone here do a gap year, and if so, what did you do? 

Any help is greatly appreciated :]

I'm an incoming high school senior who has 2 D's in Math Analysis (which I'll retake again this year.) I also have a 3.5 GPA and overall my class ranking is at least above number 20 (I was in top 10, but the D's will pull me down.)  I take honors and AP courses--so far I've taken AP European History (which I passed with a 3,)  AP U.S. History (passed with a 3) and AP English Language (passed with a 5) and am planning to take AP Gov't, AP English Lit, AP Chem and AP Econ. 

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Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in selling me their unused, current AC Transit sticker for around $30.

Takers?

My macbook power supply is crapping out, I need a new one. Anyone know of some way to get around paying frickin $80 for a new one? Personally I think it's a problem of poor design (fraying wires, etc.) but I doubt Apple would just replace it for free. I did purchase the applecare warranty when I bought the computer but I think it may have run out by now, I don't know if power supplies are even covered under that warranty, and I wouldn't really know how to use it anyway. Any advice you have would be awesome. Thanks.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an incredibly high-quality silkscreener in the area that can make posters? I need the best recommendation possible, and can borrow a car to get to where ever the shop is. Thanks!

I am not sure if this a college question or not but I'll give it a shot anyways since it involves college and money. I am moving from Laramie, Wyoming (University of Wyoming) to Wichita, Kansas (Friends University). What is the best (cheapest) way to move from point a to point b? I've priced Arkansas Best Fright for 570 and looked at a u-hal traitor. Normally, I just get my large family together and we move. However, all of our trucks have gone AWOL so that is out of the question. I'll be moving a one bedroom apartment more or less, if that's any help.


Thanks again for your help.

I am a rising 4th year at the University of Virginia at apparently perpetual crossroads about what to declare as my major. A big part of my problem started back in community college where without giving much thought, I promptly declared myself a biology major. Although the presentation of  natural sciences got progressively dryer, I ended up graduating with an Associates degree in Science. When I transferred to U.Va, I did have a big moment of hesitation before officially signing the declaration for for the biology major. I had fallen in love with biology as a naive sophomore in high school who probably leaned towards the subject more because of the ease with which it came to me instead of any deep seated interest in the science. I went to get advice from my ever trusted parents and pondered changing my academic gears to study literature, a field I was always interested in. I was told that an english major was of no real worth. And that I'd end up in the teaching business, a thought that I found deeply unsatisfying. So with the false assumptions that a biology degree would be the ticket to a better paying job, I signed the declaration papers and consequently found myself in upper level biology courses which quite frankly kicked my butt.

A year of enduing poor performances in biology classes later, I am schedule to graduate in a year with a less than stellar gpa and the realization that the biology degree I will be receiving will be unfit for me. Turns out, biology is not a field to go into with aspirations of financial independence because there doesn't exist such a concept in the career options. Loom ahead of me stark white lab coats and,small blocked lab rooms. The only way I can escape this future is to ditch biology and take my English. Which sounds really appealing until I realize that english majors have really poor financial prospects. I'm not kidding when I say a starting salary fo 28K will not do me any good seeing as how I come from a family that has a long history of financial woes. At this point I can only dream and wish I had majored in something more financially sensible such as finance of electrical engineering.

So, while I try to figure this out, I would love to get any kind of advice possible. Is it true that english majors don't earn enough, even after 10 years? Are my options only limited to Editing,teaching and probably law school?

Please and thank you!

Does anyone know of any good hardware stores in Berkeley? I need things like weather stripping and cork board (for sound-proofing), and I don't have a car, so someplace near campus would be lovely.

What classes in Berkeley will teach you some or any or all of the following?

- developing applications for embedded systems such as IPhones and Palm Pre?

- Java Spring-Hibernate Framework?

- developing Web Service Caller Clients for Amazon, Facebook, ESPN etc

- parsing JAX_JRC, JAX_WS XML?

- RESTFUL protocols

- Using vendor API kits in Java and PHP?

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(Cross-posted in ApplyingtoGrad, but I figure you're a knowledgeable lot, too!)

I'm starting to narrow my choices, and amongst them is the LSE. They list that international applicants should have a minimum 3.5/4.0, but I'm not sure what my GPA is for two reasons:

1. Brown doesn't calculate GPAs (nor do we have + & -'s). I've found websites that give the values for grades, but
2. I transferred to Brown after getting an Associates. Do I include these grades? (They bump my GPA up almost half a point.)
Also,
3. I'm a non-traditional age student (not a big deal for grad school), but I did the college thing out of high school with not much success. These pitiful grades are fifteen to eighteen years old. Are they part of my overall GPA?

Thank you in advance!

Just watched this show on the History Channel that had a section about awesome research going on at UCB. This is incredible:

"The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once again don his magic invisibility cloak and disappear. Meanwhile, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley will be studying an invisibility cloak of their own that also hides objects from view.

A team led by Xiang Zhang, a principal investigator with Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and director of UC Berkeley’s Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, has created a “carpet cloak” from nanostructured silicon that conceals the presence of objects placed under it from optical detection. While the carpet itself can still be seen, the bulge of the object underneath it disappears from view. Shining a beam of light on the bulge shows a reflection identical to that of a beam reflected from a flat surface, meaning the object itself has essentially been rendered invisible."

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/05/01/invisibility-cloak/

Hey, smart and talented people...
I've started thinking about my application essays for this year, and I created a Common App application. So here's my question for you: do colleges look at the "write your own essay question" prompt any differently than the provided essay prompt? 

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Thank you so much!

Alright, so I just took my SAT Subj tests in June for Math IIC and Literature, scored 740 and 730 respectively. I'm an international student currently studying under the British system and taking my A Levels this year. I am trying for Princeton which has been my dream school since forever, and quite frankly, I am a bit worried. See, my Literature ranks in the 90th percentile which is okay, but my Math ranks only in the 74th percentile where I live, and that's a bit too low for me (blame my complacent ass). My main concern is whether they look at the scores based on where you live. In other words, I know 740 is a good score, but it is not a great score here where I live, and I'm afraid it will hamper my chances. (FYI, I am a humanities student, so any math/science related major is out of the question for me.)

 I know scores are not everything, and top schools often look for a lot of other factors to seperate the best from the good, but scores do count, so I was wondering whether I should retake the test, especially since a lot of my friends are scoring 800 on it and 740 just pales in comparison. :/

Essentially, that's it, but I was also wondering: I've heard that taking business/management as an undergrad is pretty lame because it is a vocational study like law, hence it is best to pursue it as a graduate, but I was just wondering whether this is the general consensus or was that person not well-informed?

Thank you! :D