WVU sickos: “Yes…hahaha…yes! Burn our university too!” In fairness, a chunk of the difference in the Ohio State salary was buying luxury car prices worth of bow ties.
A pretty good opinion piece about what DeSantis is doing with New College, basically Affirmative action for men and conservatives
Ohio State names new president, Ted Carter (from the University of Nebraska).
Of interest: he’s a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, more familiarly known as Top Gun. So I assume there will be new majors in shirtless beach volleyball and dogfight football.
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My local district.
When I got the email about the book being removed, it made me more interested to find out what it was and read it.
Can’t be too careful with books, people put all kinds of crazy stuff in them.
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There should be a tournament for worst educators, K-12 public school edition. SEC would be the odds-on favorite.
My family has four years left in this school district. It’s one of the best in the state - and the specific public schools my kids go and have gone to are elite - but things aren’t looking good.
DeSantis will have them back on the job in no time. Probably with a raise to recognize their initiative.
As part of my energy engineering master’s, I’ve picked up a subject from the business school with a bunch of the MBA students.
Oh my god.
I’m stunned by how mediocre all the students are. I mean, they obviously work fairly hard and all, but there is a staggering absence of any intellectual curiosity at all. No interest in understanding why things are that way, just wanting to tick boxes and move on.
The subject as a whole is also considerably easier than my engineering course.
For example. There’s a single piece of course work worth 20%. Done as a group with 5 other people. It’s about the similar level to assignments where I had 3 to do in a term on my own in engineering.
I also get marks for “class participation”.
Of course, working as a group is hard. So maybe this is a feature not a bug. I.e. get people good at working together, and trying to get as many people passing as possible with at least a basic understanding of the content.
Cliff notes. Don’t hire MBAs. Hire engineers instead.
EDIT. This is at the top ranked business school in Aus. Top 15 to 30 globally.
I mean imagine going to school to study business of all things. I don’t see how that’s possible while also being intellectually curious.
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They go for the money not the curiosity.
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I don’t really know what business school is (tbh I don’t really know what ‘business’ is in general), but when I was an undergrad my freshman dormmate was a business major and what I remember best is that his big survey course was a double semester introduction to Microsoft Office. I am not joking either, that was literally like the title of the course (ftr this was an R1 institution). I must have made fun of him every day that year. In the end though, I guess the joke was on me as he is rich now and I still don’t know if you can make a star swipe on Powerpoint.
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I learned Michigan’s president is named Santa.
99% of all students lack intellectual curiosity.
MBA students are probably the least likely to gaf about anything unrelated to moving dollars into their accounts
I did undergrad and graduate business school. Undergrad was because I didn’t know what I wanted to major in and had to register for sophomore year classes. Needed to figure something out. One of my friends was applying for the undergrad business school, so I did, too. I focused on management information systems, so business (accounting, finance, marketing, etc.) plus computer science-lite. It was cool. I enjoyed it just fine. Ended up in consulting.
Got my MBA because I had been laid off when the tech bubble popped in 2001 and decided to try a career change. No other grad schools made sense and I had taken the GMAT my senior year in college just in case.
I did enjoy my two years and was at a school that fit my personality well. I certainly met some cool people, but there were a lot whose sole purpose was to network and get a career in generic business school careers like investment banking, brand marketing, etc. They were the annoying ones. The kinds whose mantra was basically, “it’s not personal, it’s just business,” which was frustrating to me. The people whose solution to every Harvard case study was to save money by cutting jobs.
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