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Well sure. Parents are proud of all kinds of stuff. That’s one of the sicknesses and pleasures of parenthood.

I get choked up and proud over things no one else in the universe could care about. That’s one reason to stay married. No one else but your spouse cares or cares to talk in detail about that stuff!

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[quote=FlyerInHi]A student doesn’t know he will get accepted until he applies.

So in practical terms do parents who don’t want to pay tell their kids:

1. Don’t apply because we can’t afford it; or
2. Sorry, you applied and got accepted, but we can’t afford it; so go to a state school.

Why do you necessarily have to put a degree or a skill to use? For example, most of the time, kids take piano lessons to become more accomplished humans, not to make money playing concerts.

Like I said before, I’d rather my wife be a Harvard graduate than a graduate of the cosmetology academy. Maybe she will never use the degree professionally, but the degree has more value to me.

If anything, I know that she will contribute better genes to my kids. That may all sound “heartless” and “loveless”, but if we are going to plan for retirement, why not plan the kids we have?[/quote]

being accepted by an ivy league school doesn’t alter you in any way. neither does applying. Your kid is “Ivy material” regardless of applications filed.

now hogwarts, if your kid gets in there, I will be really fucking impressed.

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Stating in old city by independence hall. It’s pretty upscale and cool around here.

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Just saw a street fight walking from chinatown. Kids were interested.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]A student doesn’t know he will get accepted until he applies.

So in practical terms do parents who don’t want to pay tell their kids:

1. Don’t apply because we can’t afford it; or
2. Sorry, you applied and got accepted, but we can’t afford it; so go to a state school.

Why do you necessarily have to put a degree or a skill to use? For example, most of the time, kids take piano lessons to become more accomplished humans, not to make money playing concerts.

Like I said before, I’d rather my wife be a Harvard graduate than a graduate of the cosmetology academy. Maybe she will never use the degree professionally, but the degree has more value to me.

If anything, I know that she will contribute better genes to my kids. That may all sound “heartless” and “loveless”, but if we are going to plan for retirement, why not plan the kids we have?[/quote]

my cousins and their wives went to plain colleges their kids went ivy. I did the reverse.

Better genes?

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I paid good money at an ivy league school to pick that up and I’m not letting go now[/quote]
Would you have picked it up at junior college?
I think undergrad at a good school is more important because the undergrad years are the formative years.[/quote]I picked that up going to a public school.[/quote]

Community was a damn funny show

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[quote=poorgradstudent]I didn’t see you mention a wife, OP. If you’re presently single and unattached, good for you, BUT…

I wouldn’t buy a house now assuming that three years from now you’ll meet the girl of your dreams and she’ll gladly move into the home you built for yourself, to your needs. She’s going to have her own ideas and desires.

If you’re a sworn bachelor for life by all means execute your plan.

I would definitely approach this more as an investment than “I’m gonna buy a house and never move again”. Since you’re prepared to put in sweat equity your plan is far from crazy. Just understand you ma4y end up selling down the road.[/quote]

those desires will lead inexorably toward more desires. More cravings. An endless inability to ever truly be conscious of the moment with ceaseless back of the envelope calculations on income future returns and plannning.

man plans.
G-d laughs.

proverbs 19:21. See also Buddhism.

however according to my calculations your scheme might just actually work

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Visiting my mom brings the truth home for me.

She hungers for the visit. Marks the calendar.

Counts the days.

Finally it gappens.

But it can never really bring full happiness because it us slipping away as it happens . Soon she is looking forward to the next one.

That craving is ultimately unsatisfying. Never will satisfy.

It’s just a ceaseless desire for repute from these desires.

So it us with a great meal, a great vacation. After of even during we realize, this is good but more more more…

We can never be content until we jump off the merry go round if marking our calendar for more and fuller and better.

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The first noble truth may not actually be a belief. It may be the truth….

It does feel like our incessant desires for more, more pleasure, more success, more money, and the mind distress it stirs is ultimately is what causes our suffering…

I paid good money at an ivy league school to pick that up and I’m not letting go now

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But…perceptions change.

As more and more kids get no ROI On their quarter million dollar degrees and others are financially ruined by student loans word gets out the more and fancier education often doesn’t help…it actually hurts.

So people will adjust their perceptions as the debt smacks them down. It just will take a whole as so many think it’s a no brained that college is good

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The first noble truth of Buddhism is that life is suffering. It is our desire and craving to get more and more out of each Day that the Buddha tells us leads ultimately to the chain of suffering and dissatisfaction our lives must bear.

Getting the very least out of each day may lead to less suffering. At least according to the Buddha the surest way to maximize your unhappiness is to strive for more and more happiness.

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Make up I guess is good for corpses.

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Do you think at Princeton the classes or books are really so different from a state school? It’s all similar. We are talking about vanishing small differences in SAT scores, gpa.is this really what matters in selecting a spouse?

Please. That’s just not a good plan.

Get the high energy hot girl who knows how to make money, who loves you like crazy, who is frisky and symmetrical.

better bet.

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When you don’t give a cap what people think you will immediately become more atractive

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[quote=deadzone][quote=rockingtime]PhD in Engineering really won’t help you earn more money.
If one is passionate about research then it makes sense but from monetary stand point it does.
Even master’s in EE does not really make senses

Speaking from experience by observing few of my friends…[/quote]

PhD in any field leads to jobs in Academia if anything.[/quote]

a job in academia is like aspiring to professional sports. A nice dream but not practical 4 kids…

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