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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
only the very elite even applied. Getting into Harvard or CalTech or MIT was considered trivial by comparison.Blimey, where was it?
LOL, Flint, Michigan! It used to be GMI. It was a pure engineering school set up by the big US companies to train the best engineers. It was GM, Ford, Chrysler, AT&T, UPS, Exxon, Mobile (they were separate then), and tons of other Fortune 100's private engineering training ground. It was sponsored and hosted inside GM's heavy truck facility in Flint in the middle of Buick City and the big sponsors provided all of the money, equipment, professors, oversight, etc. It's job placement was above 99% (only those who didn't want jobs didn't get them back then) and they were the highest average income for graduates of any undergrad program in the nation. They did school year round, three months class, three months working with a sponsor, three months class, three months working with a sponsor. No breaks, only five days off a year. The undergrad program was five years long and accepted transfers from only RIT, no other college, and RIT credits were taken at 2/3rds value (RIT is where I am now doing my Master's.)
It was a crazy school. But because it was the school built by the biggest engineering houses to be their own engineering training ground it was driven hard to be the best. Imagine if Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Oracle and fifty other top software firms got together and built their own software engineering college with no outside input and no budget constraints. They'd produce a school that no one else could touch. That's what this was like and it had a nearly 100 year tradition behind it.
Two of GM's top CEOs came from there. The big Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center in the US is named for two of the graduates.
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My dad was ranked top in his field when he retired and was also the youngest engineering that Eastman Kodak had ever hired (when he started.) My dad got to work on the manned space program and on spy satellites and those weren't what he considered major achievements. And he didn't manage to get into GMI - which had a lot to do with why I was so intent on going there.
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I still have a scholarship to the University of Rochester. It's unlikely that I will ever use it though by the time I paid for room & board it's not worth it (the scholarship requires on campus housing)
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I still have a scholarship to the University of Rochester. It's unlikely that I will ever use it though by the time I paid for room & board it's not worth it (the scholarship requires on campus housing)
Room and board in Roch-cha-cha is like free. You have no idea how cheap life can be till you live in Rochester.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
I still have a scholarship to the University of Rochester. It's unlikely that I will ever use it though by the time I paid for room & board it's not worth it (the scholarship requires on campus housing)
Room and board in Roch-cha-cha is like free. You have no idea how cheap life can be till you live in Rochester.
Lived in Rochester for awhile. This statement is very true. It is comparable to living where I do now... except with better internet access and a smaller house.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
I still have a scholarship to the University of Rochester. It's unlikely that I will ever use it though by the time I paid for room & board it's not worth it (the scholarship requires on campus housing)
Room and board in Roch-cha-cha is like free. You have no idea how cheap life can be till you live in Rochester.
The University charges around $15k per year for room & board
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@thecreativeone91 said:
The University charges around $15k per year for room & board
Oh, that's not room and board. That's just another way to charge you for attending the university. They are still charging you to take classes there, they are just calling it room and board so that they can claim to give you a free ride. That's BS. That's like McDonald's claiming that French fries are a free gift, but require that you only get them in a combo meal.
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Actual cost of room and board in Rochester is far less than that. You can get an apartment there for $400 or less.
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Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Well, technically $15K a year is way under $2K a month
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Well, technically $15K a year is way under $2K a month
Does that include meals though?
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To give you an idea my family of 3 lived with a mortgage and all that goes with that including internet etc. Used to live on about $4K a month. That is EVERYTHING we needed to live on.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Well, technically $15K a year is way under $2K a month
It's about 10 months of college I assume so it would be about $1,500/month. But University of Rochester is a private college so they probably are making a decent amount of money on both their tuition and room & board.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Wow. Here I can't even get an apartment under $1,000 a month. It was cheaper for me to actually get a house and mortgage than it was to rent even a small apartment. But here we have a law of no more than 2 people not relate can live in the same housing.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Wow. Here I can't even get an apartment under $1,000 a month. It was cheaper for me to actually get a house and mortgage than it was to rent even a small apartment. But here we have a law of no more than 2 people not relate can live in the same housing.
That's the same where we live. Apartments are generally the same cost as a mortgage.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Seriously you could live here for less than $2k a month that would include going out to eat a ton, eating really well and entertainment.
Wow. Here I can't even get an apartment under $1,000 a month. It was cheaper for me to actually get a house and mortgage than it was to rent even a small apartment. But here we have a law of no more than 2 people not relate can live in the same housing.
WHAT? OMFG! damn lobbyists are running your town/state...
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@Dashrender No. It's to help stop prostitution/human trafficking.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender No. It's to help stop prostitution/human trafficking.
Huh? OH, just figured out what the quote and response was. Okay, that makes sense.
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Virginia suffers from a lot of stuff. That kills them. It makes it expensive to live for sure. In NY I used to have five roommates but we had a 3,500 sq ft house. It was amazing. Custom built for us.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender No. It's to help stop prostitution/human trafficking.
This is like saying you have to stop using cash to stop illegal sales.... it's just stupid. So many laws are written with 'good intentions' but the reality of the law is just damaging, and often has little to no effect on those you're trying to stop in the first place.
Under the assumption that prostitution is itself illegal, tell me how this law helps prevent prostitution? It really doesn't. what it does do is just provide one more charge to level against a person who they believe is doing something wrong. For example - they think you're a prostitute, but don't have enough evidence to prove it, so they hit you up with the no more than 2 non related BS law.
