If he does club swim, see if they offer any open water swim events. No lane lines, frequent "incidental" contact, and general chaos of the best sense.

Most post-grad programs pitch their academics as "college-level" (whatever that means), but I'm guessing they don't transfer. It isn't a fifth year of high school, you need to have a bona-fide hs diploma to enter. Neither is it a freshman year of college -- these credits don't transfer into college. So, I don't see any duplicity in taking cc classes in a similar way, as a non degree seeking student, with the understanding that they would not transfer.

FWIW, some of the super-expensive New England prep schools now offer a "post graduate year", for students who have graduated from high school, but aren't ready for college (or maybe aren't ready for the college they'd like to go to). So, if those schools can do that, I don't think you should have any qualms yourself about doing something similar, or even using the same terminology.

There's a list on wikipedia, so you know it must be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hazing_deaths_in_the_United_States It is interesting to see how the institutions that haze change over the decades. Apparently, there used to be entire freshman-class hazing at colleges, some of which sounded incredibly brutal. So, institutions can change over time.

I read the most amazing statistic about this in an editorial: There has been at least one hazing death per year at US colleges for at least the last 40 years running.

Unless he is applying for a copy-editing position, I would not worry about verb tenses too much. However, I might change the accomplishments to focus not as much on the work that he did, but the impact it had on the company, and the scope. e.g. Led company-wide (or 200 person, or all-clients, or ..?) seminar, teaching 2016 tax code changes, resulting in no IRS audits (or as a result ... something wonderful happened)

I'm impressed that y'all remember this stuff! I'm old enough to have teenagers, and I remember that in high school we were told the value of our exams, homework, etc. as part of our total grade, but how that info was conveyed? No idea. Nor do I have any recollection of the first time I heard the word "syllabus". I do, however, distinctly remember the *smell* of freshly mimeographed papers.

Indeed. It would be interesting to see the distribution of ACT/SAT scores at the Ivies (and other schools) for rejected students. I think students get confused by statistics here -- just because a potential student has an ACT score that is in the top 75% of students who were admitted, does not mean that student has a 75% chance of admissions. We've heard stories of students with perfect test scores who get rejected by the like of Harvard/MIT, but I'd love to know what percentage do. I suspect it is higher than many applicants would think.

Another thing to consider when looking at schools is that some engineering school strongly promote internships, either over the summer or for a full year, and these engineering internships can pay much better than a typical college summer job. (As well as all the other benefits such a job would have).

And if this 80/20 rule is really a thing, why can't I apply it, say, three times, and get 80% * 80% * 80% = 51% of the benefit of something for 20% * 20% * 20% = < 1% of the effort?

Even if I thought that the 80-20 rule applied, I'm not sure I like the lesson that it is teaching. Many things in life are worth doing right, worth doing 100%. I don't want my car mechanic only fixing the brakes on one of the four wheels on my car, just because a car with brakes on one wheel can stop almost as well as a car with brakes on all wheels.

Even strictly-enforced dry campus policies can have a lot of unintended consequences, or at least negative consequences. I read about one very large state school that has a dry-dorm policy that is strictly enforced, but many of the students just go off campus at night to drink. This is understood by the administration, but as anything bad that happens is not on university property, they can plausible deny responsibility, even though the policy causes more problems than it solves. It encourage drunk driving, binge drinking and all kinds of other bad results.

Maybe this isn't the sort of thing you are looking for, but I've liked the yearly "Best American Travel Writing" series of collected short works. I didn't like all of the pieces, but it is easy enough to skip over the ones I didn't like.

What's the worst that could happen from applying? They say no? No big deal. They say yes, and you learn it isn't for you, and you quit? No big deal either. Go apply.

I'm not an NCAA expert (and really, who is?), but didn't Katie Ledecky take a gap year before starting at Stanford, and she swam some high-profile USA and FINA events in the interim.

If you are there for that long, I'd certainly take a day trip down to Ostia Antica, and see the old port. Definitely watch Roman Holiday before you go. Maybe read some of the Lindsey Davis mysteries before traveling.

I wouldn't bring it up in an interview, if it isn't a deal breaker, but a "nice to have". If they offer you the job, that's when you have the most (if any) leverage (before you accept the offer), and that's when I'd bring it up. Good luck!

So, your team's sticks are in size and color of c-rods, right?

With grade inflation being what it is, even grades aren't setting very many apart -- last year my local public hs had something like 10% of the graduating class with unweighted perfect gpas. While I agree with you that most applicants to these schools have lots of the same ECs, and thus they aren't differentiating themselves, I wonder if having them is table stakes for getting in, even if they don't differentiate.

Why not just replace the receiver? This is the sort of thing you can get for a song on craigslist.

I find the handwriting hard to read, but the columns are Annus et Dies (Year and Day) Nomen (Name) Masc(uline) Fem(inine) Legitimate Illegitimate Name & Surname of their parents, condition and religion Place of residence with house number Name & Surname of their godparents, condition and religion

Forgive my curiosity, but is it typical in Australia to list nutrients in terms of percentage of the total weight of the item? Here in the US, we generally only see the absolute values, or percentage of total recommended daily amounts. 9 grams of carbs doesn't sound like that much, but when you realize the whole bun is 45 grams, and the 20% of the bun is sugar, it makes you think about it differently. Or at least it makes me think about it differently.

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There is a little disagreement in the Latin community about what the fourth principal part should be in a dictionary entry, but the upshot is that it doesn't matter much. Some use the perfect passive participle as the fourth principal part, like "amatus". Note that participles, while derived from verbs, function as adjectives, and thus have number, gender and case. So, technically, that's "amatus, a, um", but no one writes that all out. Don't worry, they are like 1st/2nd declension adjectives, so you don't need to learn a new set of endings. So, the beloved man is "vir amatus", the beloved girl, "puella amata". (And often, the noun is left out, and the adjective starts to work like a noun: "amatus": "The beloved man".) The problem with this is that only transitive verbs have passive forms. So, intransitive verbs have no passive participles. However, there's a rarely-used verb form, the supine, which looks a lot like a participle. That's the one ending in "um". So, as most verbs have a supine form, some dictionaries just list that as the fourth principle part. Whether you memorize the supine or the participle doesn't matter, as you can easily go from one to the other. What is really confusing is that some dictionaries list the participle for verbs that have them, and the supine for verbs that don't.

Few people have noticed that the flight in question was actually a United Express flight, not operated by United proper, but contracted out by United, and operated by the regional carrier Republic Airlines. Yes, the ticket was sold by United, and it is United's ultimate responsibility, but Republic operates these jets for United Express, American Eagle, and Delta Connection, so there may be less of a difference between brands than people think.