Bring every towel you own. (Bit of an exaggeration, but not much). Swimmers will want to try off after warmups, and after most every event, and will go through towels quickly. Are they swimming on relays? There's nothing like relays for making friends on the team, and feeling like part of the team. You probably won't be able to get too close to the pool, but the kids will, and you encourage them to cheer on the five year old from the end of the pool -- those can be long swims for little ones. Many swimmers DQ the first time they swim an IM, so be mentally prepared for that. Sit with the other moms on your team, and get to know them, you may be spending a lot of time with them this year, you might as well get to know them, and I bet many would be more than happy to hold an infant for a while, if need be. Take lots of pictures.

The same article also claims that "between 1947 and 1995 (the last year for which the relevant data was published), administrative costs increased from barely 9 percent to nearly 15 percent of college and university budgets." So, yes, administrative costs have gone up dramatically, but from a low starting base, and if you could somehow zero-out all the administrative costs of an average university, the expenses (and, one would hope, tuition) would only drop 15%.

Note that in this case, at least, the growth in administrators seems to be inline with the growth in students. I suspect the problem, though, that most people really care about, is the rise in tuition, and while it is facile to blame the growth in bureaucracy, or climbing walls, or fancy dorms, the real reason for the rise in tuition, at least for the public schools in my state, is the drop in state funding -- almost 100% of the inflation-adjusted rise in tuition in the last 25 years is due to dropping state funding.

This statistic is oddly out of context -- between 1975 and 2008, how did enrollment change? I couldn't find numbers for those two years, but it appears that enrollment has about doubled at that college between those two years. I also bet that the number of part-time adjunct professors has also gone up more than 2x in that time. Given that adjuncts aren't generally paid to work on committees and do various other service for the college, it isn't surprising that the number of administrative staff has gone up.

I wonder if then the subject "Euclid" didn't mean "A more or less literal translation of Euclid's Elements", but meant more like "Geometry, generally, perhaps more or less loosely modeled from Euclid"?

Purdue's OWL website is a fantastic resource for writing and grammar, and has a good page about infinitives here, which should answer all your questions: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/03/

When studying English grammar, I think it helps to talk about words "functioning as a (some part of speech)" in a given sentence, instead of saying that a word "is a part of speech". This emphasizes that the function is the key thing, and many English words can serve multiple functions.

a) She is wrong b) This is why we study Latin :closedeyes:

When is your annual evaluation? What form does it take -- is it just a written report, or is there a discussion with your supervisor? If the latter, and it is coming up soon, I'd hold off on the memo, and bring it up in this discussion. This way, it comes after lots of talk about all the good things you've done, and if your boss maybe feels a bit guilty about not being able to give you a raise, she can feel good about giving you something you do want, and everyone is happy all around, and it doesn't feel like a negotiation with her giving in on this.

There was a car that somehow I was frequently driving behind during primary season. It had a distinctive vanity plate, so I knew it was always the same car. This car sported a bumper sticker for one of the presidential candidates in the primary. When this candidate dropped out, the bumper sticker was replaced (covered up?) by another bumper sticker for a different primary candidate. A couple of weeks later, I saw the car again, and by this time, the second candidate had also dropped out, and, yes, there was a third (!) bumper sticker covering up the previous two. Now, I haven't seen this car in a while, but I have to point out that the third bumper sticker was not the winner of the primary, so I'm curious to know the condition of this car's bumper. And, as the sort of car owner who tends to keep cars as long as possible, until they are no longer fixable, this is why I never put bumper stickers (political or otherwise) on my cars.

While I agree that reviving old threads isn't universally bad, I believe there should be some board etiquette around it. I can't speak to the database related issues, but I find it rude to reply to someone who hasn't logged in in ages, or to subtly encourage others to do so, for they have no opportunity to reply back. And to only reply to old threads, never adding to current threads is borderline trollish. Given that I frequently can't find day-old threads that I'm interested in, I'm confounded as to how this poster is finding these random threads.

Every single one of the 28 threads this person has posted to have been at least a year old, some three or four years old: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&mid=72676

Imagine the price for shipping!

Look, there's all kinds of problems with college level education in this country, but I don't believe you for a second that colleges, especially not-for-profit ones, are scheming, evil-doers, plotting to how best separate students from their money. I've worked with and known all kinds of folks in colleges, and they all, are genuinely more concerned with their work and their students than they are about profit. Generally speaking, if they cared more about money, they'd be in the private sector. If you think the only reason major colleges aren't accepting AP classes for credit is money, I'd like to see some strong evidence, please. It just ain't so.

Whether a given course is worthy enough to be granted college credit and thus college-level is a decision that only the college in question can make, and is not up to the College Board. More and more colleges are not accepting AP scores for replacement college credit, and using these tests and classes only for entrance decisions, making the AP classes de-facto honors level high school.

I'm not sure about that. There's a wide variety in the difficulty among the various AP classes. AP Human Geography is routinely taken by high school freshmen. If it really were a bona-fide college-level course, would so many 9th graders be successful with it? Foreign Language, Math & Science, are different stories, of course.

Yup -- I was (pleasantly) surprised to hear that homeschooling was treated as non-judgmentally as if she said she was left-handed. The only exception was the insinuation that the Texas Homeschool coalition worked to punish the legislator who helped her get her identity paperwork started.

I'm sure you are right, and that the employer doesn't care and won't change and that a verbal resignation would be sufficient. However, I would encourage him to write a profession resignation letter, worded like the earlier posters have suggested. In this way, he is modelling professional workplace behavior, even if the employer isn't. This could be good experience for later in life, when he really does need to write a professional resignation letter.

Do you have the pinterest browser plugin installed in your web browser, by any chance?

And definitely not the place for a phlebotomist...

Perhaps this might backfire, but I wonder what the "potential girlfriend" (very) special interest group thinks about this?

To my mind, if an assignment is due 30+ weeks from when it is assigned, and it takes a few weeks of work to finish at a reasonable pace, waiting 12 weeks (or so) to start, isn't really procrastinating.

I'm curious what kind of assignment is given out before summer vacation, and apparently not due until the fall semester is ended (or even later). How big is this assignment?

I would never fly Allegiant, myself, because of the horror stories I've heard. I've heard friends complain about experiences on pretty much every airline, but I think that Allegiant has structural problems that cause problems that any airline might have to become much worse there. In particular, on many routes, they only fly one flight a day between any two cities. Also, as a low cost carrier, they don't have agreements with other airlines to rebook you if a flight is cancelled or delayed. So, if a flight is cancelled, you are looking at losing a whole day of travel time. Maybe saving a bit of money in exchange for this kind of risk was OK when I was a college student, and not particularly tied to a schedule. Taking the whole family? No way.

Did he cite your post? :laugh: