Unfortunately, it's more based off whether they are a net benefit to the university or not, not on whether they earn more money. Graduate students usually contribute by having research or teaching assistantships, and so are producing research (always) and teaching (frequently) for the university. They are very much "apprentice professors". There is also a large pool of freshmen needing instruction in those disciplines. For a master's in education, they're usually not doing publishable research (varies, of course) and there aren't a large number of education courses that many freshmen need to take. Sometimes people are able to get their school district to fund their master's in education. Maybe this would be a possibility?

It's weird how different people look at different weights. My mother was clinically underweight when she was in her early 20s, but if you look at pictures from then she does not look scrawny or underweight, she just looks slender and extremely fit. If she gets anywhere near the top of the BMI range, by bodyfat she is obese. She is just bird-boned. When I'm at the top of the BMI range, I run about a 25% bodyfat. If I ever got down to the bottom, I'd have been quite ill.

Yes and no. If your BMI says that you're obese, you probably are. (95% of men and 99% of women -- and if you are in that small percentage, you probably exercise enough to know it). But there are a lot of people where BMI says that they're merely overweight or even in a normal range who are actually obese (35%+ bodyfat) -- so an okay BMI shouldn't be interpreted as "I'm ok". (source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/)We absolutely *should* try to stay out of that range, especially if we measure bodyfat. That being said, I think we have unrealistic expectations of where people should be based on where we see Hollywood stars and other people who get paid to look good. We shouldn't expect that a woman at 50 who's had 4 children should have the same slim waist as an 18-year-old, and she should expect to gain a pants size or two. (Now, if she *does* stay slim, great for her! Some people *are* naturally slim!) But it's totally okay (assuming the height makes these sizes reasonable) to have been a size 8 at 18 but a size 12 at 50. I'm still not sure if I'm making any sense, but I think that the unrealistic aspirations actually help feed the obesity epidemic. When people feel as if they've failed unless they get back into their 18-year-old jeans (at least in my unscientific anecdotal evidence) they're quite likely to say "to hell with it" and head for the Twinkies.

Yes. A matronly figure is not to be despised.

Not really, they eat enough that if we ate like that we'd blow up. It is more the lifestyle difference and the amount of manual labor done.

Yeah, pretty much. FWIW, I was an unschooled child in the 1980s, and people called CPS alleging educational neglect on my mother's part more than once. The social workers came out, said "They said your kid can't read", she had me pick up a book (usually a college-level one) and read to them, and they said "that's what we thought" and left.

Every time my apartment starts depressing me because I'm just not a good housekeeper, I watch an episode of Hoarders.

The problem is that barring something insane like running daily marathons, there is no real way to out-exercise a bad diet. For many people, they exercise and then they eat back more than they've exercised off, and then they get frustrated because they aren't losing weight with all the exercise they're doing. People (including dieticians) are notoriously bad at overestimating their calories burnt and underestimating their intake. I moved from 0 exercise to an average of 120 minutes a day, 7 days a week between the ages of 25 and 28. I got much fitter in a cardiovascular sense, but I did not lose a single pound or a single inch off my waist. I *had* to start tracking food for a while to lose weight. I no longer track food because I've reaccustomed my body to a lower intake, and I am much slimmer now. I also don't exercise anywhere near as much. Now, exercise can certainly *help*, and it certainly won't hurt to add it to your daily life. But if you're not losing weight after you add exercise, you may need to investigate some form of cutting intake, whether it's cutting carbs, tracking calories alone, or following something like no-S.

Agree with Faith. Sometimes they let you do something like take last year's final to validate knowledge. I got a test-out for something they supposedly didn't test-out for doing that. (but they might not).

But this makes absolute sense, logically. Suppose (hypothetically) that with the soda, you're eating for a person who weighs 250 lbs, but when you cut out soda, you're eating for a person who weighs 220 lbs. You would expect that with cutting out soda, but making no other changes, you would experience a decent amount of weight loss for several pounds, and then gradually to have weight loss taper off until your weight stabilizes at 220 lbs. As far as eating 3 jars of baby food a day in order to lose, when I googled it seemed that: 1) The baby food diet involves eating 14 servings a day of baby food and then an adult-sized dinner, 2) Jennifer Aniston denied doing it anyway. If someone were eating 3 jars of baby food a day and claimed it was necessary to lose, they would be doing at least one and probably both of 1) Trying to lose weight too fast, 2) Trying to attain an unhealthily low weight.

But that's not how mandated reporter works. They're supposed to report suspicion and let the investigators determine whether or not it's occurred.

Sylvan doesn't count?

I guess my point is that if talking animals are problematic for YOU, that's fine. Use CLE or Horizons or some other explicitly Christian program. But to act as if that's what BA is *trying* to do is utterly ridiculous. They're *trying* to help kids learn to do hard math problems in a cute and fun way.

I am impressed by you managing to get them into the oven before licking the spoon. I *never* make it that far. Usually I've had multiple licks (on different spoons, before you get grossed out) before I even finish the ingredients.

There are definitely curricular options for students to catch up, but how well they are implemented is going to depend on the local school district.

This is not my claim, please do not attribute it to me. This seemed to be what post #75 was saying as a followup to post #37.

I don't actually think that that person was saying that sex with animals was ok, but rather that talking animals were a step along the path to thinking sex with animals was ok.

I think bodyweight exercises would be ideal for him. Not only are they great at building strength, but they're also a great way to show off -- nobody on the street can see you bench, but they can see you doing pushups.

Hypotension is another classic symptom of inadequate energy intake. See http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/912187-overview and scroll down to the signs and symptoms.

I like Edith Hamilton and Bulfinch.

KILTS.

My brother who transferred from the CC actually back-transferred a few of his courses from the 4-year to complete his AA after he had already transferred, because he wanted to help the CC where he had gotten a very good start on his education. I think he was only missing speech and a social science class though.

I actually find it incredibly disturbing to accuse them of "satanic imagery" and "indoctrination". I mean, if you don't do talking animals (I have known a few who didn't), fine. "We don't do talking animals" is perfectly reasonable. But to assume that anyone who does do talking animals is engaged in a long-term indoctrination project aimed at animal-human crossbreeding and sex with animals?! Really?!

CC graduation rates are very problematic to measure because many students enter declared as degree-seeking students but transfer before completing their degree. This counts as a "failure" for the CC though by any rational measure a student who transfers and then successfully completes a 4-year degree should count as a success for the CC.

OP, :grouphug: . I'm so sorry you all are dealing with this. Starvation absolutely can cause heart irregularities. As a matter of fact, heart issues are one of the more common complications of severe anorexia. I would work hard to get her into inpatient sooner rather than later. Don't let it get put off by scheduling issues.