Tuesday, October 2

Troubles with Numbers.

Some things that have jumped out at me online:

Madison professor grouses about accommodating students whose classes are cancelled to provide presidential security to the campus. Regarding a suggestion to communicate via computer:

For that, they pay tuition? I could email my notes for the whole semester, but these are students who pay $40,040 tuition per year! ($21,350 if they are Wisconsin residents, a break they get because their parents pay the exorbitant Wisconsin taxes that help keep this stellar university going.)
Um, some students -- we are talking law school students -- pay taxes in Wisconsin. Some students, not their parents, finance law school.

(That was a pet peeve, professors treating students like children. Hello? Plenty of adult students out here; don't condescend, please.)


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Someone born in 1955, if they came to this country at age 18, would arrive in what year of the 1960s? (hint: trick ?)