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Lol NM...

So if you are remarrying (the same girl), do you believe you should have another bachelor party? I say hell yea, but the wife is adamantly against it.

Thoughts on minors as far as resume building for future internships and possibly grad school?

I'm currently a nutrition major and my schedule is heavily science based already, so it just so happens that I can take a couple courses and get a minor in Biology...but it may mean staying an extra quarter (which means an extra 3 grand on tuition). I'm going to talk with a few professors/advisors first but for those of you already in the working world/grad school, would it make a significant difference? or should I save my time and $3,000 ?

Save.

Minors are nice if you are interested in something and not sure if you want to double major in it. Otherwise, they are useless. Internships and work experience is what matters.

man SLO is cheap compared to UCs or USC. I agree with Bro and Johno about the benefit of a minor, but it is only $3000. You cannot even go to grad school in the spring anyways, so you could stay and bang more drunk hoes.

Only 3000$

California =/

$3000 is cheap for high ed. Financial aid will cover most it anyways. So he can live off of tax payers and get a minor and wait for fall for graduate school.

Edit - however, if you are looking for job right afterwards, then screw the minor. Get a job and make some money.

You can go to grad school any damn time you please. It is all about funding and finding a professor that wants/likes you.

Also, I didn't read the bit about grad school initially. I wouldn't do grad school right out of undergrad if I were you. You are much better off getting experience. Without some job experience a Masters or PhD will be almost useless. You'll be over-qualified for jobs that will get you experience and under-experienced for jobs that will pay what you should earn.

Lastly, a minor is completely irrelevant for grad school. GPA is almost irrelevant too --- you need to hit up that exam and write a good letter.

If you do decide to go to grad school now or sometime in the future, for the love of god, do not sign a letter of appointment until you've spoken to grad students about working/living conditions, expenses etc.

Unless the head of the department endorses you, you can't really get into a math graduate program without a 3.5+ gpa.

Yeah, Cal Poly actually has a very highly regarded dietetic internship program. It costs $15,000 and you get huuuuge amounts of experience working with schools, hospitals and athletic programs around the central coast + a bunch of other stuff I haven't fully digested yet. You also take a few classes on the side that prep you for the RD exam... 97% success rate for those coming out of the program. As you can imagine, acceptance is really competitive.

In regards to the minor, I was just thinking in terms of what might help get me to that future job or internship. Something that may set me apart on paper or lead me to jobs that add experience to the resume. Does not sound promising though haha.

And the department can endorse you if you meet the admissions committee and sweet talk them.

BS and RC are some what in the middle, but RI is polarized. They either have grad school or no school in that forum. Needless to say, I have not lurked and do not know what goes on in the other two forums.

Edit- actually I have lurked over to RC once. I noticed they have a lot more activity (maybe I hit up a hot activity day) and was unmotivated to keep up. Besides, by then, I have gotten to know the crazy fools in here and I did not want to spend time getting to know them. Nonetheless, I am sure they have their own crazy personalities and counter part to us.

How does one meet the admissions committee without sending in an application?

The old fashioned way. Go on the internet, find the secretary/program assistant in the department who handles admissions or just any secretary and then have a conversation with them. Tell them you are thinking about applying and want to learn about the program. 9 times out of 10 they'll show you to the graduate program/division director who you can have a chat with.

Basically just charm them, explain your back ground a bit, let them connect a person with your upcoming application and then you are golden.

Life can really suck sometimes.

My mother came to me yesterday with a letter written by one of her male students and she doesn't know what to do. In it, the kid is pouring his heart out about him, his biological sister and step sister being physically abused by their mother.

In addition to describing the abuse he's begging for my mother not to let his mother know about the letter (he even asked her to shred it) out of fear of more abuse.

She says his grades have been slipping for a while and she couldn't understand why, as he's extremely smart. Now she knows why. His 6 year old biological sister is also in the same school and my mother said she gives her teacher absolute hell and no one can understand why. Now she knows why.

Anyway, I just wanted to run this by you all and see if you have any suggestions. I told her to sit on it for a while because if she reports it, he might end up in a worse situation than he is currently (foster home, group home).

So, any suggestions?

Horrible situation, vince. As you say, whether the information is passed on or not, the children involved are going to be in a lose\lose situation. So I guess the question is, which is the lesser of the 2 evils. Without full knowledge of what is actually happening, it's impossible to know. Should a family be torn apart? If there is actual physical abuse (and I'm not just talking about disciplined smacking) on a constant basis, then personally I couldn't sit on that information knowing that that was going on. In fact, over here, it is a teachers\tutors duty to report any such activity, even if confided in (you're supposed to tell the student\child up front that you cannot keep it between yourselves).

This child can claim to not want your mom to do anything or for no one to be told, but he gave your mother the letter for a reason. If he didn't want anything to be done, then he would have kept silent and gone on with life. He gave your mom the letter for a reason in my opinion.

There must be a social worker or counsellor at the school that can be contacted.

How old is the kid?

It's the same here; the teacher is supposed to report it but like I said, people's lives are at stake so you have to consider the consequences of making the report.

While I agree with that, I also think he just needed to tell someone about it to get it off his chest.

He wants it to stop but in a way that doesn't risk his mother finding out that he's told others about it. That's going to be tough to pull off.

10 or 11, I'm not exactly sure. He's a 5th grader.

Either way there will be consequences for those children if what the boy is saying is true. The question is, can your mother not say anything and live with it, knowing that some kids could be getting abused. What if something worse were to happen to one of them? That's difficult to take knowing you could have done something to stop it. Honestly, I think she has to do her job, pass on the information to people who hopefully know what they are doing (not some heavy handed idiots), who can investigate and ascertain the truth. If it all true, it may turn out that there are other family members who will be their guardians and keep them all together, while the mother gets the counseling she needs.

I think the suggestion of contacting a social worker at the school is best. Sooner the better. Even if the kid doesn't want to his family to be broken up and his situation could get worse if he's in foster care, there is only a chance that it will get worse. You cannot really sit idly by while a child or children are physically abused. Also the judgement of the abused has to be questioned. After a while a kind of stolkholm syndrome effect will take place and the kid could begin to blame himself. In any case, not healthy.

That sucks. But I'm pretty sure it is against the law in the US to know about child abuse and not report it.

I don't care about the law, I care about the kids' lives.

Still, I get your point.