Starting my Masters this Fall

[FAH1223]

The thing is that private universities pay off so their tuition rate is tolerable. They produce much more successful people on average. I am not even talking about Harvard or MIT but even schools like Rice, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, etc etc. I am even willing to suggest that graduates from these schools end up being more paid more and more successful and established than graduates from the best public universities.

It's a class thing. UC Berkeley may shit on the majority of the private schools in rankings but the elitism, the networking, the wine and dine and the name is more powerful.

In the case of Georgetown, you're right.

But Maryland has been rising in the last 2 decades and has put its foot print in the area. 30% of the accepted people in the Presidential Management Fellows program come from UMD SPP program.

[S-D-M]

Good luck nephew. I remember grad school. It wasn't as much fun as undergrad but well worth the two year break in academia. My adviser wanted to push me into doing a PhD but I wasn't going to stick around for 3 more years. Looking back, it was a smart move.

Don't worry. Grad school is a breeze compared to undergrad. The professors are more laid back, YOu are all adults and the goal is to just do the work.

I need to go to vocational school to pick up renewable energy skills especially in windpower and solar power installation, servicing etc

Yep or as I heard.

[AbdiWahab252]

SDM,

My Prof used to say lets have a Gentleman's agreement, do the work and I will give you a B.


FAH,

Bad causation ! Where you go to Grad school is not indicative how successful you will be. If you were already a star prior to joining grad school, your ascent will continue but if you were not, you get a bump. In this economy, experience is favored more than advance degrees. Grad school has become a shelter for those who are unemployed or want to take a break from life.

[Marques]

A/wahab...Actuarial sciences leads to 100% usury. Waa xaaraam miiran..

[AbdiWahab252]

Marques,

Not all the time. There was a European Economist who was a good friend of my father who was studying Somalia's debt levels in the 70s and 80s. He mentioned to my father in the early 1980s that if not changed that the rate of borrowing that the Somali government would bankrupt the government and cause great instability with in a decade. As the government grew desperate for cash it would be forced to dole out land, contracts and use every unconventional means to finance its self but in the end would not be able to do so resulting in a weakening of the state authority. By 1989, the government was dead broke and could hardly pay for its operations hence the collapse.

[Marques]

Marques,

Not all the time. There was a European Economist who was a good friend of my father who was studying Somalia's debt levels in the 70s and 80s. He mentioned to my father in the early 1980s that if not changed that the rate of borrowing that the Somali government would bankrupt the government and cause great instability with in a decade. As the government grew desperate for cash it would be forced to dole out land, contracts and use every unconventional means to finance its self but in the end would not be able to do so resulting in a weakening of the state authority. By 1989, the government was dead broke and could hardly pay for its operations hence the collapse.

It's the same pattern all the time. Cigaal in the late 60s borrowed relentlessly till Somalia was known as the begging hand of Africa and all forms of economic development came to a slow standstill waana sababtii kacaanka loo sacab tumaayay...Till today we are still at the recieving end and can't even afford to pay our soldiers..shame shame.