Ken Said:

Can long distance relationships REALLY work?

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I don't know enough about your situation to tell you if I think it would work, but I am in a long distance relationship and it has been working for the past year and a half for me, so I will tell you about that. We have know each other since high school, but we only started dating in college last summer. He goes to a college five hours away from mine and in another state. But we work for a few, important reasons: We are both very, very focused on school and put it before everything else, we are both mature and are out for a serious relationship, and we are both very similar in our values. We also get in so much trouble for running up our phone bills every month. It suits me because I am monogamous - he is the only guy I've been attracted to for a long, long time. I want a serious relationship, and so does he... I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have to make sure that the communication is open and that you both have similar wants and needs, values and opinions, especially when it comes to each other. You have to put forth the effort to have a conversation with them every day, even if it's while you're running from your chem class to your bio lab. It takes a lot of work. And you'll see other couples together and you'll miss your guy so badly. But the more you miss him, the better it will be when you finally get to cuddle with him. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," I believe they say. And the most important thing of all? TRUST. You have to love your guy enough, and know him enough, to trust him over everything. All this is very serious stuff, and you have to ask yourself if you are ready for it. But, in response to your question, yes, long distance relationships DO work.

Alberto Said:

If you are a professor for 20 or 30 years, how has technology changed the way you teach and the students learn

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I'm not a professor, but I was a college student before there were message boards, emails, texting, internet, and one thing I think has occurred is that professors are more access able to students now. Rarely did students talk or correspond with teachers... ever! even before or after class.. now it seems the norm.
Rate my professor.com didn't exist and students couldn't "shop" for the "good" professors. To me that shows a big difference in how a teacher might teach.

PS: no one ever carried a typewriter to class, so don't think a laptop would be any more useful unless the student is wanting to play solitaire or surf the web.

Mae Said:

Colleges/majors/endless options = confusion?

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Now that I have settled down from the dizziness......

Ok, so you changed your mind a few times... when I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut, a fireman, and finally settled on being an ex-junkie..... LOL

You are over analyzing things kiddo....... Charts, possible salaries.......

if you have some notion that college is all about career training, then you are sorely mistaken. there is an old saying "when the student is ready, the master shall appear."

Go to a local college, if that is your desire, get the general education work done in your first year or so, and 'sample' a few academic disciplines. This puts off the need to make a decision by at least a year or so.

the president of a highly respected college once said to a gathering of parents, something along the lines of "at XYZ college, we tell our students to study that which excites them. To follow their passion. There will be plenty of time to live life, find a career, have kids, pay bills, and then worry about what college to send their kids off to. College should be all about learning to learn, gathering the skills necessary to succeed in life, and all the while, having a little bit of fun in the process."

nuff said.

Manuel Said:

Applied Studies Bachelors Degree Worth It?

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ANY legitimate Bachelor's Degree is a great move.

Most employers require a BA in any field to get jobs.

The only exception is in technical areas, such as engineering or science.