25 years old and deep in debt

[garbon]

Too bad all those smart people only move to Blue States.

Can you blame us?

[Ideologue]

Too bad all those smart people only move to Blue States.

Can you blame us?

You don't get to do that, Romney Voter.

I agree, the US has many of the brightest and best

Which is largely a function of our population (more of us, ten times more than Canada, almost as many as all Europe) and economic surplus which permits effective nutrition for most and allows people to study rather than eke out near-subsistence living (which knocks out large swathes of Europe, as well as nearly all of the RoTW).

including people who move their to attend the best Universities in the world.

And has little to do with our higher education system, taken as an aggregate, which is a travesty.

[garbon]

You don't get to do that, Romney Voter.

Didn't Romney run a blue state?

[crazy canuck]

I agree, the US has many of the brightest and best

Which is largely a function of our population (more of us, ten times more than Canada, almost as many as all Europe) and economic surplus which permits effective nutrition for most and allows people to study rather than eke out near-subsistence living (which knocks out large swathes of Europe, as well as nearly all of the RoTW).

No it has to do with many of the brightest and best in the world coming to the US to be educated because your educational institutions are superior to what they have at home.

[DGuller]

No it has to do with many of the brightest and best in the world coming to the US to be educated because your educational institutions are superior to what they have at home.

  Thank you.

[Warspite]

Thankfully in North America we get to hire people that have both good grades and have other interests.

I used to favour "well-rounded" candidates over people who just had fantastic grades.

This taught me a valuable lesson: in the workplace, there is no substitute for skill and intelligence - which are not, as it turns out, signified by a summer internship building wells in Kenya or performing in a village amateur dramatics society.

Now I just go for people who look like they have the most fearsome intellect.

[crazy canuck]

Thankfully in North America we get to hire people that have both good grades and have other interests.

I used to favour "well-rounded" candidates over people who just had fantastic grades.

This taught me a valuable lesson: in the workplace, there is no substitute for skill and intelligence - which are not, as it turns out, signified by a summer internship building wells in Kenya or performing in a village amateur dramatics society.

Now I just go for people who look like they have the most fearsome intellect.

I tend to hire people that have both the intellect and know what a job is

[The Brain]

Now I just go for people who look like they have the most fearsome intellect.

[garbon]

Now I just go for people who look like they have the most fearsome intellect.

None of us.

[Malthus]

Now I just go for people who look like they have the most fearsome intellect.

None of us.

Well, I do think some Languishistas have fearsome intellects.

"Fearsome" isn't necessarily a *positive* thing, though. 

[Eddie Teach]

Well, I do think some Languishistas have fearsome intellects.

"Fearsome" isn't necessarily a *positive* thing, though. 

If I'm reading this correctly, Malthus is admitting to being a fraidycat.

[Malthus]

Well, I do think some Languishistas have fearsome intellects.

"Fearsome" isn't necessarily a *positive* thing, though. 

If I'm reading this correctly, Malthus is admitting to being a fraidycat.

Afraid for my sanity. 

[katmai]

Too late there Mal.

[Razgovory]

Well, I do think some Languishistas have fearsome intellects.

"Fearsome" isn't necessarily a *positive* thing, though. 

If I'm reading this correctly, Malthus is admitting to being a fraidycat.

Afraid for my sanity. 

You'll hardly miss it.

[Phillip V]

College Degree, No Class Time Required

University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578255992379228564.html

Under the Flexible Option, assessment tests and related online courses are being written by faculty who normally teach the related subject-area classes, Mr. Reilly said.

Officials plan to launch the full program this fall, with bachelor's degrees in subjects including information technology and diagnostic imaging, plus master's and bachelor's degrees for registered nurses. Faculty are working on writing those tests now.
...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has championed the idea, in part because he left college in his senior year for a job opportunity and never finished his degree. He said he hoped to use the Flexible Degree option himself.

"I think it is one more way to get your degree. I don't see it as replacing things," Mr. Walker said.

Beth Calvert, a 35-year-old registered nurse at a Milwaukee hospital, hopes to enroll in the program to earn her bachelor's in nursing. Between working overnight shifts and caring for her 3-year-old daughter, Ms. Calvert said she has little time to move beyond her associate degree but knows that it increasingly is important to her employer, which she said offers a pay raise to nurses with higher degrees.

"The biggest thing is job opportunity," she said. "It looks better for a hospital to have nurses with bachelor's degrees. On a day-to-day basis, I feel I have the education I do need."