re: My Niece will Be Attending Oxford for a Semester

Congratulations to your niece. That’s a wonderful opportunity and I hope she enjoys it. I hope my daughter will get to/choose to spend a semester abroad.

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Turf Tavern is the pub to visit in Oxford. A little hidden gem.

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My favorite pub was the Wychwood in Bristol. I kept a t-shirt from there for about 20 years and eventually lost it. They used to let me Dj on occasion....it was the 00's. They still loved Americans.

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Getting a full ride merit scholarship to a school like Duke is nearly impossible.

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Key word is “nearly.” Duke law awards three or four merit full scholarships a year.

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Psychology

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She should try to marry a Rothschild then.

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The "New College" was founded in 1379...

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They have a saying.

In America, 100 years is a long time. In Europe, 100 miles is a long way.

We measure things differently.

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That'll get you about $45,000 a year

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I hate when people say stupid shite like this. If you're mediocre, then yes, choose a field that overpays for mediocrity -- like finance. If you're exceptional or even pretty good, any field can be lucrative.

I would rather her do something she loves and is apparently pretty good at than do something she hates because of the percieved market value of a piece of paper.

What's the value of a landscape architecture degree from Miss St? Because my nephew hasn't even graduated yet and he likely made more than that this year running a part time hard scape business on the weekends because he loves that shite and is good at it.

A degree that "makes money" is such a stupid and false narrative.

Correct. Miles v Kilometers is part of the joke.

Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about. Some people commute that distance daily. Europeans would base a long weekend vacation around that travel. I am headed to the UK next month for work. The meeting site is a 90 minute drive from their HQ. Their crew is coming in a day early "because of the drive" instead of just coming up the morning of our meetings.

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Correct. Miles v Kilometers is part of the joke.

Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about. Some people commute that distance daily. Europeans would base a long weekend vacation around that travel. I am headed to the UK next month for work. The meeting site is a 90 minute drive from their HQ. Their crew is coming in a day early "because of the drive" instead of just coming up the morning of our meetings.

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Truth. A lot of it is the culture that makes them kind of homebodies (they don't really leave their town) and the fact that their roadways aren't really built for fast and easy travel. Like you said, I can remember traveling with friends to go see a show in a neighboring town about 90 minutes away and they were packing snacks like we were going cross country -- which in a sense we were.

With all that justification, it is still a notoriously worthless degree program that is, along with journalism and gender studies, a training ground for activists. At least her training will apparently be free and she won’t accumulate to much debt to be brainwashed.