OneOfMany

Amen!

I’ve heard of her before. She’s a moderately well-known writer. Also, she did seem aware of the backlash she would generate.

All the Jewish colleges have Israel Option programs, where you get credit for your year in Israel as if you were a student at their college at the time. This also enables you to get any federal aid that you would get as a student in their college (unfortunately does not work for their own private merit awards/financial aid. Masa is a program that gives scholarship money for students who want to learn in Israel.

Israel Option program + Masa + tuition break + random scholarships. College Board has a big fat book that lists all these random scholarships and eligibility requirements.

BalabustaInDaHouse: Maybe you get your info from the wrong sources…because your picture is really skewed. Maybe you’re talking only from the boy’s side of the picture (which I admittedly know nothing about, being a girl and not having any brothers who went to E”Y to learn), but as Sam2 said, this is absolutely not so with the vast majority (of girls, at least). As Sam2 said, most people go to learn. Again, it’s different for girls, the majority of whom aren’t going for an intense scholastic experience, but I don’t know a single person who went just to “have fun.” The can “have fun” in the States just fine. I’m sure there are people who have their fun there too, but why on earth do you think that that’s the majority?

Besides, all you people whining about the crazy amount of money – between all the different scholarships you can get, and the generous breaks that a LOT of places will give you, it’s almost impossible to pay the sticker price. I paid only $7,000 out of pocket, all told. If I applied for even more random Walmart scholarships and such, it probably would have been even less. (I have some friends who did apply for every scholarship under the sun and in fact did end up paying almost nothing.) If you are really paying sticker price, then you (or your child) are uninformed or stam lazy.

Oh look, it’s you again.

Wow, I’m feeling really cool today…I got nominated and I randomly made it into popa’s subtitle. eheh heh

I nominate squeak…I mean, he must be. Just look at his subtitle. 🙂

giant dung-beetle

True stuff, but you’re a little heavy on the psychoanalysis, y’know?

Loyal Jew: So why didn’t you just come out and say that, instead of making nonsensical, contradictory comments?

Oh well.

I open this thread every day just to see how hard it can make me laugh. Great pick me up. 🙂

Happy Cranniversary, yitayningwut and kapusta! Hey, my first is coming up! 😀

It’s really not carbon dioxide?

I read your sibling thread and then I remembered the Tiferes thread and it just clicked…lol, I see you got a strange subtitle to go along with Toi’s. 😛

Health: Yes, they does.

You’re older than you’ve ever been

and NOW you’re even older

and NOW you’re even older…

shuli: A pair of hob-nailed boots under that gown might do the trick.

*ahem*

??? ???? ?? ???? – For women only!

😛

haha cute

I meant taxing income b’chlal – as opposed to property or excise taxes. How exactly did they built up to that shebang?

I think democracy is kind of like communism – sorta perfect in theory, yet never works quite right in reality. 😛

Also, I think the technology needs to improve before it will have even a chance of supplanting print. I have a Kindle, and sometimes the issues with tzuras hadaf (so to speak) and other essentials are too much to look past. I generally only use it while traveling/commuting – otherwise, I prefer print books when I can get them.

About textbooks – everyone thinks that I buy all my textbooks on Kindle. I bought one, once (under duress, I might add), and it’s HORRIBLE. It was about half the retail price, but exponentially more than the used textbook price – and I can’t even resell it. And that’s the least of it. The pagination and graphics were a MAJOR issue – that it and of itself was a dealbreaker. I suspect it’s better on the iPad/Kindle Fire/Nook/whatever, but then you have all the drawbacks of the LCD…you get the picture.

So no, I don’t think that ebook technology really is in danger of supplanting print. At least not yet. But it really isn’t something to worry about, anyway. 😛

wanderingchana: lol @ no. 12 🙂

Don’t worry, I’m sure you didn’t do it on purpose. It was just ironic is all. 😛

c) i. Very rarely

ii. Occasionally

iii. Half-half

Bar Shattya: I’m guessing it’s a type (3) al pi yitayningwut.