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TGI fridays?

Dauntless wrote:

TGI fridays?

Toilet Sex wrote:

and i can't believe i didn't watch jersey shore until now, got a lot of killing to do

fixt

Toilet Sex wrote:

why not?

any1 got a bowl of kush to spare?

andros wrote:

any1 got a bowl of kush to spare?

How the fuck would they be able to send it to you?

them? me?

hope not

Toilet Sex wrote:

the people in jersery shore, the trailer for the next series was on tv

Watch that show and think of Macbeth.

Winston_Churchill wrote:

there are 80k students at my school, yet its still one of the top ones in the world.  what on earth does the number of students at a university have to do with its quality   they can get some of the top researchers and professors in the world because they can offer top of the line facilities, not because theyre teaching 10 kids.

and some of the absolute smartest people ive ever seen or met are teachers, high school and university level.  teaching can be a path of least resistance, but there are just as many fantastic teachers as there are lazy ones

e: i was also in the top program in the school for a year, it had less than 100 people in it and i enjoyed it far less than the program im in now with ~400 people/year

um the size of the university has a LOT to do with its weight and ranking. more students = more money = attracts higher-quality professors (generally, excepting the smaller private colleges that specifically go for the opposite bespoke appeal). universities with bigger student populations and bigger faculties generate more money and are given a larger slice of research grant money and academic funding - thus they have an advantage. facilities have little-to-nothing to do with any subject or department outside of the pure sciences; a library is a library and the internet archives are vast for reading-materials. a school with 80k students would be surprising to NOT be seen in the world's top; a smaller institution making the same list alongside academic (in terms of faculty and sheer volume of research published/cited) and financial giants is wholly more surprising. it's not for nothing, either, that these large and well-known universities often group together into research-associations to further boost their power and influence, internationally. hence the loose associations of the ivy league and the british large-research russell group equivalent. hence, furthermore, the formation of the 'small ivies' to protect the interest of smaller institutions that cannot possibly compete with the endowments and pulling-power of the bigger ones, and the british 1994 group equivalent. oxford has 20k students (it is a very small town, may i add) with an endowment of £3 billion - a top russell group example. st andrews and royal holloway, on the other hand, both have around 7,500 students and endowments of £30-50 million - good examples of the especially formed 1994 group, to protect the interest of smaller colleges in the academic world. that st. andrews makes world 103rd with an endowment of £30 million (the budget for many departments at larger universities) and that royal holloway makes 88th with £50 million is remarkable when you consider many of their huge, state-wide and city-size competitors.

in america you have private liberal arts colleges like oberlin and amherst that, afaik, kind of uphold the same smaller-elite appeal... yet rarely get ranked on the worldwide scale as do harvard/yale, simply because of their size and limitations. bearing in mind, though, that with private education in the US the endowment and financial capability of these liberal arts colleges is literally 100x that of the british state-regulated equivalents. money is power and money, again, attracts star faculty and better teaching quality.

Last edited by Uzique (2011-07-19 17:47:51)

Macbeth wrote:

Jay wrote:

Toilet Sex wrote:

the people in jersery shore, the trailer for the next series was on tv

Watch that show and think of Macbeth.

Everyone from Jersey Shore is from New York.

nah

sammi is a jersey girl

how many of you have actually been to jersey shore?

you guys forget it's a stupid TV show.