Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
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Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
Originally thought as a joke, but who knows ? You tell me (us).
Well, for a starter, meth addicts don't need to be creative at the moment when looking for strategies to deflect the attention of the interviewer about their crooked teeths in jobs interviews, thanks to the masks.
Your turn. Stay positive.
Well, for a starter, meth addicts don't need to be creative at the moment when looking for strategies to deflect the attention of the interviewer about their crooked teeths in jobs interviews, thanks to the masks.
Your turn. Stay positive.
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
I was in London last March, due to need not desire. The lockdown begun and so did my period of zero booze, careful eating and 5 mile daily walks.
By July I had lost 2 stone. That's 28lb in American. Or 12 Kilos in French. I got back into my old designer shirts and felt very good. So good I brought many back with me and left all the big ones in the UK.
Since then, I have put it all back on, but had a lot of fun doing it.
Good selection of nice shirts for sale, or swap for bigger ones
By July I had lost 2 stone. That's 28lb in American. Or 12 Kilos in French. I got back into my old designer shirts and felt very good. So good I brought many back with me and left all the big ones in the UK.
Since then, I have put it all back on, but had a lot of fun doing it.
Good selection of nice shirts for sale, or swap for bigger ones
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
A hell of a lot more drinking time and being lazy without getting in a spot. If the past year was good to you, you were either living it up like me or being a responsible good person even if just for a little bit like the doc, so it's a unique nice experience.
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Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
It's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
I have thought for a long time that the old sprawling campuses are a huge waste of space and money. An out of date model now being exposed for the fraud it is. All the students having to relocate, wasting $X,000's of rent money in student accommodation, much of which is owned by the University themselves. It' a nice place for the lecturers to hang out and swan around being all lofty. But that lot have been taking the piss for years.KTabi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:02 pmIt's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Why can't a top class university begin online only courses? They lectures can all be pre-recorded, the seminars interactive, all the old fashioned hand-out's with the reading lists could all be online (they probably are by now), including the reading materials. No more buying the overpriced textbooks.
The whole thing could be done for $3000 a year, with unlimited numbers. Bye bye all those trumped up poly's with their dud University status and the academic dross they employ. And bye bye to the snobbery - everyone can enrol in an Oxford University Law Degree course. The toffs from Eton can still go for the social life if they want, but they have to pay for all the upkeep of the buildings.
This is way off topic, I know. Sorry
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
It is off topic, but I agree. I'm studying with OU while working, and this is the exact model, and it works...Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:35 pmI have thought for a long time that the old sprawling campuses are a huge waste of space and money. An out of date model now being exposed for the fraud it is. All the students having to relocate, wasting $X,000's of rent money in student accommodation, much of which is owned by the University themselves. It' a nice place for the lecturers to hang out and swan around being all lofty. But that lot have been taking the piss for years.KTabi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:02 pmIt's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Why can't a top class university begin online only courses? They lectures can all be pre-recorded, the seminars interactive, all the old fashioned hand-out's with the reading lists could all be online (they probably are by now), including the reading materials. No more buying the overpriced textbooks.
The whole thing could be done for $3000 a year, with unlimited numbers. Bye bye all those trumped up poly's with their dud University status and the academic dross they employ. And bye bye to the snobbery - everyone can enrol in an Oxford University Law Degree course. The toffs from Eton can still go for the social life if they want, but they have to pay for all the upkeep of the buildings.
This is way off topic, I know. Sorry
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
How much per year in fees?Yerg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:38 pmIt is off topic, but I agree. I'm studying with OU while working, and this is the exact model, and it works...Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:35 pmI have thought for a long time that the old sprawling campuses are a huge waste of space and money. An out of date model now being exposed for the fraud it is. All the students having to relocate, wasting $X,000's of rent money in student accommodation, much of which is owned by the University themselves. It' a nice place for the lecturers to hang out and swan around being all lofty. But that lot have been taking the piss for years.KTabi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:02 pmIt's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Why can't a top class university begin online only courses? They lectures can all be pre-recorded, the seminars interactive, all the old fashioned hand-out's with the reading lists could all be online (they probably are by now), including the reading materials. No more buying the overpriced textbooks.
The whole thing could be done for $3000 a year, with unlimited numbers. Bye bye all those trumped up poly's with their dud University status and the academic dross they employ. And bye bye to the snobbery - everyone can enrol in an Oxford University Law Degree course. The toffs from Eton can still go for the social life if they want, but they have to pay for all the upkeep of the buildings.
This is way off topic, I know. Sorry
Do you remember the OU lectures on BBC2 late at night? The Science ones with skinny geeks with beards taking wierd stuff with blackboards and equations. Come back from the pub and watch a lecture on quantum physics
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
£3600 - and yeah, remember those old OU programmes. Beards and flaresDoc67 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:47 pmHow much per year in fees?Yerg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:38 pmIt is off topic, but I agree. I'm studying with OU while working, and this is the exact model, and it works...Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:35 pmI have thought for a long time that the old sprawling campuses are a huge waste of space and money. An out of date model now being exposed for the fraud it is. All the students having to relocate, wasting $X,000's of rent money in student accommodation, much of which is owned by the University themselves. It' a nice place for the lecturers to hang out and swan around being all lofty. But that lot have been taking the piss for years.KTabi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:02 pmIt's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Why can't a top class university begin online only courses? They lectures can all be pre-recorded, the seminars interactive, all the old fashioned hand-out's with the reading lists could all be online (they probably are by now), including the reading materials. No more buying the overpriced textbooks.
The whole thing could be done for $3000 a year, with unlimited numbers. Bye bye all those trumped up poly's with their dud University status and the academic dross they employ. And bye bye to the snobbery - everyone can enrol in an Oxford University Law Degree course. The toffs from Eton can still go for the social life if they want, but they have to pay for all the upkeep of the buildings.
This is way off topic, I know. Sorry
Do you remember the OU lectures on BBC2 late at night? The Science ones with skinny geeks with beards taking wierd stuff with blackboards and equations. Come back from the pub and watch a lecture on quantum physics
Re: Positive effects of COVID (in your life, or else)
Had this exact idea proposed by a college professor in March of 1995. She was proposing all of this would be possible because of the information superhighway. Everyone was looking around the class at each other wondering what she was talking about.Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:35 pmI have thought for a long time that the old sprawling campuses are a huge waste of space and money. An out of date model now being exposed for the fraud it is. All the students having to relocate, wasting $X,000's of rent money in student accommodation, much of which is owned by the University themselves. It' a nice place for the lecturers to hang out and swan around being all lofty. But that lot have been taking the piss for years.KTabi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:02 pmIt's rough but crisis can be opportunity, as the corny saying goes. Good luck to her in that. It's so weird to see universities charge full price to have all online courses.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:40 am My daughter went back to full time university after being laid off due to covid. She had a number of low paying/future jobs up till then so I'm hoping this will set her up better for the future.
Why can't a top class university begin online only courses? They lectures can all be pre-recorded, the seminars interactive, all the old fashioned hand-out's with the reading lists could all be online (they probably are by now), including the reading materials. No more buying the overpriced textbooks.
The whole thing could be done for $3000 a year, with unlimited numbers. Bye bye all those trumped up poly's with their dud University status and the academic dross they employ. And bye bye to the snobbery - everyone can enrol in an Oxford University Law Degree course. The toffs from Eton can still go for the social life if they want, but they have to pay for all the upkeep of the buildings.
This is way off topic, I know. Sorry
By the end of 1995, everyone had an email address and an AOL account.
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