We had IB and AP at my high school.
Mine was more of an international school though (American school in Asia, quite prestigious).
there are a couple area schools that tout the IB. our state (MN), the attending CC/4yr while in HS is everywhere by law. so people default to that for the automatic credit. The CIS is also auto-credit.
I don’t know the details of IB and how certain the credit transfer is. we have 2 ways to guarantee credits for anyone who would attend U-MN or any school that will accept transfer credits from it. That’s enough certainty for most.
They weren’t courses that I “needed” per say. But for example Game Theory was a very challenging course to get into depending on your grade. I never took Game Theory for this reason, although I don’t feel too hard done by because my favorite Econ class ended up being one that wasn’t that hard to get into that started me down the road that ended with actuarial.
I took a PhD level game theory class.
Never again. It was completely unintelligible to me. Very hard.
I took a grad level game theory class and it was SOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo dumb.
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meanwhile grad level math/physics be like HOLY SHIT.
i took a class on differential eqs for engineers and they had no idea how to solve a third power polynomial (given one solution)
I told them how to do it and they looked at me like I was some math god
I know there’s a formula but I don’t know how to solve it either.
This makes it a lot easier
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it’s understandable if 80% or even 90% of the class didn’t know, but 100% is something else
I don’t have sympathy for this NIMBYIST. She is all too willing to support causes where others have to pay but not willing to make any concessions herself to benefit others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/business/economy/california-housing-crisis-nimby.html
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she’ll be dead soon
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I’ve hit my NYT limit. Is the gist that she doesn’t want condos in her neighborhood of houses?
That’s the gist but there is much more to the story than that. Too bad you can’t get around the firewall as it is a worthwhile read. Story is too long to cut and paste here. The woman is a long term activist but all of her causes seem to be at the expense of others.
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I lived in Marin many years. There is an important point left out of the article. Water.
The Marin Water District provides water treatment and clean water. While some of west Marin is on septic and well water.it has a couple of reservoirs. But there is no pipeline bringing any water in at all. Marin survives on rainfall and filling up the reservoirs.
This is a really big limiter.I’ve built in Marin, and I can tell you the hardest part is getting the water service or well permit. With the droughts, I bet that is only getting harder.
Point being, I’m not sure this Mill Valley woman is as powerful as the article implies.
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The readers comments were interesting. Seemed to be split down the middle for and against NIMBYism. Lots of whataboutism talking about water usage, Airbnb and how developers can’t be trusted. The irony is that she considers herself an environmentalist but her actions are forcing an extra 20 households to live in the exurbs and drive 90 minutes each way a day to do the menial tasks in neighborhoods like her.
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Your comments tend to support her opposition but for a more important reason: water constraints. Maybe California already has too many people given the water issues?
Only 10% of Californian water usage is urban (agriculture and environmental take up the bulk of it). Additionally, water usage is quite high compared to dry countries like Israel and Australia so it could go even lower than 10%.
The amount of water used for agriculture in Imperial Valley is mind-boggling. BC has the same issue in its interior farming areas as our dry inland climate is just an extension of California’s. However we have an abundance of water from other regions of BC.
A separate water thread one of these days might be interesting.
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