Posted on 09 March 2013. Tags: California, college, Current, leave, Northeast, Should
I am originally from a liberal city in Northern California. All four years of high school I dreamt of going to college in Southern California. I was forced to go to a small, all girls Catholic high school by my mother. It was really a horrible social experience, and I stuck with my two best friends who were b*tches. I was pretty much sticking it out until I could go to an awesome college. I imagined the typical college experience being in warm weather, partying, and being in a sorority.
I ended up getting rejected from all of my California schools, but I got accepted to Boston College which is ranked about 30th in the country. I was really against going, but my mom pushed it upon me. We also got about half financial aid. There were a lot of factors that played into it, but first semester I basically failed all of my classes. That’s what you get when you unwillingly ship me across the country. I realize it was a terrible mistake and I do feel a lot of guilt. I am now back at the evening school making up credits and doing much better this semester.
The school is not a completely miserable place, but I just feel like it’s not for me. I am against the basic idea of it: a small, religious affiliated college in FREEZING weather. The social scene is horrible. The kids are most often wealthy, sheltered, and very judgmental. The people are pale and not good looking. It is very hard for me to relate to students here, and although there are exceptions, I know that if I graduate from here I am going to have a lot of resentment toward the school and less friends than I would at another school. Students who think like me and want to party would definitely avoid this school. One of the only friends I made here is a senior guy who hates the school, regrets not transferring, and lives off campus. He recommended that I transfer. I just don’t think it’s ironic that he is one of the coolest people I’ve met in college.
On to logistics: I ruined my GPA and chances of transferring directly from the school. I could do community college at home, but I have a horrible family situation (bipolar father who talks to himself and is doing badly, and overbearing argumentative mother) and I would be 50 times more miserable than at BC. Leaving home was a big part of me going to college. It is also hard to get classes and would probably take over 2 years to graduate. All CA community colleges have a guaranteed transfer program to UCSB where you need only a 3.2 GPA to get in. I was thinking I could go to community college in Santa Barbara because it is the number one community college in the country. People come from all over the world and there is housing. It would be about $17,000 per year for community college while BC for us is about $60,000 per year for us. I would hardly care if I didn’t make friends because I would be so ecstatic to be living in that area. I would also have the ability to transfer out to a school like UCLA or USC, or perhaps go back to BC (doubtfully).
I don’t want to sound like a spoiled brat, but I just feel like the cost of BC is not worth what it will get me in the future. Because I have the benefit of being a California resident, I can get guaranteed transfer to UCSB which is ranked about 10 places below BC, but higher for social aspects. If I change my mind, I can transfer to UCLA. At BC, I am in the Arts and Sciences although I would like to major in something business related. It is well known that is basically impossible to transfer to the business school, so my only option is to major in Economics within A&S, and who knows maybe I will hate this major?!
My mom calls me an idiot and says she will not pay for SBCC. Yet she will continue to pay for BC even though it is likely to not get me anywhere? I would just like to direct her money in the most efficient way where I can be happy, and I feel like SBCC is a great, responsible choice, and I am willing to get a job while I am there. It will also give me time to figure out what I want and to get familiar with Southern California. UCSB is also great academically, and starting over I will be able to get my GPA up and get more job prospects. I am also interested in working in California after college, and companies here are more familiar with UCs than BC.
I would certainly stick it out at BC if I was in the business school and if I was interested in working in the Northeast, or if the CC system in California did not have a guaranteed transfer program. There are a lot of great things about BC and it’s cool to be around people from all over the country, but I am not sure that it’s worth it. I would certainly go to community college at home if my home situation wasn’t so depressing/distracting, and if the CCs here were actually good. I would also be extremely socially deprived and probably become very depressed.
Advice?
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Posted on 28 November 2012. Tags: Air, air force planes, army air force, Japanese, Northeast, northern burma, office of strategic services, Phibun, populist politician, prime minister of thailand, Seni, shan states, southern coastline, thai agents, thai air force
December 8 1941 when Japan invaded the country along its southern coastline and from Cambodia. After initially resisting, the Phibun regime (Phibun was the Prime Minister of Thailand) allowed the Japanese to pass through the country in order to attack Burma and invade Malaya. Convinced by the Allied defeats of early 1942 that Japan was winning the war, Phibun decide to form a military alliance with the Japanese.
As a reward, Japan allowed Thailand to invade and annex the Shan States and Kayah State in northern Burma, and to resume sovereignty over the sultanates of northern Malaya which had previously been lost in the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 with Britain. In January 1942 Phibun declared war on Britain and the United States, but the Thai Ambassador to the US, Seni Pramoj, refused to deliver it to the State Department. Instead, Seni denounced the Phibun regime as illegal and formed a Seri Thai Movement in Washington. Pridi, by now serving in the role of an apparently powerless regent, led the resistance movement inside Thailand, while former Queen Ramphaiphanni was the nominal head of the movement in Great Britain.
Secret training camps were set up, the majority by the populist politician Tiang Sirikhanth in the northeast region of the country. There were a dozen camps alone in Sakhon Nakhon Province. Secret airfields also appeared in the northeast, where Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force planes brought in supplies, as well as Special Operations Executive, Office of Strategic Services, and Seri Thai agents, while at the same time evacuating out prisoners of war. By early 1945, Thai air force officers were performing liaison duties with South East Asia Command in Kandy and Calcutta.
By 1944 it was evident that the Japanese were going to lose the war, and their behaviour in Thailand had become increasingly arrogant. Bangkok also suffered heavily from Allied Strategic bombing. This, coupled with the economic hardship caused by the loss of Thailand’s rice export markets, made both the war and Phibun’s regime very unpopular. In July 1944 Phibun was ousted by the Seri Thai-infiltrated government. The National Assembly reconvened and appointed the liberal lawyer Khuang Aphaiwong as Prime Minister. The new government hastily evacuated the British territories that Phibun had occupied and surreptitiously aided the Seri Thai movement, while at the same time maintaining ostensibly friendly relations with the Japanese.
The Japanese surrendered on August 15 1945. Immediately, the Allied military responsibility for Thailand fell to the British. As soon as practicable, British troops were flown in and these rapidly secured the release of surviving POWs. The British were surprised to find that the disarmament of the Japanese soldiers had already been largely completed by the Thais.
The British regarded Thailand as having been partly responsible for the immeasurable damage dealt upon the Allied cause and favoured treating the kingdom as a defeated enemy. However, the Americans had no sympathy for what they considered to be British and French colonialism and supported the new government. Thailand thus received little punishment for its wartime role under Phibun.
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Posted on 28 June 2012. Tags: adolescence, airports, Career, change, England, international career, kind, London, niche, Northeast, Other, planes, these dreams, tokyo
Now that I think about it, a significant portion of the dreams I can remember have something to do with being somewhere else. Going to an airport, taking a plane, and going to NYC, London, Tokyo, etc. I’ve been to all 3 places but now live in Dallas and I hate it. I just feel trapped here, especially since I’m 18 and can’t drive yet. I just miss traveling. I’ve been to more places, and I just can’t get enough. I want to do some kind of international career just so that I can have the opportunity to travel more. It’s just been a part of who I am, cause I’ve been traveling since I was a baby. So when my family settled in America from England when I was six, I’ve been restless since. We moved from the Northeast to Dallas and I just appreciated the change, but then it’s like I want to keep going, I don’t want to stay in one spot. Especially since I really haven’t fit in here. I just want to go somewhere like London or NYC again where I know I’ll have a niche to belong to. Is this what my dreams are telling me? I’ve been having these dreams for years now and they make me so happy because it feels like I’m actually there. I traveled to 2 other countries last summer and I want to travel again this summer so bad. I even enjoy going to airports and flying on planes.. is this weird? oh my gosh, I just have this strong connection to it all and like seeing other ways of life and etc. I don’t see myself as necessarily tied to any location, but I miss London so much because it’s where I was born and I haven’t been there since I was 8 and it’s been really frustrating to not go back to the place where I was so happy as a kid, cause my adolescence has not been much fun at all
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Posted on 03 August 2011. Tags: animal rights, apex, apex predator, coyote, Earth, Eastern, eastern coyote, eradication, Northeast, northeastern states, preda, reintroduction of predators, Want, Wolves
The Northeastern states canine type predator niche is already filled by the Eastern coyote, which in the Northeast is confirmed to be a wolf coyote hybrid. So with “wolves” already here, why reintroduce them?
The Northeastern coyote, which before the eradication of the Eastern wolf, was not previously in the area, filled the niche vacated by the Eastern wolves. How on Earth would it make any sense to once again disrupt the predator balance?
Even PETA agrees that reintroduction of predators to recovered areas is not a good idea.http://www.peta.org/about/why-peta/preda…
With one of the world’s largest organizations for animal rights and anti-cruelty against this, why would anyone think that reintroduction of an apex predator to a recovered area is appropriate?
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