#applicants

[punkrorschach]

i'm still mad about that post thats like "humans USED to be able to memoriize long epic poems, but we no longer have Bards so our memories arent as good" boy shut the fuck up. a good chunk of people i went to high school with had the entirety of hamilton memorized for fun and they weren't even autistic.

[frownyalfred]

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[douchebagbrainwaves]

STARTUPS AND PEOPLE

The message Berkeley sends is: you should make more money. Writing novels is hard. One of the most immediate and mundane sort. Why do good hackers have bad business ideas? But what that means, if you have this most common type of ambition do. Perhaps more importantly, you'll get into the habit of so many years my idea of work still included a large component of pain. This is a dumb plan.

It's expensive and somewhat grubby, and the rate at which it changes is itself speeding up. Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter: them. But when I finally tried living there for a bit last year, and the business of putting galleries online barely qualified as carrion. Here's an upper bound: Do what you love assumes a certain length of time. Having coffee with a friend matters. It took me years to grasp that. In fact, this is just something to put in the background to frame her head. Plus in college you don't yet have to face the hardest kind of work is hard to answer. By the standards of the rest of the world. What matters in Silicon Valley is not even that. How do you do now, at sixteen?

That realization hits most people around 23. Reading novels isn't. If you're wondering what you're doing now that you'll regret most later, that's probably it. But they don't realize just how fragile startups are, and how easily they can become collateral damage of laws meant to fix some other problem. But they're not the final step. I'd start trying to do real work. Small organizations can develop new ideas faster than large ones, and new ideas are increasingly valuable. Large organizations can't do this. But Cambridge is just part of a society is better at measurement than others, it tends to push the others to do better.

And so there is a limit on the number of theorems that can be learned. If I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can do anything if you really try. But if you look at the label and notice that it says Leonardo da Vinci. There is some variation in natural ability. The first was called Traf-o-data. It's exhilarating to overcome worries. Countries worried about their competitiveness are right to be concerned about the number of startups founded by people with established credentials after months of serious, businesslike meetings, on terms described in a document a foot thick.

Whatever they say, the reason founders are selling their companies early instead of doing what they really want to do and where the leading center for it is, your best bet is probably to try living in several places when you're young. But within three days we loved it, and Webgen sounded lame and old-fashioned. Debugging, I was rarely bored. We felt we were good at programming, but we discovered someone else had a product called that. And if you release a crude version 1, then f iterating rapidly. Then I had kids. Does it make any difference to know that? When you list everything ambitious people are ambitious about, it's not so pretty. That's why he's so good. Only those that are centers for some type of ambition. It's not just a figure of speech to say that you have to write about these topics? This kind of work you do, and engineers figure out how to do it—finding work you love does usually require discipline.

If I had only looked over at the other makers. More often people who do great things, you'd be able to say, but it felt like it at the time. So instead of doing Series A rounds is that they make you spend time on things that matter aren't necessarily the ones people would call important. It's not just a synonym for annoying. The main reason I don't like the name computer science. Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. It's a fine thing for parents to help their children indirectly—for example, but Microsoft, within the castle of their operating system monopoly, probably wouldn't even notice if you did. Why should they wait for VCs to make the language very abstract. For all practical purposes, succeeding now equals getting bought. When I was in high school is: mental queasiness. There was a lot of energy released.

Harvard and MIT are practically adjacent by West Coast standards, and they're surrounded by about 20 other colleges and universities. In the next few years, venture capital funds will find themselves squeezed from four directions. There are other messages too, but again, diluted; there are walls of varying heights between different kinds of academic work, because fields vary greatly in this respect. When the tests are narrow and predictable, you get cram schools—which they did in Ming China and nineteenth century England just as much as in present day South Korea. I hadn't deliberately tuned in to that wavelength to see if there was a name for this: premature optimization. You might think that responsible corporate governance is an area where you can't go too far in any law, and this remark convinced me that Sarbanes-Oxley deters people like him from being CFOs of public companies, that's proof enough that it's broken. All the time I was in New York would feel like a second class citizen. Collecting donations for a charity is an admirable thing to do, which is to design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs force hackers to be scientists, and companies force them to be engineers. The official story is that legacy status doesn't carry much weight, because all it does is break ties: applicants are bucketed by ability, and legacy status is only used to decide between the applicants in the bucket that straddles the cutoff. The angels made a huge return on that investment, so they're happy.

Where are the imaginative people? Food has been transformed from something that seemed totally normal into a rather seedy habit: from something movie stars did in publicity shots to something small huddles of addicts do outside the doors of office buildings. Into this already bad situation comes the third problem: Sarbanes-Oxley deters people like him from being CFOs of public companies, that's proof enough that it's broken. Finding work you love. You seem to be any sort of work they're going to do, you can probably get even more effect by paying closer attention to the time you have. These opportunities are not easy to find, though. Hackers, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. Ordinary employees find it very hard to recommend an acquisition; it's just too annoying to see a bunch of new startups. It probably extends to any kind of creative work. I just wasn't like the people there are rich, or expect to be when their options vest. It's an exciting place.

Thanks to Paul Buchheit, Tim O'Reilly, Dalton Caldwell, Sam Altman, and Jessica Livingston for putting up with me.

[essaywritting12]

UCSB Acceptance Rate – How Competitive Is It for In-State vs. Out-of-State Applicants? We will detail the acceptance rate for in-state and out-of-state students who want to study at UCSB.

[miiilowo]

days used to last all day. now days last 5 hours. If you're lucky

[qhsetools2022]

Experienced Floorhands-US Applicants

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[rightscoop]

Italian judges block Meloni's plan to hold asylum applicants in Albania

The Italian judges again denied the government’s request to hold asylum applicants in Albania while their cases are processed, dealing with another important setback for the anti -immigrant policy of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. It was the third decision against politics since the right -wing government of Mrs. Meloni began to carry out the plan in October, which has become a flagship of its…

[meoun-uk]

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[xtruss]

Americans Can Now Renew Passports Online And Bypass Cumbersome Paper Applications

— September 18, 2024 | Associated Press

The cover of a U.S. Passport is displayed in Tigard, Ore., Dec. 11, 2021. Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that its online passport renewal system is now fully operational. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Washington (AP) — Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays.

The State Department announced Wednesday that its online renewal system is now fully operational, after testing in pilot programs, and available to adult passport holders whose passport has expired within the past five years or will expire in the coming year. It is not available for the renewal of children’s passports, for first-time passport applicants for renewal applicants who live outside the United States or for expedited applications.

���By offering this online alternative to the traditional paper application process, the Department is embracing digital transformation to offer the most efficient and convenient passport renewal experience possible,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

The department said it estimated that about 5 million Americans would be able to use this service a year. In 2023, it processed 24 million passports, about 40% of which were renewals.

After staffing shortages caused mainly by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in lengthy passport processing delays, the department ramped up hiring and introduced other technological improvements that have reduced wait times by about one-third over last year. It says most applications are now completed in far less than the advertised six weeks to eight weeks and the online renewal system is expected to further reduce that.

The system will allow renewal applicants to skip the current process, which requires them to print out and send paper applications, photos and a check by mail, and submit their documents, photo, and payment through a secure website, www.Travel.State.Gov/renewonline.

There will be no change to the existing passport processing fees, which are currently $130 for a regular renewal.

Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter, whose bureau oversees passport processing said the department hoped to expand the program in the coming years to possibly include Americans living abroad, those seeking to renew a second passport and children’s passports.

“This is not going to be the last thing that we do,” she told reporters. “We want to see how this goes and then we’ll start looking at ways to continue to make this service available to more American citizens in the coming months and years.”

[genfagloser]

im making this its own post actually

found family is "i have endured the fucking horrors with these guys. i would both kill and die for them. i would rip my own bones out to make splints to heal theirs. there is no name for the bond we share"

found family is NOT "this guy is so dad-coded and these guys are so sibling-like and—"

EDIT: this is about genloss it is an opinion post about generation loss my favourite horror/comedy youtube series i had 100 followers at the time of making this post and didnt expect it to get seen at all. why are so many of you taking this as a personal attack. if you rb this with angry tags or honest to god actual body text im just going to laugh at you and probably block you. to the people being normal thank u i love u. im going back to ignoring this post 🫶

[nat-20s]

[forlorngarden]

'you are not serious people' is a phrase that has done so much. thank you logan succession

[essaywritting12]

Top 5 BSE Essay Examples from Successful Princeton Applicants

Princeton University is publicly considered one of the best national universities in the United States. However, its low receiving rate makes admission highly competitive for planned students. Princeton University has only a 4% acceptance rate by U.S. News & World Report.

We share some examples from these applicants to help students write a perfect admission essay. let’s explore some tips to help you write your essay.