Political violence obv has no place in any society but seeing the NYT titling their oped "America Mourns Charlie Kirk" sent a very weird message to my brain and I'm not sure why

its almost as if there are many things going on in the united states at once that are worthy of reporting

The last two World Cups took place in Qatar and Russia. They love authoritarians; they've directly stated that such governments make their jobs much easier. FIFA is the best sportswasher for hire.

My school pays this mfer 50 million and still manages to cancel the Morehead-Cain scholarships of Palestine activists.

What specifically makes this translation different from the other iambic pentameter Aeneid translations that have come out in the past years? (Mandelbaum/Fitzgerald/Ferry/Ruden)

SOME things are harder, like test score medians increasing and the applicant pool becoming harder. But the quality of high school education in general has dropped tremendously compared to previous generations. The system as it is a whole patchwork trying to go around holes in our pedagogical system.

I don't think I said that, no. In many ways, Gen X received a much harder, much more rewarding education than our generation will. I personally would have killed to attend UChicago as rigorous as it was in the 1900's. I just think the state of education is different from what you or the OP described

Coupled with the recent chicanery from the Trump Administration (slashing grants and intimidating schools) this is currently, by far, the worst college and academia has been for a LONG time. And it's all going to get worse before it gets better. (end)

This is not even to mention the ubiquity of cheating tools like ChatGPT and PhotoMath. Students are increasingly having less respect for their professors as well. Everyone I've talked to has described to me that their job has become more and more miserable due to these factors. 8/?

Since universities have the same financial and legislative pressures of high schools (especially public ones on both ends), the curriculum has had to have been dumbed down. Lots of students failing, and not paying tuition, is bad for business. 7/?

Graduating with a 4.0+ GPA is quickly becoming the norm, not the exception, due to decreased class rigor. This has transferred to universities, too. Freshman are coming in without possessing the ability to read, even at the Ivy level. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... 6/?

There was a somewhat surreal moment in my senior graduation where the principal revealed that our high school diplomas have Latin honors, like colleges (summa/magna/cum laude), based purely on your GPA, no real percentage of the class like most colleges. More than half graduated summa. 5/?