Mid levels (nurse practitioners and PAs) are forged in shorter Masters programs and handle certain tasks that doctors do. The full doctor does in fact need extended training, since a doctor needs to understand macro and molecular pathophysiology.

You know what?

I changed my mind. I more agree than disagree with what you said after thinking about it. But I still stand by the fact that if a person doesn't get a high demand skill along the way, they're being setup for failure.

If someone can't code their way out of a paper bag after a CS degree, then that University should lose funding. This is precisely why FAFSA is problematic: it encourages Universities to lower standards so far that the people arguing *for* college admit some people complete a degree and learned nothing.

Your image of a Renaissance man who can do it all being forged in the alma mater is just a bit much. CPAs, engineers, actuaries, data scientists, nurses, etc, are not produced by the learned intellectual doing some light reading at the library. If a business shells out a lot of money for a position, it's because there aren't a lot of people who can do it relative to the need for such positions. This is just a basic economic fact. And while I agree that someone eager to learn is better off in the long term - and even that college cultivates this - the core fact is your major had better give you a skill within the professional middle class if you want a good job. Transferrable skills will get you ahead in that career, but getting into it is what a major should be for.

I also have a Masters degree, and you've just drunk the coolaid because your parents are professors and drink it for a living. So I'll make my point in a few words, as opposed to a liberal arts essay no one will probably read:

No one changes from being an engineer to a nurse or an architect to a CPA without going back to school for another mountain of debt. A well rounded education makes someone mobile within a field, but it does not give someone a marketable skill. The skills businesses pay for are valuable because of supply and demand, and the low supply side is most often precisely because it takes years to master. I.e. those well rounded classes aren't applicable. Don't like it? Tough, it's called today's job market.

Your "trade school that teaches aeronautical engineering" is just what major classes are. You're effectively just arguing that core curriculum should be clipped. I may be wrong, but it sounds like you don't come from a college going family that knows how it works. The middle class uses colleges as a trade school for middle class professional jobs. The core just makes sure those professionals know basic science, reading, writing, government, and math.

Now for those who don't realize how to use college, they end up with Kinesiology degrees working in retail. That happens too. Those that do know how it works end up in the nice part of town, with the big houses that aren't too big but still look nicer than most of the ones in town.

Also, college math should require at least twice as much time on homework as time spent in class. Really, maybe more like 6-9 hours of homework per week given 3 hours in class.

High schools do teach Calculus, but usually only bigger ones since only a handful of students actually take it. Even at a university Calculus can vary. Usually, a standard Calculus class is just the first few parts of Stewart. Some wild Calculus classes are really Real Analysis lite, often based on Spivak.

Also. Calculus 2 can crush even a moderately well prepared student who had Calculus 1. So it may have not been inadequate Calculus 1, just hardcore Calculus 2.

College can be a good deal if you target a professional middle class career field early on and take internships/jobs to network. That coupled with cost saving measures, like in state public universities as opposed to brand name private schools. People run into trouble when they pay out of state tuition at a designer university to study Kinesiology or something with no further plan.

But college can most definitely be a good deal. For example, who do you think designs airplanes, someone from trade school? How about microprocessors? Those jobs go to the degreed professional middle class.

I remember when there were some professional developments pushing Jamboard onto teachers, and I thought NOPE. Google is a seriously unreliable company, I figured they'd screw their Jamboard userbase. Called it.

As for smartboards: it's far more effective to just mirror an iPad with OneNote or something. Then you can walk around the class and monitor while writing. Also, it isn't $5,000.

Microsoft has recently outed how Chinese propaganda campaigns operate in the US, and you sound a lot like either a propagandist or that you've been misled by one. It is entirely plausible that the military would store sensor data for the long term, and it's entirely plausible that analysts would double check that data when an illegal spying operation was spotted. That you'd act like this is surprising is damning.

Just to draw an analogy: imagine I have home surveillance cameras and find out someone has been sneaking into my house, but that the motion/face recognition system was being fooled by a funny outfit the intruder wears. Since the recordings still exist, I could just go check the older recordings - adjusting for the funny outfit - to find previously unnoticed intrusions.

My guess: It is possible that raw sensor data is stored in a repository, and that the original algorithms for surfacing anomalies weren't tuned high altitude balloon. If the raw data is stored, it would just be a matter of running the appropriate algorithms to find balloon associated patterns in the raw data.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if something is made in China, given how much manufacturing was shipped there. But I do have to say, your wording feels curiously like the wording mentioned by Microsoft in the article below.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

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Gravitationally confined dihydrogenmonoxide tends to block the energy transfer though, so it needs gravitationally grounded energy reservoirs for conistent power supply.