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Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? 1131

Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 29, 2007 @06:09PM from the damn-it-jim-i'm-a-doctor-not-an-engineer dept.

I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my Ph.D. I have learned that 90% of my department is from India and many others are from China. All the students come here to study and there are only 7 US citizens in the engineering program this year. Why is that? I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into medicine or the law and that is why there are so few Americans in engineering. Is this true?

Guild Wars Expansion, Sequel Officially Announced 52

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 29, 2007 @01:11PM from the still-not-sure-about-this dept.

katalin writes "Arenanet, makers of the Guild Wars Massive game, have announced the first 'true' expansion pack to the game - Eye of the North. Next year will also see the beginning of a Beta test for a true sequel to the original Guild Wars. The new game will be substantially different from the current offering, with many elements similar to a more traditional fantasy Massively Multiplayer game. It still, however, will not require a monthly fee to play."

Feed A View to a Kill (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:12AM

Every nature show you've ever seen is a fraud. Until now. The BBC finds a way to deliver authentic scenes from the wildest places. By Sonia Zjawinski from Wired magazine. Plus: Watch video clips from Planet Earth. Warning: Footage may disturb some viewers.

Comment Hit and Miss (Score 1) 519

by Downtown on Wednesday August 23, 2006 @09:49AM (#15962057) Attached to: Unlock Internet or Risk Losing Staff?

My workplace recently increased their filtering. It went from blocking the usual suspects to blocking all sorts of nonsense. I discovered the changes right away too... I loaded up slashdot and it blocked any article from games.slashdot.org...

So I checked some forums that I was reading... I can still browse one of the games related ones... but not it's main site...

There are blocks for streaming media(google video still works), and free hosting sites. It's gone overboard in terms of blocking. Although I think it was more of a regime change here that caused the increased blocking.

I'd rather work for a place that had an intelligent policy about these things. Not just randomly blocking sites because they may cause a problem.

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