Archive for November, 2009

Which universities in California has a good Economics/Business major program?

I am a junior in high school planning out my road to university and I am looking for UCs with a good program in Economics/Business.
UC Irvine?
UC Davis?
UC San Diego?
UCI’s website says they have an undergraduate major in business administration open to transfers in 2010. That means you could start out in economics and, [...]

Where do you go if there is a student talking to the Prof during their office hours?

Like you get to the door, and you see they’re sitting with another student.Do you just say hi and stand outside the door? And isn’t that kind of rude since you can hear everything they’re saying? What are you supposed to say and where are you supposed to go to wait?
Glance in and try to [...]

White House touts 1 million jobs from stimulus, do you trust them enough to agree?

Peter Morici, an economist and professor at the University of Maryland, said that claims of jobs saved were "not verifiable. It’s only verifiable in the loosest sense."
Morici added: "The impact of the stimulus is less than the president is claiming and more than the Republicans will admit. It certainly has had an effect. But 1 [...]

Study Abroad : Does the University of Technology at Sydney have good science courses and a good prestige?

I’m from Mexico and I’m planning to go to Australia for a semester or maybe a year. My home institution has an exchange program with UTS at Australia and I was wondering if this university is good academically, and if it is good in science. Please can anyone give me any information about this university. [...]

How important is choosing a graduate program where the majority of the faculty have PhD’s?

I was interested in a Master’s program at an artsy-school but I realized that about 90% of the faculty members are not PhD’s. Especially if I am interested in applying to a Doctoral program afterwards, is that going to be problematic since these are the people who are writing my recommendations?
Go to where there [...]

Does the state health department work at the national or state level?

I know this is a stupid question, but just because something is at the level of a state department it doesn’t always mean they work for the state. So does the state health department work to protect health at the national, or state level?
They work for the state, but are also aware of federal level [...]

Can economics and electrical or industrial engineering majors go together?

I really need the answer on this b/c it seems like economics and engineering are two completely different fields. I already graduated with economics but is planning on going into industrial engineer, not sure if they are two related major AND is the salary of industrial engi high??
*salary is important to me*
THANKS Yes, if [...]

Would I have a better chance at getting into UC-Berkeley?

I would really like to get into UC-Berkeley and I am working very hard through my high school courses to receive good grades and test scores. Also, I have been wondering if being a fifth generation uc-berkeley student (two of the four previous generations were professors) and also being a first generation student as well. [...]

How to set up a new XP prof client pc on a server running Win2k?

Will I have to manipulate Active Directory or can I do everything from the client pc? Do I need to delete the old client pc’s from Active Directory since they no longer exist?
Just add it to the domain from the My Computer properties dialog box on the PC, you’ll be prompted for admin credentials [...]

Dr. N.E. Andertal has discovered a burial site in a cave in Iraq?

Dr. N.E. Andertal has discovered a burial sire in a cave in Iraq. There is a nearly complete human burial in the cave that appears to have been decorated with wolves teeth. Dr. Andertal think that the cranium of his find shows evidence of being a cross (or hybrid) if Homo sapiens and Neanderthal. As [...]