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你刚才的$180还让我激动了一阵 Jun 22, 2006

正在想这是月租费,还是周租费呢
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higher education



BTW, I left out a K in the median housing price...should have been around $180K


 
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Arizona? Jun 22, 2006

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老孙:谢谢你的指点!
听你这一说,我还真想鼓励她将来去University of Arizona at Tucson,当然不能先告诉她那里是沙漠


Or NO NO NO, chance, you do not want to send her to Arizona. There is Nothing there! Even the "trees" they have do not have any leaves! Saguaros are all they have for trees in Tucson. Tacos and beans are all they eat for food! I mean to send a girl from the banks of the Seine or the beautiful Loire Valley to the Arizona desert is indeed 太“残酷”了! If you are not convinced, I will dig out some photos I took around University of Arizona at Tucson and email some to you. In a few days if you like.

But if you go to Arizona as a tourist, you will enjoy the spectacular views of the desert to its south and the Grand Canyon to its north. When the desert wild flowers are in bloom, the colors are amazingly beautiful! But that is noly for a very short period of the year. You do not want to live there! Believe me.


 
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David, 你放心! Jun 22, 2006

我女儿在选择美国学校之前,我会让她先看这里的帖子,她那时至少应该会看你的英语帖子了

 
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University of Arizona at Tucson Jun 22, 2006

Chance,

I agree with wherestip and David. I was just kidding about going to University of Arizona, but its surroundings are not as bad as you may think and it is really a good school. (That is also the university which offered 方励之 a job as a Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 1989.) Take a tour at
http://www.arizona.edu/photos/gallery_content.html
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Chance,

I agree with wherestip and David. I was just kidding about going to University of Arizona, but its surroundings are not as bad as you may think and it is really a good school. (That is also the university which offered 方励之 a job as a Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 1989.) Take a tour at
http://www.arizona.edu/photos/gallery_content.html

When my younger son was in high school, as the Internet was not so popular at that time, we had to drive from Los Angeles to Phoenix and Tucson to visit Arizona State University at Phoenix and University of Arizona at Tucson (a round trip of about 1600 kilometers in the desert). We also visited almost all Univ. of California campuses from Berkeley down to San Diego. When I went to Houston on business, I drove several hours from Houston to UT-Austin. When I was in Milwaukee on business, I drove two hours to visit Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison. Some UC campuses offered my son scholarship, but he finally chose Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison because he wanted "freedom"! For his "freedom", I had to pay the tuition for non-Wisconsin resident that was more than three times as high as the tuition for Wisconsin resident.

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可喜天下父母心 Jun 22, 2006

我还以为已经提前替女儿考虑了不少,和老孙你比起来,可算天上地下!

 
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只是尽了些应尽的责任 Jun 23, 2006

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我还以为已经提前替女儿考虑了不少,和老孙你比起来,可算天上地下!


Chance:

谢谢,但我只是尽了些应尽的责任。


 
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公立大学里的常青藤 Jun 23, 2006

University of Texas at Austin, University of Wisconsin at Madison and University of Arizona at Tucson are among the so-called Public Ivies, just as University of California at Berkeley and University of Michigan at Ann Harbor.

 
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我搞不太清楚 Jun 23, 2006

法国的university都是公费的,一般只有高校(Grande Ecole)才收高学费。美国大学也分公费和私人吗?

 
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大学经费来源 Jun 23, 2006

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法国的university都是公费的,一般只有高校(Grande Ecole)才收高学费。美国大学也分公费和私人吗?


Chance:

我想主要区别在于公立大学经费来源包括政府拨款,而私立大学没有政府拨款。


 
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应该是这样,不过我也不是很清楚 Jun 23, 2006

法国的大学应该全是政府拨款,高校是否有部分政府拨款我就不清楚了。

我听说美国许多企业资助学生,在我们这里有些专业可以拿到奖学金,也是政府拨款,很少有企业资助的。实际上企业和公民上税,由政府再分配。

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chance wrote:

法国的university都是公费的,一般只有高校(Grande Ecole)才收高学费。美国大学也分公费和私人吗?


Chance:

我想主要区别在于公立大学经费来源包括政府拨款,而私立大学没有政府拨款。


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美国企业对大学的支持是很可观的,其形式有捐赠、提供合作研究经费、学生实习机会(Internship)和就业机会,等等。此外,很多大企业支付部分或全部学费鼓励雇员进修。无论公立、私立大学,每年都收到来自企业和个人(包括校友)的大量捐赠。另外,还有各种教育基金会可向学生提供资助。据说很多基金会的钱没人去申请,结果钱滚钱越滚越多。很多学校说,“只要你考�... See more
美国企业对大学的支持是很可观的,其形式有捐赠、提供合作研究经费、学生实习机会(Internship)和就业机会,等等。此外,很多大企业支付部分或全部学费鼓励雇员进修。无论公立、私立大学,每年都收到来自企业和个人(包括校友)的大量捐赠。另外,还有各种教育基金会可向学生提供资助。据说很多基金会的钱没人去申请,结果钱滚钱越滚越多。很多学校说,“只要你考得上,我们就让你上得起”,并不是空话。以上只是自己所见所闻,没有专门去调查研究。都说华人重视子女教育,这不假,但美国整个社会都重视教育,值得中国借鉴,学校不能光学习国外学校如何挣学生的钱。

本科生得到的资助形式有奖学金(scholarship)、work-study、internship、政府低息贷款等。研究生得到的资助形式有scholarship、TA (Teaching Assistant)、RA (Research Assistant),还可以自行申请各种基金会的scholarship。某些人常说某某获得了全额奖学金,这不确切,应该说资助(financial aid)。TA和RA实际上是工资,不是奖学金。这些概念很多人已经知道,但有些人不一定知道,所以多啰嗦几句,希望有所帮助。
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老孙:你这一说我也想起来一些,这里也有类似的情况 Jun 23, 2006

但企业大量资助的很少。我在这里得到不少职业培训机会,都是属于政府出资的,可以说只要想学习,就可以参加工作需要的专业学习班,课程都是很实用的专业知识,学习期间往往能拿部分工资或生活补助,在这里确实可以“活到老学到老” 我现在所挣收入的一部分也被直接扣去交这些CHARGES了,羊毛出在羊身上。

相比之下,名牌大学除外,一般大学的课程往往离工作实践有距离,一般大学的毕业生, 甚至MASTER也较难找到工作,近几年这个问题被越来越多地提出来。当然这和法国的经济不景气有关。

墙内开花墙外香,许多在法国找不到工作的MASTER往往在欧洲其它国家受欢迎

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“具有法兰西特色的社会主义” Jun 23, 2006

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但企业大量资助的很少。我在这里得到不少职业培训机会,都是属于政府出资的,可以说只要想学习,就可以参加工作需要的专业学习班,课程都是很实用的专业知识,学习期间往往能拿部分工资或生活补助,在这里确实可以“活到老学到老” 我现在所挣收入的一部分也被直接扣去交这些CHARGES了,羊毛出在羊身上。


Chance:

这大概就是“具有法兰西特色的社会主义”。;) 几年前我听说,加拿大新移民若在魁北克参加政府办的法语学习班,每月可拿八百加元,为期半年。有一对中国移民夫妇两人轮流参加学习班,坚持到找到工作。这种美事以前确实没有听说过。美国各地有很多政府或教会办的英语学习班,也是免费的。

小儿子刚来美国念8年级时,什么钱都不用缴,连书都不用自己买。午餐也是免费的,但他吃不惯,还是回家吃。第一天上课回来告诉我说他一点儿都听不懂,有一堂课他甚至怀疑讲的是不是英语。我一看课程表,对他说,你很不简单,那是法语! 学校专门为3个外国学生高薪聘请了一位ESL教师。那位女教师上课时就带他们出去逛商店、逛公园搞现场教学,还自己掏钱给他们买冰淇淋、汉堡包吃。他一考上大学首先想到要感谢那位老师。


 
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Arizona Today Jun 23, 2006

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David, 你放心!
...我会让她先看这里的帖子...:D


As we were talking about Arizona yesterday, see what is acutally going on there today:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13476350/
Enough to scare you now?

While much of the world is still having spring flowers and the trees are getting fully shady and darker green for the summer, the American Southwest has already dried up. Here the hills and deserts start to turn green around Christmas and by late April or early May, the grass has already become yellow. It only takes several days of sunshine to dry out the grass completely, so the ground is covered with it. Any spark will start a huge fire that will burn like crazy.


 
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No, not enough to scare me ;-) Jun 23, 2006

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As we were talking about Arizona yesterday, see what is acutally going on there today:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13476350/
Enough to scare you now?



我一看你那链接的第一张照片就乐了,直升机在我头上飞的日子过了十多年, 见过许多生死危险的人和事,其中有一年就是和朋友去马赛那一带救山火,他们是执行任务,我只是旁观。由于干热法国南部的夏天也常有山火,近年来的主要是人为放火的犯罪行为。我专门到刚熄火的山上去转了一圈,差点没把鞋给烧了。还记得每天早晨要和一两百消防队员握手,幸好我已在部队见过世面

要是问我女儿想去哪儿,她现在肯定说哪儿也不想去。不过前段时间她非问我哪个国家没有原子弹威胁、没有恐怖活动、没有那么多暴力?我当时想到的是加拿大、新西兰、新加坡,现在想想也可以加上北欧。前几天和我闹了半天,死活不想今年夏天去英国学英语了,因为新闻报道伦敦破获了一个恐怖组织。以前听说巴黎也危险,非要搬家,我们这里离巴黎100多公里呢,她就使劲计算如果巴黎原子弹爆炸,能不能影响到我们这里。看报道说智商高的孩子会担心一些遥远的问题,我只好告诉她这是因为她precocious 的表现,并非事实。她回答我:你要我不担心,别老让我看新闻!

我希望她们这一代能解决一些我们现在难以解决的问题。


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