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I'm a bald head Samsonite Rastafari with a liking for politics, media, sociology, psychology, economics, ganja and other topics.
What you'll read here are usually posts analyzing the world around me through a Gestalt lens. The picture is clearer when you look at the whole thing, rather than just the flower in the foreground. Join(t) me and read about a world of interconnected problems and possible solutions! And of course, random rantings and weed.
And the world just got a whole lot harder for Cops without morals.
This piece pin points many of the problems with the NYC Dept of Ed’s stadardized-test-only admissions process for its “Specialized” (read: focus on either mathematics, science, or arts) schools (all except LaGuardia, which obviously requires an auditioning process).
I loved this article. Pointed out exactly why only letting kids into a school based purely on test scores is a certified way to exclude students that would perform on par or even above and beyond.
The stupidity of using Hedge Funds and other massive investment vehicles to grow capital you operate off.
Really though, these investment vehicles move so slowly to significant market turmoil it seems. And many times prone to generate less gains over extended time periods than simple bond portfolios would have (considering fees after).
And my scholarship money is riding on this!?
This shit just got real.
And why does no one in the United States understand how Affirmative Action works, or its justifying context?
India’s caste system turns into a hot mess when it comes College Apps time. And Election time apparently….
Rantings (and hopefully insight) of a student of social science.
I start Business School tomorrow…
In pursuit of an MBA, what’s supposed to be the beginning of the loss of my social life and possibly my sanity for the next two years.
Ah well, lets make the most out of it.
The Welfare Myth
Statistics about the welfare drug test system in Florida recently came out. Turns out only 2.6% of welfare users were caught with any type of drugs in their system. If this asserts anything, it’s that the idea that welfare users are more prone to drug addiction than the general population is entirely wrong. The idea that we need to police them more than the general population with drug testing is also wrong.
Maybe even more universally sickening than any of this is that tax payer money, yes almost $120,000 of it, went towards this program. It saved the state less than $100,000. More precisely, it saved the state $72,360 in welfare fraud. Yes, the math is correct: drug testing welfare recipients to find ways to save funding by withdrawing assistance actually cost the state of Florida more than allowing these recipients to continue to be on the program.
Not to mention a good amount of non-violent drug users were just booted off a program they desperately needed.
Going to Baruch’s Zicklin School of Biz…
Getting myself an MBA in Marketing. Very excited. Very scared. Lets see how it goes!
