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This girl is awesome! I wish only good things for her and her family. Go get em!
Oh, god. I hate to say this but shouldn’t a homeless kid be waiting to hear from a local community college? Even with a full-ride scholarship, Yale and Brown are probably out of their reach. So, will she be an OWS supporter in a few years with a $30K job as a marine biologist and a quarter million in student loans?
Don’t hate me. I’m just sayin’.
Oh, hell, hate me.
Where I come from “full-ride” included room and board, education and even books in some cases. What else would there be to rack up $250,000 in loans.
Why the hell would the Marines need a biologist?
<:)
1.6 Million children classed as homeless!! In a country with a population of 300 Million.
WOW
We even have more homeless children in this country than we have prisoners.
The best and the brightest of them are the shrinking pool of tomorrows soldiers, if they’re lucky and live that long.
The rest of them we’ll see working crappy retail jobs or behind the counters at fast food joints while living with their parents, or on COPS…
cant see the video, just get a lil busy indicator waiting for it to load. i wonder what kinda maleware comes with this..
Worked fine for me. Its Channel 7 news here in New York so I know their feed is good, even if the news isn’t.
Unfortunately schools like Brown and Yale not only look at grades and SAT scored but they look at family background as well. They want students with powerful parents who form social networks with other powerful individuals. This is so that when the student graduates he/she will have a greater chance in getting a job with the correct career trajectory. For individuals of the lower social classes and upper social class there position in society is relatively finite, very few upper class children leave the upper class because their parents soical networks yield them with high paying jobs and the social capital to succeed. On the opposite end of the spectrum lower class children do not have their parents to help them get a job in a friends company and they lack the social capital to form bonds with children of other classes, even if they have a superior IQ. In all this child will have an uphill battle and i hope she becomes a finalist in the competition so that she can distinguish herself from other students, get admitted to her desired school, and get a scholarship.
Perfectly correct – at the undergraduate level. How and why dolts like George W get in and carried through.
At the graduate level, qualifications are 99% of the tale.
The rich have very exclusionary standards.
If their papa and mama didn’t know or can’t lookup your mama or papa in some form of Who’s Who? then you’re not getting to first base with any of them or getting in anywhere they go.
They’ll let you rack up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt in their schools, and they might even give you scholarships to do so, but don’t expect to get a job doing as little as they do or earning as much as they earn.
They are 1%ers and its not a fuckin’ meritocracy.
You have your head up your own ass! And you’re obviously jealous that you don’t have what it takes to join the ranks of the wealthy. Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with money either. Read on…
“One percenters,” as you put it, usually get there with a little help (aka money) and that part I might agree with – that it’s possibly unfair. Then again, I don’t recall anyone telling me that life would exactly be fair either.
But here’s what you don’t seem to understand: Those “one-percenters” stay there through hard work and determination. Things I’m sure a lib-tard communist “equalizer” knows nothing about.
This girl is hot!
Animby – I respectfully disagree. I hope she gets a full scholorship and grants. Enough of this just getting by and graduating with life-crippling debt. Someone had better watch out for her. I’m going to donate my next karma request to Samantha.
With what do you disagree? I don’t wish the girl continued poverty but, unless she gets that mythical “free ride” that seems to accrue mostly to football players, she is looking at heartbreak if accepted by the Ivy League or crippling student debt. Let’s face it, there are probably as many marine biologists working at McDonalds as there are English majors.
Marine Biologist?==Ha, ha. Yes, just what the world needs, anodder one o’ dem. Every niece and nephew in my clan wants to be a Marine Biologist and half of them are on one kind of scholarship or another to face a career without openings. The fall back?===another scholarship and higher degree. We’ve got degrees out our asses in the bobbo clan. Ha, ha–even in my own clan, or should I in context say clam?, no one wants to hear my rant on this anymore: “We should care more……” doesn’t cut it in my book. Poor kiddies. You’d think a Marine Biologist would understand what being at the bottom of a food chain actually meant?
I was struck by the fact the girl had two loving parents. Dumb as rocks but they love and support her. She is very lucky in that respect. You can overcome just about anything with that as a foundation.
No one makes it on their own.
Know what I mean?
Plenty of job openings. Just learn a language or two other than American.
Plenty of jobs huh? Good to know the market is turning around. What language has the most number of open positions calling for a degree in the Marine Biology area?
We do have high standards in the bobbo clam: working on a canning line on a factory fishing boat is not considered using one’s degree. My clam is overly hoity toity about that kind of thing.
fun to imagine a fantasy universe where we all got to do what we wanted to do if we had anywhere near the requisite qualifications. AFTER movie star and hedge fund manager, all the sports of course, musician I suppose==what would pull in the most workers?
There are job openings not being filled. There are companies that are seriously out looking for the right people with the right skill set…Now that is the rub. You have to have the right skill set, the right attitude, and you may need to go where they need you which may not be anywhere you wanted to be.
An acquaintance just did a month long training session in Japan. He works for a car company. Another is working on putting his kids through college by working in the middle east…He had a decent job managing the local ambulance service but this paid a lot more…
Do-ill==of course there are job openings. The issue presented here is whether or not their are job openings that would be of interest to someone with an interest in and a degree in Marine Biology.
MARINE BIOLOGY!!!!
Not cars or ambulances unless there is a connection there my degrees not in Marine Biology have me clueless about. You aren’t clueless though Do-ill.
Can you connect the dots for all those with an interest in earning a living with a degree in Marine Biology?
I am “waiting to hear from” Powerball. I lost my ticket but I am pretty sure it was a winner.
A heart warming story.
what do you find heartwarming about it?
the fact that she is homeless?
the fact that 1,6 million children are homeless in the US?
the fact that they got to be homeless was only because their car was wrecked?
the fact that she will never get to go to a top university because her parents aren’t rich and powerful?
the fact that the 1% got rich over this kids back?
the fact that the american dream turned into just getting by?
the fact that 49 million people in the US live under the poverty line?
etc etc
glad I live in a more social country. Europe FTW!
The fact that she carries on instead of whining about it like some euro trash on the dole.
She should be come a nun. We have a lot of homely girls here.
May she go far in life.
Here is another vid/link of the story.
http://tinyurl.com/7hk3fkz
The teacher seems quite fond of her student.
Not to worry: The news today is reporting she and her family have been given a rent-controlled three bedroom home and, I’m betting, she’ll get accepted by Yale with a huge scholarship or private grants. Cripes! Somebody even coughed up money to save their pet! (Why does a sweet young marine biologist have an f-ing pit bull, anyway?) Just goes to prove, you can be anything you want in America – if you get the right publicity…
I think the missed story here is how hot Liz Cho is. Holy crap! Why is this woman not on Fox News?
Mario Capecchi was a homeless child for 6 years during WWII and went on to win the Nobel Prize for inventing mammalian genetic engineering (see FiB62)… 6 years of eating coffee beans and bread crusts – no baths…
Wow, you go girl!