Hey, I recently got an email regarding a change in my MDCAPS award. When I checked the MDCAPS website, my aid from the GA Grant went down about ~3750 for the fall semester without affecting my aid for the spring semester. And when I go to check my E-Bill, I’m currently being charged for that $3750 marked “GA Grant”. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this, and if there’s any way to resolve this.
Got some exams coming up and want to study. However, the libraries on campus will be closed over break.
All of my usual spots are closed over the weekend, and McKeldin closes at 8pm today. My apartment’s wifi is pretty unstable, so can’t study at home.
Currently playing the new beta and one thing that's irking me is that, when I try to go from Week 2 to Week 1, it often requires me to click twice to move onto the next week. However, it seems that in turn, it skips Week 2 and goes straight to Week 3. And whether it's related or not, when I'm serving as governor, I'm not given the option to run for reelection.
I’m genuinely so stressed and frustrated with myself. I’m going into my Sophomore year and with internships for next summer opening up around this time, I’m beyond pissed off at myself for not having a higher GPA or doing stuff back in my freshman year to make myself a competitive applicant for these internships. For context, I was at CC for my freshman year and just recently transferred into my current university for AE. My GPA wasn’t the greatest then, and I didn’t necessarily have any places near me to develop any technical experience during my freshman year. And now I’m really putting things into perspective in that, I only have next summer, my junior year, the summer before my senior year which I should be spending locking down on a job after graduation, senior year, then that’s it. I mean, I do have the ability to do internships during the academic year, but having a full AE course load + an internship will inevitably fuck up my GPA. And if I were to spread out my classes over the winter and summer, then that requires a good chunk of cash which I absolutely do not have. With the way it’s looking, I’m genuinely just so so fucked man.
Recently started getting into the game and having a ton of fun. Since the DLC's seem to be relatively cheap, I was curious, what DLC would you consider to be the most 'worth it'?
Thinking about applying, but just want to get a handling as to how selective they are.
I've got a pickup order at 2:00pm tomorrow and was unsure at what time I should get there in particular. I don't necessarily want to show up too early to avoid congestion, but don't want to show up at 2:00 on the dot and risk not being able to pick it up.
Howdy! I'm a rising-sophomore doing AeroE and considering picking up a minor in the latter half of my degree.
I'm currently stuck between:
If any of you guys have taken the following, what has your experience been like with the coursework, professors, workload, and overall usefulness of the minor? How difficult was it to fit the requirements into your schedule, especially alongside an engineering major?
Howdy! I'm a rising-sophomore doing AeroE and wanted advice regarding how I should go about pursuing a double major or a minor if I wish to pursue one in the future. As of right now, I'm struggling to pinpoint a double major/minor as I'm having a difficult time deciding whether or not I wish to do one in a field related to my major (Math, CS/AI, Robotics, etc.), or a field that I find interesting on a personal level that I would love to learn more about (history, government, PPE, Economics).
What are your thoughts on the matter?
I’m looking to 3D print something for an upcoming event and was curious if there were any places open on campus with 3D printers available for students to use.
I’m a little confused about how financial aid is applied to my eBill.
My eBill currently shows a balance, even though my accepted financial aid award should be more than enough to cover it. Does the financial aid automatically get applied to the balance closer to the beginning of the semester, or is there something else I need to do first?
I also noticed that, when I return to my financial aid offer page, I still have the option to “Submit Award Form to Student Financial Aid,” even though I already submitted it previously. Does this mean my award was not properly accepted, or does the button simply remain available after submission?
I just want to make sure my aid will be applied to my eBill before the payment deadline and that I do not need to resubmit anything. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Howdy! I'm a 19 year old and just started taking responsibility of my personal finances. I've been saving my money over the years and have a decent chunk of change lying about in cash that I'm considering putting into my savings account, or investing into an index fund for the future.
I'm considering going with the later, as I don't expect to be touching that money for a minimum of 5-8 years from now and would think that I should allow that money to grow in the mean time.
However, I don't necessarily understand how to go about actually opening up a Roth IRA or investing into an index fund for that matter as I don't exactly have anybody in my life that knowledgeable on investing. Additionally, I am aware that there are various brokers and whatnots that I can use in order to open up a Roth IRA, however, I don't exactly know how to determine what broker is the right fit for me.
Any help or advice is greatly welcomed!
I was completely accepting of the fact that they had broken up and were instead coparenting Lily with Logan being in a relationship with another woman. However, I just came across a post from Chilly that stated that they were expecting another child.
Help.
Prior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, senators were elected by the state legislature. In 1870, Mississippi's Republican-led, biracial state legislature, Mississippi State Senator Hiram R. Revels was elected to complete the term of the state's Senate seat which had been vacated by Senator Albert G. Brown, who had resigned from the seat after Mississippi's secession from the Union in 1861.
One thing I knew but never really put much thought into was the Presidential Line of Succession. While the first two, VP and SOTH, make sense, I never understood the reason for the inclusion of the President Pro Tempore over the Senate Majority Leader or simply including the Senate Majority Leader after the PPT.
For all intents and purposes, the Senate Majority Leader has a good amount of the responsibilities of that of the Speaker. They manage what bills go to debate and vote, what issues and priorities their respective chamber focuses on, serve as more-or-less the spokesman of their chamber to the other half of Congress or the White House, and serve as general representatives of their party.
Also, by the time the Line of Succession was formally created, it wasn't as if partisanship within Congress was incredibly taboo. By this time, the Speaker of the House was the "leader" of the controlling party of the House, or at least the most popular to the point where the controlling party would consolidate votes for a singular person for Speaker; Minority for Minority Leader. This is evident in 1941 when Sam Rayburn won the Speakership with 247 of the 268 total Democratic votes. So at this point of time, parties voting internally for a singular individual was the norm. My point is that the legislators who formalized the Line of Succession were aware of the partisanship of the Speakership and included it, so it's not as if they excluded the Senate Majority Leader for partisan reasons.
Additionally, I feel like it'd make sense if we talk about topics like the electoral process of the Presidency in the first place. In the Constitution, it's know that if neither major nominee is able to win a majority of the electoral college, it is to the House's privy to vote for who becomes President; Senate's job to determine who will become Vice President. However, in the case that the Senate is able to determine the VP, while the House remains deadlocked by inauguration day, the Vice President-elect acts as President until a President qualifies While the Senate can only vote between the top two vice-presidential nominees, it serves as precedent that the Senate has a direct role in who may exercise the duties of the President.
In a more practical sense, why would we want the President Pro Tempore to be in the Line of Succession anyways? That role is a title granted, not on competency or merit, but rather on who has been in the Senate the longest. First of all, in a point of age, the longest serving senator would be incredibly old at the point. Not like, tenured-professor old, but the type of old where they need an automated chair to go up staircases. At that point, would they not be considered more as a liability than anything, if they were to become the executive of the United States of America? Also, very rarely has a PPT served in Senate leadership within their lifetime, at least from my knowledge. (The only person I can think of is Henry Cabot Lodge). While they certainly do have qualification for the Presidency, if you've spent decades within the nation's highest legislative chamber, and haven't cracked at leadership, genuinely how competent can you be?
I'd also find it somewhat unfair. In this instance, a Senator from a small-state who can easily form relationships with their constituents will easily be re-elected several times, over and over again. And if they keep going at this, they may eventually serve for so long in which they will become PPT. While yes, the President-VP-SOTH, can all come from small states, they must display merit and competency in order to actually gather enough votes to win those respective positions. However, with the PPT, they can just sit around for decades and automatically be third-in-line to the highest office in the country without truly proving how well they can legislate/govern. Take Chuck Grassley. In his 45 years of office in the Senate, he only held caucus chairmanship, and for only a total of 19 years; ~42% of his tenure in the Senate. While this is certainly more than I'll ever have personally, to serve for this long and have not even half of your senatorial years be in any position of leadership is not the greatest indicator of competency, and not somebody who I would want as the third-in-line to the Presidency.
I certainly understand that the President Pro Tempore is a Constitutionally-recognized office, while Senatorial leadership isn't. However, by the time of the Line of Succession's establishment, the President Pro Tempore was already well known as the role it is today. Maybe that was more defensible in 1947 when the current version of the line was enacted. However, by modern-day standards, and maybe even back-then, The Majority Leader is and was THE central power to how the Senate actually operates, while the President pro tempore has mainly been a purely ceremonial title.