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I had a truly shocking discovery the other day. Something I had safely assumed my entire life has turned out to apparently not be true.
The smilie face :P To me it goes without saying that if you make an expression that involves your tongue hanging down out of the side of your mouth you are expressing "bleh" or "ick" or "feeling sick."
The other day I met a friend who fervently disagreed, and informed me I was "fucking rude" for sticking my tongue out at her after she said she was sick. I surveyed some other friends on facebook and... was absolutely shocked to discover nearly everyone who responded thinks it represents sticking your tongue out at someone in a silly and frivolous manner.
The face facebook renders the smilie as looks just like I would expect it to under my original understanding, it does not look happy, it looks slightly unwell. Skype has always rendered it as clearly sticking its tongue out in a silly manner but I just shrugged that off as Skype going in a radical new direction with it.
To me the idea of sticking your tongue at someone in a silly manner could only be expressed by saying something like "pbtbtbtbtbt."
So am I really the only one who thinks :P or :-P or d: is an unwell / bleh face??
Almost Completely Unrelated Picture of the Day
And here's an advertisement I saw on a ferry crossing the Dardanelles in Turkey.
Other random discussion items:
(1) Flickr is changing things up again? What do those of you who use Flickr think of the new "photo experience?" (I think they're trying to quietly remove a lot of features)
(2) The livejournal homepage looks like it's been substantially changed. Unlike yahoo's tinkering with flickr, I think this change might actually be a lot better. I wasn't very fond of the previous lj "home page" anyway.
GRE / GMAT
Nov. 5th, 2011 09:58 pm So I've been working on applications for maritime academies. For about five years now I've been utterly and completely unable to get a job related in any way to my degree in International Relations so it's time for a New Plan.
The admissions information for the California Maritime Academy says that of the class of 2010, 97% were employed in their field with a median salary of $92,000 within three months of graduation. That sounds MUCH better than what my current degree has been doing for me! More important than the degree is the Coast Guard "3rd Mate Unlimited" license that comes with it -- allowing graduates to work as third mates on ships of any size.
Most of the maritime academies only have undergraduate programs so I'd have to spend another 3-4 years getting a second bachelor degree, but SUNY Maritime actually has a graduate program that grants the coveted USCG license.
The SUNY program requires a GMAT or GRE score. My question for you all is what are the best way to prepare for one of these exams? Are they similar to the LSAT?
The admissions information for the California Maritime Academy says that of the class of 2010, 97% were employed in their field with a median salary of $92,000 within three months of graduation. That sounds MUCH better than what my current degree has been doing for me! More important than the degree is the Coast Guard "3rd Mate Unlimited" license that comes with it -- allowing graduates to work as third mates on ships of any size.
Most of the maritime academies only have undergraduate programs so I'd have to spend another 3-4 years getting a second bachelor degree, but SUNY Maritime actually has a graduate program that grants the coveted USCG license.
The SUNY program requires a GMAT or GRE score. My question for you all is what are the best way to prepare for one of these exams? Are they similar to the LSAT?
