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Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, September 8, 2000, 15:01
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> with lots of housing very close by if perhaps pricey.
About ten years ago, Austin was so overbuilt that landlords were offering the first and last month's rent free -- a reverse security deposit.
> Since then, the amount of work that goes into every credit hour has > increased significantly, so you don't want to overburden yourself.
The theory in my day (1980-85) was that every credit hour represented 1 hour of class time (obviously) and 2 hours of non-class time. What is the figure now?
> Good ol' Ilya, he can quote Eugene Onegin and master astrophysics, > but can't order his life. He's quite, quite nutty.)
Any educated Russian can quote E.O. at length; like Hamlet, it has a vast number of phrases that have become completely embedded in the Russian language.
> and one of the few places that's strong in both > those areas is UPenn, so that's my first choice.
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