Even if I'm super happy with someone's performance, a bullet list of the achievements they want to highlight is extremely useful. Heck, I have a hard time remembering exactly what I accomplished in the last year, it's super risky to assume your recommender will remember for you or happen to mention what you think is important.
It's like... I keep a bullet list of things I've accomplished at work and add to it when I feel like I did something worth highlighting as especially helpful. Then during my performance review I've got more in active memory than to discuss what I did last week.
Plus your recommender won't know the context of how you're pitching your application. They don't know the other recommenders you picked or what story you want to tell, even if they have the luxury of enough free time to write something personal.
As a recommender, the one that I find most obnoxious is that they usually ask you to "rate people relative to others you've worked with" which is just a ridiculous question. I'm at MIT, if I find someone seems to me like they'd fit in as a first or second year grad student at MIT but maybe in the lower half, do you actually want me to write down that they're below average?
It's pretty clear that it is not the question you intended to ask when you don't bother to even ask me what kinds of people I've worked with before. You can't ask people to numerically rank performance when there's never been an agreement on the scale! And knowing that you're likely using it as a first pass filter makes it even worse; what, are you going to somehow correct for the difference between the people I've worked with versus everyone else according to some magic objective scale?
Even if you know that I'm comparing to MIT students, do you realize MIT has 10000+ students with skill levels all over the map? Do you know that I value practical skills more than most because I've seen what makes someone successful in lab? It's just a part of the recommendation letters I wish they'd just leave out. Filter based on GREs or something else that while equally pointless is at least uniform and then just read the letter and think what you want. Don't ask me to do half the thinking so that you can do none.
College degree is only worth for high income positions like surgeon, medical degree, nursing and some engineering field (chemical?). It's just not useful for middle class income like teaching etc. But good luck in trying to get an interview without any kind of diploma. They will think something is wrong you.
I love my Netflix subscription but absolutely hate their app. And to think that their software developers are among the highest paid in the industry!
I fondly remember the old days, when they give is a long list of shows in a list from top to bottom. And you had an arrow to move your titles up and down. No fancy images and auto-play and atrocious design
Professors generally have academic freedom to try such stunts to get into media. But still seems like a pointless experiment in a philosophy class. Anyone know why colleges are not more focused on getting kids ready for working environment?
Disgusting. This is not right. The government shouldn't get to decide who gets INTERNET and who doesn't. Freedom of information is human right. You cannot keep the government honest if you don't get timely information in timely manner.
This is business as usual. Nothing will change if executive doesn't get jail time. I'm surprised that Boeing hasn't' been sued yet for the Lion and Ethiopian crash.
Maybe because of this --> Sandberg may no longer be the female icon she once was to the outside world, but she remains the second-most powerful executive
