I totally agree with you. It’s different for every person. For me, paying attention in class, writing notes, and going home and doing the work assigned by the professors led me to graduate with a 3.75 from JD and 3.98 from my LLM.

Obviously, it’s not always the case. The only thing that is always the case is death.

Say what you will about it being a God of War knock-off, but the depictions of Hell were amazing. It is still one of my favorite games to play because of the level and artistic design.

But, you see the inherent problem with that statement, right?

Not Thomas Edison. He (actually, his lab techs) got the original incandescent light bulb (invented by Joseph Swan) to burn for several days, instead of hours, before the filament burnt out.

No, better because mine have thousands of data points over 21 years, instead of maybe 30 over 3 months. Got it?

Usually when it conveys a complete lack of intelligence. You’ve seriously never had questions from people that make you want to smack them?

It may be anecdotal, but when I see it happening over and over again with my peers, who tend to be high performers, it starts to move away from anecdote to data.

I completely disagree. Both my wife and I were “sleepers” in that we studied, we didn’t really speak in class, we did extremely well, etc....

Because doctors and lawyers graduate medical school and law school and thereafter never, ever, ever, ever, ever learn anything again?

Perhaps, but to the outside observer, which this programming teacher was, they weren’t making mistakes.

I’m not sure I agree with this conclusion. Anecdotally, for what it’s worth, when I was very young, around the time when most kids speak, I didn’t. However, not that long (maybe 6 months or so) after, I started speaking in complete sentences, whereas, my peers were stringing together a few monosyllabic words.

I’d also be remiss to point out, a $1,500/month apartment and a $1,500/month house are NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME IN SIMILAR LOCATIONS. You’re comparing apples to oranges, a mistake (hopefully unintentional) you continually make.

So, your entire theory is predicated on the fact that if there are two identical properties, Property A and Property B, for rent, and Property A is owned (i.e., no mortgage) and Property B has a mortgage, they will charge two different prices?

To be fair, my $1,550 mortgage is actually about $1,000 mortgage and $500 in taxes per month (actually, a little under $1,000 and a little over $500).

Thanks! You should see the ridiculous analyses I did before buying our house. I was quoting my monthly mortgage rate (plus taxes), based off all the available data I could find, to the banks before they could even calculate it.

An owner of an apartment building pays taxes on the land. Because the owner isn’t letting you live there out of generosity and likely wants to make money on the ordeal, every time the taxes go up, your rent will go up. Do you think they want to make less money per month?

Renters don’t pay property taxes. Renters don’t pay for homeowner’s insurance (which is considerably more expensive than renter’s insurance). Renters don’t pay for repairs.

It seems you’ve oversimplified your analysis. Let’s take that same example of $1,500 in mortgage and $1,500 in rent.

In regard to unsolicited applications, at least in law, it is a phenomenal way to make contacts and get potential jobs.