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Telusa, I'm gonna give you the advice I wish someone gave me: RUN THE NUMBERS. Take your total loan amount. Multiply by 1.5 (interest). Divide by 10 years. That's roughly your monthly payment. Example: $50k loans = $75k total with interest = $625/month for 10 years. Now look at starting...

"Market-based mechanisms" 🤮 I hate that phrase so much. It's like they took something beautiful (water, nature, life) and turned it into economics. But Matt, here's the thing: you have to learn the system to change the system. It sucks, but it's true. If you want to actually help California's...

I’m currently working on my midterm for a upper-level seminar, and I'm having a bit of an identity crisis. Every time I read my own drafts, I feel like I'm just parroting the jargon from the critical essays we've read. My sentences are grammatically perfect, but they're also... dead. There’s no...

For your project, here's my step-by-step: 1. Literature review first. Seriously. Read the Berkeley IRLE working paper on the $20 fast food wage . Read the Clemens/Meer NBER response. Understand the DEBATE before you touch data. 2. Data sources: QCEW from CA Open Data ACS microdata from IPUMS...

I had the same panic senior year. Did an informational interview with an alum who now works at Seattle Symphony in development . She sent out 50 applications before landing her job and said "just don't give up." The rejections hurt but not every job is the right fit. Her advice that stuck with...

Marya okay so: Peer reviewed = experts checked it before publication Scholarly = written BY academics FOR academics All peer reviewed is scholarly but NOT all scholarly is peer reviewed (some journals just have an editor decide) Also pro tip: library databases usually have a checkbox that says...

I wasn't expecting to cry on this forum today but here we are. 😭 The part about time expanding and contracting depending on who's in the room... my grandmother raised me and when she was dying in the hospital, I'd sit there for hours and they'd feel like minutes. Then I'd go home and the nights...

"Democracy requires an informed electorate" = fact. "The electoral college should be abolished" = argument (but too big). You're not dumb. You just need a smaller target. 🎯

I'm going to be the contrarian here. 🙃 While I agree that YA benefits from a conversational tone, I think many contemporary writers overuse contractions to the point of sloppiness. There's a middle ground. Consider rhythm. Sometimes a well-placed "cannot" instead of "can't" adds emphasis or...

First, definitely check out financialaid.usc.edu/loans . They break down Direct Subsidized vs Unsubsidized loans. Subsidized means the government pays interest while you're in school (huge!). Unsubsidized accrues interest immediately. Both beat private loans which have fewer protections. Also...

I'm a philosophy major, so I'm used to having my mind bent into pretzels by abstract concepts. But this 500 word essay for my intro to metaphysics class has actually broken me. The prompt is simple: "Is free will an illusion? Defend your answer." Just 500 words. That's it. But how am I supposed...

I've been lurking on this forum for a while, and I finally decided to post because I feel like my situation is different from what I usually see here. I'm not trying to make excuses, but I want to offer a perspective that doesn't get talked about much: the student-athlete grind. 🏒 I'm a...

I need help. I got my rhetorical analysis essay back and the main comment was "good identification of strategies, but weak analysis of warrants." I nodded like I understood and then immediately forgot what a warrant is. Isn't it just... the thing that connects evidence to claim? But in...

Finally someone said it! I refuse to believe that "real" adult writing has to be angsty. The two buildings talking prompt is gold. Here are some I've collected: A ghost who's really annoyed that the living keep trying to "help them move on" The secret society of lost socks that meets in your...

The hustle is real but you can absolutely do this. Microecon tip: Professor's past exams. Seriously. Most UC Irvine profs reuse question types. The format matters as much as content. I literally printed five years of old exams and did them timed. Marketing tip: Connect theories to brands you...

I've been obsessively tracking this since the schedules dropped. Here's the full picture: Week Zero (Aug 29): USC vs TBD at Coliseum Stanford vs Hawaii at Stanford Stadium Sept 5: Cal vs UCLA in Berkeley (season opener for both) Also SDSU vs Portland State at home (if you want more football)...

I was procrastinating on my history paper and fell into a research hole about presidential education. I wanted to know where did trump go to college because it comes up constantly but the details always seemed fuzzy. Here's what I pieced together from actual sources: He enrolled at Fordham...