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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Cost of Attendance, Undergraduate, Brown University: Full Time Off-Campus. $71,412

    Yet, they have billions in investment funds.

    I’m 110% in favor of higher education, but not at schools that are run like an exploitation racket. Even state schools, that receive loads of Federal funding, are exploiting students financially. It’s insane that it has gotten this bad. Soon, the upper class will be the only ones who will be able to afford an education. In light of everything else, that almost feels intentional.

    Apologies for the slight digression here, but institutes of higher education that are overflowing with cash make me see red. You’re a school, that’s not how any of this is supposed to work.














  • As another commenter hinted at, “Thinkpad” used to mean IBM laptop; Lenovo bought the name (and PC division of IBM) for that reason, and they don’t mind if people think they’re still IBM, because OG Thinkpads were the bomb. This is what I was getting at.

    It’s bananas that the IBM association is just gone now, because the name was huge in the 90s. Sometimes a fella can really feel old.