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My university's policy is that for student-elected gaps, if you returned within three years, "re-admission" was guaranteed. It was a bit dicier if the university required you to leave due to health problems or disciplinary/academic violations.

Perhaps this varies, but I was able to pause all my scholarships to take a year off from uni.

I really enjoyed the projects in these.

Actions of governments != actions of the people

Ah, I missed that and thought this was Perell's work.

This does not line up with my experience attending a fairly average / slightly above average US public school. At least half my classes largely required problem-solving and critical thinking. I spent a fair amount of time parroting stuff but that's unavoidable early in education, and most of my teacher's used it as a base for higher thinking. My primary and secondary education could certainly have been better, but this article strikes me as a gross and counterproductive exaggeration.

edit: my bad, I missed that this is a guest post; doesn't change my opinion of Perell though. I'd genuinely recommend his newsletter.

He is an "essayist". I'm subbed to his newsletter because he's excellent at finding good reading material, but his original writing is often insufficiently informed (charitably) or arrogant (uncharitably), and in poor style. This boggles the mind, since he sells online instruction in writing.

The RER brings riders from the suburbs into the city, but doesn't add to the infrastructure for transporting them once they're in Paris.

My university is comparable to Stanford (Princeton) but has a roughly 1:1 faculty: administrator ratio (1200: to 1100).

The scientists in the article suspect that the bodies were cremated elsewhere, and the ashes transported to Stonehenge.

Not sure how it is where OP is, but in many African countries it's common to have multiple SIM cards, to take advantage of in-network calling deals or to compensate for spotty coverage maps.

If so, that would align with standard practice in the American automotive industry. The unions only require workers be paid for shut-downs of over 10 working days.

In the same vein: http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/friend-skims-html-tutorial...

Do you know if they'll be looking for any mechanical interns/co-ops? This hardware sounds fantastic.