
afternoon driver
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I often get asked by parents, what does my kid need to achieve to earn a place at UC Berkeley? The answer is, I don’t know. There used to be an implicit social contract that if a California resident excels in school and is a very high achiever, there would be a predictable path to one of the leading campuses of the University of California system. Until the early-2000s this was explicit in that between 50-75% of incoming classes had to be admitted on the basis of academic criteria alone (GPA, SATs, APs). A high school student basically knew what they had to hit to get admitted to Cal. UCs no longer considers SAT/ACT scores, and letters of recommendation are generally not part of the application. The remaining academic record is heavily based on grades, course-taking, "school context", supplemented by personal insight questions (in the AI era!) and activities. But in an era of substantial grade inflation, transcripts have become a noisy signal. True academic achievement matters much less than it used to. The result is, while not literally random, highly unpredictable and illegible admissions. For California families, it is no longer clear what level of achievement is enough for their kids, or even what kind of achievement the system is trying to reward. I suspect that is not what most families in California want.






MY VERY FIRST TIME USING A CNC! AND IT WORKS! IT CUT WELL! I'm really happy nothing went wrong, OH THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT FEELING aaaaaa











While everybody's talking about the new TAG Heuer Carrera, let's take a look at the new limited TAG Heuer Monaco Speed 12. It's limited to 50 pieces for around 80k€, and it's a great piece of watchmaking, objectively I should like it, it's playful, a tribute to racing and the infamous Monaco Heuer... But I can't help but feel that it looks incredibly tacky, I get what they were going for, but I can't imagine anyone serious about watches dropping 80k on something that looks like poorly thought out toy watch. A racing watch? Let's put pistons inside.. come on


all of the sudden i want to know everything about my ancestry as far back as it goes. is this what getting old is


ngl that Tim & Eric sketch where Paul Rudd says ‘Now Tayne I can get into.’ is like top 20 sketches on any show of all time

























