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If you have sound mental health and are extremely driven, are able to focus despite the courseload and competition, and you are confident you'll graduate on time, then pick MIT. You minimize debt by graduating as soon as possible.

Average folk may take 5-6 years to graduate with an engineering degree because it's that difficult. Gotta retake classes and work part time, haha.

Regardless of college, what you do outside of classes is more important (networking). There are smart people everywhere, so you're not missing much if you skip MIT.

I will say though, the MIT campus is right by the river and has a serene feeling. Are you able to visit the place, and do you like the idea of being there for the next 4 years? If you have a mental health issue like seasonal affective disorder, you'll be miserable at MIT due to the geography, and no amount of justifying a bad location will save you.

Having some extra money means you can afford to study abroad. Picking up a new language may become your passion.

Either way, I don't think there's a wrong choice. You'll have to weigh and rank your desires accordingly.

Meanwhile I love the word "deliverable." Sometimes it's hard to think of an umbrella word for all the things you produce. It can be anything from a stack of pamphlets coming hot off the printing press, or those pin buttons that are given away during fundraisers but no one wears, or those custom printed stickers, or those table menu trifolds, or a laminated portfolio that you deliver to a client.

I think it's helpful to distinguish between "authors" and "publishers." We can see this play out in the traditional publishing industry.

Authors are supposed to submit a manuscript with the least amount of formatting. Images are given in a separate folder and only referenced in the manuscript, maybe with a couple notes on alignment. Markdown precisely forces the author to follow this contract. Just write the content and organize the chapters.

Ultimately it's the publishing house's job to format and create the final rendition, insert and design the fancy tables that you see in, for example, a chemistry textbook. In the corporate world, their publishing houses are called technical writers/content strategy/learning development/marketing departments.

So the idea of not using Markdown is both right and wrong. It's totally unfair to expect contributors and authors to understand everything about formatting and publishing. But, Markdown is only the first step in an entire toolchain. If people cannot tell what part of the process they fall on (authoring vs publishing) then it's going to be confusing.

I think it's really funny that fantasy and DnD artists draw taverns as spacious inns with tons of rooms, when in reality most ancient people were sleeping together in the same room, peeing together in the same bathroom, and generally never alone except if you had the money to afford such a luxury, or you gave yourself alone time by running off into the forest.

For prep work, you can store pizza dough as little balls, or pre-flatten them and put them on racks, freezing many more pizza doughs than bread doughs. Preparing a pizza crust is as easy as using a press, but to make consistent bread you need a complicated machine that's annoying to clean. Bread also needs a proofer if you're serious about mass producing it, hence needing more space. Otherwise you can enjoy handcrafting your bread and cultivating yeast, which is another art and science all to itself.

While less pizzas fit in a pizza oven than bread may fit in a bread oven, it's easier to prepare pizzas, easier to hire for, and people pay more for them.

Yeah, everyone conveniently forgets what is the second sin of Adam from the Bible (if they're subscribed to that belief system)

This is awesome. I wished they taught something like this in high school instead of God knows what's being taught nowadays.

First of all, there's plenty of whores if you think sex is a human right. Prostitution is the oldest profession. If we normalize sex work, people can meet demand without getting shamed. Who's trying to do that? Mostly feminists if you ask me.

There's a time and place for visuals. Geometry is a form of visual math, but how do you "visualize" models that go beyond the 3rd dimension...?

For most people, trigonometry is enough to build stuff with. And for many ideas, a diagram communicates better than talking or writing it into an excel sheet.