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tutoring rates (poll which is not a poll)
I know a lot of people reading this have done tutoring, now or in the past. So what's your default tutoring rate? Or, what was the last one you charged? All comments screened by default; feel free to include any particular factors that would make you charge a higher or lower rate. I think I generally know which people have more advanced degrees or ( Read more... ) -
internships
Because I sure wasn't familiar with it: Department of Labor on what constitutes a legal unpaid internship.
Paying the interns who are running your business less than minimum wage, in cash under the table... actually turns out not to make this any better.
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progress on impossible tasks
The MTA in NYC has almost finished boring the tunnel from 96th to 63rd. A couple blocks north of that, it'll eventually connect to the tunnel fragments bored in the 70's, but they're saving that for Phase Two. Phase One would've been enough for the sweetest commutes, back when I lived on 104th and commuted to 67th. Phase One is maybe even far ( Read more... ) -
lux perpetua
Eleven down, three to go. I went to a memorial concert today, because my colleague was singing in it, Latin requiems are pretty, and I'd never taken the Norristown High Speed Line before. It was handled tastefully, I thought, and it was the right thing for me, personally, to do today. And the NHSL is a weird little train. I will shut up now because ( Read more... ) -
excitement and adventure and wild things
Earthquakes are more fun when you can share them with a whole room full of teachers having a faculty meeting. Fortunately it was just at the level of "that was cool and sort of hard to miss", not really dangerous or scary. Where I was, anyway ( Read more... )
