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Michigan Ross School of Business
Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where are you from? What did you study as an undergraduate and when did you graduate?
Katie: I am basically from the Detroit area, Beverly Hills, MI to be exact. I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan and graduated in 2007. I lived in New York City for three years before business school working as a software developer/business analyst for an investment bank.
Accepted: Why did you decide to attend Michigan Ross School of Business? Was it that you just couldnt pull yourself away from the UMich system? Is the program meeting your expectations?
Katie: I decided to attend Michigan for a number of reasons, one of which does include that I do love Ann Arbor and love the University. I was looking for a strong general management and leadership programs, both of which Ross excels in.
I like the strength of the other graduate programs at Ross and how Ross encourages dual degrees. I
fifth of English institutions cut course charges
University tuition fees: students sit outside the student union SU bar at Nottingham Trent University. David Sillitoe for the Guardian
A fifth of universities in England have made last-minute cuts to the tuition fees they will charge students starting degrees next autumn, triggering potential chaos for hundreds of thousands of applicants.
The Office for Fair Access , the government’s higher education access watchdog, said 24 universities and one further education college had reduced the fees they intended to charge.
The cuts bring the average cost of courses starting next year to £8,354, falling to £8,071 when fee waivers – a scheme under which universities forgo a year or more of fees to help or encourage clever or less well-off students – are included.
London South Bank, Aston, Nottingham Trent, St Mary’s, Teesside, Wolverhampton, Cumbria and Southampton Solent universities are among those who have cut their fees to £7,500 or less when fee waivers and bursaries are taken into account. The ot
N.C. State student wins grant to solve icky problem
If ever a machine to suck sludge could be called elegant, it is the one dreamed up by an N.C. State University student to solve one of the most ancient public health dilemmas in the Third World: finding an easy, cheap and sanitary way to remove sludge in cities that don’t have modern sewer systems.
Tate Rogers, now a first-year graduate student in environmental engineering, designed the simple device, which just won a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Rogers will use the money to develop the idea and demonstrate its effectiveness.
The device uses a motorized, hand-held posthole digger of a type available nearly worldwide. A pipe is slipped over the giant, screw-like digging end, and a hose from the top of the pipe will direct the sludge to a waiting truck or barrel.
The idea was Rogers’ response to an assignment last spring in a senior design class for engineering students taught by Robert Borden.
GMAT Question of the Day (Nov 18): Geometry and Sentence Correction
Math (PS)
Two watermelons, and , are on sale. Watermelon has a circumference of 6 inches; watermelon , 5 inches. If the price of watermelon is 1.5 times the price of watermelon , which watermelon is a better buy?
(Assume that the two watermelons are spheres).
(A) A
(B) B
(C) Neither
(D) Both
(E) Impossible to determine
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