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#1 swamprat_basic
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Sometimes I'm amazed that I made it out safely. They really need to allow priests to date and get married. If nothing else, it might attract more sane people to the profession.rragnaar

I agree with this. The Church really needs to rethink its stance on celibacy, because clearly they are attracting the wrong element into the priesthood.

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I'll give you Lord of War, Face Off and Raising Arizona. So like 1% of the things he has been in were good which means he is still 99% terrible. Alter_Echo

Also Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Family Man, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Knowing.

The guy's been in some great movies.

And I even enjoyed the National Treasure movies and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, though I wouldn't call them good movies.

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End of episode 6... knew it was coming, but...... ouch.

This is one of the best TV shows ever, and I can't wait until the new book comes out this summer.

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11 hours or so when I was recovering from a cold.

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Where I lived it was constant battle for the school to get the budget it needed. My town had a higher percentage of conservative and elderly citizens than surrounding towns, and they almost always voted the budget down to where the school could barely function.

They were constantly cutting courses and programs, and there was even a point after I graduated that my brother had to suffer through, where they had removed the dropped ceiling, because the tiles were beginning to rot, and it took them over two years to replace it because the budget kept getting voted down. So for two years, my brother and the other students had to suffer through school with exposed vents and pipes above their heads and zero sound proofing.

We even had to share some of our sports teams with a nearby school... not because our school wasn't big enough to have the teams, as there were over 1000 kids at the school, but because the school couldn't afford the teams.

That and the school administration was a bunch of Nazis who did things like the school that banned that kid from prom for posting the sign, only they never backed down on anything like that school ended up doing.

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I'm smarter than a lot of other kids in my school, yet they have better grades than me. Why?

Because I challenge myself by taking AP and upper-division classes. Meanwhile, others just coast through school taking only basic regular classes, and never bother puting themselves to their full potential. Good grades is very misguiding. :?

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That is why most schools have a weighted grading system favoring the harder classes. My GPA was above 4.0, despite getting a lot of B's, because I took all honors and AP classes. I'm sure there were people with more A's than me but lower GPAs, because they weren't taking honors classes. They might have had more A's, but by GPA, my grades were better.

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Yes. It's impossible to get really good grades across the board in Math, Science, English etc without being somewhat smart.

Hard work has more to do with it than just being smart, but you do have to be smart in order to do really well in the advanced courses, especially in math.

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#8 swamprat_basic
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Where are you from?

The good private art schools in California are not going to be cheap. They may even be more per year than that $32K number you posted.

The only way that you are going to find "cheap" is by getting an extremely generous scholarship, going to a less-than-stellar school, or going to a public school in the state where you live.

If you are not from California, you could move there and try to establish residency for a year or two and then apply to a public school with a good art program.

I have no idea why you would want to go to a foreign art school, unless they were offering you a free-ride or something like that.

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No.

An attractive person can always makes themselves look somewhat normal, if they so choose. Ugly / sub-par people don't really have the ability to make themselves look attractive.

And I really don't get why some of you are saying that attractive people look dumb. Maybe if they dress up like Pamela Anderson or some Abercrombie & Fitch model with multiple popped collars, but if they're dressed like a normal person, I don't think anybody is going to assume that they are dumb.

An attractive person is just as likely to be smart as an ugly person.

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It probably depends on the school. I don't know anything about MSU's admission standards.

I think you should probably be all right as long as your other grades are good and you aren't going to MSU to study Anatomy.

Was the Anatomy class a core part of your high school graduation, or was it just an elective? You might be able to petition your high school to remove the class from the report card, if the credits aren't vital to your graduation.