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Day: August 1, 2013
Kelly pointed me to a very cool article about the relative starting salaries of students who graduate from universities in North Carolina. Not surprisingly Duke was #1. My sense is that some of the difference there might be attributable to North Carolina natives (and many out of state students) unwillingness to leave this beautiful state while the Dukies might just be passing through to high paying jobs in high cost of living, less desireable places to live. Of course that is just my thought on the topic.
The really surprising news is that NCSU is #2. I think that might be partly due to the greater rigor in their engineering programs. Not unsurprisingly, UNC Chapel Hill was not even #3. Wake Forest, North Carolina A&T, and UNC Charlotte all provided higher paying job opportunities for their graduates then UNC Chapel Hill. Also not surprising, every school ahead of UNC Chapel Hill is a strong STEM schools with a full complement of Engineering programs.
Day 709 of 1000
Without notification, our web host went out of business and shut down our website. We lost 70-80 of the latest blog posts. I have a diminishing hope of getting any of that back, but the good news is that everything from June 4, 2013 back was preserved and we have a more frequent back-up plan in place. The other good part is that this haitus has made me think about what I am writing and what I want to do with the blog. I definitely figured out I want to keep going. I will continue to write about the culmination of the homeschool process as the kids finish college and go on to graduate school, but I have decided to try to write some more substantive posts in addition to that. The content is still little up in the air, but I have some ideas.