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A few months ago Wellesley College (private, liberal arts, Massachusetts) posted their 2025-2026 Tuition and Cost page. It breaks down prices for services a student would engage, including tuition ($69,800), housing ($11,520), meals ($10,776), a student activity fee ($344), and health insurance ($4,051). That page then estimates prices for additional and very likely expenses incurred when living on campus for that time: books ($800), personal expenses ($1,250), and travel/transportation ($0 to $2,000). If we accept all of those figures for now, and assume the full 2K transportation figure and that a student doesnt forego medical insurance, the total is $100,541. Inside Higher Ed summed it up: Wellesley now appears to be the most expensive college in the country.

By the way, I understand anyone finding the examples of beans and rice in this topic unappealing

No jail time is really wild for an attack that happened in broad daylight on camera.

Its just a lot harder than people think tbh. Unhealthy food is usually cheaper, tastier and more accessible than healthy food. And it doesnt help that high fructose corn syrup is in every damn thing.

If the government actually cared about our health banning that shit cold turkey would do more then anything in said regard.

I'll admit to being guilty of this one. 'I had chicken yesterday, I can't have it again today, that's ridiculous' is the basis of my meal planning.

Just the idea of making some giant concoction of brown rice and beans, and eating it for the whole week, is sapping my will to live.

If you admit that you don't want to spend the time to cook, fair enough, but healthy meals consisting of beans, brown rice, and veggies are not more expensive than junk food.

Meat seems more expensive upfront but you are getting more satiety and nutrition for the money than junk food that can appear to be cheaper but won't keep you full as long.

I'm only on book 3 but so far there's no love interest or sign of a harem. The most prominent female character is a cat.

We can change those better than you'd think, especially for people who are not born yet

You should look at natural products and how much money they make as alternative to medicine. They make more than pharma last I checked.

I believe there could be "cures" for a lot of things, but it's more profitable to peddle people overpriced drugs for the rest of their lives

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and worse. Like a major new breakthrough being purchased and purposely buried until it can be broken down into still semi-functioning components.

Which can then be sold as a prescription (subscription) to help suppress symptoms instead of ever effectively treating the underlying condition.

I guess there might be a circumstance in which it would make sense. Like maybe if the entry were just "The." You'd almost always ignore it and alphabetize as if it weren't there though.

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. Is it weirder for a person who develops cancer research methods engaging in hookers and blow more surprising than a stockbroker? To me it's weirder.

Is NYC the only mayor race right now? Just curious why its the only one getting endorsements and media buzz and that I see mentioned on CE.

Release on compassionate grounds is a means by which prisoners who are seriously ill, usually with a life expectancy of less than three months, can be permanently released from custody before their sentence has expired.

Among the criteria for release is that the risk of reoffending is expected to be minimal, further imprisonment would reduce life expectancy, there are adequate arrangements for the prisoner's care and treatment outside prison, and release would benefit the prisoner and their family.

Case in point: this Zohran Mamdani guy.

Obviously Republicans will hate him no matter what, but even Democrats are like "yeah, this guy has gotten too popular, we gotta take him down" because Democrats hate winning.

>_>

Too many people are thinking of things in a zero-sum manner and it's leading them to develop an us vs them mentality

I mean as a Canadian I don't think our education system should be open to international people, at least not without major overhaul.

Messed up. Even the UK has turned MAGA

Whereas I'm of the belief that if you enroll in education, after you finish you should return to your home country first

The modern world hates minorities to the point we are more than willing to throw them into modern concentration camps.

Yeah, only like 3 or 4 kids from my class were able to run the full mile, without stopping to walk or jog, and those kids were on the track team.