jhubril:


Dear Goofball,

I have no concern for your ignorance which by now has reached maturation. It won't be an omission to ignore a mad man who keeps washing his palms to remove a dirt that isn't there.

Your insistence on using 'school' as verb is a shame that has fallen upon you. You lack the face to admit faults when an overwhelming evidence comes around. You may die in perpetual ignorance but I fear for your generation.

Regards

Dear Cuntbreath,

Please see below.

It is true that the earliest noun sense of school ("an organized source of education or training" has been around for longer than the earliest verb sense ("to give teaching or training to". The noun has been in use since Old English, and the verb didn't crop up until the 15th century. But there is a considerable body of writing over the past five or six hundred years with school used as a verb, and it does not appear to have done any irreparable damage to our language.

I schooled him soundly against Puritanisme, which he disavowes, though somewhat faintly; I hope his Highnesse and the King will second it.
—Anon., Mysteries of State & Government, 1654

The poor Man being thus Schooled by his Wife, must provide for this Journey, or else all the Fat's in the Fire; there will be no quietness, if she does not go abroad.
–Anon., The Fifteen Comforts of Rash and Inconsiderate Marriage, 1694

My years at the convent, where I had been schooled in the art of sacrifice, self-denial and endurance, had been quite ineffective.
—Farida Karodia, A Shattering of Silence, 1993

She was not an impulsive woman, and her life had schooled her to restrain her tongue.
—virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 1915

you have learnt softness; I, by your example,
am well-schooled in contempt; and while
you speak of truce I laugh, and to your pleading
turn a cool and guarded profile.
-Fleur Adcock, Knife-play (from The Eye of the Hurricane), 1964

Although the verb form of school has a number of senses which are perfectly acceptable, there is a colloquial one which appears to stick in the craws of many, and that is the use of school to mean "admonish, teach a lesson to."

Maybe that's why Bucknall is so determined to put the moves on Worthy in practice. Worthy, however, has his doubts about that. "Never," he said. "All those young guys—J.R., Scott (Williams)—I'll school 'em, and they know it."
—Jamie Rosenberg, The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, NC), 12 Jan. 1990

None of this should be taken as an exhortation on the part of Merriam-Webster for you to go into this school year brandishing the verb use of school like a cudgel, using it whenever you can. It is, however, a gentle reminder that sometimes verbs will become nouns, nouns will turn into verbs, and you should rarely, if ever, take language advice from people on Twitter. (Except us.)

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-school-ever-properly-a-verb

Hope this helps you dismount your fvcking high horse.

Regards

There is no gain-saying the fact that the US is a choice education haven for most Nigerians seeking higher education. Today, scholars arena brings you the top 27 USA Scholarships for Nigerians 2018

It’s no secret that the US is one of the most expensive nations in which to pursue higher education, but don’t let that put you off, as there are hundreds of opportunities to gain funding for your studies there as a Nigerian.

As a Nigerian international student, you won’t be eligible for funding intended specifically for US nationals. However, as US universities prioritize internationalization, the number of international scholarships to study in the US has grown. There are also some US universities that offer free admission to international students from Nigeria.

Below is a selection of US scholarships for Nigerian international students, some funded by the US government, some funded by private organizations and some funded by specific institutions.

We at scholars arena wish you Good luck with your applications!


Government-funded US scholarships for international students.

1. Fulbright Foreign Student Program – Perhaps the most popular government-funded US scholarships for international students, Fulbright offers scholarships for graduate students, young professionals and artists to study in the US for one year or more. Open to international students in all fields excluding medicine.

2. Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program – This is a non-degree scholarship program for international, experienced professionals wishing to undertake 10 months of academic study in the US. Although the funding doesn’t support degree qualifications, students are able to study and develop their knowledge at academic institutions across the nation.


Non-governmental US scholarships for international students

3. Abbey Road Summer Scholarships – Abbey Road are offering US scholarships worth US$1,000 for language and art students, as well as US$500 fellowships for “summer enrichment” at institutions within the states.

4. Civil Society Leadership Awards – Fully-funded scholarships are available for students from eligible countries to study in the US or another host country at master’s level.

5 The Next Gen Scholarship Fund – Scholarships to study in the US for non-residents and international students. Applicants must have at least a 3.0 GPA (grade point average) and be enrolled on a program at an accredited university within Washington DC, Maryland or virginia. Worth US$1,000.

6. Tortuga Backpacks Study Abroad Scholarship – Awarded twice a year to passionate international students wishing to study in the US. Worth US$1,000.

7. David P. Shapiro Autism Scholarship – A one-time scholarship worth US$1,000 open to current or prospective students in the US diagnosed with autism.

For female students:

8. AAUW International Fellowships – Fellowships offered by the American Association of University Women for female international students to study in the US.

9. MIT-Zaragoza Women in Logistics and SCM Scholarship – US scholarships for female students of any age, ethnicity or nationality, to study at the Zaragoza Logistics Center at MIT.

10. Bat and Ball Game Women’s Sports Scholarship – A scholarship offering $1,000 to a woman currently studying a sports-related degree at any university in the US.

For graduate students:

11. Rotary Peace Fellowships – this is one of the 27 USA Scholarships for Nigerians 2018. this Scholarship provides funds to complete a masters degree in the US awarded within one of Rotary’s Peace Centers (such as at Duke University or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

For students from developing countries:

12. Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship Programme – this is also one of the top 27 USA Scholarships for Nigerians 2018. It’s a Scholarship for postgraduate international students hailing from countries in Africa.
Scholarships for African students between the ages of 25 and 35 from sub-Saharan African countries, for them to study in the US and gain leadership and business skills.

13. MasterCard Foundation Scholarships – Scholarships for African students to study in the US and Africa. This scholarships is funded by the MasterCard foundation and it is both undergraduates and postgraduate students to study in various universities in the US.

University-specific US scholarships for international students

14. American University Emerging Global Leader Scholarship – Undergraduate scholarships to study in the US at American University in Washington DC. Aimed at international students who are showing leadership potential.

15. Brandeis University Wien International Scholarship Program – Funding opportunity for high-achieving students with an interest in student community contribution.

16. Clark University Global Scholars Program – Scholarships of no less than US$10,000 as well as a guaranteed $2,500 taxable stipend for a paid internship are available for first-year international applicants.

17. Emory University Needs-Based Scholarship Program – Funding opportunities for international students at Emory University. Students must demonstrate financial need.

18. Harvard University Scholarships – Harvard offers a range of (very competitive) international scholarships for students from all over the globe. This is perhaps one of the most popular offer on our list of 27 USA Scholarships for Nigerians 2018

19. Illinois State University International Awards – Illinois State offers tuition waivers, merit awards and graduate assistant-ships to incoming international students.

20. Iowa State University International Merit Scholarships – Merit-based scholarship program for high-achieving international students.

21. Michigan State University International Scholarships – Various grants and scholarships for international students to study in the US at MSU.

22. New York University Wagner International Scholarships – US scholarships to study at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

23. University of Arkansas International Scholarships – Funding opportunities for international students of varying backgrounds and nationalities.

24. University of Iowa Scholarships for International First Year Students – Various scholarships for international students starting their first year in Autumn 2018.

25. University of Minnesota International Excellence Scholarships – Two scholarships of differing amounts allocated to international full-time students at UM.

26. University of Oregon International Scholarships – US scholarships to study at the University of Oregon, aimed at international students from around the world.

27. University of Wisconsin Superior Non-resident Tuition Waiver Program – Tuition waiver for international students demonstrating financial need at the University of Wisconsin.


So guys, use the comment box to drop your questions regarding scholarships on the list.

Source:
https://www.scholarsarena.net/27-usa-scholarships-nigerians-2018/

Cc: lalasticlala, richiez, fynestboi

Geedhey:

I already have University of Tulsa on my shortlist, University of virginia, Texas Tech University & Louisiana University Lafayette.

Autocorrect. Meant to type CSU.

UVA Charlottesville is ambitious.
Lafayette is ok. Funding might come next semester.
Texas Tech can work but funding is dicey for first semester as well.

M.S funding is very very hard and you do not have the profile for PhD in the schools above.

Use startclass.com to see schools similar to Cleveland State as it might help. If you can pay for your first semester that too might help.

Have you looked at Montana University?

Scholastica16:


Nothing is free in FreeTown.

What schools have you looked at? What is your shortlist like?

See if you can compare schools similar to Cleveland State. They might have funding like CAU did last fall for EE students.

I already have University of Tulsa on my shortlist, University of virginia, Texas Tech University & Louisiana University Lafayette.

'It's even better than getting into Cambridge!': Law undergraduate shares her delight at winning the university's Best Bum competition

A law undergraduate has been crowned the winner of Cambridge University's annual 'best bum' award.

The student - identified only as 'Vita' - spoke proudly about her 'considerable a** and thighs' as she stripped off to showcase her perfectly pert derriere.

Her saucy winning shot, which shows her leaning naked against an oak tree at Homerton College, won nearly a quarter of the vote among readers of The Tab student newspaper after being shortlisted in the top 10.
Vita is proud to have won as a woman with a voluptuous figure, and even joked that she's more proud of her photos than getting into Cambridge.

She said: 'I don't have the most athletic figure and I have quite a considerable a*** and thighs. It says a lot about how far the world has come in body acceptance.

'I have worked hard to accept my body. I wanted to prove that to myself by doing something I wouldn't usually do.

'I didn't even expect the photo would be in the top 10 - let alone be the winner.
She took victory by a one per cent margin over second place 'virginia', who polled 23.08 per cent with a similar pose in a tree.

Now Vita's curvaceous derriere has become a star on campus with friends commending her for her boldness.

She said: 'Everyone who has seen my photos has been so positive. I have seen comments online saying that I'm fat but I'm going to ignore the trolls.

'I know there are comments saying that Cambridge students are 'snowflakes' and not working but I think it's sad and narrow-minded to call us that!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5118559/Curvy-Cambridge-University-wins-best-bum-award-2017.html

The Confederate Treasury

The year was 1865, and the American Civil War was drawing to a close. As the Union army marched the final path to victory, however, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury George Trenholm made one last effort to preserve the South’s assets: he liquidated them. While a veritable fortune in gold, silver, and jewels had been carried by President Jefferson Davis and his men when they abandoned Richmond, virginia, when they were captured, it was all gone. All of it, save a few confederate banknotes. And the most improbable part of all was the staggering 4,000 kilograms of Mexican silver dollars that seemed to simply have vanished. Dozens of theories have been proposed to explain the mystery behind the missing treasure. Some maintain that the gold was distributed among plantation owners and buried, waiting for a day when the South will rise again. Many believe that the silver was buried in Danville, virginia, where it still resides today. Others have claimed that the funds were entrusted with a secret society called the Knights of the Golden circle, so that they could finance a second civil war in the future. But the truth is, the real fate of the Confederate treasury still remains a mystery to this day.

source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/the-worlds-biggest-mysteries-scientists-still-cant-solve/news-story/aac87ed0bc09d5cd4dfba0d49f613334

Nursing according to virginia Henderson 1966" the unique function of a nurse is to assist individual sick or well in the performance of those activities contributing to health or illness ( or to a peaceful death) that he or she would perform unaided if he had the necessary will, strength and knowledge and to do this in such a way as to gain independence as rapidly as possible" 5 mks.

If you don’t know, many higher institutions all over the world are offering many courses online partially free or absolutely free.They tagged these courses massive open online courses for everyone. In the past few months, over 150 universities have announced 900 such free online courses.And many will still follow suit because online education is here to stay. Below is the information about the schools and we have categories for Art and design, Data Science, Computer Science, Business, Education and Teaching, Personal Development, Humanities. Many of these courses are self-paced, so you can start combining many of them with your everyday routine just when you have the time.


ART AND DESIGN

1.Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking from University of virginia, This course is based on how to create useful digital products using agile and design thinking, check the link Here

2.Navigate the Music Industry as an Independent Artist from Berklee College of Music you can check the link Here

3.Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector from the University of virginia. Check the link Here

4.Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking from the University of virginia.Check the link Here

5.A Global History of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Check the link Here

6.浪漫主义时代的欧洲音乐 European Music in Romantic Period from Peking University.Check the link Here

7.Designing Synthesizer Sounds from Berklee College of Music.Check the link Here

8.Organizing for Innovation from HEC Paris.Check the Link Here

9.New Media from Antonio de Nebrija University. Check the link Here

10.Fundamentals of Communication Acoustics from RWTH Aachen University.Check the link Here



DATA SCIENCE

1.Data Science Ethics from the University of Michigan.Check the link Here

2. Introduction to Genomic Data Science from the University of California, San Diego. Check the link Here

3.Python Data Visualization from Rice University Check the link Here

4.Data Science: R Basics from Harvard University. Check the link Here

5.Principles, Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Science from Harvard University.Check the link Here



6.Big Analytics in Healthcare from Georgia Institute of Technology. Check the link Here

7.Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Check the link Here

8.Big Data and the Environment from the University of Reading. Check the link Here

9.Social Network Analysis (SNA) from University of Texas Arlington. Check the link Here

10.Understanding Data from George Mason University. Check the link Here


Read more via the link below.





http://tutorafrique.com/massive-open-online-courses-in-various-universities-and-institutions-worldwide/

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

Events

1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
1688 – William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
1828 – Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
1829 – Technical University of Denmark (DTU) opens.
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1898 – Filipinos on Negros Island revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
1917 – Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1940 – World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1970 – The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

Read more at :
http://www.streav.com/groups/news-389162612/forum/topic/today-in-history-november-5/

femi312:
Congratulations, but if I were you I wont be applying to both top schools in Texas, spread your risk well.Northwestern, virginia tech are some really good top schools you could look at.Fully funded Phd admission is not easy to come by nowadays not to talk of Msc, don't be too carried away by your scores. A friend of mine who graduated from OAU some 3-4 years ago had 337 in GRE and with his first class, he didn't get funded in Berkeley for Msc, this is just to tell you its not all about the scores. Professors want to entrust funded projects in the hands of students that can show research skills and ability to do the job. Most times these faculties get students through recommendations from colleagues in other schools. This is not to say that you don't stand a chance, just spread your risk well. Again I know of someone who had less that 300 in GRE and got a fully funded Phd offer in University of virginia because he met and networked with his present Advisor at a conference while doing his masters in the US. There are 1001 cases like that and these are some of the cases that make it seems like admission + funding is getting harder each year. There is a limit to the number of Phd students a faculty can take in. I have no doubt that you will get admitted but think for a second about some crazy Indians/Chinese bringing close to perfect CGPA and Test scores, some international students who had their masters in the US and planning to proceed to PHD programs. Cheers and All the best.

Abeg who be the person for UVA? I don find Nigerians tire for the school. Can you connect me? Thanks.

femi312:
Congratulations, but if I were you I wont be applying to both top schools in Texas, spread your risk well.Northwestern, virginia tech are some really good top schools you could look at.Fully funded Phd admission is not easy to come by nowadays not to talk of Msc, don't be too carried away by your scores. A friend of mine who graduated from OAU some 3-4 years ago had 337 in GRE and with his first class, he didn't get funded in Berkeley for Msc, this is just to tell you its not all about the scores. Professors want to entrust funded projects in the hands of students that can show research skills and ability to do the job. Most times these faculties get students through recommendations from colleagues in other schools. This is not to say that you don't stand a chance, just spread your risk well. Again I know of someone who had less that 300 in GRE and got a fully funded Phd offer in University of virginia because he met and networked with his present Advisor at a conference while doing his masters in the US. There are 1001 cases like that and these are some of the cases that make it seems like admission + funding is getting harder each year. There is a limit to the number of Phd students a faculty can take in. I have no doubt that you will get admitted but think for a second about some crazy Indians/Chinese bringing close to perfect CGPA and Test scores, some international students who had their masters in the US and planning to proceed to PHD programs. Cheers and All the best.

Thank you sir, your advice will be taken, but the last thing I'm thinking about is getting carried away, I targeted 330 because I know the competition is crazy(all these asians that will not allow someone to rest). Once again thanks

akatovic1:
Ok, let me give back to the community who has given me so much info.After barely a month of preparation with interruptions by job interviews ( plus films wey I watch till early this morning),I wrote my GRE today in Abuja after I had to postpone it once(see how money miss ).I had to leave my house early as I did not know the venue and it was worth it because I miss road but later arrived at the venue few minutes to 10. I was still unsettled and I was a little worn out, but man must survive. Inspired by God and threatened by paying another 50k I took the test.The analytical tried to show me pepper but I said even if na to form story I must write something.God really answered my prayer as Quantitative was the next section that means , my test took this pattern QVQVQ.By the break I needed water because I was really thirsty and I also took that opportunity to discuss small. But the break taught me that 10 minutes is really a short period of time.After the break, I started with rigour but later noticed I was flagging, I was getting slower, started to use the onscreen calculator and didn't have time to revise. At the end of the test I just wanted the whole exercise to stop (maybe because I didn't practice a full length test with the power prep software).
However my result came out thus
AWA- waiting
Verbal- 157
Quantitative-166
I was unhappy and disappointed and I feel I messed up because I expected more(when MIT is drawing you wetin you go do na), however in all things I give thanks. But one thing I learnt is to prepare better
I had to change schools like MIT and introduce plan B schools like;
University of Texas Austin
Texas A and M university
University of Notre Dame
Colorado School of Mines ( na confusion make me add this one)
My profile goes thus;
School: One big school like that for eastern Nigeria
Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Target: msc/PhD
CGPA: 4.53
Now let the writing of Statement of Purpose begin , I can not come and be going at the same time
Please your advice will be appreciated by me and I trust God to take us there in Jesus NameM

Congratulations, but if I were you I wont be applying to both top schools in Texas, spread your risk well.Northwestern, virginia tech are some really good top schools you could look at.Fully funded Phd admission is not easy to come by nowadays not to talk of Msc, don't be too carried away by your scores. A friend of mine who graduated from OAU some 3-4 years ago had 337 in GRE and with his first class, he didn't get funded in Berkeley for Msc, this is just to tell you its not all about the scores. Professors want to entrust funded projects in the hands of students that can show research skills and ability to do the job. Most times these faculties get students through recommendations from colleagues in other schools. This is not to say that you don't stand a chance, just spread your risk well. Again I know of someone who had less that 300 in GRE and got a fully funded Phd offer in University of virginia because he met and networked with his present Advisor at a conference while doing his masters in the US. There are 1001 cases like that and these are some of the cases that make it seems like admission + funding is getting harder each year. There is a limit to the number of Phd students a faculty can take in. I have no doubt that you will get admitted but think for a second about some crazy Indians/Chinese bringing close to perfect CGPA and Test scores, some international students who had their masters in the US and planning to proceed to PHD programs. Cheers and All the best.

Dr. Olushina Olawale Awe has been elected as a council member (representing Africa) for the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS). This is the first time a Nigerian will be elected to such a position. The tenure of the new executives and council members is two years. According to David Banks, the out-going president of ISBIS, during his farewell report at the World Statistics Congress 2017, “I am delighted to report to you that the new president-elect will be Fabrizio Ruggeri (Italy), the new Vice-President for the Scientific Program is Irena Ograjenšek (Slovenia), the new president is Nalini Ravishanker (USA/India), Vice-President for Communications will be Román Viveros Aguilera (Canada), the new Vice-President for Membership and Outreach is Daniel Jeske (USA), and the new Vice-President for y-BIS is Tahir Ekin (USA/Turkey). Additionally, the incoming Council members are Olawale Awe (Nigeria), Yili Hong (USA/China), Julie Novak (USA), and Rahim Mahmoudvand (Iran).” These new officers were installed during the just concluded ISBIS general assembly in Marrakech, Morocco during the World Statistics Congress (WSC 2018).

Awe has been teaching Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria since 2010. He holds an MBA (Finance) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and M.Sc, Ph.D. (Statistics) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a visiting scholar and statistical collaborator at the Department of Statistics, virginia Tech, USA and BECCA Lab of the University of Pennsylvania, USA from September 2013 to September 2014. His research interests include time series analysis, Bayesian econometrics and computational statistics. He has attended and presented papers in several international conferences and served as facilitator in several capacity-building workshops in Nigeria. He was a training consultant for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on their Data Management Course, which had participants from Congo, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Ghana. He is a member of several professional organizations including Nigerian Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, International Statistical Institute (ISI), International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the American Statistical Association. He is also a country co-ordinator (Nigeria) in the International Statistical Literacy Program (ISLP) of ISI, Netherlands. He created the first LISA 2020 laboratory in Africa in October, 2014.

ISBIS is an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) that is dedicated to the promotion of business and industrial statistics worldwide. This includes areas such as financial and health services among others. It promotes applications, research, and best current practices in business and industrial statistics, facilitates technology transfer, and fosters communications among members and practitioners worldwide through regular conferences and workshops.
ISBIS will hold its first regional capacity building workshop in Lagos, Nigeria in August 2018. Members of the public are advised to watch out for this great event.

Source: http://www.isbis-isi.org/executive.html

There might have been once a time in Nigeria when the prospect of someone becoming a lawyer without following the more vocational route of first studying for the 5 year LL.B. and capping it off with a one year mandatory course of professional training at the Nigerian Law School had seemed decidedly improbable. But recent developments in legal education the world over would favor a sea change in the long-established, time-honored conventions to bar qualification in Nigeria by waving law school for aspiring lawyers. While this avant-garde, off the wall notion of bar admittance in Nigeria may catch many by surprise, it isn’t altogether ahead of its time. It’s a dated practice that goes back in time to the days of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, who was enrolled to practice law after less than a year of school under an Illinois legislation enacted in 1833. This law permitted the issuance of law licenses to intending lawyers upon presenting a certificate endorsed by any Illinois county court certifying they were of good moral character. And as of now, about US Jurisdictions still admit lawyers to the practice of law in those jurisdictions via legal apprenticeships without going to law school as revealed by the BusinessInsider. Specifically, the states of California, Vermont, virginia and Washington permit law students to become lawyers by ditching law school. Even then, these states still do require that applicants taking these non-vocational routes to becoming a lawyer acquire in the field experience through participation in legal apprenticeships. In similar fashion, these turn of events in legal education have longed since been taking place in the UK, where intending law students with prior degrees in any non-law discipline are allowed to skip the traditional 3 year British LL.B. for a one year Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL). Upon graduation, GDL students are put on an equal platform as those who studied law at the undergraduate level, allowing them apply for training contracts and pupilages unhindered.

While this piece of news may come as a welcome relief to aspiring lawyers, in an era where legal education is becoming more and more elitist. Tuition costs gobsmacks. And even now in the US, it’s a norm for graduating lawyers to bear six-figure student debts like an albatross around their necks. That said, I cannot imagine for the life of me that this announcement will in any way be savored by those cliquish lawyers stuck to the past. If anything, it should provoke scorn and outrage, as did my article on Facebook on the existing NOUN vs. CLE standoff. In which many misread my stance on the stalemate to mean that I supported the inclusion of “part time” law graduates to the noble profession. Heck, I was pilloried for failing to understand that the legal profession was like an exclusive “cult” needing membership to be reined in from meddling interlopers. But aren’t these clannish sentiments rather unwarranted? Sure, the legal profession is one founded on ancient mores and steeped in extensive oldfangled traditions. But don’t we also say the law is dynamic and society evolving. And if we take this premise to its logical conclusion, wouldn’t it mean that as the core, the law’s periphery comprising of its criteria for eligibility for admission to practice allow for flexibility notwithstanding formal rules? And in this case, that those who are knowledgeable about the law equipped through hands-on training in the field be allowed to join the profession? I should think so. These hidebound Lawyers need to wake up to the reality that the times are changing. That given the harsh economic realities in the world today and the resultant hike in law school tuition, there’s the overpowering need to relax the formal rules of bar admission. Otherwise, people would balk at the mammoth law tuition costs and hence, there might be a dramatic fall in the number of lawyers. And soon our courtyards would become ghost towns with the profession eventually going into decline owing to these draconian policies. We don’t want that, do we? It`s the reason why we must maintain an open door policy in bar admissions, granting those with requisite legal practice experience bar admittance without the encumbrance of attending law school.

A recent research study published by Deloitte legal predicting future trends for legal services in one of its key findings reveals that purchaser’s expectations of legal services are evolving. With a corresponding increase in the demand for alternative or non-traditional legal service providers. So if the future trends for legal services are leaning towards non-traditional legal service providers. Then maybe it’s about time legal education followed suit and started embracing non-traditional, informal vistas of bar inclusion, opening its doors to all with requisite legal competencies and with a wealth of legal practice experience garnered through work in the field.
Having spent the introductory part of this article addressing the state of affairs on bar admission in other jurisdictions, lets now return to the heart of this write-up.

How Do You Become A Lawyer In Nigeria Without Going To Law School?

Unlike most common law jurisdictions, Nigeria operates a dual system of legal education where aspiring lawyers in qualifying for the bar are first required to study for an LL.B. at university lasting for 5 years. And upon graduation, they are then enrolled for an obligatory course of professional training at the Nigerian Law School. On successful completion of the course at the Nigerian Law School, a person is entitled to the award of a certificate of call to bar issued by the Council of Legal Education (the body responsible for the education of Nigerian lawyers). Often the issuance of this qualifying certificate along with the enrollment of a lawyers name on the roll of legal practitioners by the Chief Registrar of the Nigerian Supreme Court entitles them to practice law anywhere in Nigeria.

Flowing from the above, to qualify to practice law as a lawyer in Nigeria, an applicant must;
(1) Have complete a law degree of an approved university.

(2) Have completed the course of professional training at the Nigerian Law School.

(3) Have produced a qualifying certificate to the Benchers

(4) Have been enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.
The above conditions are enshrined in section 4(1) of the Legal Practitioners Act and must be fulfilled for qualification for admission as legal practitioner in Nigeria.

Like I said earlier, Nigeria operates a complimentary system of legal education where aspiring lawyers are taught substantive law (theory) at university and while they are taught procedural law at the Nigerian Law School.

Thus an intending lawyer must have engaged and completed their studies at both schools before they can be eligible for bar admission in Nigeria.

Be that as it may, S.2(A) & (B) of the Legal Education (Consolidation) Act 1976 (formerly the Legal Education Act, 1962)) , now codified in CAP L.10, Volume 8, LFN, 2004, permits both partial and full exemption from attendance of the Nigerian Law School for two categories individuals.

Partial Exemption:

The above provisions allow a partial exemption from attendance of the Nigerian Law School to graduates of law from non-common law jurisdiction teaching law in Nigerian universities for a period of 5 years or 10 years. Such persons are exempted from taking the Bar Part 1 programme.

Full Exemption:

Persons who are qualified to be admitted to the Nigerian Law School (those already awarded law degrees) are granted full exemption from attendance provided they lost such opportunity for reasons beyond their control. However, for such persons to claim the benefit of this arm of the provision, they must satisfy the Council of Legal Education that they have acquired knowledge and experience (of procedural law, to be precise) over a period of at least 5yrs, fitting them for enrollment.

By inference, only graduates of any approved law university in or outside Nigeria, awarded the LL.B. or other foreign law degree are allowed either partial or full exemption from the mandatory course of professional training at the NLS. However, for those seeking full exemption, i.e. skipping the Nigerian law school entirely, they must meet two requirements:

(1) That they could not attend for “reasons beyond” their control. In other words, you must not have lost the opportunity to attend the law school of your own volition. An inability to pay one’s law school tuition on account of indigence could be a “reason beyond” one’s control for losing the opportunity to attend the law school. There might be others.

(2) They must have acquired knowledge and experience of procedural law for at least a period of 5yrs sufficiently qualifying them for enrollment. Persons who have interned or worked in law offices or firms in Nigeria for 5years after graduation may have fulfilled this criteria, if they had acquired knowledge of procedural law in the course of discharging their duties. Such persons could not have gained their experience of the law via legal practice as they have not been called to the bar and this might constitute unauthorized practice of the law, eventually leading to prosecution.

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jsleekysleeky:
I have been reading thru this thread for the past 1 hr and I am amazed to put it lightly. The amount of information about graduate education in US and Canada is breathtaking to say the least.

Please I need advice on how to secure funding for an MS Chemical engineering programme in any good US university(which school should I apply to and when to apply). My GRE test score is ; V:159, Q: 165, AWA: 4.0, TOEFL: 106, CGPA: 3.76 on a 5.0 scale (royally screwed it up in sch). My 4th and 5th year were shit, mans was just getting 3.2 till graduation. I somehow feel that has been the archilles hill of my application.

Note: I applied to West virginia Uni, Louisiana State University and University of Wyoming for Fall 2017 but didn't get into any. Please any advice you provide will be greatly appreciate.

CC: Scholastica

When you say you did not get into any do you mean WRT an "admission" or "funding"?

I am asking because your GRE, TOEFL and GPA are good enough for most MSc programs in the US. What is dicey these days is funding for MSc programs and there is no hard and fast rule towards securing that.

One method people use is to apply for a direct PhD. If you get in, more often than not it comes fully-funded with a good stipend.

Another method is to apply for the MSc early enough (Oct of the previous year - in this case Oct of this year) and then apply for GA/RA or TA positions within the faculty or more specifically dept. This method depends on POIs responding and they may or may not respond - it all depends on luck and how you package yourself.

The other method is to apply to schools that have a habit of funding their MSc students. Most heavies for some reason do not do that. But the tier B schools are always more likely to fund their MSc students so that is another option you can consider.

The last option I know about is when they apply for the MSc, secure it, get the visa and step into the country and school itself then they approach profs one on one. This method usually works in 2 ways; 1) the Profs give you the funding on the spot or 2) they may tell you to chill for a semester so they can observe you and then give you the funding after they have confirmed that you know your onions.

Nobody has them totally figured out. I would ask you to search for a moniker named "PonPon". He gave 2 robust posts on getting across to POIs and his method seems fool-proof. When you see it in his past posts you would definitely know and you can use them as guides towards reaching out to POIs.

I don't have a long list of schools that funded both MSc and PhDs for chemical engineering but I am sure that Auburn, Toledo (especially for Chemical engineering) and South Carolina did so. If you are patient enough to reach out to students in your preferred discipline in other schools, they may be gracious enough to let you know how available funding is in their school. Their word is good because they would be honest.

Another senior on this forum mentioned Washington State to me. You can check them out as well. All the best!

check CSU, I just finished checking the website. but am not sure of MS funding.

jsleekysleeky:
I have been reading thru this thread for the past 1 hr and I am amazed to put it lightly. The amount of information about graduate education in US and Canada is breathtaking to say the least.

Please I need advice on how to secure funding for an MS Chemical engineering programme in any good US university(which school should I apply to and when to apply). My GRE test score is ; V:159, Q: 165, AWA: 4.0, TOEFL: 106, CGPA: 3.76 on a 5.0 scale (royally screwed it up in sch). My 4th and 5th year were shit, mans was just getting 3.2 till graduation. I somehow feel that has been the archilles hill of my application.

Note: I applied to West virginia Uni, Louisiana State University and University of Wyoming for Fall 2017 but didn't get into any. Please any advice you provide will be greatly appreciate.

CC: Scholastica

I have been reading thru this thread for the past 1 hr and I am amazed to put it lightly. The amount of information about graduate education in US and Canada is breathtaking to say the least.

Please I need advice on how to secure funding for an MS Chemical engineering programme in any good US university(which school should I apply to and when to apply). My GRE test score is ; V:159, Q: 165, AWA: 4.0, TOEFL: 106, CGPA: 3.76 on a 5.0 scale (royally screwed it up in sch). My 4th and 5th year were shit, mans was just getting 3.2 till graduation. I somehow feel that has been the archilles hill of my application.

Note: I applied to West virginia Uni, Louisiana State University and University of Wyoming for Fall 2017 but didn't get into any. Please any advice you provide will be greatly appreciate.

CC: Scholastica

7 WEIRD FACTS ABOUT SNAKES
Snakes are among the most feared animals.
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Did you know that snakes can have two
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​Top five churches with the largest number of university system in the world have been revealed.

According to the Education Explorer many of these Universities are ranked top 1000(or top 5%) in the world while some even rank top 200.

See the list of top five churches with the largest universities:

Catholic universities: 1300

There are over 1,300 catholic universities in the world with some ranking very high on times higher education. Examples of Catholic Universities include University of Notre Dam (143 in the world), Villanova University, Loyola University Chicago and Georgetown University(104 in the world). There are also about four universities associated with the catholic church in Nigeria.

Anglican: 131

University of Chester, St Augustine university, Thorneloe University, Ajayi Crowther university are examples of universities that are owned by the Anglican Church.

Adventist: 120

The Adventist church has numerous universities in the world and is also the owner of our very own Babcock University. High ranking Adventist Universities in the world include Oakwood University, Andrew university, La sierra university, walla walla university, Washington Adventist university e.t.c The Adventist church has about 28 universities in Africa, 18 in Europe, 18 in N/America and over 60 in other places.

Baptist: 72

The Baptist church has about 60 universities or colleges in the USA and about 11 scattered in other parts of the world. Baylor University(Texas) Eastern University( Pennsylvania) Liberty University(virginia) Linfield College(Oregon) University of Sioux Falls(South Dakota) are top Baptist Universities in the world other examples of Baptist Universities include Bowen University(Osun), Mount Meru University Tanzania e.t.c

Church of Christ: 31

The Church of Christ has some amazing universities like Pepperdine University(which also has one of the most beautiful campus in the world), Obong University(Nigeria), Harding University, Amridge University e.t.c

http://fabinfos.com/top-five-churches-largest-universities-world-revealed-see-list/

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Scholastica16:


Congrats OtorHope, great GRE score with an even greater GPA. You are ripe for Georgia Tech. Apply for Direct PhD here - they encourage it in their chemical engineering program especially for top performers like you.

I have not really looked at Washington State but someone recommended it to me here. You should look at Auburn University as well. Let me just throw a few more schools that you should look at;

UC Davis
Uni of virginia
U Wisconsin
Uni of Toledo (Safe..Plenty funding for CE)

Nothing is guaranteed.

Thanks Scholastica16...
Will check out the schools
Yeah.Gatech is the top school I was looking at too..
Checked out Toledo too(what's CE pls)...
You a chemical engineer too right?.
Pls do you know much on university of Minnesota... The chemical engineering program looks really attractive and highly rated.. But I don't know much om their acceptance rates and all

OtorHope:


Vr-157.. Qr-162.. Awa-4...

Need advice generally
Considering MS/PHD in US
Chemical engineering
Cgp: 4.78
Gre: 319
No much work experience and little research experience..
Ambitious and safe options all welcomed

Congrats OtorHope, great GRE score with an even greater GPA. You are ripe for Georgia Tech. Apply for Direct PhD here - they encourage it in their chemical engineering program especially for top performers like you.

I have not really looked at Washington State but someone recommended it to me here. You should look at Auburn University as well. Let me just throw a few more schools that you should look at;

UC Davis
Uni of virginia
U Wisconsin
Uni of Toledo (Safe..Plenty funding for CE)

Nothing is guaranteed.

Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has now ceased to be an Adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him today along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”.

Trump sacked Ogunlesi on Twitter, when he announced the dissolution of two business advisory councils, in one fell swoop. Ogunlesi was a member of Strategic and Policy Forum, one of the two disbanded by the unpredictable president. The other group was the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council. Ogunlesi, heads Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm and one of Fortune 500 companies. He was the only African on the panel.

The New York Times reported before Trump’s tweeted dissolution, that members of Ogunlesi’s panel were debating dissolving the body entirely as Trump wallowed deeper into bigotry quagmire. But Trump preempted their move. “Corporate leaders had hoped that President Trump would help businesses by slashing taxes and gutting regulations. It is not clear how much he will deliver on that score.

On top of that, he is putting many chief executives in the position of answering for a president with an unparalleled track record of outraging people, most recently at a contentious press conference on Tuesday when he drew a false equivalence between the white supremacists who protested in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend and counter-protesters.”, NYT reported.

Trump had earned rebuke and isolation from business leaders for supporting racial bigotry, White Supremacists and the KKK, following his remarks that failed to blame the tragic violence in Charlottesville, virginia on the group. Instead, he blamed all the sides and the group that challenged the racists. The leaders of three companies — Kenneth Frazier of Merck, Kevin Plank of Under Armour and Brian Krzanich of Intel - were the first to resign from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council. They resigned on Monday because Mr.

Trump was slow to condemn the white supremacists during the weekend and blamed “many sides” for the violence. When Trump moderated his tone on Monday by saying “racism is evil” and condemning neo-Nazis, he did not assuage some of the CEOs working with him. Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, an organization backed by the steel industry and the United Steel workers resigned.

He was followed on Tuesday by Richard Trumka and Thea Lee, the president and deputy chief of staff for the union group A.F.L.-C.I.O.. The latter’s resignation followed Trump’s reversed position at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, in which he said that “not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” referring to the white nationalists who were chanting “Jews will not replace us” as they marched with tiki-torches. Ogunlesi’s Strategic Forum, composed some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders.

Members of the body were expected to meet with Trump frequently to share their specific experience and knowledge as the president implements his plan to bring back jobs and “Make America Great Again. ”
The other members of the forum were: Stephen Schwarzman (forum chairman), chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone, Paul Atkins, CEO of Patomak Global Partners, former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Barra, chairwoman and CEO, General Motors Toby Cosgrove, CEO, Cleveland Clinic Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Larry Fink, chairman and CEO, BlackRock Bob Iger, chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company Rich Lesser, president and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Jim McNerney, former chairman, president, and CEO of Boeings Ginni Rometty, chairwoman, president, and CEO of IBM Kevin Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in economics at the Hoover Institute, former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO, EY Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO, General Electric Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winner, vice chairman of IHS Markit Apart from being managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, Ogunlesi also serves on the boards of Callaway Golf Co. and Kosmos Energy Ltd.

At the same time he’s the chairman of Africa Finance Corp. and serves on the boards of various not-for-profits ranging from New York Presbyterian Hospital to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

I will look at other schools but my problem is I dont want to apply to many schools (why, I cant say). Secondly, I dont mind going to other countries. I will try the free WES conversion

Scholastica16:


I recently discovered that Cleveland State Uni has a lot of funding for EE students. The sharing formular based on specific project interests is what I do not know.

Georgia Tech encourages PhDs with over-sufficient funding though my research was based on Chemical Engineering- my undergrad discipline.

The GRE takes about 5/7 days to get to the school from the time you hit "send" on the test day. It could also take a more extended time- say, 10-14 days incase of delays. That way, your AWA that becomes available to you only after 10 days would get to the school about the same time.

Nobody can determine your chance of getting admitted. I wager it takes a tinge of serendipity and submitting early (without relegating having a good profile or faith).

Someone else recommended adding more B+ and B- schools and he is right because presupposed safe schools are becoming precarious these days. Just based on NL, I would ask that you looked into University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Texas, Dallas and maybe Drexel University.

Don't get caught in the hype of assuming meeting all the admission conditions of your prospective schools will automatically translate into an acceptance. It works that way more often than not in Master's applications but becomes unpredictable in PhD apps.

See for e.g, someone on here got admitted (and fully funded) into University of virginia Charlottesville & Penn State Uni but same profile was rejected by UConn. Compatibility with POIs and timing could do the trick. I would only recommend you submitted your apps earlier than Dec or atleast before the stipulated deadline for early bird admisisons in your considered schools.

Yildiz:
Hi Fam. I have done alot of research and read alot of pages on this thread. As you know I intend to apply for a PhD in EE or Biomedical Engineering. I have short listed the following schools; University of Michigan (Ambitious), Georgia Tech, University of illinois Urbana and Kansas State University. I have contacted their grad program coordinators. Some are yet to respond.

My question is since am planning to re-write GRE, how long can I delay it with the hope that results reach the school before 1st Dec?

The schools I have short listed, how generous are they will funding (under grad GPA 4.26/5, masters 3.5/5)?

Apart from application fees and cost of sending hard copies of documents are there other fees I have to pay?

Finally, to what extent do I stand a chance to gaining admission in any of these schools?

Pardon my English and stupid questions (if any)

I recently discovered that Cleveland State Uni has a lot of funding for EE students. The sharing formular based on specific project interests is what I do not know.

Georgia Tech encourages PhDs with over-sufficient funding though my research was based on Chemical Engineering- my undergrad discipline.

The GRE takes about 5/7 days to get to the school from the time you hit "send" on the test day. It could also take a more extended time- say, 10-14 days incase of delays. That way, your AWA that becomes available to you only after 10 days would get to the school about the same time.

Nobody can determine your chance of getting admitted. I wager it takes a tinge of serendipity and submitting early (without relegating having a good profile or faith).

Someone else recommended adding more B+ and B- schools and he is right because presupposed safe schools are becoming precarious these days. Just based on NL, I would ask that you looked into University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Texas, Dallas and maybe Drexel University.

Don't get caught in the hype of assuming meeting all the admission conditions of your prospective schools will automatically translate into an acceptance. It works that way more often than not in Master's applications but becomes unpredictable in PhD apps.

See for e.g, someone on here got admitted (and fully funded) into University of virginia Charlottesville & Penn State Uni but same profile was rejected by UConn. Compatibility with POIs and timing could do the trick. I would only recommend you submitted your apps earlier than Dec or atleast before the stipulated deadline for early bird admisisons in your considered schools.

Empirical proof helps us validate what we should and shouldn’t believe, but sometimes cold hard facts just aren’t available. Even when we don’t have solid proof, however, humans still tend to extend their sense of belief to certain phenomenon. From things we could never see with the human eye to life forms that have yet to be verified, here are the top 10 things we believe despite a lack of verifiable proof.


10. ALIENS: While conspiracy theories and UFO sightings abound, we don’t have verifiable proof that other life forms exist in the space beyond our own planet. Still, many people firmly believe that there is life on other planets, or that life did exist at some point inthe past. From video claims of inexplicable objects in the sky, to personal testimonials from people who say they’ve been taken into a spacecraft, we want to believe that there is more to life than what is on our own planet even if it has yet to be scientifically proven as fact.

9. ASTROLOGY: The notion of astrology is not a new one; people have been making major life decisions by the stars for centuries. Without any real proof that the way the planets and stars are aligned will actually shape a person, we believe that if we are born under a certain zodiac sign we are bound to a particular disposition and set of skills. Daily horoscopesand astrological charts have become a guiding tool for many people, who truly think that one’s birth date determines her fate and can help her make day-to-day decisions.

8. CRYPTIDS: Cryptids are animals whose existence has never been proven by science, such as Bigfoot or the infamous West virginia Mothman. Enough sightings and amateur photographs exist that we consider it possible that these creatures really do walk or swim the Earth with us, even though they don’t exist in museums and aren’t officially acknowledged. Until the Loch Ness monster or another cryptid is captured, they will continue to be merely mystical creatures of which no proof exists.

7. GHOSTS: Anyone who claims to have seen a ghost might say that there is proof of spirit life, but skeptics would argue that any ghostly sighting can be explained away by lighting tricks or other logical reasons. At the end of the day, there may never be indisputable, tangible proof of ghosts. While ghost hunters have electronic tools meant to measure ghost activity, results are open to interpretation. Yet, we believe in ghostly encounters and phenomenon – that when things go bump in the night or move suddenly, a ghost can be the cause.

6. PHYSIC MEDIUMS: Psychic mediums purport to talk to people who have died and gone to “the other side.” Mediums convey details that they supposedly hear from the deceased to loved ones who are still alive. Despite any way to really measure how psychics come by the information they doll out, we believe that they are someone seeing and hearing signs from dead people. While psychic mediums offer a less than 100% accuracy rate, the desire to speak to our dead family and friends is so great thatwe overlook their mistakes and grant them the benefit of the doubt.

5. KARMA: Whether you call it karma, or just “WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND,” people have a common belief that the behavior you exhibit today somehow informs what happens to you down the road. With no more than anecdotal proof, we think that acting morally or fairly now will yield positive things for us in the future. Despite the simple fact that we can never prove that karma exists, it remains a principle that many people live by in the hopes that they can reap the benefits it promises.

4. INTUITION: Call it a gut feeling, or intuition, but we believe that sometimes a sixth sense provides us silent guidance. Intuition can tell us when to distrust someone, end a marriage, avoid a certain street, or steer us in any number of directions. With seemingly no logical explanation, our intuition helps us make decisions with confidence and allows us feel like we are making a decision based on a trusted power that is bigger than ourselves. We give intuition credit for showing us which way to go when we hit a fork in the road.

3 FATE: The phrase “EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON” is thrown around quite a bit, especially after something unfortunate happens. While we have no real reason to suspect that there is a sense of reason to life’s events, we tell ourselves that certain events – if not all of them – are fated to fall into place in precisely the way in which they do. The idea of destiny gives us comfort and helps us to pick ourselves back up after a disaster or hurtful life event.

2. RELIGIOUS TEXTS: Regardless of one’s background, most of us believe in an organized religion of some sort. Religions are taught through texts, such as the Bible, which arethought to spell out exactly how a higher power wants humans to live. We believe stories about people who lived for hundreds ofyears, completed fantastic feats, and even managed to overcome mortality – because they are a part of a religious text. Though noproof exists that these writings are a true reflection any higher power, people do their best to abide by the rules and morals outlined within religious books.

1. GOD: Easily the biggest leap of faith that humans take is believing thata higher power, or God, exists and somehow sees and guides our life. From thinking that an inner prayer is heard, to the belief that we will come face to face with a higher power after death, we think that God is not only real but everywhere. By definition, God cannot be proven through empirical evidence, and yet the notion of a higher power is something that ties us to some of the earliest people and each other.

Source- http://listverse.com/2012/11/04/top-10-things-people-believe-without-proof/

abidex0z:

every schools in the USA request for TOEFL or any equivalent,but there are some schools n colleges that it's ENGLISH proficiency is optional....whereby u write your admission officer in order to defend Nigeria as an ENGLISH speaking in order to waive it for you with documentation in case if us consul ask for a waiver letter...I got a cousin that deals with us n Canada schools n college.... his friend is presently in virginia for his masters...

please is it possible for one to get into Canadian school for masters without ielts and GRE and still get funding for liberal arts courses.I v a letter from my school for English proficiency. but d idea of GRE scares.besides,am emphasizing on funding for masters in courses like international relations,international development studies.

mfarad:


Prof sirRiddy, I'm only trying to ​follow the footsteps of yourself​ and the other "elders" in the house. Appreciate​ your continuous contributions to the thread.

@bolded, Sure, I've read the thread but there's no discounting your sage advice whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Here's my profile:

Undergraduate GPA: (Petroleum Engineering, from Nigeria uni, ) 3.09/5 (2.97/3- WES)
TOEFL: 104 (R 30, L 28, S 24, W 22)
GRE: 309 (Q 157, V 152, A 3.5)

Target Schools:
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Louisiana state university, Baton rouge.
(No categorisation, since safe schools are no longer safe)
Still searching for others (applying to few schools due to financial constraints, after all it's only one admit one needs )

While I understand that PhDs are the priority when it comes to funding, I'm yet to see how a PhD suits my career projections atm. Hence, I'm looking at an MSc in Petroleum Engineering (despite the downturn)

Will appreciate any intel on the aforementioned schools and others... Respect!

You can check out University of Wyoming
And University of West virginia.

One of them require a GPA of 2.75 and you could have a PhD in PE without MSc.
And I also think, you have a good enough GRE scores for those schools. I'll like to speak with you directly. Have sent a pm. RSVP