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Seems like this was an A2A, though I would have anyhow answered it.My student life in Padeborn is one of those experiences that you never forget. It was a roller-coaster experience, one that I will always treasure.I was in Paderborn for close to 3 years, between 2010 and 2013.Educational experience:The education system is excellent.As a Masters Student of CS, we have 4 options of major - Software Technology, Embedded Systems, Models and Algorithms, and Human-Machine Interaction. The course structure is very extensive, and there are substantial number of subjects you can choose for each field.Moreover, the course is at par with technology. Every semester, the professors revise the structure if there is an advancement in their fieldEach professor at the University is knowledgeable and expert in their subject area.The professors know their subject areas in and out. They not only teach us, but also manage several research topics in their area, PhD's, seminars and projects. They stand a chance to lose their position if no substantial work is achieved in their department.The project part of the course is an excellent way to gain practical knowledge.In CS, the project is worth 30 ECTS, which is 1/4th part of your masters, and is 2 semesters long. An given project group has 5-16 members.Not only do you learn to implement your theoretical knowledge here, but you also learn how to work in a multi-cultural environment, the project life-cycle in practicality, why QA and documentation are important, etc.This is very crucial and important for people with no IT work experience.Social lifeIf you are an extrovert, you will enjoy the social life at the university and in the city.Almost every month, there is a Uni party, tickets to which are very very affordable. The parties generally start at around 9-10 PM and the celebrations run until 1-2 AM.Once a year, we have the 1-day Uni festival, which is a full day event, with multiple bands, disco areas, food and drink joints, and way too many people. The tickets to this event are about € 15-20, and it is a one-time visit at least.The city of Paderborn has several hangout joints (not malls, but cafés, restaurants and pubs.There also are several festivals celebrated in the city throughout the year; e.g. Libori festival twice - summer and autumn, Spring festival in April, etc.There are quite a lot of Indian students in Paderborn, and you definitely won't miss home too much. You will also find quite a few Indian restaurants, but I'd recommend none. for the simple lack of authencity.I came to Paderborn with an aim to attain a Masters Degree in CS. I did not want to delay the process, and I wanted to end up with good grades.I was very serious about my goals. And fortunately for me, my 2 friends who came with me, had the same mindset.We followed the advice of the alumni, and structured our Masters course of 120 ECTS into a well-balanced and well-divided timetable amongst our targeted 4 semesters. And apart from a few hickups, we actually did follow it to the letter.We also made it a point to enjoy the European life we had during this time. We attended a few Uni parties, visited a few neighbouring countries during the semester breaks, socialized as much as we could with fellow Indians and Germans.We ensured that our grades were never affected. It took us a little more than 2 years (for me it took about 3 more months owing to my thesis research), but we did finish our masters with excellent grades.What I learned during this time:Good teachers don't just teach, they learn, research and work more than usOral exams are not just difficult and challenging, but also more rewarding.Mugging up doesn't get you ahead, and that understanding and learning from mistakes can never take you back in life.Hard work always pays off.You excel when you learn, not when you study.Never repeat the same mistake again. Learn from mistakes made.Home is where my parents are.Good friends are family, especially in a foreign land.Not to trust easily.Indians are not Indians in a foreign country, espceially for fellow Indians. They are instead Maharashtrians, Andhraites, Kannada, Mallus, North-Indians etc.Germans, while not very friendly, are very nice and one of the most helpful people.To conclude, I had a bitter-sweet experience in Paderborn.P.S. The points stated in my answer are my experience, and are not meant to demoralise or be rant against anyone in particular.

Let us look at our rice farmer here in a barrio about five kilometers away from the 4rth class town which is about 120 kilometers away from a provincial capital which is an eight-hour bus ride from a Manila bus station. Road from the barrio to the town was finished during the Presidency of Gloria the feisty daughter of ex-president Dadong.A farmer here has two up to five hectares of land. Usually he has a son or two and a carabao, if he has one carabao, preferred is a female one, hoping it will give him a calf in a year or two. He has no hand-held diesel-powered kubota tractor, that is only for a bit well-off farmer, and he is not yet one (maybe in a generation or two later).A farmer-family maybe has four to six children and as usual males and females (and do not give me your tiresome birth control heehaw mantra); children are assets to a poor farmer’s family. One daughter is 19 just after K12 and is working as a maid (your kasambahay law subject) and two sons of legal age are with the family as still both single; the rest are in elementary grades and one high school.This family I am discussing is working 1.50 hectares of my land on a 70/30 basis of sharing (70% his share) and he’s working too his own (OWN) 2.2 hectares of land; (and this 64-year old son-of-a-gun is a Marcos Loyalist till the day he will die because of that 2.2 hectares of land paid by him by amortizations under the Land Reform Program of presidential decree no. 27.). Marcos is the best diktator that happened to him and he will never believe me even if I enumerated all the sins of Ferdinand even if I start with the case of Nalundasan (his retort: if Marcos is guilty, why our bright and just leaders set him free?). A retired lawyer like me steer clear from this line of discussion. Not useful nor beneficial to farming, considering what is the political party of a Urea fertilizer, indeed?He has two problems beyond his control: Urea per bag of 50kgs costs about 1200 pesos and he will be using about nine bags (he uses 10 bags) and he is using too Sulfates (about 750 per bag) and Completes fertilizers (about 850 pesos per bag); all told for the fertilizers he will be spending about 25,000 pesos. Pesticides put at 5000 pesos. That is 35,000 pesos for fertilizers and pesticides and that is a modest estimate; (for purposes of costings it has to be 50,000 pesos). That is equivalent to 50 bags of palay, dried at 14% moisture content, more or less subject to error of 10% on the More side during depressed prices of palay during harvest time.This problem of Fertilizers (include pesticides) needs maybe the government’s subsidy (but I knew of none at the end of the line i.e. the farmer’s buying the abonos from the merchant. Every time Mang Camilo’s two sons hefted the bags of fertilizers, there are two groans I can imagine I heared: the weight of 50kg and the costs per bag. Dalawang buntunghinga. Luckily the last four years of our relationship, harvest was good; we were lucky we skipped the typhoons timely; this is proof beyond doubt there is God in the Heavens (ask Mang Camilo, he is a real alive farmer) and He smiled upon us.Another problem ultimately beyond the control of any farmer is Water aka Irrigation. No good supply of regulated irrigation water meanbs an erratic supply of Water and this is Life to farming. Pass this simple knowledge to any government Officer or Employee, elective or appointive. Woe unto us who farm and there is no water control; water excess kills us; water wanting kills us.Capital maybe 50 min max 100 thousand pesos for 3.7 hectares is affordable, any shortfall there is the barrio 5/6 not just the Bombays (they should be banned or put to Jail for doing business sans registration and observance of the Law). Problem is these Bombays filled a lacuna abandoned by Pinas government (micro lending).These are a few observations I have in my Logbook I have kept for years.Solutions? You are the bright boys and girls in your rated A-Universities but I will never trust your type to seriously look into the farmers’ plight. Your types will pick up the cash and go, as in touch and go. Real fundamental solutions do not come from your types or class; even your question is suspect. You are just out to pass an exams or a quiz.My advice to the two sons of Mang Camilo is simple: seminar - Tesda type and learn a skill (welding, cable splicing, carpentry and use of portable electronic equipment and get out of Pinas Islands and earn US$ or Japanese Yen to start a business or buy more farms in a decade or less).To be rich is Glorious sayeth Chairman Deng; to be a farmer is never glorious in Pinas (and do not believe any one saying the contrary because he is the comprador-burgis or the politiko-comprador burgis who made life for the farmer miserably poor).I farm rice not for profit as long as I do not lose; my purpose is not to eat NFA’s sometimes weevil-infested rice. Farming (I mean rice, palay) is not profitable to an ordinary land-owner.Do not be surprised if upon first chance a Pinas young man will abandon the farm and take a job outside Pinas. The frontier here in Pinas is harsh to the farmer and his sons.

It's not Bill Gates per se.It's a group called “The Education Trust Incorporated.” This group is a band of loonies who came up with something called “Equitable Math.”Learn more at equitablemath.orgWhile it looks benign at first glance and its goal look noble, unfortunately even just quickly scanning over their material shows that this group is nothing but a collaboration of morons.Unfortunately as with most liberal approaches to education, basically their standard tenet of making things accessible to people of color isn’t to help raise black, latino and multilingual students but instead to lower the standards for everyone else. Its basically the soccer mom participation medal approach where everyone gets a trophy just for showing up, without needing to any actual kind of work or putting in any kind of effort, or you know actually learning something.Worse, Equitable Math goes the full woke idiot mile and says “Math is a White Supremacist science and must be reformed to be ‘inclusive’ to mathematicians of color.”You know there’s a problem when step 1 in this program teaches you that Math is White Supremacy because it focuses on finding the “right” answer."We see white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom when the focus is on getting the 'right' answer."I mean, come fucking on. What is 1+1? There is only one fucking answer that is correct. It is not 0, it is not 1, it is not 3, or anything else. It is always 2. Always. That is how math works.The moment you tell kids who got 0 or 1 or 3 instead of 2 that “it’s okay you are special everyone goes at their own pace you are a great black/latino mathematician!” that’s when the world as we know it crumbles.Math is an exact, precise science. It’s because it is precise and we get correct answers that we can base things in the real world on it and expect things to work. It’s why when you buy an apple for $1 at the grocery with a $20 bill you always get $19 back as change. Not $100, not $15, not $0.It’s why when you launch a rocket into outerspace it ends up in outerspace, not on the ground or blowing up and destroying New York City.But these loons at Equitable Math think that is wrong and that we should lower our standards for math to ensure that morons can do it. I mean, they probably think we should give doctorates to monkeys randomly clacking on keyboards. These are “mathematicians of color” right?(And before any of you think I am saying black or latino people are monkeys, I’ll head you off at the pass. No, I did not say that and I am a latino myself so get that into your heads before you report me for BNBR).My point is that math existentially is about the correct answer. There is no gray area. Yes, there are actual math problems where there are two or more possible answers. But those answers are always correct and there is no subjective discussion about it. Simple example: x^2 = 4. Find X. The correct answers are 2 and -2. Two possible answers, but they are always the answers. It is precise.Your work in math is either correct or wrong. And you must acknowledge that for it to work or to be of any value. Otherwise you’ll get into situations like this:The goal of Equitable Math is to make STEM fields accessible to mathematicians of color. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work if you don’t teach them actual correct math and just lower the standards for everyone.STEM fields are not a fashion show for people to prance around and strut around pretending that they know how to do math. It is for people who actually know math and science, because the work requires you to know proper math and science.It’s where engineers calculate the weight and physics of airplanes. Where the ballistics of rifles and guns are computed. Where actual machine programming is done. You need actual math and science for that, not “pretend math” as Equitable Math would have you learn. Otherwise things break down rockets end up crashing into New York City and blowing it up instead of going into outer space, guns explode when you pull the trigger instead of shooting bullet, cars run over people when you press the brakes, etc.That is just how real world math and science works. These are precise disciplines that require precision work, otherwise they don’t work at all.Let’s take a closer look at that hilarious curriculum straight from Homepage - Math Equity Toolkit itself.“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false.”I mean, who the hell comes up with this shit?Basically, “Equitable Math” is something that wants to transform math from what it actually is, which is this:To this:Because, you know, that first one with all those strange symbols is too hard. There is no way (those stupid inferior) black and latinos can possibly keep up with the white kids solving those kind of equations. So let’s just turn math into art class!I hope I don’t even have to point out what is wrong with that.But apparently there are morons with PhDs who came up with this material. If this is what it takes to get a PhD in America these days I should have flown there to get a Doctorate and gotten myself a nice cushy job doing art seminars.The problem with their approach is that it puts way too much burden on the teacher so as “not to hurt the feelings” of the students. I mean in many ways we should try to keep everyone included in the process. But you can’t baby students, or they will never grow. Here’s a sample “problem” from their material. And it boggles my mind that this is material for Grade 6–8 students? This kind of problem was Grade 4 material for me back when I was in elementary.So it’s the simple concept of rate, and extremely simple arithmetic to calculate it. It’s so easy. But the emphasis isn’t on figuring out the rate. It’s on “getting the student’s process making sure their feelings don’t get hurt.” That’s why the answers are shared anonymously so nobody gets made fun of. I mean what?Then the teacher is expected to log how each student did and identify their particular problems and coach them one on one. Instead of just learning that 47/3 = 141/9 it goes through all these hoops just to make life harder for the teacher.This looks a hell of a lot like the one-on-one coaching we do in corporations to help employees learn skills and progress. It’s an extremely difficult job and that’s just with small teams of 10–14 people or so, and is difficult to do on a weekly basis, much less daily. Equitable Math expects teachers to do this for every question in a lesson, when a class has 30–40 or more students? In my school we had about 50 students per class, 6 classes per grade level (total of ~300 students) and only two math teacher for all of them.They expect this approach to work? Come on you fools teachers are human too, they’re not robot productivity machines for you to abuse. Teachers teach math the way we do today because they need to focus on actually teaching math skills and having students learn them, not this mumbo jumbo sharing participation trophy nonsense.In my school we would typically have a math period for 40 minutes, and the teacher would explain stuff theoretically, give formulas, etc. and then we discuss 5–10 different problems and learn them. you need that much to learn stuff. This Equitable Math system you’d be lucky to tackle even just one problem per period, and good luck to the teacher tracking each student for all that. It is just inefficient, covers way too little, with dumbed down material, children are not going to learn anything close to highschool level by the time they graduate highschool, much less be prepared for STEM fields like this.Bill Gates didn’t personally say math is racist, but his foundation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made an extremely generous $1 million grant to the foundation that comes up with dreck like this. Unfortunately if you put your name on a foundation you are going to be held accountable for it. So if this was allowed Bill Gates is definitely culpable in it.It’s unfortunate that “Anti White Supremacy” rhetoric has become so acceptable and even laudable that there are loons in the Gates foundation who would squander a million dollars on this kind of shit.But, it is what it is. America, the land of the free, 60% white, but thinks that white people are the root of all evil.