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Of course. Where are you from where you never went to an Old Country Buffet or Golden Corral?Eretria? Venezuela? Have you ever seen food, or have you been living out in the bush chasing wild pigs with homemade Spears?NATIONAL.RESTAURANT courtesy of their websiteGolden Corral Menu and PricesNo matter what you are hungry for, you’ll find a huge variety of delicious dishes to satisfy you at the Golden Corral buffet. Whether you go for a Salisbury steak, pizza, enchiladas, or a healthy salad, Golden Corral’s tasty cuisine will hit the spot.But how much does it cost to eat at Golden Corral? The prices are quite low, considering it is an all-you-can-eat buffet. Many nights, you can eat dinner for around $12, and even steak and shrimp night is just a couple dollars more. Lunch costs even less—generally around $9. Golden Corral is awesome if you have a house full of hungry kids to feed, since they can each eat for under $7 (those under 3 years old eat for FREE).Golden Corral Senior SpecialsIf you are a senior, Golden Corral has some great deals ins tore for you! Those over age 60 can enjoy the Golden Corral Senior’s Buffet. You can have lunch for just around $8, or dinner for around $12 with beverages for about $2. If you want to save even more, you can show up for the Senior Early Bird Special on Monday-Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. This allows you to enjoy the Golden Corral dinner buffet plus drinks for only about $8.Notice: The prices listed on this page are provided for reference only. The actual prices may vary depending on your Golden Corral branch.Golden Corral Military Appreciation NightAnother special which Golden Corral runs is the Military Appreciation Night Thank You Meal.This is a completely free meal for any person who has served in the US military, including active duty members, retirees, veterans and National Guard or Reserves. Family members who have not served do need to pay for their meals, but they are welcome to attend.Over the sixteen years that Golden Corral has been running Military Appreciation Nights, the restaurant has served more than 5.1 million free meals. During that time, they have also donated more than $12.9 million to Disabled American Veterans.You can check when the next Golden Corral MilitarGolden Corral Menu CategoriesNow let’s check out Golden Corral’s menu! You will find that the menu is divided into the following categories:Hot BuffetSalad BuffetBreakfast BuffetHot Soups & Potato BarBakery & DessertsBeveragesGolden Corral Buffet Packages & PricesGolden Corral buffet serves up a hearty buffet of delicious comfort food without breaking the bank. Below, you can view the packages.BuffetPriceBreakfast Buffet (served until 11 am on Saturday and Sunday).Drinks included.$8.69Lunch Buffet (served Monday through Saturday)Drinks not included.$8.69Dinner Buffet (served Monday through Sunday until 4 pm)Drinks not included.$11.99Drinks$2.19Children’s PackagesChildren aged 4 through 8 years old may eat for$5.99Children aged 9 through 2 years old may eat for$6.99Children under 3 years of age may eat for FREE.**This only goes for the first two children per family. Additional meals for additional children are charged at regular kid’s pricing.Golden Corral Senior’s Buffet Packages For Customers Over Age 60Breakfast Buffet (Served Saturday and Sunday through 11 am)Drinks included.$8.19Lunch Buffet (Served Monday-Saturday)Drinks not included.$8.19Dinner Buffet (Served Monday through Saturday from 4 pm on)Drinks not included.$11.49Drinks$2.19Senior Early Bird Special (Served Monday through Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm)Drinks included.$7.59Drink PackagesSoft DrinksThis price includes all age groups.$1.99Milk or Juice$2.29CoffeeIf you want a 32 ounce to-go cup, you may pay an additional fee.$1.59WaterFreeBreakfast CateringLight Continental Breakfast$7.50Worth Getting Up For Breakfast$8.50Country Breakfast$9.75Catering for Lunch or DinnerOut to Lunch$8.25A Day in the Park$13.00GC Picnic$9.25GC Pit Barbecue$8.25BBQ Ribs$12.00Today's Special$11.00That Was Awesome$11.00A Fine Dine$14.00Packages for Holiday CateringHoliday Essentials$9.00Gobble Till You Wobble$13.00Holiday Feast$16.00Packages for Wedding CateringLight & Easy$9.00Simple & Elegant$10.50Wedding Complete$11.50Wedding Complete Plus$13.00What Are the Hours of Operation?You can eat at Golden Corral 7 days a week. You need to look up the specific franchise you want to visit to find out their exact hours. Not every location serves breakfast either.Most Golden Corral restaurants observe the following hours:Lunch and Dinner:11 am through 10 pmSaturday Breakfast:7:30 am through 11 amSunday Breakfast:7:30 am through 11 amWhat about the holidays? Golden Corral is open for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but their hours are different and vary significantly by location. So it is best to look up the franchise nearest you to find out when you should show up for your holiday meal.Here is the Full Menu for Golden CorralNow that you know what you will be paying to eat at Golden Corral, here is the full menu of buffet options to choose from!Bakery & DessertsAppleApple CobblerApple Fruit ToppingApple PieApple TurnoverBanana Nut BreadBanana Nut French ToastBanana PuddingBananasBeef Pot PieBillionare's Mini PieBiscuitsBlueberriesBlueberry MuffinsBlueberry Pie, No Sugar AddedBoston Cream CakeBread PuddingBrowniesBruschettaCaramel Chocolate CheesecakeCherry PieChocolate Cake with CherriesChocolate Cake with Chocolate FrostingChocolate Chess Mini PieChocolate Chess PieChocolate Chip CookieChocolate Chip PancakesChocolate ChipsChocolate CupcakesChocolate FountainChocolate FudgeChocolate Pudding, No Sugar AddedChocolate SyrupChocolate White Chip CookieCoconut Cream Mini PieFruit Mini PieGarlic Cheese BiscuitsGarlic Cheese Bread KnotsGarlic Cheese Bread SticksGerman Chocolate BarsGerman Chocolate CakeJellybeansLemon Cream Mini PieLuscious Lemon CakeMint Chocolate Chip Ice CreamMultigrain Bread RollsOatmeal CookiePeanut Butter CookiePeanut Butter Mini PiePecan Mini PiePecan PiePistachio Pudding, No Sugar AddedPumpkin Mini PiePumpkin PieRed Velvet CakeSoft Serve Chocolate Ice CreamStrawberry Mini PieSweet Corn PuddingYeast RollsYeast Rolls, MiniYogurt RaisinsBeveragesGreen Tea with PeachGreen Tea with Peach DietPepsiPepsi DietPepsi MAXPepsi Wild CherryRaspberry TeaRaspberry Tea LiptonRoot BeerTea SweetenedTea UnsweetenedTropicana LemonadeTropicana Light LemonadeTropicana Pink LemonadeBeansAsian Green BeansBaby Lima Beans, SteamedBBQ Baked BeansFresh Green Beans, SteamedGarbanzo BeansGreen BeansKettle Cooked Lima BeansKidney Beans, ColdLima Beans, ColdMachaca BeansRanch Style BeansRefried BeansSeasoned Northern BeansSeasoned Pinto BeansSouthern Style Lima BeansSouthern Style Northern BeansSouthern Style Pinto BeansCold BuffetAlfredo SauceAlmondsApple SaladArtichoke HeartsAsparagusAu JusBaby Carrots, RawBaby Corn, ColdBaconBacon and Cheese Mini QuicheBacon and Cheese QuicheBacon Bits, RealBacon DressingBalsamic Vinaigrette DressingBalsamic Vinegar DressingBBQ SauceBeet and Onion SaladBeets, ColdBlack OlivesBLT SaladBlue Cheese DressingBreakfast BaconBroccoli SaladCaesar DressingCaesar SaladCajun Potato SaladCanadian Turkey BaconCandied BaconCarrot Raisin SaladCatalina DressingCherry TomatoesChicken Breast Strips, ColdChicken SaladChopped PeanutsColeslaw SaladCranberry SauceDeviled EggsDiced EggsDiced Onions, RawDiced Tomatoes, ColdDown Home Fried BaconEgg SaladFat Free Catalina DressingFat Free Ranch DressingFat Free Thousand Island DressingGinger DressingGreen GrapesGreen OlivesGreen PeppersHoney Mustard DressingKidney Bean SaladLemon BarsMacaroni SaladMargarineMarinated Garden SaladMarinated Mushroom SaladMarinated Vegetable SaladOlive OilOnion RingsOnion Rings, Battered FreshOnion Rings, FreshPasta SaladPavilion Potato SaladPea SaladPepperoniPepperoni PizzaPimento Cheese SaladRanch DressingSeafood SaladSouthern Broccoli SaladSouthern Potato SaladSouthern Style Chicken SaladSpinach Bacon SaladStrawberry Spinach SaladSummer Marinated SaladTartar SauceThick Cut BaconThousand Island DressingThree Bean SaladTomato and Onion SaladTuna SaladTurkey Bacon Melt SandwichWhole EggsZucchini, RawDressingsAu JusBacon DressingBalsamic Vinaigrette DressingBalsamic Vinegar DressingBBQ SauceBlue Cheese DressingCaesar DressingCatalina DressingCranberry SauceFat Free Catalina DressingFat Free Ranch DressingFat Free Thousand Island DressingGinger DressingHoney Mustard DressingOlive OilRanch DressingTartar SauceThousand Island DressingHot BuffetBaby Back RibsBacon Wrapped Sirloin SteakBaked FishBaked Florentine FishBaked New Orleans Style FishBBQ BeefBBQ Chicken Leg QuarterBBQ Chicken WingBBQ PorkBBQ Pork RibsBBQ Spare RibsBeef EnchiladasBeef Pot RoastBeef QuesadillaBeef Roast, CarvedBeef Taco MeatBeef Tips, ChuckBeef Tips, SirloinBoneless BBQ Pork RibsBourbon Street ChickenBourbon Street Chicken WingsBreaded Catfish FilletChicken EnchiladasChicken Fried SteakChicken Pot PieChopped Smothered Beef SteakCorned Beef HashCreamed Chipped BeefFajita SteakFish Baked with Piccata SauceFish Baked with ShrimpFried Breaded FishGreen Bean CasseroleGrilled Chicken BreastGrilled Chopped SteakGrilled Ham SteaksItalian Beef MeatballsLasagnaMacaroni and Beef CasseroleMachaca BeefMandarin Orange PorkMini BBQ Brisket SandwichMongolian BeefNC SausageNorth Carolina BBQ PorkOriental Pepper BeefPhilly Steak SandwichPork BBQ SandwichPork FilletPork PosolePork RibsPork SteaksPotato Chips, BBQ SeasonedSalisbury SteakSesame Honey ChickenSirloin SteakSirloin Steak Strips, ColdSpaghetti NoodlesTeriyaki BeefTurkey SausageHot Soups & Potato BarBaked PotatoesBaked Sweet PotatoesBroccoli Cheese SoupCajun Chicken SoupChicken Noodle SoupClam ChowderOyster CrackersPotato with Bacon SoupSaltinesTomato SoupVegetable Beef SoupWhite Bean and Ham SoupSaladsAlfredo SauceApple SaladBeet and Onion SaladBLT SaladBroccoli SaladCaesar SaladCajun Potato SaladCarrot Raisin SaladChicken SaladColeslaw SaladEgg SaladKidney Bean SaladMacaroni SaladMarinated Garden SaladMarinated Mushroom SaladMarinated Vegetable SaladPasta SaladPavilion Potato SaladPea SaladPimento Cheese SaladSeafood SaladSouthern Broccoli SaladSouthern Potato SaladSouthern Style Chicken SaladSpinach Bacon SaladStrawberry Spinach SaladSummer Marinated SaladThree Bean SaladTomato and Onion SaladTuna SaladZucchini, RawCan You Eat at Golden Corral If You Have Allergies?Golden Corral has a PDF available for customers with allergies who are worried about allergens in food such as milk, soy, nuts, or wheat.Click on the link above and you can view the full Golden Corral menu with notes on potential allergens for each and every item. This will let you know exactly which menu items are safe to eat based on your dietary needs.Other Special Dietary NeedsSpeaking of dietary needs, Golden Corral also has special menus for those with the following dietary requirements:Gluten-FreeNo Sugar AddedSugar FreeFarm Fresh VegetablesLearn all about Golden Corral’s healthy menus here.Additionally, those who are concerned with animal welfare will be happy to know that Golden Corral has recently announced their commitment to only serve eggs from cage-free chickens. It will take a ten year period to achieve this goal in full because of supply challenges, but franchises around the country have already begun making the switch to cage-free.There Is Something For Everyone At Golden CorralNow you have discovered the full menu for Golden Corral buffet-style restaurants! 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“What texts and experiences shaped the development of your political views? What were the seminal factors in the growth of your civic sensibilities? What books most influenced you? What events?”I’ve thought about this a lot the last few years, sparked by my discovery of two popular Quorans who share a surprising amount of my socioeconomic or educational background but whose political views I oppose. If we have so much in common, I asked myself, why do they so readily and so strongly believe things I don’t? Are they right? Am I wrong? I made a point of closely examining their answers for clues: What books have they read? What experiences did they have? How do they think? I also set out to reconstruct the same for myself.It’s been a fascinating but sobering project. Each has a different approach to making sense of the world. As it turns out, I had rejected both outlooks earlier in my intellectual life.One approach was a non-starter: a deliberate incuriosity accompanied by firmly held opinions. I find vigorous assertions without cogent evidence unconvincing. Political sloganeering too often masks a lack of knowledge: think of the modern equivalent to “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Instead, curiosity and doubt characterize my own attempts at understanding the world.The second Quoran’s approach I didn’t fully reject until my 20s. That is apologetics in the broad sense: evidence selected to support one’s existing positions and a reliance on special pleading in argument. The result mimics objective scholarship, but is driven to reach a chosen conclusion. To be fair, this advocacy approach is often how legal arguments are constructed. I don’t find it appropriate, however, for building an honest understanding of the world.I also realize I recognize an ethics of belief that distinguishes me from these two, particularly as to the existence of the duty of inquiry. And stepping back, I fear my differences with the first Quoran, and perhaps the second, are symptoms of the current epistemic crisis in American political culture.Additionally, both acknowledge their political positions are taken to support what they believe to be the interests of the racial, cultural, and religious tribes with which they identify. To these individuals, politics is a zero-sum conflict: us versus them.Although I have the same group connections, I don’t share their sense of identity or their reflexive rejection of the unfamiliar. While all three of us are introverts, in the end I really do feel nothing human is foreign to me. I think this has been reinforced by my decades of broad reading, personal experiences, and reflection.It started with what I read when I was young, before I entered college.JuvenilesI was the youngest child. My older sisters taught me to read when I turned six, using old primary textbooks, accumulated juveniles, and heaps of yellowing and disintegrating Classics Illustrated comics.I grew up in a white, working-class neighborhood just outside the city limits. We lived close to the bone at times. A nonresident card for the Peoria Public Library cost $25 (equivalent to about $150 nowadays) and had to be renewed every year. Some years we had a card, other years we didn’t. Transportation to the library downtown was problematic in any event.For the most part we made do with what we had at home. As the youngest I happily benefited from the accumulation of years. My oldest sister has always been an avid reader and kept the bookcase in her room stocked!I can’t remember all the juveniles I read as a child, but ones that stick out include Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), and Danny, the Champion of the World (1975). Dahl’s books contributed to my sense of justice and dislike of bullies, as did Jean Merrill’s The Pushcart War (1964).My sister had some sci-fi juveniles that I read, including Arthur C. Clarke’s Against the Fall of Night (1953) and collections of short stories. She also had numbers of Encyclopedia Browns, while J.D. Fitzgerald’s fine Great Brain series about growing up in post-frontier Utah was domiciled in my room. I first learned about Krakatoa, and the “restaurant system” of government, from William Pene du Bois, The 21 Balloons (1947).I liked history, and so read and reread my World War I biographies of Frank Luke the “Balloon Buster” and “Fighting Father Duffy,” chaplain of the Rainbow Division, as well as Edwin P. Hoyt’s Swan of the East: The Life and Death of the German Cruiser Emden in World War I (1968) which captured my nautical imagination. These books emphasized the war’s chivalrous aspects, perhaps to appeal to young people. (It’s interesting how my ten-year-old is currently fascinated by the Christmas Truce of 1914 – he’ll discover Siegfried Sassoon and Ernst Jünger soon enough.)I had mentioned Classics Illustrated. My favorites were Frankenstein, Le Debacle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Off On a Comet, Crime and Punishment, Around the World in Eighty Days, and War of the Worlds, although I now know the lurid cover painting showing artillerymen engaging a tripod has many details wrong. Brodie helmets in the late 1890s, really?I remember we got the World Book Encyclopedia (the 1971 edition) and Childcraft sets on the installment plan when I was in primary school. I read through each volume at least once. An old multivolume American Heritage young people’s history of America came from Lakeview Museum’s spring book sale. Forty years on, that set still sits nostalgically in my oldest son’s room. (An engineering major, he nailed his CLEP tests in American history. European history too.)A brand-new children’s illustrated encyclopedia of science and technology appeared one day when I was in sixth or seventh grade, probably a gift from a grandparent. Published in Great Britain, from it I learned all sorts of exotic things, like the existence of television detector vans — alien stuff to a kid growing up in West Peoria!For several Christmases running I received as presents David Macaulay’s wonderful books of architecture: Cathedral (1973), City (1974), Pyramid (1975), Underground (1976), and Castle (1977). Finally, I should mention my family was Catholic and I went to Catholic grade and high schools. At home we had some religious juveniles, including three volumes of The Baltimore Catechism, which I devoured.A good Catholic juvenile novel I checked out multiple times from the library was Magnifi-Cat by Carolyn and Edmund Sheehan: it starts with the discovery of a cat in the line to get into heaven. Surely a mistake! But why does the cat wear the halo of a saint? The lesson of that book to me – what does it mean morally to be a thinking creature – far outlasted in my mind the early certainties of the Baltimore Catechism.Beyond juvenilesMy father finished one year of college. When I was growing up he was a union brick mason who lined furnaces in a steel mill. My mother dropped out of nursing school before my sisters were born, and didn’t work outside the house until my dad’s heart attack when I was in high school. Both were casual rather than dedicated readers. Still, they brought books and magazines into the house whenever they could because they believed that meant their children would do better than they had. My father explained to my sisters and me that we needed college educations so we’d have professions rather than jobs.My parents had The Peoria Journal-Star delivered every day, and at times I would also be sent to get a copy of The Chicago Tribune from the box by the Mister Donut shop. An attempt to buy The New York Times at Lizer’s Pharmacy was rebuffed – the stack there was only for subscribers who picked up their copies on the premises.We sometimes got the Smithsonian and The National Catholic Register and a few issues of Omni and Discover found their way into the house. We also had vast stacks of old Reader’s Digests, American Heritages, and the National Geographics given to us by relatives. I remember sorting through donated Scientific American issues at the museum resale shop from time to time, priced at two for a quarter, ending up with a shelf full.I started reading “grown-up books” about the time I was in third grade. We had a modest collection from discard and donation sales at the library and museum, occasional orders from the Dover Publications catalog of paperback reprints, and the Time-Life installment series my parents sometimes subscribed to over the years. These were the Life Science Library, the Life Nature Library, The Old West, The Seafarers, The Great Ages of Man, and the Time Reading Program.We had the whole Nature Library and Old West sets, most of the Science Library and Seafarers volumes, but only four of the Great Ages of Man. These volumes, usually about 200 pages each, were quite well illustrated, had detailed captions, and featured texts accessible to the general public. The authors brought some prior expertise: Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan, for instance, each wrote a volume for the Science Library.Before college, then, I had read volumes on the then-current understanding of forests, seas, deserts, mountains, evolution, the poles, the Earth, the universe (before the discovery of extra-solar planets), insects, birds, plants, mammals, fishes, and thirty other nature and science topics. My scientific understanding was an inch deep, but the books gave me a sense of the breadth of possible knowledge and a baseline for evaluating claims in the media. (The first other Quoran I mentioned has written that what the mainstream media reports is irrelevant to him except for the weather, and that he has no interest in scientific research that doesn’t directly affect his life.)My parents took us to see the movie Chariots of the Gods in a downtown theater when I was in second or third grade. Initially enthralled, the more I thought about it afterwards the less satisfied I got. That picture of an ancient drawing of a creature in an astronaut helmet – it now looked a lot like other ancient drawings I saw that clearly weren’t astronauts at all. By the time I found a copy of Erich von Däniken’s book in eighth grade, I could identify multiple problems with its assertions. In that same vein, the science and technology room at the library had the published 1955 report on Project Blue Book, which likely reinforced my general inclination towards skepticism as opposed to either credulity or cynicism.Another book in that room that I checked out on my mom’s card numerous times was a textbook of infantry training and tactics from 1918 or 1919. In it was an illustration that has stayed with me, of a scout standing well back from a window to observe while remaining in shadow. My early awareness of espionage and covert propaganda is also seen in my eager readings of John Roy Carlson’s insider exposé of American Nazis and fascists, Under Cover (1943), and also John Barron’s KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents (1974). One line in the latter (in the chapter “The Spy Who Changed His Mind”) still resonates: “You can’t fight what you don’t understand.”I entered college to pursue a history major. I had already read the Time-Life volumes on ancient Egypt, classical Greece, imperial Rome, and early Japan, plus the full Old West corpus on (if you’ll indulge me) cowboys, Indians, soldiers, women, trailblazers, railroaders, forty-niners, miners generally, pioneers, gunfighters, expressmen, townsmen, the great chiefs, river men, Texans, loggers, chroniclers, the Spanish West, Canadians, frontiersmen, Alaskans (my uncle was listed in the sources!), ranchers, the Mexican War, scouts, gamblers, and the West as myth.Some years later I served as a graduate assistant to a western historian, Gerald E. Thompson. Of course, I didn’t know anything yet about the scholarly historiography of the West, but I happily found I had acquired enough of a general foundation from the Old West series to make immediate sense of current theories. In particular, the last volume, The End and the Myth was the first time I had encountered the distinction between popular mythmaking and history as scholarship. The extended lesson is something I’ve taken to my current profession as a lawyer: I’m not paid to tell people what they want to hear, I’m paid to tell them what they need to know.The Seafarers series was far broader, encompassing the history of global trade, exploration, diplomacy, and warfare over millennia. I read eighteen of these volumes, from ancient mariners, pirates, and fighting sail (Sandy Patterson take note!) to dreadnoughts and U-boats. The value of this maritime series was not in giving me any actual expertise, but reinforcing how the United States has always existed in an international context. It gave me a basic explanatory structure that I could extend to help me understand the rise of New World slavery, the origins of the Vietnam war, and modern Arctic policy. (That first Quoran I mentioned at the beginning has written that he does not want to learn a foreign language, has never been out of the country, has no desire to travel overseas, and does not care at all how foreigners perceive the United States. I find such isolationism troubling.)Looking at the list I’ve put together of books I read before college, I see my grade school and high school teachers assigned seventeen novels (Steinbeck, Dickens, Orwell, and others you’d expect, plus William Warton’s Dad), three plays (two by Shakespeare and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town), and The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.During those same years, my list shows that outside school I read a further ninety-four histories, fifty-three novels and short-story collections, forty-seven books on science and nature, six volumes of philosophy or psychology, two on economics (Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers and Galbraith’s The Great Crash), and another fourteen that are hard to classify, like Bennett Cerf’s chatty Try and Stop Me (1944) and Isaac Asimov’s worrying A Choice of Catastrophes (1971).My interest in memoirs dates from this period of my life as well. Twenty-six are on my list, including Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) (about growing up in the segregated South) and Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). The latter established an interest in antebellum slavery that flowered in graduate school. I’ve since read thousands of WPA ex-slave narratives and have my own scholarly publications in the field.The Depression-era memoir of immigrant George Papashvily (co-written by his American wife with the wonderful maiden name of Helen Waite), contributed a line that expresses in a nutshell my own skeptical appreciation for authority: “Of course we got to have rules about how to hold your feet and lotsa other things, but don’t forget rules is just to take up slack when the brains runs out.”When I was younger, though, it was World War II that most sparked my imagination. Ballantine Books offered mass-market paperback reprints of many classic Second World War memoirs from both Allied and Axis participants. Between birthday and Christmas presents and used-book sales, I managed to get my hands on more than a dozen such reprints ranging from Hans Rudel’s Stuka Pilot (1952) and Frenchman Pierre Closterman’s The Big Show (1948) to Donald McIntyre’s Royal Navy memoir U-Boat Killer (1956) and Marine aviator Gregory Boynton’s Baa Baa, Black Sheep (1958).Ballantine also published many histories on various aspects of World War II, including some by Martin Caidin. I had six of his books. I later learned Caidin was known to exaggerate and even fabricate some of the stories he wrote, but even that disappointment contributed to my personal epistemology: while I’m not a relativist, everything I know is susceptible to revision. As I explain elsewhere:I take the crossword-puzzle approach to knowledge: I try to rationally place new knowledge in context with what I already know. If something doesn’t fit with what I’ve already put down and the new knowledge comes from a more reliable source, I might have to erase an old answer. That’s fine. To me, knowledge is something written in pencil, not pen.Although I’m probably best described nowadays as a Catholic apikoros, my mother had hoped I’d become a priest. I went to Catholic schools and had religion class every semester. In those post-Vatican II years, however, the curriculum was not rigorous. Still, my mother passionately hated the changes Vatican II brought to the Church, which explains why I ended up reading what she ordered from Tan Books, a traditionalist Catholic publishing house: Ludwig Ott’s The Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (1960), Paul Glen’s Apologetics: A Philosophic Defense and Explanation of the Catholic Religion (rev., 1980), and Ralph M. Wiltgen’s unhappy The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber (1966).When I saved up enough in high school to order an English translation of the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas in five hardbound volumes, my mother kicked in extra to also get me his Summa Contra Gentiles in softcover. In the end Aquinas did not have the effect that she had hoped for, and in my twenties I began to see apologetics and scholarship as incommensurable pursuits.Finally, I can’t neglect the volumes in the 1980s revival of the Time Reading Program, to which my parents had an intermittent and incomplete subscription. Some of those I’ve already mentioned above, while I list all the ones I read during my high school years here. Looking back, the program seems to have been designed almost as a starter kit for creating self-directed learners and critical thinkers.I’ve written about other books in the TRP series elsewhere on Quora, including Fitzroy Maclean’s fascinating Eastern Approaches (1949) here. (And speaking of memoirs of Balkans guerrilla warfare, let me take a moment to recommend Quora’s own Roland Bartetzko’s The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield (2018).)The most important of the TRP books to my political development was probably Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. A dissection of political fanaticism, it was first published in 1951 and incorporated the lessons of the world’s experience with communism, fascism, and National Socialism.I grew up very much in the American white working class, but reading Hoffer when I did helped inoculate me against the rise of American right-wing mass media later in the 1980s and through the 1990s with its messaging aimed precisely at people like me. There are friends of mine from that era who have accepted and continue to accept at face value political claims that are to my mind obvious propaganda.In college I started my formal education, with two semesters on political philosophy (classical and modern) and other relevant classes in American and European history and political economy, plus courses on economics and Marxism, and a seminar on women in history that had me reading Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. I expanded on my politically related knowledge several times over in graduate school and even more later in law school.Too, I’ve had personal experiences over the last half century that have been equally formative, some of which I’ve written about elsewhere on Quora. Most of my learning remains self-directed and my understanding of the world still follows the broad contours established by my independent reading during my grade school and high school years.Tips of the hat to Alexander Fortier, who asked me this weeks ago, and Michael Masiello, who wrote and posted the original question!

Method1Getting Paid to Learn1Apply for new scholarships and grants. A lot of students think that they are only eligible for funding when they initially apply for admission. This is a mistake! There are often new scholarship opportunities for upperclassmen, though they aren't always widely advertised. You may also be able to apply for external scholarships or grants, which are offered from groups outside of your school.Begin by scoping out bulletin boards on campus and paying careful attention to email announcements.You can also search online for new funding opportunities, and there are apps that you can download for free (or for very little, such as the app Scholly, available for just $.99) that can help you tailor your search.[1]2Offer your services as a tutor. One of the best ways to learn a subject is to teach it. By becoming a tutor, you can hone your own knowledge of your field of study, perform a valuable service to others, and earn some needed cash—it's a win-win scenario for everyone involved!You can often get paid through your school to tutor other students in classes you have completed and done well in, or you can advertise your own services to your fellow http://classmates.To find tutoring opportunities, meet with your advisor or your professors, or go to the campus tutoring center.3Get paid to take notes. You are hopefully already taking careful, thorough notes in your classes for your own benefit. Why not make your efforts pay out double?It's fairly common for students who need special arrangements because of learning disabilities to be assigned a (usually anonymous) note-taker for their classes.These positions are usually compensated—you can often make up to $10 an hour for every hour of class.You'll take careful notes, type them up, and email or drop them off at disability services, where they will be passed on to the students who need them.4Watch for emails asking for note-takers. Once a fellow students' needs are documented, disability services will contact the professors and ask for volunteers in the class to take notes, and your professor will in turn email the class.Respond quickly before your fellow cash-strapped students snag the job away from you!5Advertise your services yourself. You can also contact disability services directly to see if they have a need for note-takers in the courses you are taking, or you can advertise your services yourself to your fellow classmates.If you advertise yourself, make sure that you aren't violating class or university policy.6Proofread your classmates' essays. If you excel at writing and editing, you can hone your skills and get paid for it at the same time by offering to proofread your classmates' papers for a reasonable fee.Spread the word among your friends and roommates, and consider posting fliers which advertise your services.7Study the honor code carefully. If you do get work proofreading, be careful about how you offer feedback and make suggestions for revision. You should be very familiar with your school's honor code and rules regarding plagiarism.Double-check the particular professor's policy about sharing written work with others, too. Some professors assign take-home essays that are more like exams, and they forbid students from talking to one another during the writing process.If you rewrite, instead of proofread, someone else's paper, you both could be brought up on academic fraud charges, and you could face serious consequences, to include being expelled.8Take advantage of your strong typing and computer skills. If you are a fast and accurate typist, if you are great at creating interesting presentations with sophisticated graphics, or if you excel at creating tables and graphs to represent data, you may be able to get paid to teach and help other students with their assignments and hone your own skills at the same time.9Visit Career Services. Most campuses have a Career Services office which counsels students on job market possibilities, and which helps prepare them for applying and interviewing as they near graduation. Don't think, however, that you should only use this resource as a senior.You can often find advertisements for paid internships and part-time work in your field of study at the Career Services office.Finding these opportunities early in your studies will not only help you excel in your field and build up your resume, but can add some much needed cash to your wallet while you learn.10Enter academic competitions. You can pretty regularly find advertisements for essay contests and scholarly competitions (such as science or engineering competitions) which offer cash prizes for the top http://performers.Be on the lookout for these opportunities by regularly checking the bulletin boards around campus (begin by looking in academic departments and the library), going through your email carefully, and by going directly to your advisor and/or professors to see if they know of any such competitions for which you may be a good fit.Even if you don't win, you'll get experience in your field, make connections, and build up your portfolio or work.Method2Finding Other Ways to Make Money on Campus1Apply for work study. Even if you weren't awarded work study when you first applied to your school, you may be able to apply now. Make an appointment at the financial aid office to see if you can still apply (or reapply, if your financial situation has recently changed).There are all sorts of jobs available on campus, from working in the dining halls, to performing administrative work in academic departments, and even working at campus theaters, where you'll have access to free performances or movies!2See if your college participates in the Federal Work Study Program. This program provides part-time work opportunities for students with financial aid, and guarantees that you'll be paid at least the federal minimum wage.[2]Whenever possible, the positions available are relevant to your area of study and are civic-minded, aimed to serve the public interest.[3]3Become an RA. If you live in the dorms, are an active participant in dorm and campus activities, have a good grade point average, and enjoy working with and counseling others, then becoming an RA (resident assistant) could be a great opportunity for you.While you may not bring home an additional pay-check for being an RA, you'll usually get either free or greatly reduced room and board, which will then free up money for your other expenses. At some schools, though, you may receive a stipend as an RA.[4]4Become a guinea pig. Scope out bulletin boards on campus for advertisements looking for volunteers for psychology studies or medical experiments.[5]These usually pay a flat rate, though at some schools, you could make up to $20 an hour doing something as simple (and possibly as interesting!) as filling out questionnaires.[6]5Verify that the experiment is safe. Before you agree to participate, make sure that the experiment was approved by an Institutional Review Board or a Human Subjects Participant Program. This will help ensure that your rights and physical and mental well-being are protected.[7]6Look for off-campus research trials. If you can't find opportunities to participate in research on campus, go to the US Government's official clinical trial website to find legit trials in your area. You can also visit the webpages of local hospitals to see if they are looking for participants.[8]7Sell your textbooks at the end of the term. One of your biggest expenses may be the cash you have to set aside for textbooks. You can usually get a good chunk of your money back at the end of the term by selling back your books.Campus bookstores will sometimes buy back books, but many campuses also allow independent companies to set up shop at the end of the term. You can also scope out used bookstores in the area to see if they buy used books Resources and Information. improve your odds of being able to sell a book (or fetch a good price for it), take care of your books throughout the semester, and avoid marking up the pages with notes and highlighters.8Become an organizational guru. It's hard to succeed in school (or at at any job!) if your work materials are a messy nightmare. Spend some time developing your organizational skills, and then advertise your services to your fellow classmates, and possibly even your professors.Offer to help your clients go through their files (either paper or electronic), and help them come up with a method for sorting and arranging their work that they can manage on their own.9Offer your cleaning and laundering services. College student usually aren't known for keeping spotless rooms or staying on top of their laundry. If you don't mind doing either of these tasks, and if you can stand the mess and stink, consider getting paid to clean dorm rooms or do laundry for your lazier classmates.10Open a salon in your dorm room (or make house calls). If you are talented at doing nails, hair, or make-up, consider advertising your services to your classmates, especially before big events like sorority formals or Valentine's Day.Research what local salons charge for services, and then undercut their prices to the point where you'll still be making a profit, but will be an affordable option for your fellow classmates.11Open a snack-shop. It's not a secret that college students get the munchies! If you're good at baking (or even just scoping out good deals on prepackaged snack items), take advantage of your classmates' perpetual hunger.Post fliers with tantalizing pictures of your baked goods, or visit the library and other hot study spots at key points in the term, such as midterm and finals week.If you're a night owl, then you're sure to find students on the prowl for a good snack in the wee hours of Friday and Saturday (or even Thursday, at some party schools!). If you decide to sell to the night crowd, though, it's a smart, safe move to work with a partner.12Set up a recycling center on your dorm room floor. If you live in a state which accepts bottle redemptions, you can make easy money by collecting and returning soda cans.[9]Consider making a small investment in a large plastic garbage bin, line it with a sturdy plastic bag, and decorate it with signs: “Place your used soda cans here!”. Place the bin outside your dorm, and then all you'll have to do is sort through it before bringing it to the redemption center.Make sure that you aren't violating dorm policy by doing this. So long as it's allowed, you may also be able to go through any other recycling bins that are set up on campus.Method3Finding Jobs Off-Campus1Seek out tip jobs. As a college student, having access to quick cash is extremely helpful. Look for part-time job opportunities that will allow you to walk away with cash in hand at the end of your shift.Serving or tending bar in restaurants, working as a hotel or restaurant valet, delivering food (which usually requires you to have your own car and insurance), or doing street performance are good options.[10]2Get a part-time job at a local shop. Hit the pavement and check out the local businesses around your area. You may be able to find part-time work that fits around your school schedule.While you should check the classifieds regularly for posted job ads, understand that not all businesses use these, and you may have better luck if you inquire in person about possible job http://openings.Be prepared with a copy of your resume and look presentable when you first go to the shop. Don't pop in on your way home from the gym! That won't leave a good impression!3Visit a temp agency. The process of finding an available job can be simplified by enlisting the help of a temp agency. They can sort through all the ads for you, and already have established relationships with local businesses.[11]While the agency will take a portion of your wages, temp jobs tend to pay fairly well, and you can be clear about what your availability is around your class schedule.Another advantage of working through an agency is that you can turn down work if you are having a particularly busy week or month at school.4Baby-sit or nanny for local families. If you are responsible and good with children, you can often find steady work as a baby-sitter or nanny.Research the going rates in your area; as a college student, you may be able to demand a higher rate, particularly if you are an education major (or psychology, pre-med or nursing student, have certification in CPR and/or first-aid, etc.). In some cities, you may be able to make up to $15 an hour.[12]5Consider signing up with professional baby-sitting services. These businesses screen and run back-ground checks on their sitters. Many parents are more comfortable placing their children in the care of sitters who have been vetted through this process.6Advertise your baby-sitting business on campus. You may also consider offering your services to your professors. If you are their current student, they may not feel comfortable (or be allowed to) hire you, but they may be able to recommend you to other of their friends and colleagues.7Negotiate additional tasks for extra pay. If you are already spending time in a home taking care of children, you may be able to make some extra cash by going above and beyond.For example, you can offer to do laundry and wash dishes for an extra fee (perhaps $10 more) on top of your regular baby-sitting rate.[13]8Work with children in other ways. If baby-sitting isn't your thing, you may find fulfilling and lucrative work by tutoring or coaching elementary or high school students.Contact the local schools to see if they have children who might benefit from your services or to see if they have part-time coaching positions available.You may also be able to find these sorts of jobs by going to local organizations like the YMCA or YWCA.9Work with animals. If you connect better with animals than people, then you may be able to find work that puts you in contact with our non-human friends, which will be good for both your mental and your financial health.Advertise your services as a dog walker or pet sitter. You can place fliers (dog-parks and local veterinarians are great places to start) or advertise on-line, but don't overlook the importance of networking with people you know.You may even want to think about opening a pooper-scooper business. Cleaning up Fido's business is no one's favorite chore, but armed with gloves and the proper tools, it's an easy enough job. You'll also be provided with steady work![14]10Get paid to work outside. If you're young and strong and like to be outside, then starting a business in which you do yard work or landscaping could be right up your Alley | hell yes. able to switch up your services as the seasons change: have access to a lawn-mower and weed-whacker in the warmer months, and switch out to warm clothes and a shovel once the cold hits.If it snows a lot where you live, buying a snow-blower could be a solid investment. If you're an early bird, you may be able to make money by offering to scrape the ice off cars in the early hours before people have to go to work. You may be able to find several clients in your own neighborhood or at a single apartment complex.11Use your vehicle to your advantage. If you own your own car, are insured, and have a good driving record, then there are various ways you can put your car to work for you.You may be able to find work delivering papers, driving fellow students (to the airport, to run errands or go to appointments off-campus), or you can even open up your own delivery service. For example, you can get paid to grocery shopping for those who are home-bound while you stock up for your own pantry.If you have a truck, you probably already know that you (or rather, it) is in high demand, especially come moving in/out day on campus: offer your services as a mover—for a fee, of course!12House sit. Do you know anyone who is planning to take a long vacation, or has your professor mentioned their plans to travel overseas on their sabbatical? If so, you may be the perfect candidate to house-sit.This is a particularly great gig: you usually won't be asked to do much more than watch over the home, collect mail, water the plants, perform yard work as necessary, and perhaps care for pets. Beyond that, though, you'll get to live in a home that's probably far nicer than yours for a few days or even weeks.13Network to find house-sitting opportunities. Let your family, friends, and professors know about your availability to house-sit. It's usually best to try to find a friend-of-a-friend (or a coworker or boss of a friend or parent, etc.)Your immediate friends and family members may expect you to help out for free and be insulted at your request for payment.[15]14Sell blood and/or plasma. Why not perform a valuable service for others while getting paid at the same time? Depending upon whether you are giving blood or plasma, you can usually make in the range of $20-45 per “donation”.You will need to meet certain eligibility requirements before you'll be allowed to donate, though, and there are limits to how often you can donate.Read up on the American Red Cross's donation guidelines before you commit, or check in with the hospital or clinic where you'll be donating.[16]Method4Working from Home1Sell your gently used clothes to consignment shops. Take a careful look at your closet; how much of it do you regularly wear? How much of it still fits? How much of it is still in style? There's a good chance that you have a decent amount of money tied up in your wardrobe.Pull out any items that are still in good condition, make sure they are clean and wrinkle-free, and then take them to a local consignment shop.[17] You should be able to walk away with cash in hand. Just try not to spend it all on new clothes while you're there—unless, of course, that's why you wanted the extra money in the first place!2Sell your stuff online. If there isn't a good consignment shop nearby (or if you think you may be able to make more by selling your items yourself), you may want to consider selling your no-longer-wanted-or-needed possessions online. Craigslist and eBay are two popular sites to try.[18]Think about offering up your clothes, shoes, bags, accessories, exercise equipment, and/or electronic equipment. So long as it's in decent condition, you can usually find a buyer for nearly any item.You'll want to take high resolution pictures of your items, and be sure to offer a clear, complete description of the item. If you have warranty information, manuals, or brochures that accompany the items, you may have better luck making a sell.3Have a yard sale. You can also set up shop in your own yard (or drive-way, or garage). Many areas have active yard sale scenes, and it takes minimal work for you to be able to meet up with those who are looking for great deals.Post fliers around your neighborhood, and remember to place an ad in your local paper if they advertise garage/yard http://sales.Be willing to negotiate with buyers, and don't set your expectations too high when you set your prices. At best, you may only be able to fetch 25% of the original price you paid for an item. [19]4Write online. If you are good with the written word, you should be able to find plenty of opportunities to write (or edit others' work) online.Search for freelance writing and editing gigs. The rates for these jobs vary: you may be paid by the word, be offered a flat rate for a project, or in some cases can be paid an hourly rate. You typically won't be able to retain copyright over your work or collect royalties, however. Even so, by doing freelance work you can build a portfolio and make valuable connections which may later pay off with more stable job opportunities.5Start your own blog or website. If you want your work to remain your own, and if you want the freedom to write about whatever topics interest you, you can think about creating your own website or blog. If you get enough followers, you can start to bring in revenue through advertising.You'll only make a few cents per click on the ads on your page, but with enough followers, this can add up for you over time.6Start a YouTube channel. If you prefer visual media and are great at creating videos which are funny or informative, you may also be able to make money by creating a YouTube channel with advertising.See our related wikiHow on how to earn money on YouTube.7Turn your hobbies into a business. Do you love do-it-yourself projects? Are you able to knit, crochet, work with wood, or craft hand-made jewelry? If so, you may find a good client base by setting up shop on sites like eBay or Etsy.You'll need a PayPal account, a good camera to take quality pictures of your crafts, and a way to organize your orders.8Perform paid administrative work. If you have basic computer skills and don't mind doing repetitive work, you may be able to find work stuffing envelopes, doing data entry, or working as a telemarketer from your home.These jobs typically can be done in your spare time and require minimal training from the employing company.9Make the most of your time online. If you already spend too much time surfing or shopping online, you may be able to find a way to turn your time-wasting past time into a profitable venture. There are various business which offer you small amounts of money to take surveys (such as Online Surveys for Cash), download apps or listen to music.The money you'll be able to make will probably only amount to pocket change—you'll be offered a few cents to a few dollars per task—but it can add up over the course of time, and will certainly help you feel less guilty about the occasional latte splurge.10Design an app. There's a lot of potential money to be made in the mobile app business. If you've got an idea for a great new app that can either provide people with a fun diversion or help them organize their life or learn in creative new ways, you may be sitting on potentially lucrative idea.There are many tutorials available which offer helpful advice, and you can even create an app if you lack coding experience. See our related wikiHow on how to create an app.Method5Making Money by Saving Money1Rent a room. If you rent or own off-campus, you can free up a large chunk of cash by cutting down on your share of rent and utility expenses by finding a roommate. [20]Carefully screen applicants—it may be a good idea to begin searching for a roommate among your friends and classmates. Be sure to draw up an agreement between the two of you outlining how bills will be handled, and make sure you aren't violating your current lease if you bring in an additional person to your home.2Save money on books. Books are a large expense for any college student, but it's not a good idea to forego purchasing them at all. There are, however, various ways to potentially save hundreds on your book costs over the course of the school year.[21]Once your reading list is available, begin by checking the prices in the campus bookstore, but them look elsewhere for better deals.3Look for used books. You can usually find cheaper options (both new and used) online or by going to local used bookstores, who often buy books from students at the end of the term.Given that professors often use the same texts from term to term, you may be able to score much cheaper versions of the book. You may even be able to check the text out for free from the campus or local library.4See if you can use an older edition. If your professor has assigned a newer edition of a text, you may be able to get buy with an older (cheaper) edition of the text. Publishers often make very few changes from edition to edition, and the only thing that may vary is the page numbers or the occasional addition of a new reading.Double-check with your professor to see if an older edition will work for you before you commit to buying.5Rent or share textbooks. You may also be able to rent your textbooks for a much reduced cost, or you can split the cost of a pricey book with a classmate or roommate who is enrolled in the same course.If you do this, make sure that you have a clear schedule for when each of you will access to the book.6Carry cash only. You may be able to spend less by limiting yourself to only paying for items with cash. Put your debit and credit cards away, or tuck them in corner of your wallet to only be brought out for emergencies.When you cash your check or make a withdrawal, take out enough to last you for the month, if possible. This way, you can avoid having to make repeat trips to the ATM. At an average fee of $3 per withdrawal, the fees can really add up.[22]Avoid carrying all of your cash when you go out, though. Take just what you think you'll need.7Save on food on campus. If you live on campus, you may be required to purchase a dining plan. If so, select the most economical plan (be honest about how often you'll be willing or able to go to the cafeteria).Then, whatever plan you have, take full advantage of it: avoid skipping meals so that you won't need to purchase food later; and if you're allowed, take fruit or leftovers so that you'll have snacks available throughout the day.Also, scope out events on campus which offer free food.If you have a work study with the dining hall or catering services, you may be able to take home free food.[23]8Opt out of your dining plan. If you are able to, you may be able to save more money by opting out of a dining plan and buying your groceries yourself.Shop at discount grocery stores or buy in bulk from stores like Costco. While you get more bang for your buck when you buy in bulk, your tab can be pretty high. You can work around this problem by having a friend or roommate go in with you on purchases.9Save on clothes. Sure you want to look good, but you don't have to spend a lot to stay on trend. Consider simplifying your wardrobe: build a solid base of classics that you can easily mix and match.Buy all of your clothes second-hand or commit to only buying items on sale. You can also swap clothes with your friends to keep things fresh.10Barter your services with friends. Do you spend more than you'd like getting your hair and nails done each month? Do you have a friend who can't resist the pastries at the coffee shop or who pays for a personal trainer? Think about what both you and your friends spend money on, and then see if there's a way for you to barter and trade services with each other in order to save money.For example, in exchange for doing your hair before a big date, you can offer to supply your friend with some fresh-baked goodies.11Reduce your transportation costs. The costs associated with commuting to and from school (or across town as you run errands) can be quite high. In an effort to save money on gas, insurance, and parking, try to take public transportation as much as possible.Your school may have discounted bus passes available for students, or you may be able to arrange to carpool with your fellow students to classes or for supply runs.12Cut out luxuries. You may think that you can't live without your cable or Starbucks, but be honest with yourself. It's probably just the caffeine you need, and not the $4 latte.Make your coffee at home, consider cutting out the cable and switching to free or cheaper tv options (such as NetFlix or Hulu), and hold off on upgrading to the newest, shiniest electronic gadgets.[24]By going without luxuries, you'll of course free up money, but you'll also come to enjoy and appreciate them more once you can truly be able to afford them again.13Take advantage of student discounts. Before you head out to a local restaurant or museum, do some quick research to see if they offer discounts for students. As a student, you can often get free admission or great deals with your student identification.14Look for free entertainment. How much money do you currently spend going out to movies, bars, or clubs? While it's important that you have a social life and find ways to relax when you aren't hitting the books, you don't have to spend a lot of cash (or any!) to have a good time in your free time.Actually read the fliers and posters around campus, which advertise free, fun, and/or interesting activities and lectures. You may be able to see plays and concerts on campus, attend lectures from important thinkers, or go to university-sponsored parties all for free with your student ID.15Consider joining one or more of the clubs on campus. Besides being able to meet new and interesting people, some of them have regular activities (like movie nights) or even take service trips over school breaks.These are usually funded in part or sometimes completely through donations or through fund-raising efforts.[25]