info: im a first year student at sscbs i mean technically second since first over
in the past 2 weeks ive applied to 42 companies and got a reply from a record 2 both of them being rejections. i have 2 internships 1 live project 4 PoRs 6 case comp wins on the resume and still no progress. maybe im doing something wrong.
so how did you all get your first internship? help me out with some tips please since the summer break is very near and im jobless. thank you

Hello, so I been trying to apply to last minute internships and haven’t gotten any interviews. Getting pretty discouraged.
Is my resume ok?

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I have an internship that starts on July, would it be bad to add it to my cv now? Or should I wait till I start it? Or wait until I finish it?

I'm a recently graduated physician with a fair bit of lab research under his belt in Europe. Medicine is great and all, but healthcare is also a really attractive market to make money, and I would like to go down the finance path to make use of my understanding of the field in leveraging this opportunity. Come from a finance heavy family background, but don't want to make use of any connections in this transition, I want this to be on my own merit.
I am currently in an internship sprint looking to give my CV a clear direction and indication that I understand what I am getting myself into - internships are Private Equity Fund, InvestoStrategic Healthcare Consulting (Mainly consulting PE firms on deals in the healthcare space) and public equity research at a small fund focusing on healthcare/biotech. I also do some part time work for a VC fund. Of course I'm pretty biased, but my track-record so far has been excellent with some pretty cool achievements to include in my resume.
Long term I would like to go into a buy-side role, preferably with a Private Equity fund in their Healthcare team. Given that I am currently in the middle of completing my internships, how might you best go about capitalizing on this initial momentum to go the next step and find a permanent role for afterwards? Would an MBA or even a CFA possibly make sense?
Really appreciate any pointers :) Specifically, I am wondering whether I should start applying to full-time positions while still in my current internship cycle? Where might I best go about applying (I am open to relocating worldwide)? How realistic is it for me to achieve the transition over to finance?

I am about to start my internship/job with this small startup; barely 15 people, but most have extensive industry experience of more than 20 years, and so now they have started their own company. They don't have any application. I reached out to them, and they liked my work. It was my fault that I never wrote in my email that I explicitly wanted an internship. I just said I wanted to work on some specific stuff I like and added my experience on what I want to contribute. The startup founder liked it and had a conversation with me. During the call, I realized we had great chemistry, and the industry they are tackling, and the solutions they are developing are exceptionally excellent. The founder offered me a job at the end of it, and I was so happy that I didn't tell the founder that I was still a university student and had a lot of time before graduation, so doing a job wouldn't be possible. I now have to respond to him, but I don't want to sound like I just wanted to do an internship and used the company fa or mere resume. How do I politely convey my message because the call version of me was very enthusiastic?

The High Court of Justice orders the government to respond to a petition demanding the annulment of a temporary law that allows the government to shutter foreign news outlets, on the basis that the law harms freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
The court instructs the government to file its response by August 5, or alternatively to inform the court that it will not be extending the law’s duration when it expires on July 31.
The petition claims that the temporary law, passed in April in order to shut down the Al Jazeera news network in Israel, is unconstitutional due to alleged harm it does to the separation of powers, the rule of law, and the independence of the judicial authority.
The court says it is issuing the order “without taking a position, and given that we are talking about a law of an unprecedented nature for which it is fitting that it be reviewed by an expanded panel [of justices]” and that the government must explain why the law should not be annulled.
Such orders flip the burden of proof from the petitioners to the respondents, indicating that the court has concerns over the constitutionality of the law.
After the law was passed in April, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi with approval of the government ordered that Al Jazeera be shuttered for a 45-day period on May 5. The channel’s broadcasts were taken off air, its website blocked in Israel, and its equipment seized.
The Tel-Aviv Jaffa District Court approved Karhi’s order last week but reduced its duration to 35 days, meaning that the ban has now expired.
Al Jazeera has said it will resume broadcasts from Israel tomorrow, unless the government renews the ban today.
High Court orders government to respond to petition against so-called Al Jazeera law The Times of Israel

Hey everyone, This Is kinda my first post and English is not my first language so please ignore small mistakes.
So basically, I am a first year CS student who started applying for internships from this February. I applied for 250+ internships but got 0 interviews and few online coding assignments. I knew the market was tough as there are a lot of CS graduates out there. I somehow got an interview at a very small startup (they are literally building everything from scratch). I passed the interview and got an offer but turned out, it was an unpaid position. Since it was remote, and the title was AI/ML Intern on the offer letter, I accepted the offer as I thought this will be a good learning experience and will give a slight boost to my resume.
Now, to be very honest, since I am a first year student, I don’t know a lot of coding. Just some basics as I still haven’t been taught Data structure and Algorithms and the recruiters knew about these. Therefore, I thought an unpaid internship was kinda worth it seeing I don’t know anything. However, when I joined the team, I found that this startup has hired like 50 unpaid interns while it has only like 60 employees in total meaning only 10 people who are actually getting something. This startup is using unpaid interns to do free labour for them and building the entire front and back-end. I was shocked, however I was actually disappointed when on my first day, the co-founder asked all the intern to directly work on stuff like Cloud Dapp deployment, AI- Integration, etc. without any training. Everyone says you should ask lots of questions during your internship, but when I asked my boss a question, he said “maybe this internship is not for you as looks like you need a lots of help”.
We weren’t assigned a tech lead or anything, just a bunch of interns working together. You just have to Google or ChatGPT your way around every problem but I still most of the times can’t find anything. However now most of the interns just receive bullshit work like filling some Google forms with data or something instead of working on a LLM. They are still hiring more and more unpaid interns everyday but not training anyone.
What should I do in this situation? Should I stick around a little while or instead just quiet and learn some stuff from Coursera or Udemy this summer break? My title is still an AI/ML intern but Idk if I will actually do some programming stuff or not.
Thanks for reading through this long post and all opinions are welcomed. Please be as harsh as you need to be and be honest.

Today marks exactly 1/4 of a year since my (21Fg mom (51F) died, and the last time I posted on this subreddit. Since then, a lot of major changes have happened in my life and this is mainly just a place to vent.
To start off, there has been a lot of good. I haven’t been drowning in grief, and mainly find myself getting my grief out by listening to and singing depressing songs. I just recently started watching movies and shows again, and have spent a lot of time reading court opinions (I’m a pre-law student). I finished my classes this semester with high marks, and I went to see the Supreme Court oral argument (a life-long dream of mine) during spring break. That trip was the day after my mom’s funeral, and I found a home in the friends and connections I made there - I’m transferring to a school in the DC area and moving to Northern VA (I’m from NY) in about a month and a half. I found a lot of joy in watching the new Fallout, and have a closer relationship with most of my family members.
However, there are still things that get to me. It gets to me knowing that there is no one to fend for me and that I have no choice but to do it all on my own now. It gets to me that, because everything was so quick (my mom died 45 days after her cancer diagnosis), just a year ago my life was vastly different and she was so full of life and energy. There are certain things that remind me of her and just upset me greatly (ex. She loved the Barbie movie). Her birthday would have been June 1st, and it was hard on the whole family. It was hard when I was living on campus seeing all of the other kids go home with their parents, knowing that wouldn’t happen for me as an orphan. Truly, there are certain traumas I haven’t even assessed about that day. I haven’t washed the jacket I wore the last time she hugged me, I haven’t reported her dead to Facebook, I was the first person in the hospital room to hear the death rattle and the first person to acknowledge it out loud as what it was. When they were changing her bed, before they rushed us all back in, I was reading an article about Austin Butler and how he grieved with losing a mother at 22 and then it happened to me moments later. Everything happened so quickly, and sometimes it feels like a bad dream. Sometimes I feel like my old self, but changed. I feel older than all of my peers, even the ones who are older than me.
My own choices upset me sometimes, too. It’s silly to compare it to this, but at the end of the Young Sheldon series when he refused to look at his dead father or give a speech at the funeral - I did the same thing, just shut it out and refused to do anything. I couldn’t see my mom like that, and it was too hard to give a speech even though I wrote probably four eulogies.
There have been good things that make me feel like she was watching over me. Kyle MacLachlan has been my favorite actor for a long time, miraculously, I get to meet him at NYCC this year. I got to come into close contact with some of the Supreme Court Justices and network with people who can help get me internships or jobs. I’ve made some good friends and renewed my passion for law. To be clear, my life isn’t miserable, but there are moments where the grief is stronger than others and it seems to come at random moments. The other day Apple recommended to me a particularly emotionally triggering news article that basically talked about how there have been a spike in rare cancers in people who have had Covid - the first one they talked about was what my mom had, she worked at a hospital and had Covid twice; one time she got it from me.
IDK, just wanted to get that out of my system.

I’m going to preface this by saying i am prelaw, not a law student, but this may resonate more with you guys.
I recently started an internship at a public defenders office, and I fucking love criminal defense. I am extremely passionate about defending people’s rights, and the subject matter is incredibly interesting. It’s juicy, fun, and just exhilarating. That said my plan has always been to go into biglaw for at least few years, and build the life I’ve always wanted (finance wise at least). Given how corporate law pays considerably more than criminal, and how expensive law school is (passion doesn’t pay the bills), I’m in a bit of a dilemma. I don’t have some trust fund waiting for me, and dream of being one day even minorly wealthy. Do any of you also experience this dilemma?

After a decade removed from college and being in the workforce, working in a few different industries and meeting people from all walks of life, I wanted to share here my take on the age old question of "does where I go to undergrad matter?" I was once like many of you in this subreddit, obsessing over getting good grades, good extracurriculars, and doing my best to get into the best college I could, thinking it would "impact my entire future." The truth is, where you go to college does not matter as much as we are led to believe, but there is also an overcorrection now of "it makes absolutely 0 impact on your career outcomes." The answer is more nuanced:
For Investment Banking and Consulting, where you go to college absolutely can drastically impact your chances of getting hired, as well as getting hired by a prestigious firm. Due to how crazy competitive it is to get into investment banking and consulting due to the high salaries, and due to those industries being a bit more elitist than others, prestige does matter for these fields.
Common target schools are top 15ish schools (the ivy league, Stanford, Duke, UChicago etc). Students regardless of major will often find their way into elite boutiques and big banks (assuming they have good GPAs and/or are well connected).
Next in the tier of target schools are specific elite business programs where, while the school may not be overall ranked top 15 or so, their business schools are well regarded and students will be frequently hired into investment banks or top consulting firms. These are NYU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UT-Austin, to name a few.
Then, the rest of the top 35 or so ranked schools are what are often called "semi-targets." Meaning investment banks and top consulting firms will stop by and will recruit from these schools, but at less high percentages and won't take "any majors" but rather focus on business/finance majors specifically. These are places like Michigan, UVA, Northwestern, Emory, WashU, Rice, etc etc.
However, keep in mind that most people are not cut out for the investment banking/consulting lifestyle. You may make a lot but you will be worked like a dog, be surrounded by elitist and toxic coworkers (drug use is very real just as depicted in movies), and it's a very high stress and high turnover job. Even at "target schools" Harvard is only sending about a few hundred max of their entire student body to investment banking per graduating class.
Now another field where going to a good college will help: Pre-med
In this case unlike investment banking it is not so much because med schools go "oh I think candidates from X Y Z bougie schools are smarter." It is more so because certain top schools, particularly those with strong medical school and research environments, give their premeds substantial opportunities and resources to build a strong premed resume.
Some of these include: Johns Hopkins, Penn, Harvard, Duke, WashU, Columbia.
All of those good universities (not an exhaustive list btw) have world-class med schools and many famous hospitals easily commutable from the school. It is easy for students to get research and shadowing opportunities at their school's med schools and this can really set them apart from other applicants at other schools who may not have access to such impressive resources. This is of course, assuming that they also do well on the MCAT (as those who are able to be admitted to these schools often are more likely to score higher).
Other than these fields though, where you go to college for undergrad really doesn't mean that much. Let's list a few examples:
Pre-Law: Unlike med school, law school is less focused on factors in your application besides your grades and your LSAT. If you do well on the LSAT you will get into a good law school, including top 13 ranked ones. If you are set on law school I recommend going to a local state school to save money and just make sure you ace the LSAT as where you go to law school will substantially affect your entire career, while where you went to college literally will mean squat.
Engineering/CS: Ok sure, I guess if you go to a very good program like MIT, Carnegie Mellon, or UIUC, it will probably help get your foot in the door more (assuming you also have good internship experience and decent grades). But otherwise, even if going to say Drexel means you may get a slightly less good starting job than someone at MIT, engineering and CS is not like IB or med school where getting your foot in the door in the first place is almost statistically impossible. Once you start working if you do a good job and/or work the social game well you can work your way up or switch to better and better jobs. Once you demonstrate you are a great engineer no one will ever care after your first job where you got your degree. You could be self-taught for all they care (esp in CS) and if you know your stuff employers will be fighting over you.
Any academic grad school: Same thing I said for law school. Do well during your undergrad with a good GPA, good relationships with profs for good rec letters, write a good thesis, and get a good GRE score. Where you went to undergrad will matter almost 0% if you have all of that. I know people who went to a local state school for undergrad and are now getting their PhDs at UChicago, Princeton, Stanford, all sorts of fancy places! Just like in law, where you get your grad degree in academia can make a significant difference on your career so I would also recommend going to a college that's cheaper (and less stressful!) over an elite college for undergrad if you know you want to go the academia route.
So yeah! Are there instances where going to a so-called "elite college" may make a difference? Yes there are. It is an overcorrection nowadays to say it never matters at all where you go to college. For certain fields and certain life goals going to Yale will certainly help tremendously. But for 95% of people (maybe 99%?) it does not matter. Pretty much unless you want to be a wall street suit, or you are dead set on med school (and even in the case of med school you can still get in without going to an elite school, it will just be a little harder) going to an elite college for undergrad is otherwise just a very expensive bragging right. A bragging right too that 99% of people won't care about once you graduate and if you bring it up it'll just make you look like a snobby douchebag.

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Prosecutors said someone unlawfully disclosed the name of at least one witness in a murder case that's scheduled to begin Tuesday in Albany.
ALBANY — Jasper Mills, a longtime criminal defense attorney in Albany, was warned by a judge Friday that he could be subject to a criminal contempt charge if he disclosed — even inadvertently — the identity of at least one witness in a pending murder case who received death threats after the confidential document identifying him was shared with the defendants and others.
The case, which is set for trial next week, involves four men who are charged with murder in the January 2021 shooting of Shanita Thomas, who was pregnant with her third child when she was gunned down at a Central Avenue party. Four others were wounded in the shooting.
Mills, a candidate for Albany County Family Court judge, represents 35-year-old Vramir Branch, who with three other defendants is facing charges of murder, attempted murder, weapons possession and evidence tampering in connection with Thomas' death.
At a hearing Friday in Albany County Court, Judge Andra Ackerman heard arguments from prosecutors on their motion for an order to have the court review boxes of documents that were seized from at least three of the defendants' jail cells at Albany County Jail this week. Prosecutors filed the motion after a witness in the case, who is in federal prison, learned that he had become the target of a death threat and was placed in protective custody.
Prosecutors are asking the court to review the materials to see if there are documents among those found in the cells that were subject to a protective order, and should not have been provided to the men.
As the hearing began, Mills stepped forward and appeared to take responsibility for what he described to the judge as an inadvertent disclosure of the witness information. He said that he had been discussing the witness with another client on Tuesday, a day after he received the information from prosecutors, and then placed the document on a conference table in his office as he juggled a meeting with three other clients who were in his office that day.
“Just so I can be clear here: Did you have documents that were subject to the protective order out on display when you had other individuals that have charges that you’re dealing with and speaking with others on that case … ?,” Ackerman asked Mills. “Who else was in that conference room? Who else had access to that document?”
Mills confirmed that he showed another client — who is not involved in the case — a copy of the document and asked that person what they knew about the witness in the murder case.
“There was a lot going on,” Mills told the judge. “I showed the individual the document. There was nothing in the protective order that said you can’t show it, it just said that you can’t distribute or disseminate it.”
Mills said the next day — Wednesday — an ex-girlfriend of his client in the murder case texted him an image of the document and asked him about the witness listed in the record, and whether that person had given a statement.
But that image, according to prosecutors, is different than another image of the document that was being distributed on social media websites this week.
Assistant District Attorney Jessica Blain-Lewis, one of the prosecutors in the case, told the judge that meant that someone had apparently distributed a second image of the document — and that it was not the image in the photograph that Mills claimed had been taken in his office.
As Mills confirmed to the judge that the image of the document the woman had texted to him had markings on it that he had made, she interrupted him and asked, “(Do) you think it is advisable for you to receive counsel before you continue talking? Because it appears to me that it’s going in a direction, and whether it’s negligence or whatever, but this could be … a severe violation of the protective order which could subject you to a criminal contempt (charge).”
Mills responded that he “didn’t disseminate or give anyone anything.”
“Don’t you think you have an obligation, pursuant to the protective order, to protect those documents?" the judge said. "And you’re telling me that you’re leaving them lying on a conference table in the open and going to another office for about an hour, meeting with other clients, that there won’t be an issue here?”
As Mills began to respond, he was interrupted by Daniel Smalls, another defense attorney in the case, who whispered in Mills' ear for about 20 seconds.
Mills then asked to approach the bench, and moments later he said in open court that he would not say anything more until consulting with an attorney.
As the hearing unfolded, the four defendants — Branch as well as Raa’jiem Coleman, Terrence Anthony and Marcelle Perry — looked on and said nothing. They were clad in jail clothing, and at least one of them had a few supporters in the courtroom.
Blain-Lewis, one of the prosecutors, then asked the judge if she could clarify some of the admissions that had just been made by Mills.
She noted that a thumb was visible in the image of the document that Mills said was photographed, apparently without his knowledge, while it was on a table in his office. But Blain-Lewis said the photo of the document that has been disseminated on social media sites “is not the same photo,” although the markings on the document that were made by Mills are the same.
The document, known as a “witness disclosure,” is often turned over by prosecutors to defense attorneys shortly before a trial begins. They generally list the names of witnesses and summarize their testimony. In this case, that document was subject to a protective order, which meant Mills could discuss it with his client beginning one week prior to the trial that is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Prosecutors in Albany routinely seek protective orders in cases involving murders, gangs and gun violence. Through the years, the district attorney's office has said that incidents of witness intimidation and death threats have caused many individuals to decline to testify in cases like this one.
The protective order prohibited Mills or any of the other defense attorneys from sharing a copy of the witness disclosure document with anyone, including their clients. Blain-Lewis said it also prohibited them from discussing the contents of that document with anyone but their client, although Mills admitted during Friday’s hearing that he had talked to someone else about one of the witnesses.
“What that means, your honor, is that someone has an actual copy of this document,” Blain-Lewis told the judge as she explained that there are two images of it. “I do believe that this court understands the length at which defendants will go to stop people from testifying, and in this case we had a legitimate, real death threat, and the effect that this is going to have not only on that witness but (the) trial itself concerns … my entire office.”
The case is assigned to acting state Supreme Court Justice Roger D. McDonough; Ackerman presided over Friday’s hearing because he was not available. Ackerman granted the order allowing the court to review the materials that were seized from the defendants' jail cells.
If there are documents in those materials that were subject to the protective order, it could lead to further investigation of how they were disclosed and by whom.
A violation of a protective order could lead to a criminal contempt charge, which is a misdemeanor crime. It may also be subject to review by the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Appellate Division, Third Department in Albany, which investigates allegations of misconduct by attorneys.
Thomas, 35, was an aspiring nurse and a promoter of her friends’ businesses who grew up in Albany. The father of her oldest son, Elijah Jr., was Elijah Cancer. Cancer was a former gang member turned anti-violence advocate for 518 SNUG. He was shot and killed breaking up a dispute at a party in July 2018. No one has ever been charged in connection with his death.
Court records indicate all four defendants charged with killing Thomas have lengthy criminal records, including convictions for violent crimes and weapons charges.
Anthony and Perry previously served time in federal prison after being convicted in a racketeering case against a South End gang known as the Original Gangsta Killas. They pleaded guilty in 2010.
Branch previously served time in state prison for attempted murder, weapon charges and promoting prison contraband.
June 7, 2024 Photo of Brendan J. Lyons Brendan J. Lyons MANAGING EDITOR
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A new Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has revealed that having a four-legged friend at Children’s Court significantly reduces stress and anxiety for young victims, witnesses, and their caregivers. ECU criminology researchers Dr. Suz Rock and Associate Professor Natalie Gately have published the first Australian study to evaluate the impact of introducing a justice facility dog to a Children’s Court. The study “Kids, Courts and Canines: Evaluating the Justice Facility Dog Program through a Therapeutic Lens
6-8-2024

SEXUAL MINORITIES EXPERIENCE MORE EXCLUSION IN EVERYDAY SITUATIONS, FINDS STUDY

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people experience exclusion more frequently than heterosexual people. This is the finding of a recent study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by researchers from the University of Basel and the RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. According to the study, people who are perceived as less gender-conforming are more frequently socially excluded. This could also affect heterosexual people if they deviate from traditional
6-8-2024

STILL RIDING LA’S METRO AFTER THE PANDEMIC? YOU PROBABLY THINK IT’S SAFER THAN THOSE WHO DON’T ANYMORE

As Jon Regardie wrote last year in Los Angeles Magazine, “Metro’s raison d’etre is to get hundreds of thousands of people each day across Southern California.” But the COVID-19 pandemic sent the numbers of riders plummeting to a low of 13%, and ridership still hasn’t fully rebounded. The reason may now be clear, thanks to the latest USC Dornsife LABarometer survey, conducted by the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The survey found that although public transportation ridership in
6-8-2024

CAN VAGUE GO VIRAL FOR GEN Y?

Generation Y, Gen Y, is commonly referred to as the millennial generation. It usually includes individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-to-late 1990s or early 2000s. This generation follows Generation X and precedes Generation Z. The millennials, it is said, grew up during the transition to digital technology and the rise of the internet, and this has shaped their perspectives, behavior, and the way they use technology and media. They are often characterized as tech-savvy, adaptable, and socially conscious, with a strong affinity for social media and digital
6-8-2024

ITALIAN MOMS WITH 3+ KIDS WORK FAR FEWER YEARS THAN DADS, WHILE FINLAND SHOWS EQUALITY

Over the past century, the number of working women in Western countries has steadily increased. However, numerous studies show that it is still primarily women who have to manage the balancing act between parenthood and working life. Compared to fathers and childless women, mothers often have a less straightforward career path and face greater hurdles to career advancement. Little research has been done on what happens to women’s employment trajectories from midlife when childrearing efforts are
6-8-2024

TOP IT INDUSTRY MANAGERS ARE DIVIDED ON THE NEED FOR FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE

Many managers are currently seeking a balance between digital and face-to-face communication. A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland published in Information Technology & People shows that top IT industry managers have different views on when and for what purposes face-to-face communication in the workplace is needed. “Some top managers felt that all work tasks can be performed remotely with the help of digital communication. According to them, face-to-face communication is only necessary for maintaining interpersonal relationships and a sense of community,” says Doctoral Researcher Lotta Salin of
6-8-2024

STUDY FINDS SIMPLE HEADLINES ATTRACT MORE ONLINE NEWS READERS

The competition for online attention in today’s news environment is fierce. High-quality news from credible sources must compete for attention with misinformation and a rapidly increasing amount of partisan content. How can a news organization stand out as a reputable and trustworthy outlet while driving readers to its site? The answer is simple: literally. According to research from Michigan State University, news readers engage more with simple writing, suggesting journalists should write simply—clearly and without ambiguity—to attract attention online. The study was published in the journal Science Advances. “Newsrooms want
6-8-2024

STUDY SHOWS BANNING FALSE INFORMATION TRAFFICKERS ONLINE CAN IMPROVE PUBLIC DISCOURSE

When Twitter banned more than 70,000 traffickers of false information from its platform in the wake of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the impact went beyond the silencing of those users. A study co-authored by UC Riverside public policy and political science scholars published in the journal Nature on June 5, found that the crackdown by Twitter (now called X after it was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in late 2022) also significantly reduced the number of misinformation posts by users who stayed on the
6-8-2024

YOUNG ADULTS SAY STEADY SUPPORT FROM CARING ADULTS MADE DIFFERENCE IN TRANSITIONING FROM CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

Young people who have exited foster care generally fare better—in work, school and relationships—if they get consistent support from adults who care about them during their teen years. My research team reached these findings by interviewing 21 people, now in their late 20s, who had aged out of foster care when they turned 18, had spent time in foster care as children or grew up in families that had active child welfare cases. These young adults relayed the degree to which they received support from
6-8-2024

HOW THE 1901 DISCOVERY EXPEDITION’S POLAR EXPLORERS STAYED HEALTHY DURING THEIR ANTARCTIC JOURNEY

Antarctica is the most inhospitable continent on earth. It’s dry, cold, and completely dark for months of the year. Edwardian explorers were some of the first to brave the Antarctic winter, developing new knowledge still drawn upon by scientists today. The Discovery expedition (1901–4) played a key role in the history of polar exploration. It was led by the Royal Navy commander Robert Falcon Scott, a pioneering polar explorer who died in 1912 after attempting to reach the south pole. The expedition’s third lieutenant was Ernest Shackleton, who led three
6-8-2024

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS INFUSED WITH AGRI-INNOVATION SYSTEMS CAN REDUCE POST-HARVEST FOOD LOSS AND WASTE

developing sustainable business models that are multi-actor networked for integrating them with agricultural innovation systems initiatives can enable a systemic approach for reducing food loss and value loss at the post-harvest
6-8-2024

WILL THE 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES BECOME THE PLAYING FIELD FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS?

Yannick Kluch, a professor of recreation, sport and tourism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies sport as a platform for promoting social justice. Kluch has worked with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, U.S. Diving and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He spoke with research editor Sharita Forrest about the history of Olympic athletes’ social justice protests and governing organizations’ efforts to avert them with Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter.
6-8-2024

STUDY FINDS WE SPEND MORE WITH CASHLESS PAYMENTS

A study found support for the existence of a positive “cashless effect,” which is when consumers spend more when using cashless payment methods in comparison to cash. The study suggests the cashless effect leads people to spend more when purchasing products that are typically used to signal status, such as jewelry. However, the
6-8-2024

LAWS MEANT TO KEEP DIFFERENT RACES APART STILL INFLUENCE DATING PATTERNS, DECADES AFTER BEING INVALIDATED

If you are single and looking for a romantic partner, chances are that you have used a dating app. But the likelihood that others will like, or even see, your profile may depend on your race. Studies have found that all people on dating apps, regardless of their own race, are more likely to contact white people using the app. And all people using dating apps are least likely to contact African American women and Asian American men. Until recently, some popular apps, including OkCupid, Match, Hinge and Grindr, provided
6-8-2024

VIRTUAL LABS IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH BOOST DIVERSITY

University of Oregon psychologists are breaking down barriers to include underrepresented populations in research by bringing laboratories online. The researchers are trying to address a longstanding issue in psychology studies, which often rely on undergraduate students to volunteer as research subjects.
6-8-2024

ATTENDING LOCAL EVENTS STRENGTHENS NEIGHBORHOOD BONDS, SURVEY REVEALS

how often people visit and actively participate in local events and how this affects their sense of place or their connection to their community. A survey of almost 400 households in the state’s coastal council area of the City of Holdfast Bay found that people who frequently attend local events or participate as volunteers, organizers or exhibitors, have a stronger
6-8-2024

STUDY SHOWS ONLINE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WORKS FOR COMPLEX TOPICS

“COVID-19 forced educators to adjust their educational best practices to an unfamiliar virtual classroom, and professional development was no different,” said Karen Jo Matsler, assistant professor in practice for UTeach at UTA
6-8-2024

EYE-TRACKING STUDY REVEALS THAT SIMPLY LOOKING AT THE NATURAL WORLD IN URBAN AREAS CAN REAP WELL-BEING BENEFITS

Integrating more natural features into city landscapes can play a crucial role in enhancing the mental well-being of residents. A study by Bangor University and Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, published in the scientific journal People and Nature, involved city dwellers and showed how paying visual attention to greenery, rather than human-made structures, can alleviate anxiety and enhance restorative feelings. The 117 urban residents who took part in the study, were guided on a
6-8-2024

ADVERTISERS MAY BE INADVERTENTLY FUNDING MISINFORMATION

Companies in industries such as health care, technology and insurance have been found to advertise on misinformation websites, according to an analysis published in Nature. In a related experiment, consumers who were made aware that a company advertised on a misinformation website were likely to reject an offer of a gift voucher to spend with that company. The majority of digital advertisement placement on the internet is done via an algorithm-based distribution
6-8-2024

STUDY SUGGESTS EVOLUTIONARY BASIS FOR MALE RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS

why we associate risk-taking with males rather than females, from an evolutionary standpoint. Study author Hannah Goodman, from UWA’s School of Human Sciences, said researchers found men engaged in riskier behaviors when crossing a busy traffic intersection, supporting growing evidence that risk-taking is predominantly an androcentric behavior. “Males

Disclaimer: I am absolutely NOT trying to brag in any way. I come from a small, isolated school with unmotivated students so I genuinely have no idea what other students like me are doing (apart from the students on this thread). I truly just would like some advice. Thanks!
Before judging harshly, read everything I have to say. I promise I'm not trying to be like the people who post the "am I cooked" posts, I swear.
Also I tried my best to format this so that it's easy to read.
My first attempt at this type of post failed, so I'm hoping to get better advice.
Background: rising junior, white, female, pretty high income (parents don't like sharing that information), rural-ish high school, NOT a feeder school, dual citizenship (Italy and U.S.), I speak Italian at home
GPA: 4.0 uw (don't know what my weighted GPA is). It's a 4.0 but my school has intense grade inflation so I actually haven't gotten absolutely perfect grades.
PSAT10: 1370 out of 1520 (730 Reading and 640 Math) (planning on taking the SAT next year)
Advanced Courses: my school only offers 2 APs, so I took both this year (AP World History and AP CSP), I also self studied for two exams (AP Italian and AP Spanish Lang), I'm doing the full IB program for the next two years
Extracurriculars (First two are in order, the rest are kind of just there): (I'm going to give enough information but also keep it vague because I feel weird sharing a lot on the internet like this).

• Skier for Italian "National" team. Technically, I could be considered a part of the national team (and I will be putting this on college applications), but my sport isn't very competitive in Italy. I've skied at Junior Worlds and European Cups and am hoping to compete in a few World Cups next season. (I haven't been getting significant results, though, so that's something to work on).
• Founder and Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper. Like I said, I don't go to a very competitive high school, so this was actually fairly easy to do. I'm finishing up a few details this summer so that I can start publishing next year. Yes, I haven't actually published anything yet. And it's not going to be anything fancy.
• Soccer (member). I was on JV for two years and hoping to make varsity for my last two years of high school. Also have played club my whole life. Kind of just a hobby now.
• Spanish Teacher Assistant: This year I assisted a math class and translated lessons to a girl who'd just moved to the U.S. from Mexico and didn't know English. I only racked up a few volunteer hours due to skiing, but I'm hoping to do this the next two years of high school and getting more hours.
• Spanish Honors Society: my school doesn't allow students to join Honors Societies before junior year, so I will just be doing this my junior and senior year.
• Book Review Blog: I'm trying to start a book review blog this summer so that I can practice writing and really show colleges that that's my passion. Hopefully I can publish a lot and get a decent amount of viewers.
• School of The New York Times camp

Extracurriculars I'm planning on doing:

• Internship: I'm hoping to build up my resume this summer so that I can get an internship at my local newspaper next summer or spring.
• Volunteering: I want to start volunteering for a local organization that helps disabled people ski. Due to my insanely busy ski training schedule, I don't know if I can physically volunteer. Do you guys have any tips on how I could maybe get involved with fundraising or social media management?
• Volunteering 2.0: It might be a little late, but I want to volunteer for another organization that my mom's involved with. It sounds fun and hopefully I can get a decent amount of hours

Honors and Awards (I'm hoping to get):

• National Merit (aiming for 1450+ on PSAT in the fall)
• Small Town/Rural National Recognition
• AP Scholar with Honor
• Gold Honor Roll (all 4 years of high school)
• Maybe a Scholastic Writing award?

I know this was really long, but I would appreciate any and all advice. What are some other things I could do? Or what could I do to increase my chances? Thank you so much!
I also realized that I forgot to include Letter of Rec predictions. Honestly, I don't really know how to form connections with my teachers because I've always been taught that your teachers aren't your friends. I just feel like it's weird but anyways...
Counselor: Since I ski 5 days a week practically year round with intense summer training on and off snow (another detail I forgot to mention), I have a special counselor who pays me special attention. However, she doesn't strike me as the best so idk. She really likes me so I'm hoping for a 9/10
History teacher: she taught me my freshman year and this year and she's the organizer for the Spanish Teaching assistant extracurricular. She also likes me but I don't have a particularly special connection to her. maybe a 6/10
Advisor: I have an advisory teacher who I really like because he seems my potential but I also think he's kind of scary and don't have a personal connection with him. He's super nice but he's also never been my teacher before. He always says that other teachers are impressed by my ability to handle sports and schoolwork but a lot of my classmates do that so idk maybe 8/10?
Another detail I forgot to mention is that my mom was born in Italy and my dad was born in France (idk if that affects anything). My mom attended college in Italy but my dad went to college in the U.S.