How the East Coast is viewed by others

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Entrance to USC film school is very competitive. Much more difficult to get into that than the MBA, law, medical, engineering and music divisions.

does film school add value other than putting you in touch with movers and shakers? i.e, if you are an artist/visionary isn't it better just to keep shooting and making films? I don't think Chris Nolan went to film school.

Good grief. Would you ask that question about Julliard?

[Anonymous]

Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

Good god. First of all stop calling it Cali. No one calls it that except for people who aren't from there and possibly have never even visited there. Second you're pulling a quote about uc riverside. There are numerous UCs and I'll argue that they're all great schools however if you were to rank them UCR is not as prestigious as ucb, ucla, or ucd.

[Anonymous]

UC is in serious decline. Top students from Cali are finding other options. I challenge you Cali lovers to read this report and then send your kid out there.

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_512HJRB.pdf

[Anonymous]

Sorry, wrong link - http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_512HJR.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

The film industry is a trillion dollar industry. It's a primary export of the US. It's a primary means by which the US excercises soft power.

You are a provincial idiot.

[Anonymous]

Per US News, 5 of the top 10 public universities in the US are in California: 2 of the top 10 private universities are in California.

Why would anyone from CA, the West or the Midwest choose East Coast schools if they could get into a CA school? The weather is better, the beaches are better, the jobs are better, and the people are nicer.

[Anonymous]

Question for all you west coast fans, why are you here? I am guessing living here is better than eating out of garbage cans in Cali? Appreciate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for all you west coast fans, why are you here? I am guessing living here is better than eating out of garbage cans in Cali? Appreciate.

I'm here because I make almost twice as much in my field and cost of living here is less. No one wants to live here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

The film industry is a trillion dollar industry. It's a primary export of the US. It's a primary means by which the US excercises soft power.

You are a provincial idiot.

And that's just the porn. California, what a place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for all you west coast fans, why are you here? I am guessing living here is better than eating out of garbage cans in Cali? Appreciate.

I'm not here here. Just DCUM here. I miss the snark, clearly.

[Anonymous]

I lived in CA for 4 years. It is not relaxing, or laid back. It costs a fortune to live there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Entrance to USC film school is very competitive. Much more difficult to get into that than the MBA, law, medical, engineering and music divisions.

does film school add value other than putting you in touch with movers and shakers? i.e, if you are an artist/visionary isn't it better just to keep shooting and making films? I don't think Chris Nolan went to film school.

Good grief. Would you ask that question about Julliard?

no i wouldn't because i would think places like julliard, berklee, i.e. music/dance conservatories are different than film school.

[Anonymous]

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California is definitely not for the pasty-faced, the tight-assed and the self-righteous. West coast-represent, now put your hands up, baby.

Compton and Long Beach, now you know you in trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't just California, people. I'd venture to say that maybe 4/5 of the country doesn't even realize there is this freakish obsession with ivy league education on the east coast (or, to be more accurate, the New York-Philadelphia-Washington corridor). I was a top notch student in another part of the country and it never even crossed my mind that I should be applying to the ivies. I didn't even know what they were, beyond some vague understanding that Harvard was a place for geniuses. The same educational obsession seems to continue into securing the right career path, working for the right investment banking or law firm, and so on. Life everywhere else is so much different. It seems to me that a lot of people who were born and raised and remain in this bubble have no idea. It can be so much simpler.

This is absolutely true, but realize that the people in the bubble you describe wind up running the country. I don't know if that makes them any happier, but it's what happens.