COLLEGE DEGREES ON LINE - FOR GRADUATE DEGREE
College Degrees On Line
- (A college degree) the job market offers a higher number of unemployed degree holders so the hostel takes advantage of this. It has also been observed that degree holders have had some managerial learning.
- (College degree) An academic degree is an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study. Academic degrees were first introduced during Middle Ages and there were little differentiation between them.
- on-line(a): being in progress now; "on-line editorial projects"
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; "on-line industries"
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer; "an on-line database"
Matt strikes again!
New wall decor today. I've been mulling over what to do with my walls for the last week or so; the huge expanse of cinder block white was getting me down. At first, I was at a loss for what to do. I could cover it with pictures, do something with construction paper, but I was looking for the extra push my room needed to make me happy. During Spanish class yesterday, I realized what had to be done.
I was speaking in Spanish with one of my classmates, a girl whose name is hard to pronounce, and I happened to glance at my teacher's desk. He's a graduate student, and like most Spanish grads, he's very fashionable. I spotted his pencil case on the desk, and there on its side was a tiny picture of Snowy, the dog from the Tintin graphic novels. As soon as I saw the picture I knew it! I had to cover my walls with Tintin.
The idea bounced back and forth in my head for the entire class, but over the course of the day it moved to the back of my mind. Yesterday evening, after a disappointing library visit on main campus, I found myself waiting at the bus stop. It was extremely cold out, maybe five or six degrees. I didn't want to go home, but was about to because of the cold. I decided that if the next bus that stopped was a Newton bus, I would go home, and if the next bus was a Commonwealth Ave. bus, I would get on the T. The bus was a Comm Ave, so I headed towards the C line. After riding on the train for a few stops I ended up at my favorite bookstore, near Coolidge Corner. When I saw the bookstore I remembered my idea, and immediately began looking for Tintin books. The bookstore had a nice collection, so I figured I would buy them for my wall. As I began to think about it, however, I realized I didn't even know if I would have room for an entire book. I returned to BC with nothing but ideas.
After measuring my wall that night, I found that it was big enough. I returned to the bookstore today, and bought two copies of "Tintin in Tibet," once copy for the fronts of the pages, and one for the backs. I also bought four rolls of double-sided tape at CVS, and returned home. The picture above is the result of my labor. It took maybe three hours to disassemble the two books and affix them to my wall. I'm very happy with the result, it totally impacts the entire feeling of space in my room for the better, plus I have something to read should I ever get bored(not likely). I hope you like it!
Giant Galapogean Prickly Pear (Opuntia echios echios) on Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands
Prickly pears cacti are usually small bushy like plants lacking any sort of central trunk, however, in the Galapagos prickly pears have become towering trees with tall central, woody-looking lignized trunks, some of which that I saw personally where at least over 40 feet tall (+12 meters), although the average was more like 12-20 ft (~4-6 meters). This peculiar morphology has occurred due to an evolutionary arms race between the cacti and their predators, the giant Galapagos tortoises (Chelinoidis nigra sp.). On islands without any tortoises living in the arid regions, the cacti do not grow towering trunks, but more closely resemble prickly pear species that live in the rest of the world; however, on tortoise occupied islands, the cacti grow large and have 'bark', with their pads held high and out of reach. But the tortoises haven't been totally evaded, as they too have evolved their own modifications, with the tortoise populations that one finds in the arid regions being characterized by the 'saddle-back' morphology, which means their shells look like saddles, with the anterior region flared dorsally, which allows their incredibly long necks to extend upward and forage for the elevated prickly pear pads. In fact, many researchers have appropriately compared the Galapagos tortoises to giraffes and sauropods, who have also increased their neck lengths dramatically in order to reach food (Many hypothesize other roles for long necks in these species, most importantly, for sexual purposes. In sauropods and giraffes this view has begun to fall out of favor due to recent work, although at least in giraffes and tortoises, it is known that neck demonstrations play a role in sexual displays and combat to some degree).
This particular forest of cacti was adjacent to the rocky shore line, including mangroves. To see a field of giant woody cacti next to tropical mangroves and black basaltic lava rocks is a truly alien and mesmerized sight. I suggest you see it one day.
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