EmperorRyker

Which GRE? If the general one, you don't really need to study for it, unless you're not a native speaker. I wasn't, so I spent a week doing those word and context exercises a couple of hours each day, and ran through the instruction sheet for the quantitative part, so that I know what definitions they're using.

Oh, that's sad then, I guess. Admissions committees probably have higher standards as to what they consider the norm, though.

Yeah, but who doesn't know a foreign language? Knowing just one doesn't really make you stand out.

Nope. You don't get a medal for learning a foreign language. That's not an extreme achievement and is something people do on a regular basis. In fact, a lot of them learn more than a single foreign language.

Has anyone here stayed in Ridgewood? If so, what's your opinion of it? I'm trying to decide between there and The Chateau.

It's like craigslist.

Ugh, is this a trick question instead of the answer just being you reply with both or specify what you're referring to?

How much are broker fees then usually?

What was it you didn't like about Chapel Hill?

I'm not familiar with Food Lion, so is it supposed to have reasonable prices? And is it a big store?

What about grocery shopping in Chapel Hill? It seems there aren't a lot of big stores with reasonable prices, and that you're pretty doomed if you don't have a car and live somewhere not close to Whole Foods (for example, I don't see much in the way of grocery stores in Carrboro).

I don't mind people posting studies. In fact, I think people should do that. But here they have cited studies and then misinterpreted the results. For example, the person studying nutrition seems to have gotten some numbers that describe the current behavior of the population in general (or only of overweight people), whereas I thought the discussion was about personal, i.e. individual behavior. Then there's also that old causation/correlation thing going on. Not everyone does it, of course. For example, I think TakeruK has taken a different stance (one that I actually really like myself), but you can't really have a discussion when free will is effectively discarded, and the two sides that seemingly battle aren't even fighting on the same grounds. Of course no one can lose or win in that situation, there's no one to fight!

I don't know what some of you are trying to say. People who are here described as "fat-shamers" or with some other descriptor that doesn't reflect their posts, have acknowledged everything about the relationship between obesity and factors that influence people's choices. No one is saying one person can't have it harder than the other. No one is saying that people's emotional, social and financial well-being doesn't influence their behavior and perhaps have them find solace in food. That's what everyone here has acknowledged, yet there seem to be insults thrown at people who have done that, but just hold fat people to different standards of personal behavior. It's really getting ridiculous. I also wonder about the honesty of some of you and wonder whether you think the same about those who lie, cheat, steal, whatever. Italians are "known" to disregard traffic rules. Hence, if you're an Italian, it isn't really your fault if you do that. It's that you're, well... Italian. Can't go against that current, right? But now I'm shaming the Italians. Mi scusi. To reiterate, because some don't seem to get it. Yes, some have to eat less or fight outside factors influencing their psychological state to stay at a "normal" weight. But since everyone can eat and/or exercise, some people believe that they are ultimately in control. Because technically speaking they are. They just have to have that much more determination. But isn't that the case in all aspects of life?

1. That's exactly what we've been saying, how many times do we need to repeat it? It's obvious with fat people that in the past not all energy that came in went out. It's because they ate more (i.e. took in more usable energy in the form of food, the only known form that can increase body weight) than they could expend (i.e. what their energy out part was, something partially controlled by activity) that they got that way, whatever psychological factor might have played a role in that. I'm not even saying about the latter at this point. 2. What's your point in regards to friction? Friction results in energy going out of a system. But taken as a whole when that system is included in the environment, the energy still does not appear out of nothing or disappear into nothingness.