vtdadbod007

vtdadbod007 t1_jawf4a6 wrote

Reply to What’s going on with the Winooski schools? Looked at a house there and saw they all had 1/10 ratings and below 20% proficiency rates with terrible graduation rates? by vermont4runner

Winooski is a community with a large refugee population and a lot of first generation Americans. This presents lots of unique challenges especially in Vermont. There are kids whose native language isn’t spoken by anyone in New England - much less Vermont. It makes meeting any proficiencies a challenge when the communication and cultural divide is so great.

You can always move there and choose to use school choice to go somewhere else. One of my best friends in high school was from winooski but went to a neighboring Chittenden county HS through the program

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vtdadbod007 t1_j9htm7h wrote

Reply to comment by spitsparadise in What are some legislative and day-to-day differences between VT, and MA? by spitsparadise

Can’t second this enough. Stuff isn’t available on call like it is in MA, and this only gets generally more applicable the more rural part of the state you’re in. Get your maintenance scheduled as far ahead as humanly possible and really try to develop as much handyman skills as you can - it’s really worth being able to fix that leak yourself and save a huge headache. Also, try making it a fun challenge, I try to make mine seem like a puzzle and then my engineering brain gets happy and takes off lol.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7ssk7g wrote

Reply to comment by Lee__Jieun in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

Teach the students and help build the code and AI that maintains the library. I know a few of those have relationships with google where a few friends have gone to work right out of college.

Edit to clarify: Everyone on that list is involved with research projects in some form, teaches in some form, or involved with another association or company.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7sqhtr wrote

Reply to comment by vermontitguy in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

Over your time in higher Ed, do you see a trend of students who grew up with the internet being more intuitive at operating it as opposed to those who learned it later in life? For example if I didn’t know how to use an online library, I wouldn’t ask a person for help, I’d google how to use an online library, find a YouTube video or website explaining the general search process and what the terms mean, then I’d use an online library.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7socgq wrote

Reply to comment by 8valvegrowl in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

Our university was digitized by students on work study, and is maintained by students, computer code, and some AI as of recently. Larger databases like the BPL and library of Congress are maintained with professionals using taxpayer funds and are free to access for all.

As for the music and DVD’s, it’s streaming services or pirating, anything you’re interested in is available on your smartphone or laptop.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7snwmw wrote

Reply to comment by TheTowerBard in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

They aren’t closing the spaces, they’re “eliminating all physical resources in the university’s libraries and transitioning to a digital-only library,” and redistributing “books, collections and other materials” per VTdigger. The spaces still exist, so will the internet connection inside of them.

Online research classes is a very important part of a high school curriculum, but no college student needs help researching information online.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7sk73n wrote

Reply to comment by 8valvegrowl in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

Im sorry I’m trying to word this without coming off as a jerk, but with all due respect I think your college experience is entirely different in this respect from anything present day college students face. I wrote a research paper last year on clashes between colonists and natives in the Appalachians. Using the websites of Northeastern’s library, the Boston Public Library, and the Library of Congress, I had 10 primary sources in 30 minutes and my paper done in a day’s work.

Covid definitely fundamentally changed the way information is accessed for a multitude of purposes, academics included.

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