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b-rad g

macrumors 6502a
Jun 29, 2010
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Congrats to both of you. I use to weigh 365 almost 6 years ago. Took me about 8 months to get to 185 and have fortunately kept the weight off (currently 190).

Wow! How did you do it? What sort of diet and exercise?
 

obey908

macrumors 6502a
Sep 21, 2008
639
3
San Francisco
Penn state is the most expensive state school in the country

I was out of state and my parents paid almost $30,000 a year. I think in state kids paid around $16,000-17,000
 

French iPod

macrumors regular
Sep 30, 2010
155
2
somewhere far beyond
Bought my first SNES today:eek: and the store also gave me a bunch of free stuff to hehe:p

SNES - 65$ in mint condition
Super Mario World 10$
Mario Kart 30$
All Star Mario 20$
Batman Forever (might gonna trade that game) (store gave me this for free)
Judge Dredo (also might gonna trade that game) (another free game)
and a Black Ops poster for free

all of it cost me 152$:D
 

bwhinnen

macrumors 6502
Apr 15, 2010
304
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McKinney
Bought this for the wife yesterday to replace a Windows 7 PC. She is very happy with it, mind you I had to load up Windows 7 in a VM for her to run the financial program :( Oh and we had to buy the wired keyboard as she uses the number pad all the time with the financial program...

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iMac mid 2011 21.5" - i5 2.7GHz | 1TB | 4GB

I will be getting another 4GB of RAM for it when I get to the computer parts store next :)
 

Macman45

macrumors G5
Jul 29, 2011
13,197
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Somewhere Back In The Long Ago
Go For 16GB

Bought this for the wife yesterday to replace a Windows 7 PC. She is very happy with it, mind you I had to load up Windows 7 in a VM for her to run the financial program :( Oh and we had to buy the wired keyboard as she uses the number pad all the time with the financial program...

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iMac mid 2011 21.5" - i5 2.7GHz | 1TB | 4GB

I will be getting another 4GB of RAM for it when I get to the computer parts store next :)

And gently persuade your nearest and dearest that she can live without Windows:D
 

tjb1

macrumors 68000
Aug 26, 2010
1,999
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Pennsylvania, USA
Penn state is the most expensive state school in the country

I was out of state and my parents paid almost $30,000 a year. I think in state kids paid around $16,000-17,000

Penn Tech is affiliated with Penn State now so we got there price tag, I think we are more expensive then Penn State though.

Guess were pretty close according to that picture, but they included books...with books im near 14k
 

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MallCop

macrumors 6502
Jan 7, 2011
253
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I'm jealous.

Arizona State (with in state tuition) is almost $6000 a semester now. This ish is expensive.

Also, my last real purchase was a Nixon watch. The Spencer (Matte Black/Gold). I love it.


Im paying over $25,000 a semester at Hofstra. Do you guys live there too?
 

Pamani

macrumors 6502
Jul 11, 2008
258
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California
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

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Updating it right now
 

benjayman2

macrumors 6502
Sep 1, 2010
428
1
Chicago
Wow! How did you do it? What sort of diet and exercise?

Did lots unhealthy dieting to initially loose the weight, but have learned a lot more since then. If you are strictly just looking to loose lbs just go about 200-300 cal under your caloric intake. Of course you need to find out how many calories you need to take in to maintain your weight at your current activity level.

Speaking of I got these various things today.

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DIMEZ

macrumors 6502a
Mar 5, 2009
525
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MD
samsung 470 256 ssd
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hard drive caddy
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wd scorpion black 750
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FINALLY
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SchneiderMan

macrumors G3
May 25, 2008
8,332
202
I really didn't want to purchase it as I always rent movies, but seeing it was only available to purchase, I couldn't help it. Downloading now :)

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miamijim

macrumors 6502
May 26, 2010
359
2
I am stunned at the price of Tuition you guys have to pay.

In the UK the tuition is now at a maximum of 9K per annum and even that is expensive it used to be around 3k per annum and the opposition government say they will lower it to around 6K per annum.

In the UK you can take out a loan to pay for your tuition and then you only pay that loan back if you earn over a set amount within the 10 years after you graduate, if you do not earn over the set amount then you do not pay back the loan.

In the job market we have today, there is no gurantee that after you have all spent 200K on getting your graduate degree that you will even get a job.

I know that education in the US has become big business but don't you all feel as if you are being conned in some way.
 

VPrime

macrumors 68000
Dec 19, 2008
1,722
86
London Ontario
I am stunned at the price of Tuition you guys have to pay.

In the UK the tuition is now at a maximum of 9K per annum and even that is expensive it used to be around 3k per annum and the opposition government say they will lower it to around 6K per annum.

In the UK you can take out a loan to pay for your tuition and then you only pay that loan back if you earn over a set amount within the 10 years after you graduate, if you do not earn over the set amount then you do not pay back the loan.

In the job market we have today, there is no gurantee that after you have all spent 200K on getting your graduate degree that you will even get a job.

I know that education in the US has become big business but don't you all feel as if you are being conned in some way.

Canada is similar. I don't know if there is a maximum tuition but it is fairly cheap.
Paying back loans is also similar, there is lots of support if you can't pay. They will reduce the load, let you not pay for a certain period of time and other things.
 

rust.puppet

macrumors regular
Jul 18, 2008
233
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Ashtabula, OH
Canada is similar. I don't know if there is a maximum tuition but it is fairly cheap.
Paying back loans is also similar, there is lots of support if you can't pay. They will reduce the load, let you not pay for a certain period of time and other things.

I pay about 500$ per credit hour now and it isn't cheap considering you need 80 or something for a associates degree, but they offer some loans at subsidized and unsubsidized interest along with any grants or scholarships you might be eligible for and then you can defer the payments until 6 months after graduation but after that you're on your own unless you go to graduate's school. I don't know how other students feel but I know it feels like an endless cycle in the US between the loans to get the schooling and then working hard to pay off the loans, i just thought it was as ridiculously priced everywhere. I actually do wish it was like the UK though where you can go to Uni at 16 it seems like a nice head start.
 
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