Thoughts on prospective college students

First of all, congrats to my little sister who is about to graduate from high school and enter into a chapter of life in college. However, I'm a bit skeptical about some of her decisions she's made.

UGA vs GSU vs Emory vs Tech
I think it really depends on which major she chooses to study. UGA, GSU, and Emory for business. Tech for engineering. If business, accounting is good at GSU. But as for finance, marketing, or RMI, I'd definitely recommend her to stay away. Computer Science is a hot major that can most likely get you a job but she's not really a geek. Every other major my opinion is neutral on that. But ultimately, I strong believe that it's important to choose to study a major that will get you a job. That should be the priority for every college student in these days.

Money vs Career vs Life Goals
It depends on how she values her college education. Is it just for a degree? Is she trying to establish a career? Is that a career that will bring her a fortune or is it just something that she's interested in doing for the rest of her life? I think she still needs to take some time and think through that.

Reconsider Online Learning or Working

It's been a dragging semester. Taking all online classes this semester. It's my first time taking online classes. And the experience with that has not been pleasant, to be honest. Professors from several classes are not that responsive when it comes to contacting or interacting with students. Sending out multiple emails to them and they don't reply within 48 hours. Some don't reply at all. Someone has to do something about it.

It's inevitable that most of our activities have moved into the virtual world for the sake of time-saving and cost-efficiency. But we need to have a metric for measuring whether people are staying on tasks or not when they are supposed to. For instance, there should be a system or graph to keep track of how many emails a professor have responded in a day and how frequent as they respond to the emails.

We've paid the tuition in full but we're not getting the service as expected. That's just sad with our education system.

Looking back 6 months ago

The price of crude oil continues to climb higher as retail gas price is heading toward $4 per gallon. Meanwhile, gold price is hitting new well as it closes gap to $1500 per ounce. Those were my predictions for end of June 2011 I put out to my friends in a discussion during Thanksgiving of last  year. Those forecasts turned out to be reality now and it's only mid-April. The figures hit sooner than expected. What is happening did not surprise me a bit at all that these are the direct results as moving toward end of QE2. Bernanke is in a hot seat right now. Either he chooses to launch QE3 or completely pull out and start raising interest rates, we will all have to suffer regardless.