With the government shutdown and everything apparently we missed this story from the Times.
“It’s been a nightmare,” Jason C. Locke, associate vice provost for enrollment at Cornell University. “I’ve been a supporter of the Common App, but in this case, they’ve really fallen down.”
I'm a parent of two grown sons who managed to apply to college electronically (or at least one of them; I'm not sure about my older son) and it went pretty smoothly.
Nevertheless, I've paid careful attention to the criticism of the Affordable Care Act and the widespread computer problems that have attended the roll-out, so I know exactly how to fix the college application problem some students are encountering.
ABOLISH COLLEGE!
…is computers. Damn things. I say we go back to chisels and stone tablets. No software bugs there!
Make Bill Gates step down; fire everyone at Microsoft (because they are indirectly responsible for the software “glitches.”)
Abolish online stock trading (because a “glitch” was once responsible for an infamous calamity.)
Abolish credit card processing online, because that’s been the victim of both foul play and glitches many times in the past.
Let’s just say that, if it ain’t in the Constitution, you can’t do it…whatever it is.
I saw this post yesterday regarding computer issues with the VT’s healthcare rollout.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a…
And if you believe 7 Days, the powers that be are fixing it by “wooing” reporters around the state.
http://www.7dvt.com/2013full-c…
Bummer….
The president of UVM gets $447,000 per year. Students should boycott college and become self-educated.
It is being reported that the NO-BID contract for the Obamacare website was given to a classmate of Michelle Obama. In Vermont a $200 per hour NO-BID contract was given to an insider.
How did things get this bad…the educational system is failing…health care is in chaos…the EU is mad at us…how did we manage to get an entire continent angry…actually it looks like we have offended the entire planet.
Maybe it’s time for all democrats/republicans to apologize to the world and disband. Now is the time for Independent and Third Party Candidates to rise up and take charge.