I'm getting pissed off at my country lately. I am technically eligible for citizenship by descent here but the hoops they make you jump through are numerous and tedious in nature.
This all started years ago after I had my MBA admission rescinded. I had applied as an international student...
Well, just got rejected from another job with the usual
"Your technical aptitude is impressive, and we believe you have a lot of potential for growth, but we just don't think you're a good fit for our team right now."
Yes and no. He was a minority in the sense that he wasn't of the dominant race of this country where I work, but he was of the race that was most represented among instructors and non-support staff (i.e. administrative clerks, cleaners, IT staff) at the school. On the other hand, I come from...
Yeah, something similar happened to me. When they were trying to put me on probation, I got written up for being 2 minutes late despite never having been late before and having a good reason (a car accident at the intersection before the turn-off to the school). In my probation letter they...
I was working at a private school as a teacher. They claimed that "parents were complaining about my teaching" but they absolutely refused to go into specifics about this, citing they couldn't tell me the details because of privacy concerns. However I wasn't put on probation at the time...
Actually I've been unemployed since May. Job hunting stinks.
I've gone through periods of being unemployed and have an eclectic work history. After college I couldn't get a full-time job, so I enrolled and got a Master's. After my Master's, I worked for 18 months, but got laid off. I...
Political correctness tends to stifle everything.
That said, there are people who genuinely are somewhat racist but hide behind the veil of "just doing satire" and "fighting against political correctness".
B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and B.S. in Maths from Duke University (USA)
MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Nanyang Technical University (Singapore)
Professional Certificate in Machine Learning from MIT
Unfortunately d3 to f1 is only a check, because white can still escape to h4 or g4....
This was my solution:
1 - Kd7
2 Rd8+ Kxd8
3 Nh3 Qe2+
4 Nf2 Rxh1
5 f4 g5
6 fxg5 Rf1
7 d3 Rxf2+
8 Kh3 Rxh2# or Qh5#
Let's see if we can post some interesting Chess puzzles here. Here's a mate that I missed when playing a game today.
Black to move; Mate in 8. There is more than one solution but I am sure that it takes no more than 8 moves.
I used to work at an American-owned private school in Asia. My boss was from Boston.
Anyways, she said that my "Southern accent" made me hard for the students to understand me. The thing is I don't think I have that strong of an accent, and there were other teachers who had stronger accents...
American colonisation killed so many people it triggered climate change, study suggests
I remember back in the Late 70's, there was a show called "Connections" made by British science historian James Burke. This was somewhat of a precursor to "Guns, Germs, and Steel" but it essentially made...