Recent content by pittsburghgirl

Yes, people forget the "forgiveness" comes after consequences and amends. You can't forgive who aren't sorry. Probably going to prison for life or the DP might stand in for actual remorse.

My brother shut the car door on my head hard enough that I went to the emergency room. So that should count, too.

Ah, yep.

I'm glad my little plug for Apple helps. And to be fair, if I have both browsers open, I often wonder why my passwords don't autofill as they do on Safari. But there is that secret password list...

The advantage of Apple is a saved password works on my computer, my iPad and my phone.

DBM.

First generation college students can encounter difficulties but where this situation becomes most difficult is transitioning to graduate study. There are indeed many unspoken things that trip up graduate students. A major theorist in literacy studies sees being "literate" in a context like...

Just wanted to make the point when I did my degrees, I took MA exams with 6 or 7 other people. All of us passed but I was the only one approved to move on to the PhD. The kind of problems BK had on his MA thesis or final project would not have ended in an A grade in a top program.

Not all courses would be accepted in any case. They would be evaluated for equivalency, whether the MA course is equivalent to the same course in the PhD program. For example, a required statistics course or a research methods course may be the same across levels and institutions. So any...

I love this description.

No, not at all. There are some programs that allow students enrolled in their program to segue from MA or MS to the PhD, but BK's masters was at a different institution. The program for the PhD is laid out on WSU's website.

Agree with almost all of this and love the energy of your language. However, BK did not have "extensive doctoral level study." He had one semester of doctoral courses and managed to get himself dismissed from the program. That program requires 39 hours in graded course work, with 24 credits...

Are we surprised? One reason she's squawked about the Dateline episode is that it lays out a very compelling case that doesn't leave much room for a defense. He was there at the time of the murders based on his vehicle's movements and he was circling the house; he had a knife capable of the...

I think he planned a mass murder. If he just wanted one victim, why not wait until he could get her alone? There was really no reason to do a home invasion in the middle of a night when the house is packed with people if you just want to kill one person. MOO

I'm thinking that it was a sexually motivated crime, with the knife as a stand-in for a sex organ.