…. was very much like this.
[Note: non-Irish readers will have to read the above post to fully understand the rest of this one.]
The “perceived prestige of high points requirements” that is described was very real. With a decisiveness that has marked my subsequent career ;-), I switched successively from law to engineering to English.
Several years later, I turned up at the Dental Hospital in Dublin for some treatment. I ended up seeing somebody who had been in the same [high]school as I had been. He was very puzzled at what I had done, especially when I had had enough points to be a … dentist 😉
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Celebrating Ohio
A temporary relocation makes me realize how much there is to like and to say about Ohio, where we have lived for the last 22 years. We moved to Ohio from the UK (and lived in Ireland before that). Here are some observations based on our travels around the State over the years.
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