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u/good_shot_red_two · 3 pointsr/washingtondc

My wife has taken courses with GLN and I took a few courses at the KCC. From hearing about my wife’s courses with GLN, it seems more suited to a casual interest and particularly helpful for tourists or language basics. Courses through the KCC are well-handled but much more intense, at most half of those who start Beginner I sign up for Beginner II. Not to mention how insanely small the class sizes get for the later courses. I personally had to drop halfway through Beginner II, I did not have the time to prepare/study outside of class. Also, there can be strong differences between teachers, and that makes a huge difference in whether you are prepared for later courses.

Some of the students at KCC have a background in Korean, either having family members that already speak Korean or who lived in Korea. There were people in Beginner II that lived in Korea for a year or more, you will never catch up to them. You also have your students that are hardcore Korean drama, cooking, and music (K-pop) fans and they can also leave you in the dust. This all makes it even tougher for someone without these backgrounds to get left behind.

There are some excellent resources available if you want to get a head start, such as https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Beginners-Mastering-Conversational-Included/dp/0804841004/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1484328652&sr=8-5&keywords=learn+korean but stay away from Rosetta Stone, as that is more geared to learning romantic languages (IMO). Overall, I would say Beginner I at the KCC would be casual and fun enough for anyone to take, but you have to consider your commitment in moving forward.

u/mwerd · 7 pointsr/washingtondc

They're all a ripoff and the industry is filled with ignorant conmen. Most "financial planners" are quite literally just salesmen. They're selling you peace of mind at a high cost. They're trained and strongly encouraged to push products with high commission for them that make little economic sense for you.

Have you read the wiki over on /r/personalfinance? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

Between that and something like a bogleheads book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470455578 for example) you should be able to get the information you need.

If you're sure you want to work with a financial planner you might look into fee-based financial advisers, you can search for those here:
http://www.napfa.org/

A cursory search on the fee-based adviser website linked above didn't turn up any CFP (certified financial planner) who was also CPA (certified public accountant) in the DC limits.

Good luck

u/uninvitedthirteenth · 1 pointr/washingtondc

Prep courses not always necessary. It depends on your self-study commitment.

I used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Kaplan-LSAT-180/dp/0743224353. It was amazing. The actual LSAT seemed so easy by comparison to the test questions in this book. I also scored in the 98% percentile on the test.

I'd recommend seeing if there's a place where you can take a free practice test to see where you are. Then maybe evaluate whether you think you need additional help.

u/MrTheorem · 1 pointr/washingtondc

There's a controversial book called Effective Cycling, now in its 7th edition, that is worth knowing about. It's controversial because the author, John Forester, takes a curmudgeonly hard-line stance against bike lanes and trails, instead promoting "vehicular cycling." Vehicular cycling teaches that cyclists fare best when they act like and are treated as regular vehicles on the road. The principle argument is that crashes are most common during crossing and turning maneuvers, and having separate spaces for bicycles increases the opportunities for conflicts and puts cyclists in places where motorists aren't expecting vehicles.

The bicycle advocacy consensus these days is that Forester is wrong in the aggregate: cyclists are safest when there are more bicycles on the road, as motorists learn to expect to bicyclists and become more aware of their presence. To get more cyclists on the road, beginning cyclists need to feel comfortable, and beginning cyclists feel more comfortable with bike lanes and trails.

On an individual level, however, if you ask most bicycle advocates and experienced bike commuters, you'll find that they do adopt vehicular cycling in their personal riding. I read Effective Cycling before I moved to DC, when I lived in a small college town, but the vehicular cycling method gave me the confidence to become a regular bike commuter, riding from Dupont Circle down 15th Street by the Washington Monument and over to Maine Avenue and on my way.

u/woofiegrrl · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

That's a good book, and so is this similar one. I also like this one for old photos of DC.

u/miacane86 · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

You would say that, but you have absolutely nothing to prove it. Marijuana is not one of those things which many corporate interests are putting money behind, because most don't care. I suggest instead of making generalized claims on what lobbying and money does and doesn't do, you read more academic literature on the issue. A good place to start would be Lobbying and Policy Change.

u/Old13oy · -1 pointsr/washingtondc

So anyone who makes less than $125k lives in poverty?

Look, I don't think the choices you're making are necessarily bad if considered in a vacuum. You chose to get a law degree to make more money and live a good life. You ended up in a lot of debt as a result, and pursuing a high paying career is probably the best way to deal with that.

But the narrative that you have to go to DC, slave away for the establishment and build your rep, and then become a lobbyist to spend the rest of your life as a parasite on the ass of the body politic is troubling at best, and vomit-inducing at worst.

I suggest reading This Town by Mark Leibovich. It talks more about the culture you'll be participating in. If you're fine with the system as it's outlined there, Godspeed, enjoy your time at the Correspondent's Dinner and your front row seat to the decline of representative democracy.

u/Arashan · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

There's a whole chapter on the attempt to find the exact spot in the fantastic Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Vowell also explores how the Garfield Memorial is kinda super gay. http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Vacation-Sarah-Vowell/dp/074326004X

u/cathatteras · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

I believe the canonical history is Washington: A History of the Capital. It's quite good.

u/likelyworkrelated · 3 pointsr/washingtondc

I think I read an article which referred to this book as something like their management and culture bible: http://www.amazon.com/The-Science-Success-Market-Based-Management/dp/0470139889

u/RomanRoy10 · 1 pointr/washingtondc

The Political Ladder: Insider Tips On Getting A Job In Politics by Alexandra Acker-Lyons

Getting a Job in Politics, and Keeping it by Ben Wetmore

I read both shortly after graduating from college and early on in my career, and they do good job of conveying the the high level of competition for these jobs, they steps you'll need to take, and the sacrifices you'll likely have to make if this is something you're really serious about.

u/uniballUM151 · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

> Strangely, it seems like that rate of progress has slowed down considerably in the 21st.

People who study these things are taking note. I haven't read this (yet), but it's on my list: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/dp/0691147728

u/peepwizard · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

He wrote a book about the neighborhood, too!

Park View (Images of America Series)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738582182/

u/smacktoward · 3 pointsr/washingtondc

David Brinkley's Washington Goes To War is a good look at how the city changed during World War II.

u/RSquared · 9 pointsr/washingtondc

Transit police used Compstat as directed by Bill Bratton, the transit police chief; Giuliani hired Bratton as Police Chief after being elected. Bratton instituted Compstat for NYC police. Your timing is wrong.

CompStat itself has huge problems, as shown by the persecution of Adrian Schoolcraft, to the point where he was forcibly committed to a psychiatric facility against his will.

u/justhetip24 · 5 pointsr/washingtondc

I'm not going to disagree with you. I think it is incredibly counterproductive to ignore the fact that the assaults are mostly being committed by a specific demographic, but I also think it's disgusting to use these attacks to justify racism. People on both sides get so sensitive and emotional that actual productive discussions constantly get thwarted.

The annoying truth is that it is an incredibly complex problem with no one solution. Over the years an innumerable amount of really smart people, from doctoral-level researchers, to experienced police, to political and community leaders, have spent countless hours trying to figure out solutions to this kind of violence with rather unimpressive results. So I'm not going to sit here and tell you I know the answers either. One thing I will say is that history has shown that in environments without adequate law enforcement and lack of respect for the law, an alternative order is established through lawlessness. There are many aspects to this but one common theme through the ages is that honor and respect take on a new level of importance for many people in these situations.

If you are interested in learning more I would highly recommend the following books:

Slugg by Tony Lewis Jr.
This is an autobiography by the son of a D.C. drug kingpin whose father was sent to jail for life when the author was still young. He recounts his own experiences growing up in the streets, being part of a neighborhood set, and even committing random acts of violence on strangers. Takes place during the 90s in Shaw.

Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Literary journalistic look at black on black violence and homicide in urban communities. She fuses personal narratives with statistics and history in a very interesting, readable, and unbiased way.