Hey everyone how are you all doing? My name is Duane, and I am a 17 year old Agorist, who loves God, GUNS, and voluntary interactions. I've lived with my paternal grandma, and great-grandma since my dad died, due to the fact that my mom was a total bitch. I love reading, writing, and science, especially physics and biological sciences. I also enjoy camping, hunting, fishing, shooting guns, nonviolent civil disobedience, and computers. I am an avid user of OpenSUSE Linux, and Bitcoin, and I am a prepper. I'm currently living in Southwest Michigan, and am planning on moving to NH both for the Free State Project, and to hopefully go to Dartmouth, and will probably live in the area of Keene, most likely any semi-rural areas near Keene. I am here, because I love the idea of the Free State Project, and particularly Free Keene, and want to be able to talk with more liberty-activists, and also want to make contacts for when I move to New Hampshire, and hopefully Keene. I found this website from a link, on a libertarian blog, though I can't remember which one. Have a great day.
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Hey everyone how are you all doing? My name is Duane, and I am a 17 year old Agorist, who loves God, GUNS, and voluntary interactions. I've lived with my paternal grandma, and great-grandma since my dad died, due to the fact that my mom was a total bitch. I love reading, writing, and science, especially physics and biological sciences. I also enjoy camping, hunting, fishing, shooting guns, nonviolent civil disobedience, and computers. I am an avid user of OpenSUSE Linux, and Bitcoin, and I am a prepper. I'm currently living in Southwest Michigan, and am planning on moving to NH both for the Free State Project, and to hopefully go to Dartmouth, and will probably live in the area of Keene, most likely any semi-rural areas near Keene. I am here, because I love the idea of the Free State Project, and particularly Free Keene, and want to be able to talk with more liberty-activists, and also want to make contacts for when I move to New Hampshire, and hopefully Keene. I found this website from a link, on a libertarian blog, though I can't remember which one. Have a great day.
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Wow, that is great, Duane. Welcome and glad to meet you. It sure sounds as if we have a lot in common…except of course for the bad parts, wink wink. I'm sure you'll meet lots of people and get lots of good information here. Of course, there's no substitute for face-time. Believe it or not, some folks round here don't believe a person's real til they meet him in person.
I hope you plan to stick around. You might have to change your screen name in a couple years.
Thanks, and glad to meet you too. And I do hope to meet people and lots of information here. And you're right about there being no substitute for facetime. and don't worry I definitely plan on sticking around.
Welcome. Regarding your plans, you may want to look at the Lebanon area if you're going to attend Dartmouth.
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Welcome. Regarding your plans, you may want to look at the Lebanon area if you're going to attend Dartmouth.
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Right, I'll probably rent an apartment or something while I'm going to Dartmouth, I probably will move to Keene after I graduate. Or if I have to go with my post-college Plan B, then I'll probably move to Manchester. Though I'd prefer Keene. But yeah thanks for the suggestion.
When it comes to your college plans, you might want to establish residency first, because Dartmouth has a program where resident students with an adjusted family income of $75,000 or less, who can qualify for entrance to Dartmouth (which isn't trivial), can attend tuition-free.
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When it comes to your college plans, you might want to establish residency first, because Dartmouth has a program where resident students with an adjusted family income of $75,000 or less, who can qualify for entrance to Dartmouth (which isn't trivial), can attend tuition-free.
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Okay thanks for the advice, though I was already aware of that…well except for the part on how it's only residents. I thought that was for nonresidents too. Guess not. Still thanks for the advice. Any recommendations on a college I can go to, in the mean time, until I could get residency established? and how long does do you have to life in NH before you're considered a resident?
There's always Keene State
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When it comes to your college plans, you might want to establish residency first, because Dartmouth has a program where resident students with an adjusted family income of $75,000 or less, who can qualify for entrance to Dartmouth (which isn't trivial), can attend tuition-free.
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Okay thanks for the advice, though I was already aware of that…well except for the part on how it's only residents. I thought that was for nonresidents too. Guess not. Still thanks for the advice. Any recommendations on a college I can go to, in the mean time, until I could get residency established? and how long does do you have to life in NH before you're considered a resident?
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For college purposes probably two years, or something hideous like that. I'd recommend using a community college to get yourself through general ed, since in a large college or university gen ed is just as much a waste of time, but more expensive. I think there's one in Keene with branches etc all over the area (River Valley I think it's called) but if you're currently in public school perhaps there's AP courses or kickbacks with the community college in your current area --where I'm from, high school students could attend community college tuition free, maybe there's something similar.
IMHO, if you're really Dartmouth material, you'd be better off in the long run going there as a freshman for a year or two and then dropping out (a.k.a. the Bill Gates program) than going to a community college for years and then transferring to Dartmouth to get the piece of paper.
Most of the valuable part of college happens in the first year and outside of the classroom…meeting people and making contacts. If you go to CC and then transfer to Dartmouth as a junior, you'll be an outsider since you'l be in school with people who have known each other for several years. If all you want is the ivy league diploma on the cheap, then yes, community college could be part of that. If you want the full college experience, then doing the dorm-life thing as a freshman is where you'll find that.
Of course, if you can pull it off (without borrowing money), four years at Dartmouth would be the best option. There are full-ride scholarships for those who are smart enough.
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There's always Keene State
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Okay I'll have to look into that.
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When it comes to your college plans, you might want to establish residency first, because Dartmouth has a program where resident students with an adjusted family income of $75,000 or less, who can qualify for entrance to Dartmouth (which isn't trivial), can attend tuition-free.
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Okay thanks for the advice, though I was already aware of that…well except for the part on how it's only residents. I thought that was for nonresidents too. Guess not. Still thanks for the advice. Any recommendations on a college I can go to, in the mean time, until I could get residency established? and how long does do you have to life in NH before you're considered a resident?
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For college purposes probably two years, or something hideous like that. I'd recommend using a community college to get yourself through general ed, since in a large college or university gen ed is just as much a waste of time, but more expensive. I think there's one in Keene with branches etc all over the area (River Valley I think it's called) but if you're currently in public school perhaps there's AP courses or kickbacks with the community college in your current area --where I'm from, high school students could attend community college tuition free, maybe there's something similar.
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I'll think about your recommendation.
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IMHO, if you're really Dartmouth material, you'd be better off in the long run going there as a freshman for a year or two and then dropping out (a.k.a. the Bill Gates program) than going to a community college for years and then transferring to Dartmouth to get the piece of paper.
Most of the valuable part of college happens in the first year and outside of the classroom…meeting people and making contacts. If you go to CC and then transfer to Dartmouth as a junior, you'll be an outsider since you'l be in school with people who have known each other for several years. If all you want is the ivy league diploma on the cheap, then yes, community college could be part of that. If you want the full college experience, then doing the dorm-life thing as a freshman is where you'll find that.
Of course, if you can pull it off (without borrowing money), four years at Dartmouth would be the best option. There are full-ride scholarships for those who are smart enough.
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Okay, I'll definitely have to think about what you said. Part of the reason I'm hoping to go is to make contacts, another part, is to try and persuade people that libertarianism/voluntarism is the way to go for society as a whole, but the majority of why I'm hoping to go, is for the Ivy League diploma. As for what you said about four years at Dartmouth…that's what I was hoping to do, as an undergraduate, and possibly keep going for graduate school, but the problem of course comes from affording it, while my dad did leave me some money when he died, money which now amounts to a rather large sum, it would not be enough to pay for 4 years of Dartmouth at what I'm pretty sure is the current cost, counting books, supplies, and room & board, which is about 50,000 FRN's. Though I suppose I could possibly, go there and pay out-of-state until I get my state residency established, then keep going on for a cheaper cost…what do you think of that possibility? But yeah I'll definitely have to think about what you suggested about going to a community college in between my freshman and junior/senior years.
oh wow. I didn't know Dartmouth was a good/Ivy League school. yeah, being sociable and contactable will probably be way more valuable.
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oh wow. I didn't know Dartmouth was a good/Ivy League school. yeah, being sociable and contactable will probably be way more valuable.
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Right, except I kinda need to go to a good school if I want to be able to thrive as a medical scientist…that plus I thrive in the kind of challenges that being a student at an Ivy League school would bring. To be honest I thrive with any kind of challenge that isn't a physical challenge, but yeah to get back to my point, I'll probably need to be in a good school, to do well as a medical scientist, at least in terms of income, and job prospects, and an an Ivy League school would only improve those prospects…but yeah you are right in that being sociable and contactable is very valuable.
What's a medical scientist?
…By medical scientist I meant a scientist who researches various medical theories, like say, whether a certain substance can cure cancer. Basically I want to be a researcher, who researches various things involving medicine.
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When it comes to your college plans, you might want to establish residency first, because Dartmouth has a program where resident students with an adjusted family income of $75,000 or less, who can qualify for entrance to Dartmouth (which isn't trivial), can attend tuition-free.
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Okay thanks for the advice, though I was already aware of that…well except for the part on how it's only residents. I thought that was for nonresidents too. Guess not.
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You could be right. It's been a couple of years since I looked at the program.