For left handed writing switching to the uni-ball jetstream (RT SXN-210 or Sport SXN-150S) was a noticeable improvement for me. I do not know how they compare to the ones recommended for left-handed writers on the site.
In left to right languages lefties are draging their hand across what they just wrote and so need something that dries fast or it smudges. I suppose right handed hebrew writers would have the same issue (are their other bidirectional languages? )
Let's see if this will have a noticeable impact on university enrollments. Personally, I know a few people who re-enrolled after finishing university, including one person who even got a PhD, solely to get the ticket for their full-time job.
It would not surprise me if universities experience a significant drop in enrollment due to this issue, especially at larger universities. An article from 2019 estimates that at one university, up to 9k out of 36k students may enroll without any academic intention.
> 9k out of 36k students may enroll without any academic intention.
but this isn't just because of the "semester ticket" students get, at least where I live the ticket is the least relevant reason of multiple ones why someone might sign up for university.
Other reasons include:
- healthy insurance/tax, especially until you are 25(??) you can be health insured through your parents, even afterwards the health insurance flat rate can be nice in some situations. And the tax model of student side jobs is nice too, through with some long term drawbacks people tend to overlook
- not being officially unemployed, when spending a year for yourself e.g. traveling the world
- having an excuse for your family and similar when you have absolutely no idea what you want from live
- forcing parents in broken families to pay child support longer
- using healthy insurance and tax of students to (pre-) bootstrap a one man self employment company and try out various side jobs to find yourself
- starting with the intend to study but then losing that intent due to you realizing that is not what you want to do and not finding a way forward for year or more
- abusing BAföG
- officially studing one topic "for fun, taxes, health, etc." while waiting for a spot in the study track you care for to open up, (that was a thing I have seen quite often)
- study for fun for people which don't need to work and a bored (thats how sometimes 60+ year old people appear in as students).
As a side note, in my experience most, nearly all times, when people sign up for a study track without the intention to get a Bachelor/Master they sign up for tracks which always have free "left over" spots each semester. On one hand because this makes it nearly guaranteed they get in, on the other hand because it would be pretty shitty if you prevent people which want to study from getting a spot when you have no intent to study.
I guess it will have a small effect. There are more reasons for a „fake enrollment“ than just the ticket.
- child support money
- free public health insurance
- private insurance is often also related to „kids being in education“
Especially if the kid under 25 just wants to travel around, play fortnight at home or work on the next big thing.
My bachelor programme (maths + cs in a small German city) pretty much only exists due to that. Great student/tutor ratio because most only enroll for the student status (low fees, no public transport ticket).
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