Your Education - Page 2

Skanky Burns · January 16, 2003, 18:45

Thanks, and of course same to you too.

Main_Brain · January 16, 2003, 19:24

I'm studying Economics

MattyBoy · January 16, 2003, 20:25

BEng(ineering, Electrical)
Grad Dip in App Finance and Investment, soon to finish Masters.

SpencerH · January 16, 2003, 20:38

Jeez, thats two brits that have dropped out of PhD programs in biological fields. What the hell is going on?

Al B. Sure! · January 16, 2003, 20:40

Senior at a Philadelphia public school

Boris Godunov · January 16, 2003, 20:57

B.A. in Music

General Ludd · January 16, 2003, 21:54

I got halfway through grade nine and dropped out.

FrostyBoy · January 16, 2003, 22:02

Good thread! Now we know the skills of the people in this forum.

Seems like a lot of $$$ related skills tho??

I have a bachelors degree level in art/multimedia.

FrostyBoy · January 16, 2003, 22:04

Am I the only one??

tandeetaylor · January 16, 2003, 22:05

I'm starting school next week! I'm majoring in History and minoring in English, but that's subject to the addition of a second major in film.

The Mad Monk · January 16, 2003, 22:33

Roughly 6 credits short of a BA in Geology, probably won't complete (been five years since I had to quit for economic and other reasons, don't see the point now). Graduate courses in Geology, completed coursework for minors in Chemistry, Physics, and Accounting. Many other assorted courses.

I'm a burned-out professional student.

MattyBoy · January 16, 2003, 22:34

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B.A. in Music

Do you play any instruments, Boris?

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Masters from M.I.T.

doctorate from Harvard

and another doctorate from Princeton.

Did you hear that Oxford recently changed the definition of the word gullible?

cavebear · January 16, 2003, 22:59

LOL! I didn't do it the regular way. I started college in 1968 as a mechanical engineer major. I quickly realized I didn't want to be one. I spent a few years as a Political Science major, then was cast out for bad grades (It was the years of the Vietnam War demonstrations, and I got really involved with that.

In 1993, I went back to college and found that I was 4 classes short of a degree. My first college course back was "The History of the Vietnam War". How ironic...

I took 3 more political science courses after that. The others were small group seminars with students that were specializing in the subjects. I aced them all. An adult who has kept an interest in learning about all sorts of things for 30 years has an advantage over even very bright college-age students...

Anyway, I have a BA in Political Science now. It doesn't have the slightest impact on my career. A degree is only important for about 5 years; after that it is all what you can do on the job.

But it sure matters to me personally. I used vacation time for 3 years to take those classes, and I walked a mile each way from the subway station to the classrooms twice each week for three years even in the snow. But I finished it.

Lorizael · January 16, 2003, 23:02

Senior in highschool. Then Montgomery College where I'll study... who the hells know what. After that I'll transfer up to a four year college.

What do you study when your life goal is to save the world and the only thing you're really good at (besides being better than most people in math, science, history, and reading) is writing?

The Mad Monk · January 16, 2003, 23:04

Journalism.

orange · January 16, 2003, 23:32

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Originally posted by MattyBoy

Did you hear that Oxford recently changed the definition of the word gullible?

nuh-uh...i just looked it up. Same as it was the last time someone told me this.

Dr. Nick · January 16, 2003, 23:47

I start medical school next year. But I have a one year entrance course, mathematics, chemistry, biophysics and cellular biology.

Meh. I want to get into the morgue NOW.

Edan · January 17, 2003, 00:05

BS in Comp Sci and in Math. Currently taking CS grad classes part time (not yet towards a degree, though when I have a stretch of time I can devote to it, I'll probably get a masters)

Ramo · January 17, 2003, 00:08

I'm in the middle of getting a couple BS's in math and physics at UT Austin.

Adam Smith · January 17, 2003, 02:35

BA, Economics, Applied Mathematics
MA, Ph D Economics

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Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
BA Accounting

Hence your user name?

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Originally posted by Lorizael:

Montgomery College

I live three miles from there. You must be a local. Which high school?

Neutrino · January 17, 2003, 04:49

Woohoo, a fellow Longhorn on the boards

Tingkai · January 17, 2003, 04:57

BA in economics, minor in history
MA in journalism.

Az · January 17, 2003, 04:59

BA in chemistry, maybe will switch to Biochemistry next simester, in the Israeli Institute of Technology.

aaglo · January 17, 2003, 05:10

I am a civil engineer / building&construction engineer

Gatekeeper · January 17, 2003, 05:10

The nice thing about being in journalism is that, well, you end up with, at the very least, a passing knowledge of just about everything and deep knowledge in certain areas. When reading and editing is your job, you tend to experience a multitude of worlds through the written words you're reading and/or editing.

Yeah, I'm waxing poetic about what I do ... back to writing PR pieces for my corporate OVERLORDS.

Gatekeeper

Harovan · January 17, 2003, 05:23

My profession is surveyor, and I'm a graduated engineer for geodesy. Our grades are called different, no baccelors and masters here, hell knows how ours compare. But I trashed my profession 3 years ago and made my long time hobby my new profession, working as software developer now.

Worthingtons · January 17, 2003, 05:28

I am also doing BA Accounting, With Business Managament (First year).

From my experience you learn far more on the job than a degree will teach you, but it seems a necessary 'qualifer' to have a degree in order to apply for some jobs

Bas · January 17, 2003, 05:35

I'm working on MSc-equivalent degrees in theoretical physics and applied physics, that'll take me another 2.5 years on estimate. Thinking about going for a Ph.D. after that, but that's a decision that I'll take in one or two years time.

Tingkai · January 17, 2003, 05:53

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Originally posted by Gatekeeper
The nice thing about being in journalism is that, well, you end up with, at the very least, a passing knowledge of just about everything and deep knowledge in certain areas. When reading and editing is your job, you tend to experience a multitude of worlds through the written words you're reading and/or editing.

Yup, journalists are the real professional students. We get paid to listen to people, analyze the info and write short essays.

Rogan Josh · January 17, 2003, 06:09

B.Sc. & Ph.D. in theoretical physics