What's your level of Education?

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How far along the production line that is our educational system have you gone?

Grade School Graduate
0
No votes
Some High School
15
13%
High School Graduate
11
10%
Some College
45
40%
College Graduate
24
21%
Some Grad School
5
4%
Finished Graduate School
3
3%
I'm Going to Castrate U.
9
8%
 
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BA Philosophy, UTA 1999. I tried to take some postgrad courses but I got fed up with it because it was a very long and arduous indoctrination into Postmodernism and all the ills that it brings outside of Literature, where it belongs.

I'm seriously considering taking the last 12 hours and turning in a thesis I've had sitting around for sometime, now. I just seem to lack the energy or interest anymore, and of course the money which is a big thing but not so much of a consideration.
But I figure with all the downtime I've had lately it would be something to do, something to have a sense of accomplishment about.

Now what I'd like to do, is a find a new employer with an awesome tuition reimbursement program and do something meaningful and truly fun as well as more reflective of my roots and early passions, and cannot be so easily outsourced: Engineering Physics, baby! Ph. D. if I can help it. That would be so cool...
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TrailerParkJawa wrote:Getting finanical aid is a big bullshit story in California. If your parents work, even though they are going to give you ZERO money for school, you can't get aid. If you are white, forget it.

Your either an adult or your not, except when it comes to finanical aid.
My parents are retired, ffs. Of course they can't give me more than a token amount of money for college. And yeah, I'm white (*ptooey*, why should I give a shit about skin color?) so that automatically makes me ineligible for around half of the scholarships out there. Minorities my ass.

Frankly, I'm at the point where I'm starting to believe that the best thing for California would be for the whole of the state congress to be wiped away in some sort of earthquake or flood or something. And have it replaced by people who aren't career asslickers.
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Left college the year I was no longer required by law to have education.
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Finally going to finish up my BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. Five years that started in Chemical Engineering, now that sucked. Hopefully will get a few offers from the 40+ of my resumes that are floating around among employers.

Oh anyone here work for UPS? If so any advice on how to correctly interview with them?
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Going for Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. I've lost a year partly due to having to move and my refusal to pay the exhorbitant out-of-state tuition ($624/credit) until I establish residency. Unfortunately, I will have to pay it for Calc II this summer if I want to get into a chem eng class that is only offered in the fall. Once the tuition comes down, I should be able to afford at least 12 credits in the fall and spring as well as 6-9 during the winter and summer sessions.

It certainly helps that my house is closer to the main campus than some of the dorms. :D
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Only High School. So this is the answer why i don´t participate in discussions involving science or mathematics or...well i guess you got it :wink:
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Currently pursuing a BA in Theology and a BS in Economics. Two more classes for the former, four for the latter.

And I really need to poke into some scholarships, since I just found an ancestor (about four or five generations back) who's Turkish.

mjn6172: Which high school are you at? I'm a product of the OCPS (one of the many) down at FSC in Lakeland.
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High School for me- still kicking away in Grade 10. Plans are to take a concurrent education program in University and end up with a B.A in English and a B.Ed after the four year program. Of course, if I drop dead or have a pre-frontal lobotamy or something, that won't be happening.
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I'm going to what UI think you yanks would call 'grad school' in September.

But I have masters degree now.
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InnerBrat wrote:I'm going to what UI think you yanks would call 'grad school' in September.

But I have masters degree now.
I think we go to grad school for the masters degrees as well as PhDs.
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Biology transfer program at my community college.
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Dalton wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:I'm going to what UI think you yanks would call 'grad school' in September.

But I have masters degree now.
I think we go to grad school for the masters degrees as well as PhDs.
Yeah, but I have an undergraduate Mci, which means I've never been a postgrad student.
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I have my Associates degree and I am currently going to school full time to get my Bachelors. This is very difficult because I am also working full time.
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College Grad. BS in Public Accounting
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The Dark Wrote:
mjn6172: Which high school are you at? I'm a product of the OCPS (one of the many) down at FSC in Lakeland.
I work at Maynard Evans High School, just finishing up my second year there. So far I really enjoy working there :D
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Nearing end of 9th grade. Damn. 3 more years and some months of this shit called high school left.
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mjn6172 wrote:The Dark Wrote:
mjn6172: Which high school are you at? I'm a product of the OCPS (one of the many) down at FSC in Lakeland.
I work at Maynard Evans High School, just finishing up my second year there. So far I really enjoy working there :D
I've heard they've been improving lately. I'm a graduate of University, but I remember heading out to Evans (I was a band geek :D ) and watching the Green Machine. I can't say I know much about the school, since it was all the way across the county, but I do remember we always lost football games there (funny how memory works).
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