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Whats the average Education level of PC posters

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by hycamguy07, Feb 9, 2007.

  1. jendbbay

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    B.A. Comparative Lit.
    B.A. English
    M.A. English
    So my education was designed to allow me to teach, but to date 1/3 of my life was spent teaching and 2/3 supporting the development and launching of software. Education doesn't prepare one to understand motor oil choices or the specifics of VSC, TC, and ABS. I feel so lost!
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Feb 10 2007, 02:12 AM) [snapback]387949[/snapback]</div>
    Not ashamed of my GED at all. Just not too happy of having something in common with Paris Hilton. Like I said I am finishing work on a B.A. in Political Science- I am 22- how about yourself, what did you degree in?
     
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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Prakash @ Feb 12 2007, 12:04 AM) [snapback]388791[/snapback]</div>
    I can understant that. ;)

    AAS in computer science 2002. I'm now 31

    I am now working on a degree in Ecology and Biodiversity yet somehow I spend 90% of my time learning about ecophilosophy, politics, and education in general. Damn E.O Wilson, David W. Orr, Fritjof Capra, Paul Hawken, Daniel Quinn, Thom Hartman, David Korten and on and on and on. lol
     
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    GED in 1992 (quit Needville High to work)

    AS in 2000 from Richland College

    Currently 4th year BS Elec. Eng. student at UTD


    On the side I study:

    Photography
    Religion
    Literature: American, British, and slowly moving into African

    Education is great, but in a pinch, a litle dose of Ishmael and the Tao Te Ching
    could suffice.
     
  6. Walker1

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    I have a BS in Organizational Mgt. plus 6 education credit courses. I also have completed 4 business courses towards my MS. In 1971 I completed the Police Academy and took some refresher classes a few years ago to be re-certified in Law Enforcement and Corrections.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Prakash @ Feb 10 2007, 01:59 AM) [snapback]387944[/snapback]</div>
    Paris has a GED? One would think with all that money she would have gone to and graduated from a prep school. Then again, she appears to have nothing between the ears along with Nicole and Brittany.
     
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    BS in Public Relations from the University of Florida, Go Gators!
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Feb 10 2007, 02:12 AM) [snapback]387949[/snapback]</div>
    I agree. Having a GED shows that a person finished their basic education and kept going forward in life. I once worked in a college GED lab teaching a 42 year old person the alphabet.
     
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    I'm under educated and definitely not proud of it. I wish I finished college and had obtained a degree. What's interesting, however, is that the degree that I would've selected back then, would've not been sufficient to fulfill my career interests currently. I have polar opposite interests now.

    Interestingly, my Mom is a teacher and never pushed any of us to obtain a higher education.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SSimon @ Feb 12 2007, 09:53 AM) [snapback]388948[/snapback]</div>
    Why wish for a degree? Just go out and buy books and watch the correct documentaries (with a glass of critical thinking by your side). I would say about 75% of my knowledge on environmental and social issues was learned outside of a classroom. :)
     
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    Thanks F8L. I do tend to self educate. I didn't mean to imply that I don't read. And, when I do read, I read non fiction so as to ensure that I'm gaining some form of knowledge that I didn't gain through school.

    I've always been embarrassed to disclose my lack of education. But, I refuse to make myself out to be something that I'm not and I refuse to become a lesser person due to my deficiencies and inadequacies. I have to try to be proud of myself and of what I've accomplished in spite of my lack of a formal education.

    It's also helped me to work with many people throughout my career who were very educated people, but lacked logic, social skills and common sense. It's helped me to see that sometimes some form of innate intelligence can be better than learned knowledge.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SSimon @ Feb 12 2007, 10:24 AM) [snapback]388968[/snapback]</div>
    Well said my friend. :)
     
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SSimon @ Feb 12 2007, 01:24 PM) [snapback]388968[/snapback]</div>
    spend a single day here and you'll feel very good about yourself.

    seriously. lots of people in my department with none of this "innate intelligence" that you speak of. or common sense, or any idea what's going on around them...
     
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    B.S. Civil Engineering - environmental emphasis, Oklahoma State University

    Currently Finishing...
    M.S. Environmental Engineering - bioremediation focus, University of Minnesota

    And soon to be starting...
    Ph.D. Environmental Engineering - U of Minnesota
     
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    Well, my post wasn't to try to diminish what I think about a formal education. It's all just a way I can logically make myself feel better about the heaviest cross I bear through my life. Y'all who undertake this endeavor should be proud of your accomplishments.
     
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    B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State Univ.
    M.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue Univ.

    I'll probably go back sometime and get a PhD, but I'm happy working right now. And with our first child on the way, it may be a while before either of us is going back to school.
     
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    Here’s my brag sheet:


    AA- General Studies - Central Texas College - 1999
    AS- Computer Networking - Central Texas College - 2000

    BA - Psychology - University California Riverside (UCR) - 2003

    MS - Forensic Science Specialization: Criminalistics - National University - 2005


    You'll find me in a Coroner's office or some type of Law Enforcement agency. Don't believe what you see on "CSI" all the time. Things are a little different and slow in the real world. I will probably start on some type of PHD program in the near future. I need a long vacation first!

    Take it easy everyone! Enjoy life...
     
  20. Mystery Squid

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    When it comes to politics, most here are stuck in the 2nd grade...