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View Poll Results: Where do you fit in? | |||
Still in highschool | 10 | 4.33% | |
Graduated highschool or GED | 26 | 11.26% | |
Undergraduate in college | 90 | 38.96% | |
Graduated two or four year college | 64 | 27.71% | |
Working on masters | 17 | 7.36% | |
Graduated with MS | 15 | 6.49% | |
Working on PhD | 6 | 2.60% | |
Graduated with PhD - huzah! | 3 | 1.30% | |
Voters: 231. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-10-2003, 09:46 AM | #1 (permalink) |
undead
Location: nihilistic freedom
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How educated are you?
After hanging out in the TFP for some time, I've noticed that the vast majority of poeple here write very well and have rather intelligent things to say. It makes me wonder, just how educated is our community here? Vote now and put my wondering mind at ease.
[edit] After seeing some of the responses, I realize that my options my not include everyone. If not, let us know your situtation... I had no idea there were so many different rules for art degrees and such. [/edit] Last edited by nothingx; 08-10-2003 at 03:27 PM.. |
08-10-2003, 10:16 AM | #3 (permalink) |
paranoid
Location: The Netherlands
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I'm working on my Masters...
If anything I say sounds credible some of my education must be sticking...
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08-10-2003, 11:09 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: this ain't kansas, toto
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3 yrs of college (music)
then 3 yrs at a junior college (art) and still no completed degree, so there was not a precise choice for me in the poll.
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08-10-2003, 03:49 PM | #8 (permalink) |
Registered User
Location: Oklahoma
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I actually receive my 2nd Master's degree this Thursday (MBA this time). I did a BS in Geology and a MS in Petroleum Engineering. I'm contemplating a doctorate, but I'm just not sure I want to work that hard, and it would basically be an ego thing. It wouldn't particularly help me with my job. Instead I might go back to school to learn Spanish or Russian for the fun of it.
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08-10-2003, 04:15 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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I clicked on PhD because my doctorate was not there. Technically a PhD is a little higher degree than an MD.
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08-10-2003, 04:41 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Eccentric insomniac
Location: North Carolina
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Senior applied math major here
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08-10-2003, 08:44 PM | #15 (permalink) |
Llama
Location: Cali-for-nye-a
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Bachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering, March 2003, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Thank you very much
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08-10-2003, 10:03 PM | #17 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: The Land Down Under
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Finished high school and got straight into the workforce.
13 years of school was enough for me, hats of to those who continue their studies, you like pain huh One guy i went to school with doesn't seem to know when to stop, hes been at university for 9 years!! |
08-11-2003, 02:13 AM | #18 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: The Granite State "Live Free or Die"
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UCLA econ BA 1975. Almost 30 additional years of life experience subsequently including lots of ongoing professional training in my profession.
The day I took my last final exam at UCLA still ranks among the top 5 happiest days of my life.
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08-11-2003, 05:20 AM | #22 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: ÉIRE
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Finished the American equivalent of high school, straight into a 4year apprenticeship. Qualified as a metal fabricator in 96.
Spent the last 3 years doing in-company training as a draughtsman. But still class myself as very uneducated
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08-11-2003, 06:38 AM | #23 (permalink) | |
pinche vato
Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton
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My wife has to quickly spin me away before I can bash them over the head with several hundred years of accumulated Western education history.
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08-11-2003, 06:49 AM | #24 (permalink) |
Rookie
Location: Oxford, UK
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Again, clicked on PhD because "real" doctor wasn't there.
3yrs undergraduate in medicine and philosophy 3yrs undergraduate in clinical medicine
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08-12-2003, 01:22 AM | #30 (permalink) |
Watcher
Location: Ohio
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A.A.S. Microcomputer Technician from Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Thank you very much.
I unload semis for Target Corp. Throw boxes at a DC, whoopie shit. Where did I go wrong?
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08-12-2003, 06:36 AM | #31 (permalink) | |
cookie
Location: in the backwoods
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But most respond to asshole, too. |
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08-13-2003, 11:01 AM | #34 (permalink) |
undead
Location: nihilistic freedom
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I must say, this is fantasitc to see how many people have completed higher education degrees or are working toward them. To all those who have finished, especially those that have masters/phds/equivilants, congratulations! To those that are still working through school, I encourage you to keep working at it. I really believe that education is the key to a better future. Thanks to everyone that's participated.
PS. Wow! I can't believe there are "real" doctors trolling these boards! Awesome! |
08-13-2003, 11:31 AM | #35 (permalink) |
Getting it.
Super Moderator
Location: Lion City
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Four-year University - BA(honours)
and at least 35 years in the school of life...
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08-13-2003, 11:41 AM | #36 (permalink) | |
Banned
Location: Massachusetts, USA
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BS Computer Science, 1987 for me. Tried going back for an MS but it didn't work out. |
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08-13-2003, 04:39 PM | #38 (permalink) |
Indifferent to anti-matter
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Got an A.S. in '87. Just recently got some info on getting a B.S. from the same school I got the A.S. (gotta see how the money thing works out).
Anything I know that is of any use to me I learned since then just livin' life and paying attention (reading a lot helps). I agree that the more education you have, the better off you will be. Proof of this was a short argument I had with a 7th grade drop out who tried to convince me that "Ahh, you don't need to know how to read. I can read the road signs and that's good enough". If she hadn't been such a bitch I would have been tempted to weep (this was two years ago, she had 6 kids by age 24).
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08-13-2003, 06:15 PM | #40 (permalink) |
Observant Ruminant
Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town
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B.A. in journalism back in the '70s with a second major in political science. Currently enrolled in an accelerated master's program that will get me an MA in education and a California teaching credential by this time next year. It was time for a change.
Except for the accelerated pace, I'm finding school easier this time around than last time. |
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