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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%
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Old 08-10-2003, 09:46 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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]

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Old 08-10-2003, 10:15 AM   #2 (permalink)
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The Master of Fine Arts that both sus and I have is the terminal degree in our field- no PhD in studio art. After an MFA, it's about being an artist, not studying art.
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Old 08-10-2003, 10:16 AM   #3 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-10-2003, 11:09 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-10-2003, 11:16 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Old 08-10-2003, 11:21 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Working on PhD in pharmacy.

I'm in for the long haul.
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Old 08-10-2003, 12:30 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Old 08-10-2003, 03:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-10-2003, 04:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Undergrad...Going into my Junior year working on Buisiness Administration/Management of Info Systems.
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Old 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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Old 08-10-2003, 04:41 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Senior applied math major here
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Old 08-10-2003, 04:48 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Even moogles have to study. Working on a bachelor's degree in computer science (most moogles go for degrees in Kupology, but what do they know?).

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Old 08-10-2003, 04:56 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Old 08-10-2003, 06:34 PM   #14 (permalink)
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One year away from an Associates in engineering, then going for a Bachelor's in comp. sci.
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Old 08-10-2003, 08:44 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Bachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering, March 2003, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Old 08-10-2003, 09:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 08-10-2003, 10:03 PM   #17 (permalink)
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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!!
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Old 08-11-2003, 02:13 AM   #18 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-11-2003, 03:06 AM   #19 (permalink)
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6 Months until I (hopefully) graduate with a BAComm. Hell, I'd stay at uni forever if I could.
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Old 08-11-2003, 03:18 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Writing up my PhD in chemistry, should be finished by mid September, then i can join the overeduated and unemployed masses (looking at a job in NY so fingers crossed {in the UK at the moment})
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Old 08-11-2003, 04:58 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Old 08-11-2003, 05:20 AM   #22 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-11-2003, 06:38 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally posted by greytone
I clicked on PhD because my doctorate was not there. Technically a PhD is a little higher degree than an MD.
I'm so glad to see an MD who is comfortable with that (my PhD is in education). Many times I've encountered people who hear that my name is Dr. So-and-So, and they ask what my specialty is. When I reply, "Education," they usually say, "Oh, I thought you were a REAL doctor."

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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Old 08-11-2003, 06:49 AM   #24 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-11-2003, 07:32 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Finished my Bachelors in Biology, ended up in technology, and now working on a second bachelors in Science - business and E-business...
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Old 08-11-2003, 03:18 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Currently in a program to earn 2 masters degrees in 15 months, my MBA and Masters in Accounting. Pretty stiff program... about 3 months down, 12 to go!

Undergrad was a BA in Economics with a minor in Mathematics.
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Old 08-11-2003, 10:14 PM   #27 (permalink)
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I believe I'm very smart for an undergraduate, but I could be wrong.. Eventually a professor might tell me one way or another.
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Old 08-11-2003, 10:34 PM   #28 (permalink)
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i´m doing my bachelors degree in international communications.
when thats done (in a year), its masters time.
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Old 08-12-2003, 12:18 AM   #29 (permalink)
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I actually just graduated a couple months ago from high school.
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Old 08-12-2003, 01:22 AM   #30 (permalink)
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I unload semis for Target Corp. Throw boxes at a DC, whoopie shit.

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Old 08-12-2003, 06:36 AM   #31 (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.
ditto for jD, and we sure don't have any delusions about wanting to be called doctor so-and-so. We prefer so-and-so, esquire!
But most respond to asshole, too.
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Old 08-12-2003, 09:37 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Old 08-12-2003, 10:06 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I started late

Now Im eighteen and going into senior year. I want to go through college and become either a teacher or something involving engineering. Both are strong points.
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Old 08-13-2003, 11:01 AM   #34 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 08-13-2003, 11:31 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Four-year University - BA(honours)

and at least 35 years in the school of life...
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Old 08-13-2003, 11:41 AM   #36 (permalink)
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PS. Wow! I can't believe there are "real" doctors trolling these boards! Awesome!
MDs are people too. I'm not one of them, but I've known enough of them behind the scenes.

BS Computer Science, 1987 for me. Tried going back for an MS but it didn't work out.
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Old 08-13-2003, 11:47 AM   #37 (permalink)
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ummm....currently trying to get a BS in biology. i might switch to biochem.
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Old 08-13-2003, 04:39 PM   #38 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-13-2003, 05:55 PM   #39 (permalink)
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I took one year at University but dropped out for a plethora of reasons (bad grades weren't one of them)

I might go back eventually, but seeing as I can hardly make rent, it's not gonna be soon.
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Old 08-13-2003, 06:15 PM   #40 (permalink)
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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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