Did you attend a college or university?

[fireman sam]

In the same boat with Lizziemaine wanted to be an archaeologist love my history got the marks to go to uni but chose to cook seeing that i grew up in family cafe's and restaurants i love doing that as well while waiting to get in the fire brigades, I agree with Lizziemaine about degrees I've been cooking for years and don't have a degree in it and never had any complaints about my cooking but they probably wouldn't except me now without one, nothing subtitutes hands on experience.

 

[Bill Taylor]

Columbia Univ. NYC 1953 BBA Finance, CPA NY, CA, TX, AL
Columbia Law. NYC 1955 LLB
I was married when I was in law school. Married in June, 1953; married 54 years and still counting. I hope I got the date and number of years right, otherwise, I'm in big trouble. I have previous experience in those inaccuracies!

Graduated law school when I was 22; started to college young (16)

My wife is also a lawyer. So was my mother, father, one brother, and both of my older sisters. It was difficult for my mother and my sisters as they were of an era which did not like to recognize women in law, or even business for that matter. My mother was born in 1902 and my sisters in 1926 and 1927. Although my mother was masterful at scaring the "you know what" out of a large number of folks. that probably would have been true whether she had a law degree or not.

I used my education in my business career to one extent or the other. My wife definitely did, always and still does. I am retired now, since January of last year(2007).

Bill

 

[Daniel]

Undergrad in Philosophy, minor in Spanish, University of Texas at Austin - 1987. THEN, when I couldn't get a job (ha!) I took an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from Texas Tech in 1991.

I work in IT, but Spanish was the most practically-useful thing I studied. Philosophy remains useful when dealing with the vicissitudes of life.

I also teach part-time in Information Systems at a local college. SO many flip-flops and pajama bottoms...*sigh*

 

[LizzieMaine]

In the same boat with Lizziemaine wanted to be an archaeologist love my history got the marks to go to uni but chose to cook seeing that i grew up in family cafe's and restaurants i love doing that as well while waiting to get in the fire brigades, I agree with Lizziemaine about degrees I've been cooking for years and don't have a degree in it and never had any complaints about my cooking but they probably wouldn't except me now without one, nothing subtitutes hands on experience.

I think those of us in the Non Academic Minority ought to see if we can get diplomas printed up for the University of Hard Knocks. (And I wouldn't mind having that as a sticker for the back windshield of my car, too!)

 

[pennycarrol]

At the moment I'm in university!! But in France going to uni is not expensive compared to America!! I was shocked to see how would cost a year in an american university!!

 

[Fletch]

My wife is also a lawyer. So was my mother, father, one brother, and both of my older sisters. It was difficult for my mother and my sisters as they were of an era which did not like to recognize women in law, or even business for that matter.

This is very true. A late neighbor of mine, a respected maritime lawyer, entered Columbia Law in 1932. She was one of, I believe, 4 women in the class. They were treated, basically, no better than Black students would have been in that time and place.

For one thing, they were allowed no contact with the dean or his secretary. Any communication with the dean's office had to be thru a woman elevator operator.

I am not making this up.

 

[Fletch]

Back in 2002, National Geographic had a ongoing feature called ZipUSA.
National Geographic’s June issue focused on the residents of Friley, Helser, and Westgate halls, an area big enough to have its own zip code.

50012, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Josephine]

I think those of us in the Non Academic Minority ought to see if we can get diplomas printed up for the University of Hard Knocks. (And I wouldn't mind having that as a sticker for the back windshield of my car, too!)

School of Hard Knocks

 

[HadleyH]

I did attend university.

 

[fireman sam]

In Australia some things in uni are free and other things you pay for but you also have a choice to pay them later after you get into your profession you pay it back slowly over a certain amount of years.

 

[Harp]

I attended 2 colleges, 4 universities, and 3 law schools....
and some post-grad work besides... I had a habit of ditching classes
and lectures; Aced most of the work anyway and wrote term papers
to supplement academic scholarships and the GI Bill.
I got into a lot of trouble with disapproving profs, deans, and an occasional Veterans
Administration official; suppose I was restless within the Gothic ivy Tower walls of higher education,
but I couldn't stay away very long either.

I "won" the last Vietnam draft lottery, so my college education was interrupted. I did finally graduate with a BS from Notre Dame. I finished my MBA with a concentration in Computer Resource and Information Management from Webster University. As a consultant, the MBA is a real asset.

If I ever get off the road, I'll probably pursue a Ph.D. I enjoyed my time in school; wierd, eh?

I still voted wrong! Know those folks who are double majors? Well, I'm a double drop-out. Dropped out of engineering school, then dropped out of law school. Someday I'm going to finish my law degree though, just don't have the time.

Left Michigan for the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, working as an overnite trade specialist for a commodity brokerage,
then transferred to Oklahoma City University School of Law. Keep at it staggerwing.
Ecuador Jim: I wanted to attend Notre Dame but the GI Bill only went so far. I opted the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Congratulations on Notre Dame and the degree.
I bet on Kentucky last nite as their Cinderella season is magical.

 

[stevew443]

I attended 2 colleges in the 70s. First was West Virginia University that I attended from 1970 to 1973 with a major of Secondary Education and a minor of History. I did not finish there because my father disowned me for a time because he did not like my girlfriend at the time (by the way, that girlfriend and I will celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary in May). Next up, I went to Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, WV where my major was Nursing. I attended there from 1973 to 1976. At that time, I was newly married, working for the school's media center as a photographer and sound technician, and working full time night shift in the local hospital. I just happened to be the 5th school photographer in a row to flunk out because of the demands the school placed on the photographers. I was spending so much time in the dark room that I could pretty much see in almost absolute darkness

Just as an aside, I did get my degree in History in 2001. I got it by combining all my credits and finding a college that would accept them all and hand me a degree. I do not use that degree for anything other than to have my diploma cover a bare spot on the wall in my home office. I have been working in the computer field for the past 30 years, so a BA in History means squat.

 

[WesternHatWearer]

I attended Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) as well as Emory University. I finished my degree at Emory University in Atlanta.

 

[Bushman]

I'm finishing up my associates at community college now, actually. Don't know which school I'm going to next, though. I'm visiting Columbia in Chicago in April, and I hope I like it because I've heard a lot of good things about that school. My other options include Illinois State U, Bradly U, and Northern Illinois U. Pursuing a degree in Journalism.

 

[gtdean48]

Associate of Arts Oxford College of Emory University
Bachelor of Arts Emory University
Masters of Business Administration Kennesaw State University

Technically, never finished High School though...[huh]

 

[HudsonHawk]

Associate of Arts Oxford College of Emory University
Bachelor of Arts Emory University
Masters of Business Administration Kennesaw State University

Technically, never finished High School though...[huh]

I have a good friend, smartest guy I know, who quit high school at 15, because he knew more than any of the teachers there and thought it pointless. He immediately enrolled in a university undergraduate honors program, and went on to get a BS in math, a BS in physics, and MS in math, a JD from a top notch law school, practiced as a patent attorney for a bit, then went and got a PhD in geophysics from the top school in the country, all before he turned 25. Numerous times in grad school he was teaching classes he was not eligible to take himself. A number of years later while in the working world, he was dealing with someone...an employer HR rep, or something...who was giving him grief because he was a high school dropout. He said it was not as easy to straighten out as you might think. The corporate world is full of box checkers.

 

[Nobert]

I got off to a bad start with formal education, mainly because of standardized tests. I always did quite well on them, scoring in the top 10th or 20th percentiles in most subjects. My God-given talent for filling in ovals meant it was easy to coast, and as a result, severely retarded my development of anything resembling a work ethic. I skulked through high school with a low C or D average, skimmed just over the wire in graduating, at which point the guidance councilors had thrown up their hands and left me to my own devices. So I never did get a college degree, even though I could have done so when it was still remotely affordable.

 

[HudsonHawk]

So I never did get a college degree, even though I could have done so when it was still remotely affordable.

The cost of college today is what gets me. I was fortunate to attend at a time when it was affordable to anyone who wanted to go. Tuition was $4/hour. My entire undergraduate degree cost less than $5,000.

 

[gtdean48]

I have a good friend, smartest guy I know, who quit high school at 15, because he knew more than any of the teachers there and thought it pointless. He immediately enrolled in a university undergraduate honors program, and went on to get a BS in math, a BS in physics, and MS in math, a JD from a top notch law school, practiced as a patent attorney for a bit, then went and got a PhD in geophysics from the top school in the country, all before he turned 25. Numerous times in grad school he was teaching classes he was not eligible to take himself. A number of years later while in the working world, he was dealing with someone...an employer HR rep, or something...who was giving him grief because he was a high school dropout. He said it was not as easy to straighten out as you might think. The corporate world is full of box checkers.

I lacked 2 credits to graduate High School but couldn't see using an entire year of my life for that.
I did score high enough on SAT to get accepted by 2 colleges & that was it....
My mother saw my former principal a few years after I got my MBA & he asked about me.
She told him I just got a Masters degree, not bad for a HS dropout. He laughed.
Think he was glad he didn't have to put up with me one more year too....

 

[LizzieMaine]

I got off to a bad start with formal education, mainly because of standardized tests. I always did quite well on them, scoring in the top 10th or 20th percentiles in most subjects. My God-given talent for filling in ovals meant it was easy to coast, and as a result, severely retarded my development of anything resembling a work ethic. I skulked through high school with a low C or D average, skimmed just over the wire in graduating, at which point the guidance councilors had thrown up their hands and left me to my own devices. So I never did get a college degree, even though I could have done so when it was still remotely affordable.

I never liked school either -- I enjoyed learning, but I resented being *told what to learn,* and as I got into high school I simply shut down on the subjects that I couldn't see as having any value to me. I was an A student in English and social-studies related subjects, a C student in science, and a D student in math -- but an A student in bookkeeping and typing. The teachers would lecture me about how important algebra would be to me as I got older, but I didn't buy it -- and sure enough, I have never had the slightest use for it in the thirty-four years since I graduated. The only formal post-secondary instruction I've had is a correspondence course in electronics I took when I was twenty, and I can't remember if I ever finished it or not.

When I was college-age, it wasn't an option for family reasons more than anything else -- and as I got older, I never could see the need for going back and getting a degree. I had a productive career in broadcasting without one, I've been a professional writer for over thirty years without one, and whenever I want to learn something new, I just pick up a book and read it without one. So there y'go.