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Edumication

What is your Level of Education ?

  • Still in School

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  • High School/GED Diploma

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  • Some College

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  • Associates

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  • Bachelors

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  • Masters

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  • Call me "DR."

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  • Went to School of HARD KNOCKS, well rounded Education

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Doc Smith

Familiar Face
Counting backwards: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.S. in Ocean Engineering, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 5-level (not-quite-journeyman) certification as an Aircraft Machinist in the USAF.

As many have noted here, if you're not always learning, something's missing in your life. I've found that teaching has the most edifying way of exposing the many gaps in my education. It's sort of like road repair here in Michigan: you either put in the work, or what was a reasonably smooth surface is a mess of potholes in a couple of seasons.
 

Silver Dollar

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Doc Smith said:
Counting backwards: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.S. in Ocean Engineering, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 5-level (not-quite-journeyman) certification as an Aircraft Machinist in the USAF.

As many have noted here, if you're not always learning, something's missing in your life. I've found that teaching has the most edifying way of exposing the many gaps in my education. It's sort of like road repair here in Michigan: you either put in the work, or what was a reasonably smooth surface is a mess of potholes in a couple of seasons.

You said a mouthful Doc. Whenever I've had to do any teaching, I always tried to find all the gaps in my knowledge myself and tried to close them up as best I could, The big problem is that students can spot one of those gaps as fast as a shark finds blood in the water. You can never stop learning even if you're retired. You fall into complacency and then you deteriorate and fast.
 

Flat Foot Floey

My Mail is Forwarded Here
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miserabelle said:
I have a BA in Visual Communication, and I specialised in Illustration. I kind of miss uni! x
Nice! I'm also going to have my diploma in Communication-Design/Illustration.

I don't hurry toooo much because uni is great. But I'm getting older...[huh]
 

Tomasso

Incurably Addicted
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Coming up on the 30th anniversary :eek: of my graduation from the University of Chicago.
 

cookie

I'll Lock Up
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Sydney Australia
dr greg said:
I'm what they call old school: went out to work at 15, starting in a meatworks where people got killed in union disputes, and over the years had about 60 different occupations from jackhammer guy and pub bouncer to roller skate mechanic by way of passport officer, debt collector, and rock journalist. I went back and got a Degree in Creative Arts at the age of 46...I reckon I taught them more than they taught me, it sits in a drawer..never used it.


In other words a Roads Scholar! Mate with that CV we eagerly await your Magnum Opus.
 

kamikat

Call Me a Cab
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Whoever made up the poll neglected an option that is usually included in these sorts of things. I am a proud graduate of a trade school.
 

TexArchStudent

New in Town
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Ft Worth, TX
Recieved my Bachelors of Science in Architecture in December, and now I'm pursuing my Masters of Architecture. Six and a half years done, one and a half to go.
 

PistolPete1969

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Wilds of Southern Ohio
I graduated from the following:

US Navy RTC (ie boot camp) in San Diego in March 1988

US Navy Airman Apprentice School April 1988

US Navy Flight Deck Firefighting school June 1989

Bachelors Degree in History Dec 1993

Ohio State Correctional Training Academy Feb 2005

Still trying to decide what I wanna be when I grow up.....
 

1961MJS

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Norman Oklahoma
Hi

I graduated with my BSEE from University of Illinois in 1983. It cost enough then, that I've only seen the diploma once, it's in my parents fire safe. To really screw with the youngster's minds, my tuition was $155 a semester total, not including books and the dorm. Now just the activity fee is $800 something a semester, according to the neighbors. I was so glad to get to a 40 hour work week that I have never returned to college. Junior year, I spent 40 hours a week on a two hour credit lab class, build microcomputer by hand...

Besides college, I'm overly certified by the NRA: Rifle, Shotgun, and Pistol Instructor, Range Safety Officer, and Rifle Coach.

Later
 

Silver Dollar

Practically Family
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Louisville, Kentucky
kamikat said:
Whoever made up the poll neglected an option that is usually included in these sorts of things. I am a proud graduate of a trade school.

Now that's true. The poll did forget those who trained in a different direction. A lot of you former military I'm sure did get some kind of education from your prospective services.
 

GoddessMama

One of the Regulars
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AZ
Associates in Animation that I have never used and I am close to an associates in Textiles and Pattern Design, but I'll never finish it.:p I would love to go to medical school, but its not possible with as many kids as I have.
 

$ally

One Too Many
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I did it backwards; I taught myself much of what I know by age 13, then went to college to back it up ;)
 

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