Your Education

[Skanky Burns]

Thanks, and of course same to you too.

[Main_Brain]

I'm studying Economics

[MattyBoy]

BEng(ineering, Electrical)
Grad Dip in App Finance and Investment, soon to finish Masters.

[SpencerH]

Jeez, thats two brits that have dropped out of PhD programs in biological fields. What the hell is going on?

[Al B. Sure!]

Senior at a Philadelphia public school

[Boris Godunov]

B.A. in Music

[General Ludd]

I got halfway through grade nine and dropped out.

[FrostyBoy]

Good thread! Now we know the skills of the people in this forum.

Seems like a lot of $$$ related skills tho??

I have a bachelors degree level in art/multimedia.

[FrostyBoy]

Am I the only one??

[tandeetaylor]

I'm starting school next week! I'm majoring in History and minoring in English, but that's subject to the addition of a second major in film.

[The Mad Monk]

Roughly 6 credits short of a BA in Geology, probably won't complete (been five years since I had to quit for economic and other reasons, don't see the point now). Graduate courses in Geology, completed coursework for minors in Chemistry, Physics, and Accounting. Many other assorted courses.

I'm a burned-out professional student.

[MattyBoy]

B.A. in Music

Do you play any instruments, Boris?

Masters from M.I.T.

doctorate from Harvard

and another doctorate from Princeton.

Did you hear that Oxford recently changed the definition of the word gullible?

[cavebear]

LOL! I didn't do it the regular way. I started college in 1968 as a mechanical engineer major. I quickly realized I didn't want to be one. I spent a few years as a Political Science major, then was cast out for bad grades (It was the years of the Vietnam War demonstrations, and I got really involved with that.

In 1993, I went back to college and found that I was 4 classes short of a degree. My first college course back was "The History of the Vietnam War". How ironic...

I took 3 more political science courses after that. The others were small group seminars with students that were specializing in the subjects. I aced them all. An adult who has kept an interest in learning about all sorts of things for 30 years has an advantage over even very bright college-age students...

Anyway, I have a BA in Political Science now. It doesn't have the slightest impact on my career. A degree is only important for about 5 years; after that it is all what you can do on the job.

But it sure matters to me personally. I used vacation time for 3 years to take those classes, and I walked a mile each way from the subway station to the classrooms twice each week for three years even in the snow. But I finished it.

[Lorizael]

Senior in highschool. Then Montgomery College where I'll study... who the hells know what. After that I'll transfer up to a four year college.

What do you study when your life goal is to save the world and the only thing you're really good at (besides being better than most people in math, science, history, and reading) is writing?

[The Mad Monk]

Journalism.