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Kansas State University
BS in Agricultural Mechanization
1973

Yep, my older brother lived there at the time. I was broke, he was loaded. Fished the Channel Islands, chased shows at the Arlington Theater (GT and the Destroyers, John Sebastian, James Brown and others), played on State Street , drank at the Elephant Bar and wrapped it up with tacos the morning after at Rose Cafe. A bowl of chili and a beer on the return to SLO via Cold Spring Tavern on 154 was killer. When I retire I will go back and do that routine once more, at least. Short of the biotch of the engineering school crunch, life (and future wife) was grand. Used to shoot in pin matches with Aaron Hogue in Atascadero and still have a pair of his Dad's original grips. I remember watching Aaron hand checker grips back then. I had a job offer to work at Diablo Canyon and thought, man that's dangerous schit. Instead I went to work in a refinery where a "boom" occured three weeks later...

BS Biology (Botany) 1974. Cumberland College, now University of the Cumberlands

MS Biology (Plant Ecology) Eastern KY University, 1978

Spent my career acquiring wildlife habitat for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and writing hook and bullet articles for regional publications.

In retirement I am a tour guide for the Kentucky Governor's Mansion and Buffalo Trace Distillery.

A good life so far.

University of Nebraska
BA Broadcast Journalism
1992

That's as good a place to put a distillery as any, considering it's Kentucky, but I'm guessing the governor has no idea what the hell he's signing into law.

Fatjack34: I graduated in 1969 from USR (the University of Skid Road - the original!) out in Seattle, Washington!
I majored in putting criminals in prison and minored in identifying turd like peoples and [bleep] with them!
College degrees, in my opinion, are GROSSLY over-rated anymore. Especially those obtained in the last 20 years.
I mean who wants a brain-washed liberal/socialist coming to work for them or beside them?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BS Civil Engineering
2001

Auburn University
'74-'78, Civil Engineering,
dropped out Senior year (Yeah, not real smart, but I didn't have anybody to mentor or advise me otherwise.)

University of Alabama, Huntsville
'79-'80, Electrical Engineering, while working full time and going to night school. Went to work for a Gov't contractor in Huntsville, AL. They picked up my school tab and redirected things and I got Engineering Certifications in Nuclear Environmental Qualification Test Engineering and Seismic Test Engineering in 1981.

Went to work for NASA in 1984 and they sent me back to school and I got additional Engineering Certifications in Flight Electrical Systems (NASA's version of Electrical Engineering), Flight Hardware Engineering (NASA's version of Aerospace Engineering), Life Support Systems, and Command & Data Management Systems. It didn't matter to NASA if you already had a PHD in Engineering - to work in some positions you HAD to take and pass their courses. Then went through the process to be approved as a Mission Control Console Engineer. I had a great career with NASA and the Army Missile Command, and with the exception of a few notable incidents, I would have paid them to get to do what I did.

Went to a bunch of Colleges, even got a couple of degrees.
Masters of music from North Texas University.
B.Med from Angelo State University.
Have hours from;
West Texas State
Midwestern State
Navarro Jr. College and probably a couple more that I was too drunk to remember.

RufusG, the governor is a lawyer so unfortunately he does know what he is signing into law.

If course evaluations were to be believed when I was teaching university math, none of my students were like you guys. No way were they out partying, chasing women/men, and generally slacking off. They were dedicated, studying long and hard, really getting after it. But mean old Dr. Mathman was so tough!

NMU 94, BS comparative physiology/chemistry
MSU CVM 98, DVM

Yep.

Oregon State University, BS in Computer Science, 1987.

It has turned out well. I still don't know what I want to do with my life (despite what I've been doing for 26 years) but I have a good job I couldn't have gotten without the degree and I have choices open to me I wouldn't have without the degree.

A degree isn't a guarantee. Not having one isn't a guarantee, either. Having one just improves your odds a very great deal ... but they're still "odds."

Tom

Tell 'em they need to start runnin' off pure corn White Dog,...no sugar,..no rye,..about 120 proof.

It'll sell better than single batch.

Charge what you have to for it.

The way I look at a degree is that it shows an employer you have the ability to learn how to do the job in whatever field you gained the degree, but the degree in and of itself does not mean you have any job skills in whatever field you go into.

The funny thing is even though I have a BSME I've never really worked as a mechanical engineer and the one class that could be said to be helpful was an EE class, circuits. But I'd taken an electronics class in high school which had already given me the understanding of basic circuits and ohms law.

In my time at my current college, I've had one professor that was obviously left. She was incredibly professional about it, it NEVER came up in class but she and I would talk quite a bit out of class. Good looking and my age so it was natural.

I am not a lefty and it was obvious where I lay in the class and she graded me very fairly and made me a better writer in the process. I had 2 classes with her, she even offered to write me a letter of recommendation for grad school - when that comes.

My other instructors have been rather right leaning, particularly my Human Resources Management instructor and my Macroeconomics professor too.

Most of the students are older, returning adults. Out of all of them I can identify only 2 commies, the rest have been rather conservative.

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
2009-2013
B.S. wildlife and fisheries science

Montana State University
BS in Construction Engineering Technology, 1997

Go Bobcats!

FTG!!!!!!!!! (the Bobcat and Griz fans will get this one! )

Montana State University
BS in Biology, Fish and Wildlife Management Option

Texas A&M-Kingsville
Range and Wildlife Science, 2.5 years, did not finish masters

Georgia State University

1967 BBA Accounting
1977 MBA Finance

it was worth it to me, I was able to semi retire at 50 & completely retire at 57.