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Forestry/Survey Engineering......University of Maine
Graduation date: TBD....still got 2.5 years to go.
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Shenandoah University, VA, 2010 M.Ed. Hunter College, City University of New York, 1977 BA Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, 1974 AA
Thirty three years between degrees. I really liked going back.
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WVU: graduated in 1995 with a BSME Wisconsin: Graduated in 1997 with a MSME and in 2007 with a Ph.D.
Worked from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 onward. Finished my dissertation while working. Kind of a convoluted path wasn't it?
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University of Central Arkansas Jan. 2000-May 2005 Took a vacation in Iraq during the spring & fall of 2003. BSE in Secondary Social Studies Coaching license.
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
For why should my freedom be judged by another man's conscience? - 1 Corinthians 10:29
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I'm a DD--double dropout, both from high school and college. Though I probably do have enough credits for an associate (2-year) degree from the U. of Montana in biology.
What Jim in Idaho said about continuing education if correct. All a formal education does is provide the basics. Both my parents had Ph.D's, but continued to learn throughout their lives. I wasn't cut our for formal education--high school bored the snot out of me, and after my sophomore years I decided to go out and see the world for a while.
Started college at 24 and took whatever seemed interesting. Dropped out of college when I had the choice of writing a history term paper or writing my first book for actual money. Money won--but haven't stopped learning.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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didnt say i necessarily made the right decision.....but sitting in a class your told you have to take listening to the professor go on bout how your a bad guy cause you were born white and male gets hard to stomach.....especially while sitting in said class you start adding up how many hours your stuck in a hot kitchen washing dishes to pay for to enjoy the privilege of being told your one of the worlds evil people i made my decission, and as such im making alot less than i would if i had that degree in my pocket......also wouldnt have met my wife had i stuck it out..... dont claim i made the right decission.....dont claim that i might not change it if i could go in a time machine and try again......its just why i quit and when i did quit i had plans of figuring out somewhere else to go to get a degree of some sort, was just planning on busting my arse for awhile so i didnt have to worry bout working full time and going to school at the same time.....thats just not how it turned out... Being schooled is not the same as being learned. Being learned is the goal. Sounds like you knew the difference between bullschit and beef tenderloin. And, I know you are a devoted self educator. I'm not saying degrees do not matter, but their absence does not equal being ignorant. There is going to be a big higher education shakeout in the near future and schools offering expensive degrees in fluffy bullschitt are going to go by the boards. People are starting to know the difference between an education and expensive used toilet paper.
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Colleges and Universities are pricing themselves out of business. 40 Grand a year is average....NH gives no sweet instate discount to home slices either...no broad based taxes...no money for education...equals the 3rd highest instate tuition in the land....
I am staring at about 40G's a year to start for my son in the fall...and I thought the 5G's per I got bagged for in the early 80's was an ass raping! Sonofabitch!
***** that 40 for my son is out of state too...[bleep] NH!
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i dropped out but i went to Montana Tech in Butte for a degree in Geological Engineering for awhile....prolly woulda stuck it out if it wasnt for all the liberal arts classes i had to take....was paying for college out of my own pocket as my parents didnt have any money.....all the core classes pertaining to my degree i was doing fine in but it got to me that i was actually paying people to lecture me bout chit that would have nothing to do with my degree or had anything to do with life after college....i loved all the science and math stuff though... Did you have a class from Pete Knudsen? He used to teach Geostatistics there. Sycamore
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Colleges and Universities are pricing themselves out of business. 40 Grand a year is average....NH gives no sweet instate discount to home slices either...no broad based taxes...no money for education...equals the 3rd highest instate tuition in the land....
I am staring at about 40G's a year to start for my son in the fall...and I thought the 5G's per I got bagged for in the early 80's was an ass raping! Sonofabitch!
***** that 40 for my son is out of state too...[bleep] NH! Cleaning out a bunch of boxes I have saved over the years ( being divorced from the bitch from Hell.. in one of the more wacko liberal counties in the nation.. to CYA...) and found paperwork battling the Dept of Education over student loans... I had to pay my student loans off twice... did it first time in the early 1980s in full.. and then in the late 90s. the Dept of Ed harassed me again, and demanded that I show them the receipt from the early 1980s when I paid them off... of which I didn't keep.. as who thought the Dept of Ed would try to harass me again, 15 years later... We negotiated that figure out second time... Fist time I paid off my student loans of $3500. second time we negotiated for $1250... considering the amounts vs today's tuition... I really don't have much to complain about in ratio...
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95-97 Forestry - University of Maine Orono 97-98 Fire Science - SMCC
Chased after a woman (now wife), became an electrician and didn't finish. Wish I had just to say I did and to justify the money spent.
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Colleges and Universities are pricing themselves out of business. 40 Grand a year is average....NH gives no sweet instate discount to home slices either...no broad based taxes...no money for education...equals the 3rd highest instate tuition in the land....
I am staring at about 40G's a year to start for my son in the fall...and I thought the 5G's per I got bagged for in the early 80's was an ass raping! Sonofabitch!
***** that 40 for my son is out of state too...[bleep] NH! I'm sure you heard of this girl in college, that is paying her tuition by working as a porn star because her parents can't afford to pay. Makes her parents proud ? You want to know why college is so expensive ? Look at the pay of teachers and ADMINISTRAITORS. Kollege presidents make as much as some CEO's ?! College is unaffordable for working class stiffs. Why go and listen to a bunch of BS from liberal douchbhaggs? I admire just a couple of Universities, one that I've heard about, it's in Southern Michigan - Heritage University that prides itself on teaching the Constitution to every student; the other is Franciscan University that teaches Religion mainly. You can keep all those sports mills that glorify and prepare thugs for professional franchises that millions of Americans waste their time in front of the boob tube getting stupider and making them richer. It might be cheaper if they got "Liberals" out of "liberal education" and replaced it with Conservative education?
It was Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver (SFC E-7)who said: "No, no, I've got them right where I want them -- surrounded from the inside." http://www.macvsog.cc/1969.htm
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Small Private College, BA Paralegal Studies 1994 "Small Private College", that names a brilliant marketing strategy on their part if ya ask me For my own part I went to SUNY Geneseo, didn't know anything about college, neither did my family, chose it because my cousin had gone there. Got there and found it was 70% female Incredibly, I left there to finish my B.S. at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (90% male at the time, quite a let-down ). BS Forest Biology/Entomology '79 Worked in the field for a few months, quickly got tired of looking at trees. Skipped out to New Mexico after a failed romance, did day labor for nearly a year. From there went to the Peace Corps, wanted to go to the Phillipines, so did everybody else, ended up in West Africa. Three years in the West African sticks; teacher and vaccination team member. It rocked, we had a military coup and everything. Came back, got rehired by the forestry school. Left a year later for Texas A&M, thought to get a degree in Agriculture and take it back overseas. Ag research turned out to be excruciatingly boring, but I hate to quit anything so stuck it out through three seasons of field research, plus another 30 hours of free tuition for courses needed to teach all HS sciences, all while living in a shack on a deer lease and living on a paltry graduate teaching assistant stipend (fortunately, I could afford a motorcycle). Egad! The women were awesome. MS Entomology '89. Wanted to go and teach in inner-city Hell, came to San Antonio to chase Mexican girls. Married one, and found that this place is so durned friendly that the San Antonio version of inner-city Hell is lukewarm at best Twenty-five years and counting now. Biggest regret: I did the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Program (??) at Quantico two summers in college, was cleared for aviation. Seemed to me back them tho that killing folks was serious business and that I might not always agree with the CinC, so opted for the Peace Corps for my "combat" experience instead. If I had it to do over I coulda done all the above AND put in four years in the military, enlisted would have been fine, long as it was something difficult. Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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I believe we have enough smart and credible people here to start a new Congress and run this country like it was supposed to be..
Come on America, Athletes and actors are not heroes, only soldiers, airmen,marines and sailors get that respect�and let's add firemen and LEO's
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Small Private College, BA Paralegal Studies 1994 "Small Private College", that names a brilliant marketing strategy on their part if ya ask me LOL - Good thing I didn't major in English
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