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Forestry/Survey Engineering......University of Maine

Graduation date: TBD....still got 2.5 years to go.

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.

Fort Hays State University, BA History Minor in Political Science,1991.
Masters in Teaching Friends University, 2005
Middle School Social Studies Teacher 23 years. Time flies when you're havin fun.

AA Mesa Community College 1985
BS Arizona State University 1988

PH.D School of hard knocks 2000-2004

Dr. Penguin?

I knew as much.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Did you have a class from Pete Knudsen? He used to teach Geostatistics there.

Sycamore

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...

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.

BA and JD.

BSME 1999
Montana State University

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?

"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

Three Rivers CC on and off for over 20 years

PSU for mechanical engineering. 1.5 years didn't finish(should have)
auto tech school finished with degree

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..

LOL - Good thing I didn't major in English