What is the highest level of education you have completed?

[elfwitch]

When did you graduate?
Where did you go?
What degree did you get?
Do you have plans to get more education?


ME:
BA 1993 Sociology Univ TX San Antonio
MA (short my thesis) Political Communications and Behavior
Plan to finish my thesis in California once we move there.

[name not needed]

1. im still in high school

and my gpa is somewhere around 2.85. not too bad.

[TXlib]

2. Just shy of a Ph.D. in physics.

Decided the economic gain, or lack thereof, did not justify the 2+ years I still had to go, so I gave it up, and used my knowledge for evil (got an MBA - conc in quantitative finance).

[Renew Deal]

53. Look at the big brain on this guy.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Bachelor of Science, Political Science, Texas A&M 1990.

I had planned to get my Master's there, but they turned me down for graduate school. I really should go back, but all the Poli. Sci. graduate programs I have seen are full-time and I am too addicted to my paycheck. :D

[TXlib]

10. What do aggie cheerleaders have in common with football?

Pigskin.

*duck*

[GOPisEvil]

12. Uhhhh...we don't have cheerleaders.

Just guys that look like this. Make your Hitler Youth jokes if you like (they might even be true), but those guys can fire up a crowd. (Itellyouwhut)

[Richardo]

54. Bachelor of Arts, Public Administration, UCLA 1978

Minor in Urban Geography.

My career path (Logistics) has gone nowhere NEAR these subject areas. :shrug:

[Justice]

4. Hey, No JD category there

[elfwitch]

9. that would be Other...

See, I knew there was a reason for an Other category.

[DODI]

5. Still waiting to finish college -- 18 years later!

I only have 30 elective credits to go. I should have graduated in 1986, I went to Salve Regina in RI for one year, Western Connecticut State for 2 1/2 and various courses at Central CT. Major was History w/ lots of Lit and philosophy.

[felonious thunk]

6. I've got 3 of them

BA in Government
MA in Government
JD

I'm currently a Web Developer

*cough*

[elfwitch]

11. me too!

All that work in the social sciences convinced me to do a job in technology.

[felonious thunk]

20. These loans don't get paid off....

on the 25 grand a year the social sciences would like to pay!

So it's either this or 80 hours a week at a law firm. I choose this.

[elfwitch]

21. Man, I'm with you...

I could have never made as much money with my degrees as I make doing web design. Smart move!

[Kellanved]

7. Just short of a "Diplom"

What would be comparable to a "Master's". A little more in theory, but about the same in reality. Well, ask again in six months ;-) .

[fleetus]

8. B.S. Chemical Engineering, Rice U

[cmf]

30. Interesting

I was about to go "OMG!", but then I saw who it was from. :D

:hi:

[fleetus]

32. But I'm sure there's more of us out here...

Rice being so politically charged and all.

:toast:

[cmf]

33. LOL!

Nope, they're all at www.apatheticunderground.com.

:P

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. BSJ = Bull-Shitting Jerk.

Not really!

Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1971.

[elfwitch]

17. that's a really good Journalism school right?

Or at least that is what I heard.

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. Yes, it is, at least I think so.

I now work in commercial real estate marketing.

[Rowdyboy]

14. BA 1976 from Millsaps College

A small liberal-arts college in Jackson, Mississippi
Majored in History with minors in Classical Studies and English
My honors thesis subject was the Allende government in Chile (which had just been overthrown)

[demnan]

15. Mine

BA English - Mary Washington College (Fredericksburg, VA), 1979

A few credits short of an Associates in Information Systems

Vocation: Web Developer

[MrsMatt]

47. "Are you going to to be a teacher?"

I heard that too many times to count when I would tell people I was working toward my BA in English!

University of Minnesota at Morris
BA in English earned 1985

[redqueen]

16. High School dropout here

Would like to get some college learnin'... but family, work... you get the picture.

Someday, though. After both my kids are in school, probably. :)

[Kamika]

22. Don't bother heh

HS is way overrated :p

[redqueen]

27. LOL

Nah.. I already got the GED to get a secretarial 'certificate' (woo).

[CalebHayes]

18. 8th grade.

[geniph]

51. Hey, Caleb, glad to see you here!

I emailed you after the paper published the article about you starting antibush.org. Good work, kiddo!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

19. Well I'm in 11th grade

:)

[NoPasaran]

23. Graduated High School---yikes---30 years ago

Kicked around various colleges for five or six years until I got sick of them and they got sick of me.

Ended up in the TV racket where I get to call myself an engineer even without all that fancy book learnin'.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. I Voted Other

I've got three masters' degrees so i didn't think i should just vote for that. Some way, the level of education acquired doing it three different times needed to be explained.

B.S. Chemistry - 1976
M.S. Quantum Chemistry - 1978
M.S. Statistical Mechanics - 1983
MBA with Focus in Economics - 1993.

The Professor

[jimbo fett]

26. Holy crap. I'll put you on my "phone-a-friend" list.

And the next time I play trivial pursuit you're on my team (we play in teams).

I have a BFA and an MFA so I'll take the art questions. ;-)

[banana republican]

28. i guess I'll have to vote other

BA Psychology
BA Philosophy
BS Business Admin
3+ Years Seminary
CPA
MS Tax
45% of an MBA

[jimbo fett]

31. woo hoo - with these two on my team I could kick Regis' butt.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Hey! Looks Like I Started A Trend

My dad spent 4 years of high school and 3 years of college at a seminary, too! Decided the whole life without women thing wasn't for him.
The Professor

[TrogL]

29. Two bachelors

The rest would be telling.

I had loose thoughts of getting a Masters in another field, but that would mean starting all over and I'd look pretty silly with THREE B.'s after my name.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. all i really need to know i learned in kindergarten.....

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do
and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not
at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the
sandpile. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,
hold hands, and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody
really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.
So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any of those items and extrapolate it into
sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your
family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Think what a better world it would be if
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about
three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments
had a basic policy to always put thing back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you
are - when you go out into the world, it is best
to hold hands and stick together.

[Lostmessage]

36. 6'th Grade

:evilgrin:

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Can You Cipher???

If you done gradiated the 6th grade, you should be able to do all the timezes and guzintas. Hey, if Jethro could, you can!
The Professor

[Lostmessage]

38. Did I say 6'th grade?

I meant 3rd sorry.

[Lostmessage]

67. I have a degree in Art

I was joking you. LOL

:evilgrin:

[Ishoutandscream]

39. BA in history and English

M.Ed. in counseling and guidance. 3 hours away from a second masters in history (emphasis in American), but I don't have the time (nor the money) to write the damn paper!

[scarlet_owl]

40. High school.

I got accepted to the University of Illinois, but I became very ill the summer before and was unable to go. I'm kind of glad I never went to college. All my friends who went and graduated can't find jobs and one is even living at home with her parents. I got married right after high school, and I don't regret it one bit.

[NightTrain]

41. Two years of college

n/t

[soleft]

42. 84 NYU BFA NO

[beawr]

43. PhD in Computer Science this May....

Of course, there were a lot of jobs when I started the program....

[Bertha Venation]

44. other -- and oh, what a tale of bitterness

Not really -- not anymore, anyway.

I attended Los Angeles Baptist College for three years. Because (1) I was emotionally disturbed but didn't know it, (2) never could honestly apply myself and so was a lousy, LOUSY student, and (3) got involved with a psychopathic lover who ruled my life and whom I had to escape, I earned just under 60 units (or credits or whatever they're called). Most of those credits were in a subject that's become useless except in debates with fundies: Bible. (Of course, it's obvious that I used to BE a fundy.)

So I don't even have an associate's degree.

A couple of years after I left that school, I got some serious mental help, then a few years after that I tried again, two or three times, in community colleges. I never finished a semester. I have frequent nightmares about that: unfamiliar campus, not knowing where my class is, knowing I didn't study, showing up nude, bringing a science project to philosophy class, etc.

Here I am at age 40, earning a living as a legal secretary. I am a very proud graduate of Hard Knox University. I'm happy to earn a modest living as a drone. I educate myself daily, in things that are important to me.

I wish I had become a doctor of sports medicine or a teacher of American history or a studio musician. But I've made peace with what I wish I'd been, and am happy with who I am.

And someday I'm going to write a kick-ass novel.

[MrSlayer]

45. Associate in Electrical Engeneering.

My Union training is the equivalent.

[populistmom]

46. An AS plus an additional 40 credits

I started on majoring in business (a few waste credits from that) and got an AS in early childhood education, then I began to work on my BS in early childhood education, then I had a change and re-evaluated the situation (money-wise, and what I really want to do) and I'm now working on a degree in nursing.

[camero]

48. Had an electrical apprenticeship and took an electronics course

Also attended a truck driving school.

[bigwillq]

49. After 5 1/2 years I got my B.A. in 2002 n/t

[Syn_Dem]

50. Sophomore.....

In high school :)

[geniph]

52. I'm 44 years old and still a sophomore

because I always had to work full time while going to school, and I just got TIRED. My first major was political science, the second one was biochemistry. So of course I've been a system administrator for 20+ years.

Someday, I'd like to finish the biochem degree. I wanted to be an epidemiologist if I ever grew up.

[sbj405]

55. BS Oceanography, MS Meteorology

USNA and Penn State respectively. I'd like to return to school at some point and get a degree that's a bit more portable. My career limits me geographically.

[Bucky]

56. BA, English & Education. And my GPA is a 6--no, 7--make that 8 point 4

Yeh, that's the ticket.

[never cry wolf]

57. B. Architecture, U. of I, Chicago (Harvard on Halsted)

A 5 year professional degree. Not quite a masters but above a B. of A., Arch. I was on the 12 year plan though, a few years partying in the 70's trying to figure out a major, a transfer, quite a few years part time while working, etc... More than enough hours for a Masters, just, um, misdirected. Learned alot about life tho!!

[Interrobang]

58. Bachelor's, Master's, no job...

Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, University of Western Ontario, class of '97.
Master of Arts in Language and Professional Writing, University of Waterloo, class of '99.

The MA was worth every cent I've paid for it, because without it, I would have *never* had a job... OTOH, there was nothing else I really could have gone into that would have paid any better.

[cosmicdot]

59. Advanced Studies at Democratic Underground University

- politics
- history
- the arts/humanities
- English and grammar
- science
- sex education
- culinary arts
- etc.

[1a2b3c]

60. DU (as a group) is full of college educated idiots.

Who would have guessed?

Better add a smile before someone hits alert. :-)

[never cry wolf]

62. Hey now

I didn't need college to be an idiot!! I entered college already a HUGE idiot.

[citizen snips]

61. I am a freshman in high school.

n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

63. MA Degree in Early Childhood Development and Human Relationships

[AlFrankenFan]

64. Well...

less than high school cause I'm still in eigth grade thank you very much.

[aquaman]

65. Masters in Social Work

From the University of South Carolina.

[Piltdown13]

66. I voted "just short of a PhD"

B.A., Archaeological Studies
B.S., Television and Film

Both of the above Boston University 1997

M.A., Anthropology, Indiana University 2002 (actually passed my quals and handed in the paperwork December 2001, but it took a couple months for the paperwork to wend its way thru the bureaucracy)

I'm currently ABD, working on finishing data analysis and writing my dissertation in palaeoanthropology.

[Ramsey]

68. Where's MD??

Had to choose "Other". Although I am also "just short of" a PhD, which I will never finish, having learned the true meaning of "piled high and deep".

[Lindsey]

69. I have my

B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Cal State. I got it when I was 41 years old and it's my proudest accomplishment. I probably won't get my master's since I'm 46 and have a wonderful job/career. Plus, from 1993 - 1998, I did nothing but work full-time and go to school full-time and I'm enjoying having time for fun! :-)

[Redleg]

70. Ph.D. University of Nebraska 2002

Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior
M.S. in Human Resource Management from Utah State University- 1995
B.S. in Political Science from Weber State University- 1987

A vanity post if there ever was one!

[fortyfeetunder]

71. Online master's degrees count?

I am taking engineering courses from USC and University of Missouri..but I live in the Pac NW. My personal circumstances won't allow commuting to campuses. The profs have been wonderful and I really enjoyed learning again.

If there were reputable PhD programs that had online classes and limited commuting, I'd be on that like nobody's bizness....

[Liberal Christian]

72. Two Masters

BA in English - Kalamazoo College, 1976
MA in English - UW-Eau Claire, 1980
Master of Divinity - United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, 1987

[tishaLA]

73. Still working on that Ph.D. in English

dammit

[notadmblnd]

74. and I got my Bs at FU

nt

[Wapsie B]

75. Bachelor of Arts

concentrations in Music and Business, Western Illinois University.