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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on May 15, 2005, 10:48:28 AM
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...and how old were you when you quit full-time education?
My answers - 7x GCE 'O' Level, plus a (wasted) year in the sixth form. I quit at 17½ because by then I realised that I knew everything, so no further education was necessary. :p;) -just kidding! I'll post the real reasons next time.
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I red sum stuf onse. :)
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I have an associates degree, a bachelors degree and am two classes away from my masters. All together I have over 11 years of college and hundreds of credits.
eskimo
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whut?
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In the order they were obtained.
Bachelors Public Admin.
MA-Ed Curriculum and instruction
Associate of Tecnology When I got my A&P.
I got the A&P when 49
I hated college when an undergraduate. I suppose it was just a case of burnout and having to work my way through college. Later when I got the MA at age 43 I thought school was actually fun. I didn't realize it would be that way when I started but learning new stuff was really far easier later then it was earlier in life. Getting the A&P was a piece of cake and still fun. I wasn't really sorry to be done with it and wouldn't mind starting some classes again sometime.
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Originally posted by beet1e
7x GCE 'O' Level, plus a (wasted) year in the sixth form.
Can some one explain the British education system?
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Bachelors of Business Administration. Marketing and Entrepreneurship majors. Graduated a year ago this month.. :aok
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Bachelor of international marketing.
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Originally posted by crowMAW
Can some one explain the British education system?
Bassically it means that he’s attended Hogwarts School of Wizardry and WitchCraft but dropped out before completing Divination and Transfiguration classes.
eskimo
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I am a Bachelor and I have a Masters in baiting.
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Bassically it means that he’s attended Hogwarts School of Wizardry and WitchCraft but dropped out before completing Divination and Transfiguration classes.
eskimo
Transfiguration is a required course for first years. You should be brutally raped by Hagrid for posting such nonsense!
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When I was in 2nd grade my teacher was walking backwards in front of us and then fell down and broke her arm. then a few years later I took some college classes after getting out of high school.
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I have a B.Sci and a M.Eng. It took 7 years of University to get both degrees.
A Masters in Engineering is not an easy thing to get. I was looking at getting a Masters in Education (another story) and found you can get one in a year easy.
Kind of made me feel that some schools and programs really cheapen the degree.
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Originally posted by Habu
I have a B.Sci and a M.Eng. It took 7 years of University to get both degrees.
A Masters in Engineering is not an easy thing to get. I was looking at getting a Masters in Education (another story) and found you can get one in a year easy.
Kind of made me feel that some schools and programs really cheapen the degree.
Most degree programs are pretty darn easy; many are exceptionally difficult and others are somewhere in-between. Art, architecture and medicine are all quite different in difficulty.
eskimo
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Most degree programs are pretty darn easy; many are exceptionally difficult and others are somewhere in-between. Art, architecture and medicine are all quite different in difficulty.
eskimo
I graduated from the University of Kentucky....then I moved to Florida and started the 6th grade.
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Graduated HIgh School in '93 so I quit full-time at 17...Military ever since...tryin' to get some college part time nowadays.
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I stepped in a cow patty once.
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I graduated Kindergarten,
it took me then 7 years to study the web
before i ended up here in the O'club.
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28
CPL-H and ATPL :D
...-Gixer
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AAS/IT-CNS
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yes
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spent about seven years travelling and working with the locals, best practical education i ever got.
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graduated high school.
8 years in the army.
Have a doctorates degree in the art of cunnilingus.
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I stayed at a Holliday Inn Express.
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I read curious george twce.
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High school here. Had to get to work at 18. Started some electronics degree at Devry... cancer/dropped out/ never went back.
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Originally posted by SEgunner
Have a doctorates degree in the art of cunnilingus.
receiving?
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Originally posted by Nilsen
receiving?
:lol
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Vehicle Mechanic (3 years vocational school, didn't go to HS)
Bachelor of Automotive Engineering (Should be getting papers on the 26th)
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Originally posted by Habu
A Masters in Engineering is not an easy thing to get.
Yup, I'd like to get one. But I'm a realist and leave it to the brighter and mathematically gifted.
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Originally posted by weaselsan
I graduated from the University of Kentucky....then I moved to Florida and started the 6th grade.
:rofl
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Originally posted by mora
Vehicle Mechanic (3 years vocational school, didn't go to HS)
Bachelor of Automotive Engineering (Should be getting papers on the 26th)
So in Finland, is a vocational school an option to high school?
eskimo
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Yes, in a vocational school about half of the education is vocational subjects. Another half consist from highschool subjects, but the the level is certainly much lower, and so is the quality of the students.
http://www.stadia.fi/english/introduction/system.asp
You are equally eligible for higher education as those who have graduated HS, but in reality getting into an University is very difficult. Most of those VS graduates who seek higher education go to Polytechnics like I did. (http://www.teli.stadia.fi/English/)
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Originally posted by joowenn
I read curious george twce.
which one?
I've read the one with him delivering the newspapers/ending up in the circus/saving the bear cub about 50x to my granddaughter
what's amazing is the fact i remember reading it when i was 4/5 and making the newspaper boats back then .. some things are timeless
schooling?
one year of college
27 years & counting - school of hard knocks ... still enrollled
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I dunno... just seems like you guys should be smarter with all that time in school and all..
lazs
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Maybe you just dont get all the smartness?
They say Plato, and you hear gunpowder.
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don't hear a lot of "plato" but I hear..
I say gunpowder and they say.... "let me tell you all about it" Then I hear... "even tho I never even seen the stuff"
lazs
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there is that
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I R A Grajuate.
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edumuhcasion?
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BS Mech Engrg 1997 (haha)
MS Mech Engrg 1999
...and still learning. There is still much to learn outside of school.
mauser
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Granny & uncle jed taught me to cipher and my nuaghts
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BA and MSE in Social Studies obtained by my 24th birthday. I have also completed 60 hours in various graduate courses since completing work on my masters, including a summer semester in Egypt and Israel.
Speak a smattering of French and German, although my real linguistic specialty is Leggern.
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Originally posted by NUKE
High school here. Had to get to work at 18. Started some electronics degree at Devry... cancer/dropped out/ never went back.
Cancer at that young age? Thats rough. What type did you have and how did you beat it?
Quite the ignored by list you have. You seem to offend all types of people indescriminatly. Very impressive.
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ohh wow, I made Nuke's ignore list!!!!! WOOHOO it's the big time for me baby!
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Originally posted by Bodhi
ohh wow, I made Nuke's ignore list!!!!! WOOHOO it's the big time for me baby!
LMAO Me too.
Wonder what I did to be so honored.
Hey least we're put in the same company as Skuzzy LOL
I dont bother with ignored lists, I have a little scroll wheel on my mouse that works just fine
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BTW
School of hard knocks
Still attending
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Originally posted by Habu
Cancer at that young age? Thats rough. What type did you have and how did you beat it?
Quite the ignored by list you have. You seem to offend all types of people indescriminatly. Very impressive.
Non Hodgkins lymphoma. I didn't beat it, it just went into remission and dissapeared without a trace.
And I don't really have an ignore list, just thought it would look cool in a sig....... so I can be more like Jb73 :)
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Maybe you just dont get all the smartness?
They say Plato, and you hear gunpowder.
I love Plato, especially the different colored stuff, I gots the little machine you squish it through and make snakes and stuff, and i gotz a little plastic knife i cut it into little patties and pretend it is like hamburgers or something., hours of fun that plato
Jackal has a masters in it
NwBie
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Originally posted by Nwbie
I love Plato, especially the different colored stuff, I gots the little machine you squish it through and make snakes and stuff, and i gotz a little plastic knife i cut it into little patties and pretend it is like hamburgers or something., hours of fun that plato
Jackal has a masters in it
NwBie
a masters in plato?? wow :aok :confused:
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Originally posted by beet1e
...and how old were you when you quit full-time education?
My answers - 7x GCE 'O' Level, plus a (wasted) year in the sixth form. I quit at 17½ because by then I realised that I knew everything, so no further education was necessary. :p;) -just kidding! I'll post the real reasons next time.
High School - 18.
School never really ends though. I finally decided to get off the dime and finish my degree through Embry Riddle. I've got a ways to go...
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Working on my Masters degree in Life.....I get my diploma when I get that last breath.
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LOL - I'm on NUKE's peekaboo list too! I knew it was a spoof when I saw Steve in that list. :p
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Originally posted by Nwbie
I love Plato, especially the different colored stuff, I gots the little machine you squish it through and make snakes and stuff, and i gotz a little plastic knife i cut it into little patties and pretend it is like hamburgers or something., hours of fun that plato
Jackal has a masters in it
NwBie
Yes I certainly do. I also have the much sought after spider mold........so there naaaa naaa naaaa naaa.
I also know my gozintas. :)
Higher up the berry tree, the sweeter grows the berry.
More you hug and kiss a gal , the more she wants to marry. :)
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Originally posted by NUKE
Non Hodgkins lymphoma. I didn't beat it, it just went into remission and dissapeared without a trace.
And I don't really have an ignore list, just thought it would look cool in a sig....... so I can be more like Jb73 :)
Whoa.
You had the nasty version. Your obviously a lucky man.
I had Hodgkins. finished up my last round of Chemo 12 years ago next month.
I would imagine we shared pretty much the same rough ride.
Interesting journey
In a kinda weird way I dunno if I'd be willing to trade the experiance but I sure as hell wouldnt want to go through it again and good luck to ya
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Graduated from high School under false pretenses. Classic overacheiver. Full time education in existence...occurs daily.
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BSience...ComRecAdmn
and nuke...dam man..dotn put me with thoise other peopl on ur list..thats not nice..I dont remember ever hating you
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
You had the nasty version. Your obviously a lucky man.
If he was lucky, at least he'd have had the nice version, or nothing at all. ;) Cracks me up when someone has a nasty accident, suffers some form of permanent disability but survives, and is then told they were "lucky". Glad you DID survive though, NUKE too.
I quit school because they wanted me to take three subjects that were all related to one another. If I did physics, I also HAD to take applied maths. :( If I wanted to take chemistry (my best) I also had to take physics (boring). Nowadays, the kids can take 3 unrelated subjects if they want to, even drop one and come back to it. So - struggled for a couple of years as a trainee programmer, and hit the jackpot after one of my employers sent me on a COBOL course - very leading edge in the 70s. :eek:
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Originally posted by beet1e
If he was lucky, at least he'd have had the nice version, or nothing at all. ;) Cracks me up when someone has a nasty accident, suffers some form of permanent disability but survives, and is then told they were "lucky". Glad you DID survive though, NUKE too.
I understand what your saying.
But thats almost like saying you are lucky cause you went for a walk and didnt have a car veer off the road and run over you LOL
And yes. We both would have been alot more lucky if we didnt get it. And in that sence I would say I am only slightly more lucky then he because I had the less lethal statistically speaking of the two versions.
What I meant was. At least as of 12 years ago I remember being told that unlike my version "Non Hodgkins Lymphoma" didnt have a particularly high cure rate. Yet the man had it and survived. And that is what I meant by lucky.
And we are all lucky he did survive lest we miss out on both the pleasure and displeasure (depending on subject) of his company
:)
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hehe Drediock - I know what you're saying. ;)
And I am lucky, or I have been so far...
Glad you're OK. :aok