freebfrost
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A Bachelor of Arts in Economics followed by an MBA in Finance and Hospital & Health Care Administration.
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So what do/did you study in college? Did you bother with college?
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sniffles
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I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. I specialized in photography, with a minor in ceramics for my bachelor's degree.
Guess what I do for a living? I write insurance policies.
I wanted to teach photography at a college level, but I also wanted to stay in Oregon, and there was just too much competition for too few teaching positions.
Guess what I do for a living? I write insurance policies.
I wanted to teach photography at a college level, but I also wanted to stay in Oregon, and there was just too much competition for too few teaching positions.
Arbiter of Wyrms
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If all goes according to plan, I will have earned my first B.A. by the end of the week, with a double major in English(Secondary ed teacher prep) and Linguistics, and no minors.
I start the teacher credentialing program in the fall at one of the nation's finest teacher-education schools.
I start the teacher credentialing program in the fall at one of the nation's finest teacher-education schools.
cuteasaurus
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Undergrad majored in Chem and Poly Sci and did the whole honors program with thesis thing. Currently I'm in med school...hmm speaking of which perhaps I should get back to studying...
DungeonmasterCal
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I was in college off and on for 10 years, but never graduated. Just never seemed to know what direction I wanted. My majors, in order, were Radio/TV, Psychology, Sociology, Education, and History. I actually accrued enough hours to graduate, but not enough in any specified area of study.
So, if you were to get right to the root of my academic pursuits, you'd have to dig up your old Frank Zappa lp's and listen to the song T****** & Beer. (Trying to duck Eric's Grandma).
So, if you were to get right to the root of my academic pursuits, you'd have to dig up your old Frank Zappa lp's and listen to the song T****** & Beer. (Trying to duck Eric's Grandma).
RuminDange
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Bachelors in Computer Science with certifications in Systems Engineering, administration, Database admin and Application development. Two classes away from completing my Masters in System Technology, which will be complete by December. Then on to the PhD in Software Engineering (hopefully) if all goes well.
My better half has an Associate in Business Admin, a Bachelors in Liberal Arts with a minor in International studies. She should finish her second Bachelors in Political science next May and on to her Masters, if all goes well.
The rest of the group has played at college but due to many reasons mostly lack of drive or finances have dropped. (One for Vet, one for nursing, one for not sure his goals).
RD
My better half has an Associate in Business Admin, a Bachelors in Liberal Arts with a minor in International studies. She should finish her second Bachelors in Political science next May and on to her Masters, if all goes well.
The rest of the group has played at college but due to many reasons mostly lack of drive or finances have dropped. (One for Vet, one for nursing, one for not sure his goals).
RD
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mhacdebhandia
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In Australia, the federal government pays for the vast majority of your education - though I will state for the record that it's horribly underfunded if it's not directly beneficial to business or industry, and that the government has implicitly encouraged a ridiculous culture of "university is where you get trained for a white-collar job" for the past decade - and the small amount that students must contribute themselves (which was around US$2500 per year for my Bachelor of Arts, though higher for engineering, law, and so on) is deferred to an extra tax burden once you start earnining a certain level of annual income.Harmon said:
I should also add that this is no longer the universal way for Australians to attend university - the conservative federal government has also cut back on the number of places in this Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) in favour of permitting universities to institute self-funding full-fee-paying places with significantly lower academic entry requirements.
Bloodstone Press
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Major: Industrial/organizational psychology
Minors: marketing and business management
I plan to go back sometime in the next 24 months to take some classes in script writing and film.
Minors: marketing and business management
I plan to go back sometime in the next 24 months to take some classes in script writing and film.
What worked for me is not necessarily the best of advice.
I got a 4-year Communication (Public Relations) degree in 3 years, minor in Computer Science, decided that PR didn't pay enough to deal with people all the time, picked up a spouse and a contract at a big tech company as a web application developer right before the .com crash which I converted into a full-time in another department when the crash happened.
Had I stayed in school for four years and developed more professional real-world contacts (which is the generic "correct" advice to give), I wouldn't have gotten my job. Had I gone on for a master's degree or spent a bit of extra time to bump my minor up to a double major, I wouldn't have gotten my job. And if I hadn't picked up a spouse a couple of years younger than me on the way out, I wouldn't be paying her way through a private art degree nor would I have such a compatible life-partner.
The best general advice I know of is: Spend as much time and as little money as possible doing stuff in school. Get your degree in whatever the friendliest professors teach -- you're more likely to care about their classes and, reactively, they're more likely to care about you (and help you get good grades). And when you get out of college, get financially liberated from educational institutions as quickly as possible -- charitable alumni donations are okay; lingering obligations are not.
I only did one of these and I'm still doing pretty well by almost anybody's standards.
::Kaze
I got a 4-year Communication (Public Relations) degree in 3 years, minor in Computer Science, decided that PR didn't pay enough to deal with people all the time, picked up a spouse and a contract at a big tech company as a web application developer right before the .com crash which I converted into a full-time in another department when the crash happened.
Had I stayed in school for four years and developed more professional real-world contacts (which is the generic "correct" advice to give), I wouldn't have gotten my job. Had I gone on for a master's degree or spent a bit of extra time to bump my minor up to a double major, I wouldn't have gotten my job. And if I hadn't picked up a spouse a couple of years younger than me on the way out, I wouldn't be paying her way through a private art degree nor would I have such a compatible life-partner.
The best general advice I know of is: Spend as much time and as little money as possible doing stuff in school. Get your degree in whatever the friendliest professors teach -- you're more likely to care about their classes and, reactively, they're more likely to care about you (and help you get good grades). And when you get out of college, get financially liberated from educational institutions as quickly as possible -- charitable alumni donations are okay; lingering obligations are not.
I only did one of these and I'm still doing pretty well by almost anybody's standards.
::Kaze
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