I have tried them and found them disgusting 
Good luck on making your goal!
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Working on 2nd masters degree…this one in educational leadership…may mess around and go for PhD, havent fully decided for sure.
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I don’t understand PhDs. And by that I mean that I have no idea what goes into them. I know of one guy who did it in 2 years, another who took 7. You write a paper (dissertation?), right? Is it basically just however long that takes you?
Become fluent in Spanish - I grew up in Panama and had some working fluency, then moved to the States at 11 and stopped using it for many decades, and now I’m spending a lot of time on Duolingo trying to regain what I lost. I’m back up to ‘some’ conversational ability but definitely not as fluent as I want to be, although at least my pronunciation is fairly spot-on from my previous speaking. I’d like to go back and study Russian, Japanese and German again, but I think my 56 year old brain has room for one other language at a time, and I never learned enough of any of those to have a conversation, although I could puzzle out the written word semi-decently.
The reason I want to get to full Spanish fluency is that I want to get a sailboat when I retire and do lots of sailing around Central/South America.
I’m trying to get decent at chess. I love playing but I’ve never been great at it. Been playing on-line but I’d love some over-the-board opponents.
Dude, what’s your user name? I have accounts on both, but I do most of my playing on gameknot because the time controls are in days instead of minutes, so it’s more like chess by mail. I’d post mine and invite a game, but I don’t remember off the top of my head and I’m at work. I’ll try to remember when I get home. You’ll probably kick my ass, but at least I’ll learn something.
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I’ll try to respond more to your post … good stuff but I’m in a time crunch …
My username on both is the same as in here … I’m game for some correspondence games … hit me up
There’s a thread on here started about a year ago or so about who plays or wants to play chess … a few other guys posted their username in that thread as well for lichess iirc
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It usually takes people 5-6 years, but it depends on the field, the trainee’s background, life circumstances, etc.
I play as well under the same username
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Cool, my handle on both sites (and gameknot) is mediochrejelly (yes, it’s a combination statement on my skill and Dungeons and Dragons joke, I’m a huge nerd…).
Added in both bud
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Have you read Debt: The First 5000 years?
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No and it sounds very interesting,but my reading list is quite extensive right now and I probably won’t get to it until summer
There’s some other research and classes you gotta take care of. But yeah some programs can take up to 10 years to finish. And by 10 years I mean you can do it over the course of 10 years…it’s kinda self directed, but the institution puts a limit on how long you can take to complete.
So the range you specified is completely normal/typical.
Speaking of research, my goal is to get at least 1 paper out and have a poster at the Sjdm conference by the time I graduate.
Progress: the project I’m working on right now probably isn’t going to work out but is good practice. I have a project this semester with two profs that will probably work but not sure that counts (unless they let me take the lead), my senior thesis (not sure if that can be presented unless it’s something groundbreaking) and another independent project, but that might not be done by the time I graduate
I’m buying a business pretty soon here. (Not making my living off of it, just a side job.) Hoping to have my money made back in a year, which I think will be doable. At that point, I’m just hoping that it provides enough of an income that I can use the money to get something long term going, like buying a rental property or building something that doesn’t require too much work like some storage units and/or car wash or something.
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You might be able to do that now. I have some friends that are getting into AirBnB. They say it works out really well because of the mortgage system. They can put down 20%, but get into an investment that is 5X larger. They are making a good amount above the costs of keeping the house and the costs of renting it on AirBnB. Plus they build equity. I am considering it.
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