[quote]Ratchet wrote:
bs - mechanical engineering technology (minor in math)
ms - metallurgical engineering
1 year left on my phd in materials science and engineering (cast metals)
also 4 classes away from an MBA[/quote]
Where at?
MIT – structural enginneer and ecomnics, BS
IDF (military) — combat engineer, rifleman
JD/MBA Harvard
IDF again
lawyer
Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
MIT – structural enginneer and ecomnics, BS
IDF (military) — combat engineer, rifleman
JD/MBA Harvard
IDF again
lawyer[/quote]
Oh yeah. MIT, now I remember why I had a deep distrust of you.
Plus everyone here knows soldier are idiots.
j/k by the way.
Master’s degree in biochemistry. Looking for PhD. History buff (almost majored in it to go be a professor, but biochem was too fascinating to give up). Thinking about going back to get a history degree at some point.
[quote]duffyj2 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
HeadHunter got his degree in Narnia.[/quote]
Heard he bombed the shit out of that place.
Theoretical physics.[/quote]
Now, see, this is a degree I’d fucking love to have! Except I suck balls at math (highest I went was Calc 3). If someone could explain how to do the greek alphabet soup/hieroglyphics math I’d love to follow in the footsteps of Feynman.
I think the point I’m getting at is that if I could be a professional student and get 6 degrees…I’d do it in a heartbeat (biochem, history, physics, english lit, chemistry, music). I like to learn too much and I have too many damned interests to stay with one topic :S
On an unrelated side note, something I’ve been fuming about the past few months is the fact that life won’t let me pursue all my interests at the same time haha
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]duffyj2 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
HeadHunter got his degree in Narnia.[/quote]
Heard he bombed the shit out of that place.
Theoretical physics.[/quote]
Now, see, this is a degree I’d fucking love to have! Except I suck balls at math (highest I went was Calc 3). If someone could explain how to do the greek alphabet soup/hieroglyphics math I’d love to follow in the footsteps of Feynman.
I think the point I’m getting at is that if I could be a professional student and get 6 degrees…I’d do it in a heartbeat (biochem, history, physics, english lit, chemistry, music). I like to learn too much and I have too many damned interests to stay with one topic :S
On an unrelated side note, something I’ve been fuming about the past few months is the fact that life won’t let me pursue all my interests at the same time haha[/quote]
Off the top of my head: calc 1 through 3. Diff EQs. System dynamics. Fluid Dynamics. Thermodynamics. Energy systems. Dynamics. Numerical integrations.
If you add up all the classes that were mostly just calc, I probably had about a dozen.
But I hear you about not getting to do everything that interests you.
BS Business Admin, Marketing from CSUS
BMF from T-Nation.
I deeply regret not being able to pursue Physics. My mom taught Physics and my son made a perfect on the AP Physics test (5), but the knack seemed to skip over me. Everybody in my immediate family is brilliant except me.
Glad to see so many highly educated people on here.
I`m not done with my education. If everything goes acording to plan, I will have a bachelors degree in history in the spring of 2011. What I do after that I dont know, maybe a masters degree or pedagogic to become a history teacher.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
I deeply regret not being able to pursue Physics. My mom taught Physics and my son made a perfect on the AP Physics test (5), but the knack seemed to skip over me. Everybody in my immediate family is brilliant except me.
Glad to see so many highly educated people on here.
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It’s O.K. HH. My dad was an electrical engineer and could do some mind boggling problem solving in his head in the blink of an eye, a talent which has eluded me and the rest of my family for the most part.
On a different note, I applied to the local CC today for a welding certificate program. Combined with my other credits it should amount to an associates in applied technologies or some shit.
If I keep on with the slow and steady thing, I might become a mechanical engineer by the time I retire.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Ratchet wrote:
bs - mechanical engineering technology (minor in math)
ms - metallurgical engineering
1 year left on my phd in materials science and engineering (cast metals)
also 4 classes away from an MBA[/quote]
Where at?[/quote]
bs - central washington university
ms - university of missouri-Rolla
phd - university of alabama at birmingham
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
It’s O.K. HH. My dad was an electrical engineer and could do some mind boggling problem solving in his head in the blink of an eye, a talent which has eluded me and the rest of my family for the most part.
On a different note, I applied to the local CC today for a welding certificate program. Combined with my other credits it should amount to an associates in applied technologies or some shit.
If I keep on with the slow and steady thing, I might become a mechanical engineer by the time I retire.
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I learned how to weld 10 minutes before teaching it to undergraduates. Luckily, the guy that taught me was a master welder that had done it for 10 years for a railroad company.
I still stuck at tig welding though (practice makes perfect though)…
btw, love welding, so much fun…
Welding is cool. I picked up just enough to put non life threatening stuff together or back together.
Education is only as good as the mind on which it is imparted.
Practicing a skill to become a master at it is more important, I think.
We are currently looking for certified welders in Virginia.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
We are currently looking for certified welders in Virginia.[/quote]
I was thinking about becoming a master welder or carver. I’m still debating, I’m already a master drive ;).
Best friend in college worked on a tourist fishing boat in Ft. Lauderdale during summers. He’d bait the hooks for old people and the kiddies. He did it every summer for years so he qualified as a Master Baiter.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Education is only as good as the mind on which it is imparted.
Practicing a skill to become a master at it is more important, I think.[/quote]Lifty has uttered a truth and a 3/4 truth or 80% truth. Education is wasted on some people and destroys others. Mastering a skill CAN be better depending on the skill, it’s application, and the life circumstances of the individual in question. I sometimes waver between wishing I had more education and being very grateful I don’t.
Yeah, that mastery thing is tricky. I learned stick on steel plate in all positions a while back, then started working in a shop that was all mig on aluminum. Whole different ballgame.
The certificate is mostly just a foot in the door and minimum requirement. Anybody I’ve spoken with in heavy industry where quality and liability is an issue wants the cert at minimum.
Ah, we’ll see. At least it will give me something to say I went somewhere and did something, rather than a hodgepodge resume and some credits at a local CC.