What did you take in school?

glemay
glemay Posts: 574
edited February 2007 in The Clubhouse
Hey guys,

I know that we have thread about what everyone here does for a living, but I am curious to know what everyone here took education wise. Did you go to university or college? What did you take? Are you currently working in a field related to your education?

I figured this would be an interesting topic,

Thanks guys

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  • Mike682
    Mike682 Posts: 2,074
    edited February 2007
    Went to Hofstra University for my B.A in psychology, and then I got my M.A in Experimental Psychology at St. John's University.
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  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited February 2007
    LSU for Beer and Girls 101 - 401 ;)
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2007
    Went to Vo-tech for two years after high school for Farm Diesel Mechanics. Everything else I've learned over the years has been self-taught......
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,830
    edited February 2007
    Nothing. Honest. I don't know how that stuff got in my trunk.

    Oh, you mean, like, classes and ****?

    OK.

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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited February 2007
    Washington State University - BS in Science, graduate school for my PharmD. Thought about going on for a PhD in pharmacokinetics, but I had had enough at the end of the PharmD program.
  • glemay
    glemay Posts: 574
    edited February 2007
    Pretty interesting to see what everyone else has taken in school. Shows alot of diversity here in the club. Right now, I am at the University of Windsor in the Engineering Programn. But I am rethinking my decision about engineering. Not quite sure if it's for me.

    Keep em coming guys,

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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited February 2007
    Mostly acid.
    Make it Funky! :)
  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited February 2007
    UALR/ASU/UCA each for 2 semesters in Computer Science and then decided I didn't want to be a programmer.
  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited February 2007
    Mechanical Engineer; when I graduated, I wanted to do Electronic Eng., but was too lazy; then you get married, kids etc and going back to school is tough.

    First 10 years or so my job was related to my education (maintenance and such). After that I got into planning/logistics.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited February 2007
    Uh, lots of school (7 Years total)
    BS in Mechanical Engineering, Minor in EE and Civil
    BS Economics and Business
    MS Mineral Economics
    PhD Operations Research / Management Science

    All at Colorado School of Mines- Didn't really know what I wanted to do for a career...
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited February 2007
    Transportation & Logistics - Iowa State Univ

    I then took a temporary job in the direct marketing industry and forgot to leave :rolleyes:
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  • dagame27
    dagame27 Posts: 574
    edited February 2007
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited February 2007
    Mike682 wrote:
    Went to Hofstra University for my B.A in psychology, and then I got my M.A in Experimental Psychology at St. John's University.

    Cool, I went to Nassau across the street.

    A.A. Liberal Arts
    B.A. English
    4 classes away from B.A. in General Psychology
    Extra business classes along the way.

    Currently a Marketing Manager in international business. Always get to use something from school.
  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited February 2007
    I got a Masters in BS !

    :D



    Or was that a BS in Masters
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2007
    BS in Business Administration University of Tennessee, Major Finance, Minor Computer Science. Banking graduate studies at Vanderbilt and LSU.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited February 2007
    Davies Vocational High School Lincoln, RI
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    Johnson and Wales University to complete an A.A. for Electronics Engineering.

    Never completed my B.S. Money issue at time more then anything else.

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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited February 2007
    BS - Chemical Engineering
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited February 2007
    Go seo!

    I have a BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (1976). I took most of the MS courses but never completed a thesis. Family and the job got in the way. I was tired of the university also.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited February 2007
    I thought you meant like acid, weed, pills, etc....
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited February 2007
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    I thought you meant like acid, weed, pills, etc....

    LOL! What we did in college, stays in college;)
    Carl

  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited February 2007
    I only went to college because I wanted to be in the bands. Somewhere along the way I completed a BS in Electrical engineering. I like working in that field because I feel like I'm doing a hobby when I'm at it. I don't know if I could do a decent day of real work.
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  • Midnite Mick
    Midnite Mick Posts: 1,591
    edited February 2007
    I have a Bachelor of Human Ecology from the University of Manitoba - Department of Foods and Nutrition.....It is now in the Faculty of Science which is where it always should have been......hey maybe I can get my degree title changed.

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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited February 2007
    Centre College
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited February 2007
    BSPH in Biostatistics, BS in Math, MS Biostatistics/Epidemiology, got through everything but the dissertation for a PhD, but cash flow was an issue, so I started working and never got around to finishing. Been thinking about it, but at this point it probably wouldn't even give me that much more career opportunities.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2007
    BS in Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.

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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2007
    BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering at Cornell.

    I also work at the place I co-op'ed with. I do design of next-gen X86 microprocessors. And I enjoy it and have gotten too lazy to go back for more school :(
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,804
    edited February 2007
    Drexel University -- B.S. in Information Systems and Technology. Sometimes referred to as Information Sciences and Technology.

    For those that don't know, it's basically all the engineering behind the systems of computers and databases and such that most of you would use at work. If you have a computer there is some IT Professional behind that somewhere making sure it is running and doing what you need it to do all the time.

    It's said that IT Professionals are nothing more than help desk monkeys and that couldn't be farther from the truth. An engineer designs a piece of a equipment. The IT Professional designs the systems made up of those pieces of equipment. Same goes for Computer Science guys. They design software and the IT Professional designs a system of different pieces of software to work together. If anyone thinks they can get by without thier IT Professionals, send them home for a week or two and see how much productivity suffers without them.

    If you aren't in the industry, it can be difficult to explain. While I do have to do help desk work, that is not my primary job responsibility. I am roughly equivalent to a 3rd level help desk support person so the problem has to be really big or extremely critical to make it to my desk. Otherwise, I am busy engineering command and control systems that get installed on ships.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited February 2007
    John: Have you done any work on the "Louis and Clark" class? We designed the internal guts on that class.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited February 2007
    University of DaNang,, athletic scholarship,,US Army :)
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,804
    edited February 2007
    jdhdiggs wrote:
    John: Have you done any work on the "Louis and Clark" class? We designed the internal guts on that class.

    I don't think that class was there when I was there. I gradumacated in 2000 and I don't recall hearing about it. I spent most of my time doing database and distributed computing/networking stuff.
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