(Poll) Highest degree earned
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android1966
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I left school at 15 and went to work. The only certificates I have
are for trucks and fork lifts.
are for trucks and fork lifts.
daedalos
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I officialy received my Ph.D. in January. In what, you ask? Good question. My Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary humanities degree that is somewhere between history, classics, and religion focusing on late antiquity. Basically, I like reading texts in dead languages that explore religious questions.
alexandraaah
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daedalos said:
You'll fit in perfectly, welcome!
Calamity Jane
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I'm about 8 or so hours away from a Bachelors in English. I'll never finish that degree though, not even sure why that was my major.
Eventually... someday... down the road... I'll go back to school, get my biology degree and go to vet school. Or get my biology degree and work for the forest service....
When did we start equating education with intelligence?
Eventually... someday... down the road... I'll go back to school, get my biology degree and go to vet school. Or get my biology degree and work for the forest service....
When did we start equating education with intelligence?
cymbidia
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BA Geograpy.
BS Plant Biology.
MS Biogeography.
(Yes. I know. You've never heard of biogeography. No one has except those of us who somehow ended up studying it. Here, this'll help if you're at all interested:
http://ripley.wo.sbc.edu/departmental/env-studies/geo/biogeogr.htm)
That MS degree, and several State of California Teaching Credentials, allows me to teach science to middle school kids - the best job in the world.
I second -third?- the assertion that educational attainments don't mean much about an individual's intelligence. Beyond a certain level of stick-with-itness, what it mostly indicates is that someone had both the ability to pay for all those years in school and was willing to live like a broke student for all those years in school.
(Edited to add the undergrad degrees that almost everyone else included and i didn't. Dill? You better go do some editing on yours, too. We want to be just like everyone else, don't we?)
BS Plant Biology.
MS Biogeography.
(Yes. I know. You've never heard of biogeography. No one has except those of us who somehow ended up studying it. Here, this'll help if you're at all interested:
http://ripley.wo.sbc.edu/departmental/env-studies/geo/biogeogr.htm)
That MS degree, and several State of California Teaching Credentials, allows me to teach science to middle school kids - the best job in the world.
I second -third?- the assertion that educational attainments don't mean much about an individual's intelligence. Beyond a certain level of stick-with-itness, what it mostly indicates is that someone had both the ability to pay for all those years in school and was willing to live like a broke student for all those years in school.
(Edited to add the undergrad degrees that almost everyone else included and i didn't. Dill? You better go do some editing on yours, too. We want to be just like everyone else, don't we?)
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Have MBA and considerable work beyond it, but still cannot spell.
Degrees show that one has the tenacity to stay in and complete a field of study, and not much else.
There are many people I admire who have little formal education and yet they achieve great things.
Degrees do frequently help one gain better jobs and thus make better money. However, obviously, they do not necessarily make people better managers or communitcators.
Degrees show that one has the tenacity to stay in and complete a field of study, and not much else.
There are many people I admire who have little formal education and yet they achieve great things.
Degrees do frequently help one gain better jobs and thus make better money. However, obviously, they do not necessarily make people better managers or communitcators.
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ToddHwrd
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I have 2 years of credits that basically took care of my prerequisites, then my financial aid fell through and few years later I went back to school and graduated with an Associates Degree in Applied Sciences and Electronics, sounds fancy but at least it helped me get a half way decent job in the robotics field.
Several people have said that degrees don't make the person and that is very true but it sure does help you get your foot in the door with a good company!!
ToddH
Several people have said that degrees don't make the person and that is very true but it sure does help you get your foot in the door with a good company!!
ToddH
christophe
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BSN: nursing degree
Certifications: advanced cardiac life support
Pediatric advanced life support
Trauma certification
Master of tongue fu
Certifications: advanced cardiac life support
Pediatric advanced life support
Trauma certification
Master of tongue fu
bluntforcemama
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This is a joke, right? Are?
Hamletmaschine
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Myst said:
It's a silly t-shirt slogan that seems to pop up around commencement time....
~H~
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