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Posted: 8/19/2004 6:54:11 PM EDT
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Most expensive hunk of paper I own:
 Dropped out of a statistics grad program after 1.5 years because I figured out that I could make more money by starting work NOW and having the company pay for more education later. |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 6:57:03 PM EDT
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Electronics Tech. Cert. from DeVry Inst. of Phoenix, 1983, plus some extra college just to keep up. A+ Cert. class but I didn't take the test. I wish I'd have studied harder when I was in school. If ya'll are in school now, do your best because it really is important.
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Posted: 8/19/2004 6:57:36 PM EDT
[#3]
That's irony for you! 
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Posted: 8/19/2004 6:57:50 PM EDT
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BA-- dual major economics and political science: Towson University
MSF-- Master of Science in Finance: Loyola College Passed CFA level II exam, working on passing level III exam this year |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:00:24 PM EDT
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That makes four of us in one thread. I'm surprised. Thought I was the only one. |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:02:08 PM EDT
[#6]
Hey now. Don't be hatin' The ivory tower ROCKS !!!
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:05:05 PM EDT
[#7]
Didn't we do this awhile ago?
B.S. Biomedical Engineering B.A. Electrical Engineering M.S.E. Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Biomedical Engineer (2005) |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:05:06 PM EDT
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BA - Law Enforcement (never was a LEO!)
1/3 way through MS in Environmental Science at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA ADN - licensed as RN & still work prn on the weekends to fund my black rifle disease AAS - Software Development (primary job as software engineer) MCP enrolled in Master's of Medical Informatics program at Oregon Health Science University wganz ¶ |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:28:21 PM EDT
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We seem to do it every two to three months. BTW Good luck on your Ph.D! 
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Posted: 8/19/2004 7:30:48 PM EDT
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it was definately Tasha, she was all horny and data was there |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:23:03 PM EDT
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You are officially too smart to own firearms. Please move into a double-wide and start doing a close relative. Kidding of course!
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:25:41 PM EDT
[#12]
Nothing new under the sun or on Arfcom.
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:33:08 PM EDT
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You should edit your post to say "Funny majors need not apply"
 Myself, I am still in college. Only because I have nothing to prove, but need the paper to prove it. I'm aiming toward Neurophysiology, but my English teacher swooned over my writing ability and thought I should be a writer. Which ever. |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:35:20 PM EDT
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I only have high school here. After highschool, it made me not want to go any further and after hearing the stories of college I dont really care to go.
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:37:18 PM EDT
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B.S.
M.S. Working towards a Ph.D. Who knows if that last bit will ever be completed given the current situation. It's a race against time. |
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Posted: 8/19/2004 9:44:10 PM EDT
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Still in college... the fun doesn't stop.
/groan - BUCC_Guy 
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Posted: 8/19/2004 11:27:45 PM EDT
[#17]
BFA
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Posted: 8/19/2004 11:56:34 PM EDT
[#18]
On any given trip to the range, IPSC, IDPA or PPC match I find myself in the company of everyone from MENSA PHD's to card carrying village idiots...
I'd put myself somewhere between. We gun owners/shooters are an eclectic lot. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 12:33:17 AM EDT
[#19]
It don't matter ifn I'm edumakated or not cause I still have my rifle gun!
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Posted: 8/20/2004 12:41:36 AM EDT
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A.S. Munitions Systems Technology
1 year left on B.S. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 1:06:25 AM EDT
[#21]
Gun owners, as a group, are more educated, make more money and are far more law abiding than the average American. We're just vilified in the press as slack-jawed hicks because ad hominem attacks are easier than attacking logic.
for the poll: BA - Accounting, BA - Finance (University of Utah) |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 1:42:02 AM EDT
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I was noticing that. Now the last two choices are 61 percent each. 
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Posted: 8/20/2004 5:39:25 AM EDT
[#23]
My grandfather had an 8th grade educatio but he was smarter and better-read than some PhDs.
GunLvr |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 5:45:40 AM EDT
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BA in political science
BA in philosophy |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 5:53:16 AM EDT
[#25]
Ummm... it DID occur to you that those of us with degrees (for which we worked hard, of which we are proud, etc.) might be much more likely to respond to your thread, right?...  Plus, this or something similar gets posted on a fairly regular basis. But not to rain on your BS, MBA, MPH ETA: My wife (a gun owner also): BS (x2), JD |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 5:58:12 AM EDT
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Bachelor of Business Administration - Managment
Bachelor os Science - Psychology Masters of Business Administration - Management |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:00:27 AM EDT
[#27]
B.S, working on MBA, took the liberty of voting "graduate degree"
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:00:47 AM EDT
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I'm educated enough to know that education is a suspect measure of intelligence. Intelligent people usually seek out an education, which is the main thing that drives this assumption. However, in the modern era, getting 'an education' is a default condition in middle/upper class America, so even morons who can afford college end up with acedemic credentials. It is NOT the measure it once was.
For the record I'm a 4 year university grad. I saw enough boneheads graduating with me to eliminate 'a degree' as a measure of a person. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:02:15 AM EDT
[#29]
BS Criminology, Indiana State University
MLS - Indiana University (2005) |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:08:33 AM EDT
[#30]
Im a uni student.
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:09:15 AM EDT
[#31]
I'm a high school graduate and my wife holds a Masters degree.
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:23:00 AM EDT
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going back to school online to get my bachelor's in Criminal Justice, just don't know what to do with it yet. I'm some what interested in LE, but maybe not.
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:29:23 AM EDT
[#33]
Hold on to your hats, folks...I agree with DP. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:33:24 AM EDT
[#34]
BS+MS ME
I can bear witness to the fact that a college degree and stupidity/ignorance are not mutually exclusive. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:36:42 AM EDT
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Lots of various skills, education, abilities and experience here. Never had a question I oculdn't get answered here.
For me: 4y college, 4y Medschool, 3y residency. 23y of education. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:37:16 AM EDT
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Plus A BIG one.... |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 6:37:29 AM EDT
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I'm dumber than a sack of hammers
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Posted: 8/20/2004 7:49:12 AM EDT
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I agree with you. The trend seems to be that everyone should go to college. While seemingly laudable, many occupations don't require that level of education and it sort of diminishes the value of higher education (except for personal enlightenment) if everyone has it. Who's going to collect the garbage, push the brooms, dig the ditches and lean on shovels, wash the dishes, work the assembly lines, etc., etc. College educated people won't want to and it would be a waste to have them do so. Are we creating a society in which we will need an endless supply of illegal immigrants to do the menial and blue collar work? Second generation immigrants will go to college and we will always need another wave of first generation workers The Mexican-American war is being refought. This time, however, we are capitulating. Sorry for the rant. Does this make me a racist? Probably in some circles. 
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Posted: 8/20/2004 7:53:34 AM EDT
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I had to put 2 to 4 year college as I'm still attending.
I started late because I decided to serve my country before myself. Nice little jab to the lurking socialists out there.
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Posted: 8/20/2004 7:55:37 AM EDT
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B.Sci, going for my MS in the fall.
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Posted: 8/20/2004 7:59:15 AM EDT
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You should have seen the faces of the arts crowd when I exhibited a bunch of paintings with targets and Black Rifles after the AWB - |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 8:03:59 AM EDT
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I'm a CPA
which some people say means Certifiable PitA. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:04:58 AM EDT
[#43]
I never went to college and I am doing good. I always thought that the education didn't matter. Because there are book smarts and street smarts. And from what I have seen people with alot of book smarts are lacking in street smarts and have a difficult time trying to live with simple things. I have seen alot of college grads that couldn't function properly because they don't know how to react to unforeseen problems. I always thought that your IQ meant more than how far you went in school. Then again I have an IQ of 157 and have never wanted to further my education because I felt I had no need to. Thanks
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:16:10 AM EDT
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A lot is 2 words.... one of the few things I remember from grade school.
I finished high school with about a C average due to boredom with school, and lost interest in college after finishing nothing but PE classes and 2 computer courses. Yet I was still making $40k at 20 and about $60k at 22. Times got tough when the computer geek market dried up here... that's where I think at least a 2-year degree would have helped. I still think it's just a simple piece of paper...but, too many other a$$ wipes think it's more. 10 years of experience and I get passed over for the jerk with a degree. :( My cousin has 2 masters in useless stuff... like English and history or some $hit. She works for the communist state of California yet still wishes every day that she could carry a concealed revolver with her to work. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:23:35 AM EDT
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BA in Economics & Political Science
MBA in Finance various post graduate courses and professional training/education/certifications. |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:24:55 AM EDT
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i'm over halfway to a BA in Political Science
btw, polls are still messed up |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:26:40 AM EDT
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Working on my A.S. in manufacturing technology and will be continuing to my B.S. ( my other B.S.
  ) at this rate should be done in about 2025...
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:30:27 AM EDT
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Oh man, did YOU hit the nail right on the head!!!! Excellent observation and let me tell ya you are absolutely correct! |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:33:28 AM EDT
[#49]
Im edumicated cause i is a collige stewdent
I got my AAS in Machine Tool Technology(Tool and Die maker)in 82' 2 year course Certifiction for Electronics Technician (started at DeVry in Woodbridge, NJ and finished it up in MN) AAS in Video Journalism at the local Community College |
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Posted: 8/20/2004 9:37:25 AM EDT
[#50]
+1 I know some morons with Ph.D.s from very presigious schools, and I've seen people be granted Master's degrees who shouldn't be allowed to handle scissors or sharp pencils
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