Well, not that anyone here cares, but finally got my bachelors, officially... only took me 14 years and having to go to 6 different institutions to piece together a degree...
BOOYAH! Now I can officially say :stupid:
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Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Doctors don't even go to school for 14 years!
Marines do. 
Congratulations Edelbrock! 
EdelBrock wrote: Well, not that anyone here cares, but finally got my bachelors, officially... only took me 14 years and having to go to 6 different institutions to piece together a degree...
BOOYAH! Now I can officially say :stupid:
A degree in what though? Being a soldier 
Well done anyways!
Burt Reynolds wrote: Congratulations...
Where did you buy it from?
The same place Paul McKenna did, most likely!
EdelBrock wrote: Well, not that anyone here cares, but finally got my bachelors, officially... only took me 14 years and having to go to 6 different institutions to piece together a degree...
BOOYAH! Now I can officially say :stupid:
Way to go, Edel! Kudos!
3615 Jiphy wrote: Congratulations.
Now impress us more and tell on which subject you had a degree.
Degree is in Geology from Oregon State University... so now I can officially pick up a rock and tell you what it is 
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Doctors don't even go to school for 14 years!
Marines do.
Congratulations Edelbrock!
Well it took 14 years, but I had over 6 years of credits... stupid mistake was starting in architecture (a B.A.) and changed to a B.S., so I had all these excess classes and a whole new set of bacc core classes.
The hard part was trying to fit classes into deployments and moving around the country... plus not many schools have senior level geology courses to take, so many times I was driving over an hour in commute just to take one class...
Now onto a masters... wonder how long that will take me
Lets face it, fourteen years to get a degree is pathetic. I started University in September 2001, and by the end of 2010 (if not earlier), I will have a Batchelors Degree, a Masters in Politics, a Masters in Education and a PGCE.
My mate Colin started University at the same time, he now has a Ba, MA and is about to complete his PHD, Admittedly, he hasnt been able to do anything in the last seven years, but even so...
Uncle Liam wrote: Lets face it, fourteen years to get a degree is pathetic. I started University in September 2001, and by the end of 2010 (if not earlier), I will have a Batchelors Degree, a Masters in Politics, a Masters in Education and a PGCE.
Well if I lived in my mum's basement with no responsibilities, I think I could have completed it in normal time too...
EdelBrock wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: Lets face it, fourteen years to get a degree is pathetic. I started University in September 2001, and by the end of 2010 (if not earlier), I will have a Batchelors Degree, a Masters in Politics, a Masters in Education and a PGCE.
Well if I lived in my mum's basement with no responsibilities, I think I could have completed it in normal time too...
Erm... I did my BA in a different country.
I self funded my MA. Which involved... GASP... working and studying at the same time.
The British Tax Payer is funding this course, and the closest member of my immediate family lives 128 miles away.
When you started your Degree, I was in Primary School. In thst time, I have attended SIX Different Educational institutions, gainings GCSE's, A-Levels, BA, and MA. As well as some other professional qualifications. I hardly think that taking nearly a decade and a half to gain one qualification is anything worth shouting about.
EdelBrock wrote: changed to a B.S.
While a B.A. was probably quite appropriate for a Marine, B.S. is probably even more accurate.
Uncle Liam wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: Lets face it, fourteen years to get a degree is pathetic. I started University in September 2001, and by the end of 2010 (if not earlier), I will have a Batchelors Degree, a Masters in Politics, a Masters in Education and a PGCE.
Well if I lived in my mum's basement with no responsibilities, I think I could have completed it in normal time too...
Erm... I did my BA in a different country.
I self funded my MA. Which involved... GASP... working and studying at the same time.
The British Tax Payer is funding this course, and the closest member of my immediate family lives 128 miles away.
When you started your Degree, I was in Primary School. In thst time, I have attended SIX Different Educational institutions, gainings GCSE's, A-Levels, BA, and MA. As well as some other professional qualifications. I hardly think that taking nearly a decade and a half to gain one qualification is anything worth shouting about.
Someday, when you grow up, you'll realize there's a difference between a job and a career. I very much doubt your job had you have to quit 14 different classes (one of them on 3 seperate occasions) because you have to be deployed on a moments notice. The teachers were willing to extend credit to another semester, but you moved away because your job told you to. Not to mention trying to fit classes around work-ups is next to near impossible. Then of course, add raising a family in there also...
The road has been rough, and long, so that I'm excited to finally reach the goal that has elluded me all these years I think is natural... but then you have a silver spoon shoved so far up yer arse, you think everyone else should have one wedged there as well...
EdelBrock wrote: quit 14 different classes (one of them on 3 seperate occasions)
Was one of those classes spelling? 
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: Degrees are for gayers. The more you have, the gayer you are.
one step at a time. been fightin it all this time then?
Uncle Liam wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: Lets face it, fourteen years to get a degree is pathetic. I started University in September 2001, and by the end of 2010 (if not earlier), I will have a Batchelors Degree, a Masters in Politics, a Masters in Education and a PGCE.
Well if I lived in my mum's basement with no responsibilities, I think I could have completed it in normal time too...
Erm... I did my BA in a different country.
I self funded my MA. Which involved... GASP... working and studying at the same time.
The British Tax Payer is funding this course, and the closest member of my immediate family lives 128 miles away.
When you started your Degree, I was in Primary School. In thst time, I have attended SIX Different Educational institutions, gainings GCSE's, A-Levels, BA, and MA. As well as some other professional qualifications. I hardly think that taking nearly a decade and a half to gain one qualification is anything worth shouting about.
Wow! Those are certainly some impressive educational achievements. You must be making $250K - $300K by now, right?
Congratulations Edel, it really is an achievement. When I did my HNC and then my BSc Degree, I was working full time and had two part-time jobs. Looking back I have no idea how I did it. I've been considering doing a Masters Degree for a while but not sure if it will really be worth it in the long run. I remember thinking 'never again' when I graduated but I could change my mind.
Dodjem Glutton for punishment
Well done mate. Useful subject too.
Ignore Liam, I doubt he has any idea how tricky it is to do a degree while your government keeps picking fights with people and then sending you to do the getting shot at bit.
I also doubt his degree is in anything more useful than Engerlish lit or History or Politics.
Liam, if you jump all over the septics for things like this, it reduces the impact and reality of your rantings against them when they are in fact being a bunch of inbred, clueless, isolationist, religiously deluded, backward spackers (and it's not like opportunites in that department are thin on the ground). Besides, there is work enough on the sane side to keep you busy for 6 months.
Dodjem wrote: Congratulations Edel, it really is an achievement. When I did my HNC and then my BSc Degree, I was working full time and had two part-time jobs. Looking back I have no idea how I did it. I've been considering doing a Masters Degree for a while but not sure if it will really be worth it in the long run. I remember thinking 'never again' when I graduated but I could change my mind.
Dodjem Glutton for punishment
Can a Masters actually get you more pay in your field? They aren't cheap, thats for sure. At least here, one year for the masters is the price of four years of undergraduate tution. Other than the price, it doesn't seem rougher schooling wise... but then I'm saying this from the outside looking in.
I'll be going on to get my teacher's credential and stop one class shy of my Masters. Here teachers automatically make more money with a Masters, regardless of experience. When I get out to the teaching world, I want to get hired... being low-price is better than being a high-priced when you have no experience. Once I'm a fixture at whatever school I'm at then I'll take the one last class and recieve the pay-bump... figure that's the smart way to go
EdelBrock wrote: it doesn't seem rougher schooling wise...:
It's not "college, part 2." It's a whole 'nother level of academic rigor. 
My MA got me a grant of a few thousand quid, it has in effect paid for itself.
Although saying that, my MA is from a slightly more advanced institution than Idiotsville Poly.
I'm sticking by it, no matter what circumstances, unless you were in a coma or something for years, fourteen years to do a degree is pathetic and quite frankly, an embarrasment. In this country, any even semi decent Uni would just have kicked you out. And rightly so.
Uncle Liam wrote: My MA got me a grant of a few thousand quid, it has in effect paid for itself.
Although saying that, my MA is from a slightly more advanced institution than Idiotsville Poly.
I'm sticking by it, no matter what circumstances, unless you were in a coma or something for years, fourteen years to do a degree is pathetic and quite frankly, an embarrasment. In this country, any even semi decent Uni would just have kicked you out. And rightly so.
Unbelievable.
It must be hard work being a complete dick ALL the time. 
