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« on: October 19, 2005, 02:43:15 pm » |
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Recently I've seen a number of people talking about the LSATs and the like. A few people have also been asking about random college homework on the IRC channel. Combined with the notion that we Magic players are smarter than the average bear, I got curious, hence the poll. I'm pretty sure someone made a poll similar to this already but I couldn't find it. So have at it guys.
Personally, I'm a junior at Penn State majoring in CS. I'll likely be switching to IST in the near future but that's neither here nor there.
For our European friends, Associate's is a 2 year degree, Bachelor's a 4 year, Master's take 6ish years, and a PhD is a research degree, bare minimum 8 years. These can vary from university to university but that's about average.
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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2005, 02:49:21 pm » |
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Masters is 6 years?!?! Only for people who work when they do the degree. If you go full-time on it, it should take 1-2 years beyond undergrad (maybe that's what you meant).
I'm a senior mathematics major at Rose-Hulman Insitute of Technology. I used to be a CS, but that sucked, so I switched my sophomore year. I was going to do a PhD in math, but this summer I learned that I don't like research. I'm currently applying to graduate schools in Electrical Engineering. It's a really good fit for mathematics. I'm currently minoring in it and Japanese.
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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2005, 02:51:47 pm » |
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I finished college a couple of years ago with a degree in Chem and Bio. I am working on a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
@JDizzle, Masters degrees are 6 years of college total, i think that is what he meant.
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2005, 02:55:43 pm » |
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2005, 03:18:48 pm » |
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In May I will have:
B.S., Physics
B.A., Mathematics
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2005, 04:02:21 pm » |
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Have a BA, working on the MA and then the Ph.D.
I added another BA/Associate degree option to the poll along the lines of the high school diploma one. I then reset the votes to keep all the votes from being in the wrong place because of the extra option.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2005, 04:59:38 pm » |
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Have a BA, working on the MA and then the Ph.D.
I added another BA/Associate degree option to the poll along the lines of the high school diploma one. I then reset the votes to keep all the votes from being in the wrong place because of the extra option.
where do I fit? I have a BA in Physics. I'm planning on starting business school in the next couple of years (after my wife is done with her masters). so I'm not "stopping here", but I'm not in grad school yet.... Bill PS I put BA/stopping here. |
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2005, 06:34:09 pm » |
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2005, 06:49:56 pm » |
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Currently a sophomore in college majoring in biochemistry. However, I will be skipping my undergrad degree because the University of Iowa Dental School has accepted me to attend after my junior year of undergraduate studies.
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2005, 07:08:41 pm » |
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I have a law degree (a J.D.)
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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2005, 07:30:07 pm » |
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High school, stopped there. I see no need to waste more years of my life in "learning" institutions.
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« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2005, 08:39:27 pm » |
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I finished high school w a perfect SAT and a C+ avg. then I attended most of StLs colleges in descending order of quality w indiferent results. no plans to ever graduate, dont care.
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« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2005, 09:43:24 pm » |
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Second year Honors CS at University of Virginia, after being cheated out of valedictorian in high school. No need for grad school, I'll probably get a job with a consulting/software firm here or fly out to the West Coast to live with one of the big companies after I graduate.
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« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2005, 10:35:43 pm » |
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I have a B.S. in chemical engineering. I am stopping there for now. I might go back later, but that's not in the foreseeable future. It might be fun (or at least interesting) to have an advanced degree in solid state physics.
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« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2005, 11:10:11 pm » |
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I have an associate of arts degree from college. After I graduated from college I enrolled in university. Currently just started working on a Philosophy major (minor undecided).
I have plans to eventually tackle the LSAT one day and get into law school. I'm so excited!!!!!
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« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2005, 11:43:11 pm » |
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I'll have my business degree at the end of this year...
Likely headed to Michigan for my MBA from there... Ugh...
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« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2005, 01:30:18 am » |
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I never completed ninth grade.
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« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2005, 01:46:45 am » |
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I have a B.S. in Chemistry. Maybe I'll go further in the future but for the moment I've seen enough of schools etc.
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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2005, 02:11:12 am » |
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Workin' on a PhD at Purdue.
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« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2005, 07:04:47 am » |
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Can't really say i finished studying but i finished high school and almost finished my study but lost interest after getting a job that was in the line of my study. It is very unsatisfying to learn during the day what you were doing the night before and thus i dropped out. Perhaps someday i will finish it, someday...
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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2005, 07:17:52 am » |
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I have the horrible title of B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering. B. Tech is equivalent to B. Eng + DIS for those that care and it is in no way related to the BTEC qualification. Still I get to have 'Ing.' on my Slovak ID card so people who care about such things have to take note.
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« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2005, 07:23:47 am » |
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- MSc in innovation sciences. - ir. (or 'ingenieur', the dutch titularity for 'university graduate engineer') in energy technology. Depending on the outcome of an interview three weeks from now, I might be working on a Ph.D. in roughly the same area as my master's (culture, innovation & transition). Still I get to have 'Ing.' on my Slovak ID card so people who care about such things have to take note. So noted. The same title exist over here. Even though universities have adopted the master's and bachelor's degree system, the old titles drs., ing., ir. and mr. are still used (and the use of them is protected by law). Unlike the Msc, though, it goes in from of your name rather than at the back. I guess it's the same over there, huh. |
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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2005, 08:35:34 am » |
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Still I get to have 'Ing.' on my Slovak ID card so people who care about such things have to take note. So noted. The same title exist over here. Even though universities have adopted the master's and bachelor's degree system, the old titles drs., ing., ir. and mr. are still used (and the use of them is protected by law). Unlike the Msc, though, it goes in from of your name rather than at the back. I guess it's the same over there, huh. Quoted for emphasis, because it's the same here. Universities are gradually switching to BA/MA, but the old titles still hold a lot of value. I am myself working on a "Dipl. journ.", which is nothing more than the diploma I'll get after completing my four years of Journalism and Contemporary History at my university, plus one year trainee work at a news medium. It's a higher grade than the BA's the German universities offer and is on one academic level with the old German "Magister Artium", although which one has more traditional "worth" is disputed hotly between "Dipl." and (German) "M.A." achievers. In American terms, it'd fall somewhere between a Bachelor and a Master. /edit: I just remebered: All this has nothing on Austria, where many of the old titles given out in the German and Austrian empires have survived. These are not academic titles, but honorary social titles: Geheimrat, Konsularrat, Kommerzialrat, Legationsrat, Obertribunalrat and Wirklicher Geheimrat and similar funny titles. "Rat" is a counsel, so you'd have "Secret Counsel", "Consular Counsel", "Commercial Counsel", "Really Secret Counsel" and various others. Dozer |
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« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2005, 09:32:22 am » |
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I got my B.A. from Yale, majoring in PoliSci, finishing in May of 2003. I know I'll definitely be heading to grad school eventually, but I'm not sure of what field yet. My guess is that in about 2-3 years I'll be back in school, after getting a good taste of the real world. I briefly toyed with the idea of lawschool, but after busting my buns as a paralegal for a year and a half I realized that I really don't want to be a corporate attorney! So now I'm working at a hedge fund to see if I'm interested in the financial world at all. So far so good, ! Luiggi |
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« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2005, 12:42:34 pm » |
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Studying for a BA in Classics at Cambridge, but it's England so I don't know where that fits into the poll in terms of "grad school" or some such.
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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2005, 12:46:10 pm » |
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Studying for a BA at Cambridge counts about the same as having a PhD  You don't ever even need to mention your title. You'd be all like 'Oh, I studied at Cambridge. Nuff said, yo.' Maybe sans the 'yo' bit, though. |
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<j_orlove> I am semi-religious
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<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
<j_orlove> but not the half that tells me how others should live theirs
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« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2005, 01:38:31 pm » |
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Second year undergrad at Drexel University, studying Biomedical Engineering. Probably going on to Dental School after that, so I'll be here for a while. Frowns.
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« Reply #27 on: October 20, 2005, 01:48:37 pm » |
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You could likely just say "I'm a janitor at Cambridge and listen in on the lectures sometimes before the booze kicks in" and still be held in high esteem. I'll have my business degree at the end of this year...
Likely headed to Michigan for my MBA from there... Ugh...
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« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2005, 01:50:16 pm » |
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Second year out of high school. 1st year at this particular community college. Just getting some general credits out of the way, going to attempt a double major in Computer/Electrical Engineering.
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« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2005, 02:32:43 pm » |
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