Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: The Jade Knight on December 03, 2008, 12:13:19 AM
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We know there are lots of educated folks lurking out there. Here's a chance to get some idea.
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What about a GED?
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...a what?
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General Education Diploma.
What you can get if you get kicked/drop out.
Supposed to be equivalent to a high school diploma.
I have a GED, I am also a trained technician. With the few collage courses I have on top of the program I'm in, qualifies me to have a bachelors. (They had me take a test of real world experience and that counted to collage credits) I have also continued my own education through my wife's collage books.
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I also have only a GED. Dropped out of college because I already knew all there was to learn. Spent the next 10 years learning how wrong I was. Now I am a computer engineer. Of course, all of my combined knowledge would actually qualify me for a bachelor's or better. I never did well in format education, I learn better at my own pace.
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Mmkay.
I've only completed high school but I'll be finishing up my bachelor's degree next year. I could have done it this year if I'd really pushed, but I figured it wasn't worth it. Might as well spend the time, do what I'm doing well (at least... as well as I do anything...) and enjoy it, yes?
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I only finished high school. Haven't gone to college yet, waiting until the G.I. Bill gets another bump up in money given before I go. That and I still can't decide what I want to go for. :D
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Got a Bachelor's in Linguisitcs and Psychology. Currently trying to figure out where I want to go for the next level of learning. Very likely getting a Master's in Computational Linguistics, but need to get programming back under my belt. Have not looked or touched anythign in a while unfortunately.
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Got an associates of software engineering here, finished college at the age of 20, and have been in the field ever since. Someday I would like to go back and get something higher, when i get the time.
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I have two bachelor degrees from BYU: a BA in Political Science and a BS in Economics. I then went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for my Law degree (J.D.). After clerking for a year, I went to the University of Denver for my Masters of Law (LL.M.) in Taxation. I love school very much and I wish I could continue with school, but my wife says no.
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Bachelor's Degree from the University of Maryland in Geographic Information Science and Computer Cartography (with a minor in Spanish) I also have the equivalent of an Associate's Degree in Electrical Engineering as I did 6 years of that before deciding that I liked GIS better.....
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I graduated from a technical college with an associates in automotive technology. I have worked at a dealership for just under ten years and have received training at G.M. service technical college. I'm not sure if the G.M. training counts as formal education but i have spent literally hundreds of hours in the classroom and doing hands on training and testing. i also received world class technician status because of my training and testing. So while i would not consider myself an intellectual i have had lots of classroom time.
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I tried to do a double major of physics and English at BYU. That went well until I came home from my mission and attempted the 400 level physics classes. So I graduated with an English major and minors in math and physics. When my kids are all in school I'm going to go back and get that physics degree. I'll have to start all over though. After two years the calculus was rusty, now it will be more like twenty years and the calculus will be nonexistent.
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I have a bachelor's degree in Humanities with an Art History emphasis and an English minor. I got it at BYU where you had to have an emphasis and either a minor or an area of concentrated study. It was kind of funny, because I had taken some creative writing classes and a sf&f lit class of my own free will, so I actually only had to take one more class to get the minor. I loved humanities at BYU. I wish I could go back and get another humanities degree there, but not a masters. I doubt I'll ever go back for more formal education, but maybe when my kids are grown up I'll manage it.
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I'm a two semesters away from having my BA in Psychology, with a specialization in Film Studies (which, for anyone who doesn't know, is actually an English specialization) from Michigan State University.
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I have a BS and MS (that's more of the same ;)) in Computer Science from BYU. Of course, I've learned a lot more in the past nine years of employment. Learning never ends, or at least it shouldn't.
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For those who are wondering: GED counts as Secondary education.
As for myself, I have a BA in English and History (with a minor in Linguistics).
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I was gonna vote Pre-Secondary but then I realized that since I'm 12 I dont' really count. ;D 8) :P
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For those who are wondering: GED counts as Secondary education.
Not to anyone who matters it doesnt. If you have a GED, the Army requires some college credits before allowing you in. A High School diploma is fine though.
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I got an Associates in Liberal Arts at a community college and then I transferred to BYU-I to get my BA in English. I should be done with that next April (2010), hopefully.
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I was gonna vote Pre-Secondary but then I realized that since I'm 12 I dont' really count. ;D 8) :P
That's kind of me at the moment. I'm a junior in high school.
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Oh, really? Are you taking any electives (can juniors do that in your school?)?
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This tri my only elective class is a programming class. But we're allowed to take whatever we want, as long as we meet requirements for graduation. Also, my elective credits tend to disappear, since I'm a member of the LDS faith (mormons) and 2 of my credits each year go to take seminary. I take enough core classes that I usually only have 4 or 5 electives. So yeah.
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Heh. Yeah, I know well about electives being eaten up by the release hour for Seminary....but oh well. It all turned out for the better.
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This is why Early Morning Seminary was so nice :D
I think it actually IMPROVED my performance back in High School.
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Early morning Seminary wasn't offered at my school. It was the only Seminary for 9th grade (9th grade wasn't at the high school, there wasn't room for all the students), but at the high school, you had to get a release hour and walk over to the Seminary building. I think, oddly enough, I would've preferred early morning, but that wasn't an option.
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Having done both, I can say I preferred release hour seminary.
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Oh, I hated early morning when I was in it, but in retrospect, it was better for me....And I loved release hour when I had it, but it ended up taking away a lot of electives that I really wish I had've taken now that I've graduated.....So that's why I said 'oddly enough', because I hate getting up early, and I would've hated early morning Seminary then, but looking back on it all now, it would've been better....
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I wouldn't have taken an extra elective, I don't think, had I not taken release-time seminary. However, I felt like we had plenty of spots to take electives. Not so at the high school I went which had early-morning seminary.
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I'm thinking more of my senior year. There was a show choir that I really wanted to try out for, and I knew I would make it if I tried out, but I didn't have room for it in my schedule so....yeah. I was very disappointed. But that wasn't just because of Seminary. The school had just switched from a normal 7 period every day schedule to a block schedule and it was a stupid mix between 4x4 (4 classes every day for a semester, then 4 different classes every day for the next semester) and AB (4 classes one day, 4 dif. classes the next, then the first four, then the 2nd four), and my class schedule got screwed up from that too....It was retarded.
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That's a rather insulting word, Little Wil.
I know. I hate block schedules, too.
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Hmm. Well, I wasn't meaning it as insulting. Sorry if it came off like that. I know it's touchy word....You want me to modify the post?
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No, I'm OK. I just have a close relation who has down syndrome and for many of her relatives it is a touchy subject.…
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I have a cousin with Downes. I never use that word in relation to people who are special needs. Because then it totally IS insulting. Occasionally I'll use it on my sisters (that was mostly when I was younger), but now it's just in the context with how I used it before--where something happens that was just....argh.
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Even so, it's referencing those people, which many take offense at.
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True. This is probably why I very rarely use the word at all....
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I personally dislike the fact that we allow words to become so powerful. The intent of how the word is used is all that matters. Is it any better to use Politcally Correct language but still be condescending? Let's not gloss over the real issues by putting unnecessary emphasis on an arrangement of letters.
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Exactly. Plus, there's the people who "non-pc" (politically correct) words apply to, who use those "non-pc" words (ie, the "N" word) to refer to themselves, yet it's such a bad thing when others use it....Now, I generally don't use words like that anyway--and I mean any and all "non-pc" words--but what bugs me is that this gets into the racist argument. THAT is the thing that infuriates me....But that's an entirely different argument, and I don't think this is exactly the place for it. :P
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I am currently in college (actually in class ATM ha ha). I hope to get at least a Masters. I am majoring in software development. I want to be a game programmer eventually.
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Good luck—it's a competetive field, but I'm sure it'd be rewarding. Also, many of the game companies out there provide good benefits.
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Yeah, that's one of the reasons I want to get a good degree, it'll put me one above the other people that have lesser degrees than me. Also, one of the things that makes it difficult is that almost every gaming company requires experience in the gaming industry. I'm like, uhm, how am I supposed to have experience when EVERYONE requires it. xD
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Often you can get your foot in the door by getting a little other programming experience under your belt. Also: Game programmers like hiring those familiar (but not crazily obsessed with) the games they've produced in the past. I nearly applied to both Blizzard and CA this last year (before getting the job I now have).
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I want to apply to Square and Blizzzard and Lionhead.
Where do you work Jade?
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I work in a completely unrelated field: I represent two non-profit associations that negotiate benefits for their members.
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That sounds extremely less entertaining that game programming. lol.
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Possibly, but I enjoy. And it actually pays better. And I get to stay where I am.
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That's good. I don't want to stay where I live. xD I can't stand it here. I miss being near the big cities. Ha ha.
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That's good. I don't want to stay where I live. xD I can't stand it here. I miss being near the big cities. Ha ha.
Me, too. If I don't go to school (college) in a big city, as soon as I get out, I'm moving to either Boston, New York, or San Francisco (or another city that's not in America). Of course, that will probably never happen, but I'm only 12, so I can pretend. 8)
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I would like never have guessed you were that young by the way you type.
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I would like never have guessed you were that young by the way you type.
I think I'll take that as a compliment…thanks. :)