Foo - how far did you go in school

I was never good at school some reason i never understood what the teachers was talking about and id get distracted very easy i tried very hard but always got bad grades so i quit in 7th grade i regret it everyday.

I was easy. I went all the way.

got burned out in college.
was in a dual degree program, that would have taken 6 years to complete, and i was taking the max amount of class per semester I could take, and I had a full time 40 hour job with the network engineering program, and I was on the karate team,

family problems came up right after the y2k disaster went down. so I said screw it and skipped town for a few years. left my cell phone on the front step.

About 8 miles to my HS. and MBA.

I left school after High School. Been learning ever since.

I was never good at school some reason i never understood what the teachers was talking about and id get distracted very easy i tried very hard but always got bad grades so i quit in 7th grade i regret it everyday.

The fellow I work for is worth about 700 million. He went all the way to eigth grade though. :) You can be uneducated yet very smart.

I was never good at school some reason i never understood what the teachers was talking about and id get distracted very easy i tried very hard but always got bad grades so i quit in 7th grade i regret it everyday.

Where are you from?

Where are you from?Earth!!! sorry i dont give that info im afraid of id theifs. but i am from ohio and raised in south fla

I'm gonna be in college forever.

Is it even legal to stop going to school in 7th grade?

I started college right out of high school, went for a couple of years but couldn't figure out what I wanted to do, so I quit. I wish I hadn't. A few years later I took a drafting course at the local trade school but once I actually got on the job I hated it. So that was a waste of money. Now I'd like to go back to school but I don't really want a bunch of student loans.

I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper...and I was free.

Earth!!! sorry i dont give that info im afraid of id theifs. but i am from ohio and raised in south fla

How did you stop going to school after 7th grade?

got burned out in college.
was in a dual degree program, that would have taken 6 years to complete, and i was taking the max amount of class per semester I could take, and I had a full time 40 hour job with the network engineering program, and I was on the karate team,

family problems came up right after the y2k disaster went down. so I said screw it and skipped town for a few years. left my cell phone on the front step.

What y2k disaster?

BFAs come with a hair net and a paper hat.

Bachelor of the Arts. Took 8 years to do it, too. I kinda had too good of a time in college. Two years of study, four years of being totally wasted, two more years of study and out with just about the lowest passable GPA you can have.

Bachelor of the Arts. Took 8 years to do it to. I kinda had too good of a time in college. Two years of study, four years of being totally wasted, two more years of study and out with just about the lowest passable GPA you can have.

Yep. I was on the 5-year plan for my BA. Too much drinking and goofing off. Did just well enough to graduate. Joined the military, grew up and did very well in my Masters program. I can't imagine trying to find work in this economy without a degree.

5 years to a professional degree in Architecture. 5 years into the major with the highest unemployment of all college majors.

I can't imagine trying to find work in this economy without a degree.

It's not so bad. I mean, the job will absolutely suck, but it's an income. (barely)

What y2k disaster?

how long have you been using a computer?
not being rude. just asking.
short version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem

old network was co-axial in some places and cat 3 in some places and cat 5 in some places, we tried to changed the entire school to cat 5 in two months

Our university had recently acquired 22,000 some odd new computers. We wanted them to boot from the network, and they were running win2k. being brand new computers, we had to re-install windows from a disc with the proper upgrades and to take care of the Y2k issues. once we booted up about 3/4 of them fried the power supply. We had the month of December while school was out to swap them all and beat the date change. I still have scars on my knuckles from being in a rush swapping all of those power supplies.

I dropped out after my freshman year of high school. Best thing I ever did.

I wish I partied it up in college but I didn't. I was a good student.

Far enough.

Got a bsba in finance in '88..finshed accounting classes for cpa in '91...currently half way through msit...so, can not answer yet since I'm still in school.

BS IT Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology with an emphasis in CAD and Electronics. I design wireless products for a living. Have designed stuff from Ku band satcomm transmitter/receivers (dish mounted) to trailer mounted base stations to cell phones to USB modems.

College took almost 10 years as I worked full time while also attending classes. Took time off for a couple of semesters. Got married and had a kid along in there somewhere. He is going to college now.

Master's degrees in chemistry and business and a legal degree. I paid for all of them myself by working my way through school.

how long have you been using a computer?
not being rude. just asking.
short version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem

old network was co-axial in some places and cat 3 in some places and cat 5 in some places, we tried to changed the entire school to cat 5 in two months

Our university had recently acquired 22,000 some odd new computers. We wanted them to boot from the network, and they were running win2k. being brand new computers, we had to re-install windows from a disc with the proper upgrades and to take care of the Y2k issues. once we booted up about 3/4 of them fried the power supply. We had the month of December while school was out to swap them all and beat the date change. I still have scars on my knuckles from being in a rush swapping all of those power supplies.

Y2K was maybe the biggest non-issue in history. Everyone got all worked up and nothing happened.

Went to a vo-tech HS back in the 1980s. A long time later, at 33, I decided to go to college for a science degree. Took 7 years to get a 4 year degree. They kept giving me grants and scholarships so I kept taking classes. Finally they said I had to graduate. BS geology, minor in GIS. I'm now working as a GIS Specialist, enjoying geology on my own time.

Y2K was maybe the biggest non-issue in history. Everyone got all worked up and nothing happened.

epidemically yes it was a none issue.
personal computers that could be updated online and sort of thing it was simple as getting a vaccine.

endemically, it was a different issue it cost us money. programs like accecl, other databases, and several other things like large closed networks, it was a different beast. some companies lost mountains of data because they didn't update or were in the wrong format at that point.

yes nothing because a lot of people worked very hard to make sure as little happened as possible.

nothing happened, aleast two babies in hospitals got aborted by mistake due to the issue, if thats what they were willing to report, think of what went unreported.

When I was going to school in Florida, the public schools were terrible. So my grandfather shelled out for a private school. That made all the difference. That's where I learned to learn. Then I moved to California and skated along, but still made it into college. All in all it took 12 years to get from my diploma to my BA. I got an AA, took graphic arts classes at another community college and then supported myself well through the University with my graphic arts skills.

I learned to really read the catalog to find classes I wanted. I didn't declare a major till my last quarter so I couldn't be blocked from taking a class because I had the "wrong" major. I learned to find classes that focused on doing rather than reading, and to always choose a project or paper over a test. I chose classes that allowed me to teach myself what I wanted to learn rather than sit passively absorbing content.

And since then, I've been nearly constantly training and retraining myself to stay current.

I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper...and I was free.

Are you still seeking your source for some definitive?

Went all the way with "Dirty Debbie" in High School and some college years.

I plan on going back to school in 2014. I want to get a degree in Physics.

Couch

Master's in Business

Y2K was maybe the biggest non-issue in history. Everyone got all worked up and nothing happened.

Sidebar: I wrote a Y1.99k bug in a TAR driver back in the mid '80's, mainly because of time pressure and it didn't seem likely they'd still be using 3/4" mag tapes that late into the century. Oops. I left the company before it hit.

B.S. Computer Science. I never got that Masters degree I planned because Life got in the way.

Y2K was maybe the biggest non-issue in history. Everyone got all worked up and nothing happened.

I worked on a bunch of Y2K remediation projects in the years leading up to it. The reason that "nothing happened" was because a mega-buttload of work was done to make it a non-event. If it hadn't been hyped to the limit, there would have been some extraordinarily serious messes to clean up.

My favorite Y2K story is how Radio Shack randomly put credit back on my card for every purchase I had made in 1999. ( Hey, they still sold components in the retail stores then. ). Honest guy that I am, I called them up and told them about it. They told me not to bother them, it was a Y2K bug, and they'd probably get around to fixing it soon.

Needless to say, they never did.

Are you still seeking your source for some definitive?

No, I'm closer to fine now.

also, did you miss changing more than 20,000 power supplies in less than a few weeks with a squad of 6 in that note,
that counts as something to me.

comp sci was one of my minors, I just can't get away from it, it follows me like a virus. I also went to motorcycle mechanics institute, interned on bicycle repair, professional trained photagrapher, pro wrestling school. that's not even half of the stuff I have forgotten to do,

Sidebar: I wrote a Y1.99k bug in a TAR driver back in the mid '80's...

I too wrote a Y2k bug into some educational software. I don't know what happened to it.

Just before Y2K, like others, I was growing worried. That was until I read the story of one survivalist. He was going to go out of the city and live up in the mountains away from everything... about 7 miles from where I lived in the desert suburbs. :roflmao2: However, I did turn my computers off before midnight and booted them up one by one with no problems.

Y2K was not a non-problem, but rather a bullet dodged. And cheers to all the programmers who helped dodge it. And then there were the lucky COBOL programmers who found their services in hot demand after so many years.

I worked on a bunch of Y2K remediation projects in the years leading up to it. The reason that "nothing happened" was because a mega-buttload of work was done to make it a non-event. If it hadn't been hyped to the limit, there would have been some extraordinarily serious messes to clean up.

My favorite Y2K story is how Radio Shack randomly put credit back on my card for every purchase I had made in 1999. ( Hey, they still sold components in the retail stores then. ). Honest guy that I am, I called them up and told them about it. They told me not to bother them, it was a Y2K bug, and they'd probably get around to fixing it soon.

Needless to say, they never did.

It is amazing now that the general public has no clue of what really did take place behind the scenes... most people are "what Y2K problem," and just go along merrily thinking it was all an empty cry.

By the same token if the hijackers had been stopped prior to hitting the WTC... people would be saying... "what terrorists." The general public has no long term memory, and is clueless half the time.

Too far. I love learning but the way higher education is setup in the US seems to designed to drive people away.

The fellow I work for is worth about 700 million. He went all the way to eigth grade though. :) You can be uneducated yet very wealthy.

FTFY


I got a Masters Degree in Music Composition. Ergo, I'm the poster child for the corollary of the above quote: You can be educated yet very unwealthy.

I'm gonna be in college forever.

...beats the real world....

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I plan on going back to school in 2014. I want to get a degree in Fizz Icks.

Couch
fixed if for you.

fixed if for you.

Pipe down.

Couch

Pipe down.

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I have several degrees some advanced (BA Art, Phd Biology, JD) - I think I went to school around 30 years and am still taking classes here and there... it's an illness. None of it has been really useful to me...:(

College out of HS, 4.5 years, then a year hiatus, then recruited to grad school. 2 more years of course work in a masters doctoral program, then did a masters by thesis. Then took a break and never went back (some regrets). Did a two year fellowship years later. Never regretted college though it was a grind at times.

I think I finally graduated after the 24th grade. Something like that. 12 years of grammar school. 4 years of undergrad until I was full of B.S. 8 more years of grad school as I Piled it higher and Deeper. Eventually defended my thesis and got it signed and turned in something like a day before the 8 year hard deadline after which my credits would have started expiring and I would have had to start over. Of course, once you hit this point, you never really stop getting to go to school. Just finishing up 3+ years of more training (postdoc), and about to start my first "real" job at 33 freaking years old. And even that will be a limited year-to-year contract unless/until I get lucky enough to get bumped over to tenure track. It never ends.

fixed if for you.
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