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Your Education
After you've put down some names and dates and degrees, consider other kinds of education through The School of Hard Knocks. What's the most important lesson you learned there? What were your favorite books when you were a child?
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1/11/2008, 12:19 pm
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Re: Your Education
The School of Hard Knocks is pretty much it .I did get eight years of traditional education . And several hours at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies .
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1/11/2008, 1:30 pm
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I graduated high school in '91, college in '95 with a BS of Mathematics, minor Architectural Studies. The year after I graduated, I did a post-baccalaureate pre-med program, but I crashed and burned Organic Chemistry.
I never went back for my Masters...I coasted through college, so I wanted to make sure I knew what I wanted before I went through the expense. I'm good at a lot of things, so the problem with that is it's hard to focus on one pathway.
After I got laid off in 2002, I got a Masters Certificate in Java/J2EE programming. I never got to use it.
Now I have a Masters Certificate in Project Management. I'm working on getting my PMP, and then I have to prepare to go for my Masters. I've felt bad that I haven't gone for it yet, when both my parents came from 3rd world countries and got their Ph.D.s, but I'll get mine in due time. 
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6/6/2008, 6:12 pm
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Well I went to the only Quaker Military School in the known worlds and graduated in 1966.
Hotfooted on over to the Army recruiter and was accepted but they found that I scored really high on their tests so they sent me off to the Academy Prep aka USMAPS and I basically decided that I was not as keen as I initially thought I was for a career which required a right here right now committment for 11 years (1 year at USMAPS + 4 years at West Point = a 6 year committment)
So I went through the regular Army training albeit at a slightly higher rank than my fellows due to all that other ROTC and USMAPS stuff.
Anyway - I decided to start taking college courses and did lots of correspondence courses as well as whatever was available on the posts I was assigned to.
Vietnam interupted that for a while
But I was able to complete the requirements for an Associates Degree anyway and went on to get more available courses under my belt which included Woolsey Hall at Oxford University while I was stationed in Europe.
I sat for some exams at Cambridge and some others at Edinburgh Universities. Thus I had slightly more than required for a Bachelors.
I took my discharge from the service in Europe and having married a Swedish national was able to sit for the 'student exam' for entrance to grad school but was not able to get accepted for science faculty and instead only got accepted for humanities.
That sucked.
But I put in my time and finished a Filosofi Licens which is the rough equal to a Masters but is a teaching degree with a major in Ethnography - which basically is pretty useless unless you teach or get a position doing field work for a PhD.
Many years passed and I went back to get professional certification at UNC Chapel Hill in economic development in 2000.
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7/28/2008, 3:09 am
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