Do you go to college??
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Topic: Do you go to college??
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: Do you go to college??
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 11:02
just curios...im in college right now wondering how many people are doing the same sh*te  -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 11:10
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There's an option missing - yes and I finished. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 11:28
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I work at a college as a Security Officer.....does that count?
We are a fifteen strong team and have two thousand students and staff in our care, the trouble is the spitting, swearing and bunking off.....and that's just the staff!
 .......and as for the students....well!!! They think i was born yesterday sometimes, i was young once and i know all the tricks! Seriously i love the job and make many friends especially the naughty ones...when they're naughty they're VERY naughty!, i often meet them years after they've left and i hardly recognise them in their flash suits and sports cars....wish i'd gone to College! though i don't stand idly by, i do courses and exams too.  -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 11:33
| I'll also vote for the missing option - went and finished. Then went to grad school and finished. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 11:43
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Nope, I didnt go to college, I went to 6th Form instead (brits will know what I'm on about), I'm in Uni at the mo. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 12:35
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uni at the moment finishing MSc (at last...)
never been to college
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Posted By: Wizard/TRueStar
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 12:39
yep. sittin' here waiting for DSP to start at 2
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 12:42
EE major? |
Wizard/TRueStar wrote:Posted By: man@arms
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 13:17
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I went to college for awhile, but then opted to earn a paycheck instead. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 13:21
me too. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 14:42
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I didn't actually attend a college in the American or British sense, but I went to university and finished (quite a long time ago). Then I did a British MSc by distance learning (and finished in 1998), and I'm currently doing a PhD. *GR in full-on conceited prat mode*  |
Posted By: xtopher
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 15:41
I finished as of June (wooooooooo!). University/College, whatever. My college was a university. I'll put it that way
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Posted By: yesfan88
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:06
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Yes. I'm majoring in history!! ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:24
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No college in the US/UK style here in Brazil. We go directly to the Universities and yes I went and finished the Mech. Eng. graduation. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:31
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:14
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I have to finish school first... ------------- 
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:18
| junior college starting tuesday, I plan to transfer to Uni. to study film. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:40
I guess I'm confused as to what you mean by "no college in the US/UK sense", and then say you went to a university. We often use the terms interchangably here; for example, I received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. When people ask me where I went to "college", that's what I tell them. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 22:02
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It is confused to us too, NS... but in the USA many kids go to the college only and later don't go to the Uni, as long as I know.
In other countries, after "high school" you have to choose Medicine, Engineering, Laws, Letters, etc, there is no other option.
 What surprises many people is that here in the Southern Hemisphere the school year begins, well, in accordance with the civil year - it goes from February until December, in general.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 10:43
Cant speak for the US or the rest of Europe, but in the UK we have compulsary education untill were 16, then we get to choose wether to go and get a job or go to a 6th Form/College (tend to be about the same thing but 6th orms are usually atached to a secondary school, in my experiance). You get 2 years (or 3 if you screw up a year,as I did) there and then you can go on to Uni. Of course some colleges run courses that can lat longer than 2 years. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 15:15
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Don't forget that some Colleges teach beyond the 6th form level but not quite to uni level I'm about to start my second year at uni. |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 00:11
Yup!  I'm a senior Electrical Engineering major.  ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 02:48
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College starts for me this saturday, and actual class starts tuesday. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 06:46
| Going into my second year of uni on Monday. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 06:57
No vote - I *went* to college and graduated 2 years ago. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 07:04
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I em......... er.........left college about er........*&#!!!*** years ago.........(in english that means quite a long time ago.........I am prehistoric almost!)
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 07:11
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I finished school 10 years ago (I was only 15! I have a late birthday, so by the time College started, I was 16) and then I did 3 years at College (one 1 year course, one 2 year course) and then went on to University to study Computing and Information Systems and because I was useless, that took me 4 years (the same as everyone else, but they did a year out in Industry, whilst I failed my final year! and then I resat a few modules in my fourth year) to get through and I came out the other end with a 3rd, which is a bit crap! But I did get an honours degree. So my option isn't there either! -------------   
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 14:22
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About to start my sophmore year as a Mathematics major. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 14:26
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Class starts on Tuesday. No clue what I want to do, though. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 01 2006 at 18:12
Where to start...  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 12:31
Try the "Admissions" office....------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 12:33
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Yep -- & I get paid for it, too!
(I'm there now -- better go earn my keep!
 )TTYL! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 12:39
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Went- Graduate of Fresno State University, 2003 ------------- |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 18:20
I could never get past the Student Union building... more specifically, the bar  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 19:01
I couldnt get out of bed...quite often there were very good reasons not to... 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 08:12
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count me in with the went but never finished...for more years that I care to admit... an idealist who went to be educated... and lost along the way that you are supposed to finish and enter the work force... hell if I hadn't got married and needed to drop my 'professional college student' moniker and get a real job.... I might still be there.... though I do think I am going to go back and finish. Thinking about finishing off my math and history degrees... physics?.... no way.. that ship has sailed hahahah though a lot of good that education did though... can't even remember any of Hamlet's Act III ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 12:09
Have fun when you get to your senior level analysis courses... |
Posted By: xtopher
Date Posted: September 06 2006 at 00:54
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What? No Linguistics majors? Well... then I won't be able to talk to anyone about sluicing or underspecification or sonority distance or autosegmental phonology!!!! -------------
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: September 07 2006 at 18:26
OOOOOO I'm there with ya
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: September 07 2006 at 19:45
I'll worry about grasping Multi-variable calc first. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 09:31
Ah, you'll do fine. The expression in your sig shows you to be a fine mathematician. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 14:26
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College is the same thing as an university? Cause if so, then yes, Im studying as we speak...well, not as we speak...but...you get the picture ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 15:32
In the US, yes. There appears to be confusion (at least on my part) about what "college" means in other countries. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 08 2006 at 21:32
It breaks down like this. A University is a conglomeration of colleges. An independent college is much smaller, and has separate departments. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 09 2006 at 09:42
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Yup
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: September 09 2006 at 20:11
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I used to. I finished my degree way back 2004. I'm a Physical Therapist now.
Thank God I'm done with 5 years of sleepless nights! Whew! ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 09 2006 at 20:21
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In about a year I will. I'll probably double major in musical study of guitar and....something else with which I can make money. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: babydoctor
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 13:45
| Just starting my Ph.D. program in Statistics. |
Posted By: babydoctor
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 22:29
Indeed! A pithy proof that music is not well-defined (because I know that Rush doesn't equal perfection, hehe). |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: September 18 2006 at 00:22
Well, he only says that the limit exists as music approaches perfection, but it might not necessarily equal Rush at that point, so the limit can exist, but the point does not, therefore the Music function is discontinuous at the perfection point. QED.// ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: babydoctor
Date Posted: September 18 2006 at 07:40
| ^ Yeah, I guess it could be discontinous... |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 18 2006 at 21:24
Ahh...I think I got it...so a college is just for certain careers? Is it something like that? Like the college of say fisics that is in a certian university? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 18 2006 at 23:39
Yay! More math dorks!! |
Posted By: peroxidess
Date Posted: September 20 2006 at 05:20
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University I studied Economy and now finishing my Msc in Applied Informatics... The best two years of my life...so far...
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