Where did you go to school, what major?
 

I graduated from UM with a degree in business administration with a focus on marketing management. Post grad, one year at UF for my Juris Doctorate but quit before I finished.

How about you? Too bad adult studies wasn't offered...lol.

Got my bachelors at Cal Berkeley. I went to same college as the guys behind Xpays/Howling moon.

The school of hard knocks.

I am currently doing a BA in Liberal Studies

Which i layman taerms means I'm taking full advantage of the OZ gov to do Uni for free while drawing a wage to study BS like painting and languages

Rays rib shack bootyologist

UM .... Michigan? Minnesota?

University of Texas
B.S in Advertising, Minor in Business Foundations

The U! University of Miami. UF, University of Florida.

NLU BSMIS and U of H MBA

SDSU
San Diego State
Political Science - Class of 90
#3 Party School in the nation while I was there.
Go Aztecs!

This has ended up being more fun than law school was looking... though the year managing a strip club after graduation led me astray according to some in my family. :pimp

Yay for open learning and fee-help :D

I had a Wrasslin' scholarship...although I was bummed that I couldn't wear my Lucha Libre mask in competition:

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...old_guys_1.jpg

http://thirdparadigm.org/images/wossamottau.jpg

PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) Loafology

BS (Bathtub) Chemistry with a minor in Mixology :drinkup

ADG

just my g e d.

FIT (Now Victoria Uni) - BA Film & Television
Melbourne Uni - BA Philosophy
Melbourne Uni - Masters Philosophy (Critical Theory)

These were done between 1993 and 2004

Murdoch Uni - BA Security Terrorism & Counter terrorism estimated completion 2012

Is that with a minor in the Queen's English? :winkwink:

Where are you in OZ-land? I have relatives in the Adelaide area.

haha hell no - despite the fact i type like a N00b - trust me I am quite articluate and fluent in Queens English.... i passed high school english at college (yr 12 ) level and my major was Shakespeare.

I'm currently doing Hindi (as I already speak Bengali and it's not too much of a stretch)
Next study period I'm thinking of doing Spanish... I already know conversational Spanish quite well.. but I'm looking for courses that I can breeze thru ;-)

Oops - sorry I live on GC

Went to Kutztown University (hence the KU in my nic) with a BS in Clinical Psychology. Started my masters in Neurological Psychology, moved to Cali to finish up my master/doctrine (MUCH cheaper than PA) but then got side tracked with this Internet thing.

I was thinking of going back to get my masters but to get an MBA because now I work heavily in the business and marketing/advertising field

L.A. State...changed majors multiple times...racked up well over 200 units...but never applied for a degree...as I was in business for myself and did not need a degree to get a job.

Applied math, Cybernetics Dpt., Uni., MS + some post grad.
Management Studies, BS, Grant McEwan, Alberta.

Not sure how is that helping me doing designs.

I went to a high school & community college, leaving at 16 so I could open my own shop. Once opened, a great success, Castle Pets in Castle road Bedford sold for a big profit, allowing me to get a trade, first college in Luton for Paint spraying & second, I became a professional tiler with my own business. Most of my reports from the beginning of my school career were full of a's & b's, however towards the last year of schooling my grades did drop by a grade due to enjoying too much quality time with friends.
I came out of school with good grades from graphic design, maths, nuffield coordinated sciences, english, english lit, business studies. From the age of 5 I began writing for the school newspaper. I have only just read my reports from all those years back stating "Gary is an exceptional individual with outstanding talents in music, language & most of all communication skills.".

I loves school, I love my studies & I love my career.

B.A. in Communications, minor in Mass Media.
:2 cents:

University of Queensland in computer science
Curtin University in secondary teaching

Industrial LASER License did a 2 hour exam at Western Australia Department of Health, Radiology to run LASER shows at Raves!

Here's an old school pic of mine.

http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-schools-2.jpg

I'm the one with the mustache standing at the back.

same here, got my degree in survival

UM majored in political science.

MS ECE :thumbsup

So many wasted degrees..

i went for tool and die... lolz

BS in Zoology, minor in music production, Arizona State U



THAT one REALLY came in handy, huh?




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B.Sc.Mathematics

I think you meant:

"I am quite articulate and fluent in the Queen's English."

:)

Don't lie again, you left school at 14, well before the camera was invented. LOL!!!111oneone

LOL!

BA in Psychology from UCF in Orlando, Florida. I would love to get into teaching.

I double majored in Film and Spanish at Indiana University and University of Madrid.

Parsons School of Design BA in Communications design with a minor in Fashion Design Marketing

BA in Finance so I can manage all my porn moneyz!

That was the meaning behind this thread...to see how many people are actually applying their education and degrees to what they're doing now. My daughter starts at University of Texas this fall and she's all over the place with her choice of majors. I told her to wait 2 years, mature a little then declare after her sophomore year. Either way, most of the time you don't end up doing what you went to school to do.

Good stuff and for those who got their degrees at the University of Hard Knocks...that's good shit. It's cheaper and you probably have a better business acumen than most people I know with PhDs!

If nothing else, university taught me how to research and access information, how to stay organized, how to follow through and finish big projects, etc.... More general life stuff than things that would be used directly from the fields studied.

My minor actually came in handy as I ended up as a recording engineer for about 5 years, but as for Zoology, I realized that without going all the way to a PHD, I was about qualified enough to shovel elephant shit! LOL



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That's the bottom line. If anything, a formal education just gives you base line skills--critical reading skills, how to read huge volumes of material quickly, comprehension skills, how to network, how to work within a bureaucracy. You can get these from the school of hard knocks but you have to set your own "syllabus" and might take more discipline since working on your own self-education is less structured. College also put you into the same space as people going through the same psychic/spiritual evolution--finding out who you are, what you want, what things mean, what you want things to mean, does it matter, that kind of thing. Within a structured setting. Again, this can be done outside of the college setting as well--it just needs more initiative on the part of the seeker.

Everything else is on the job training. Given how the economy has morphed in the past few decades, the old idea of going to college just so you can "prepare for a job" needs quite a bit of overhauling. My first job right out of college was light years away from my major (I majored in History). I worked in Insurance claims. :thumbsup Now I run mainstream site networks and provide outsourced content/seo services.

UT is a great school and your daughter has made an excellent choice. Austin is also a great city. I graduated in December 98 and just moved back after being in NYC for about 12 years.

As far as picking a major, keep in mind that it is very difficult to get into the undergraduate business school and that if she can gain acceptance as an incoming freshman, it would be a good idea to just start off in the business school and pick one of the programs because she might not be able to get in at a later date. Particularly if she's an out-of-state student. That way she'll have more options if she wants to switch after a year or two.

Despite being accepted to the business school, I started off as an Economics major, which is Liberal Arts. I wanted to switch to Marketing during the middle of my sophomore year, had like a 3.1 gpa, and wasn't accepted to the program, so I just ended up picking Advertising (College of Communication)and doing the Business Foundations program, which anyone can do. An out-of-state friend of mine couldn't get in despite 2 years of a 3.7, which was good enough for him to get into NYU and Michigan. He transferred to NYU.

Also, from experience, I can say that the Advertising program at UT is truly world class. It was ranked as top 3 in the country when I was there, and seems to have grown. There are many UT grads working at the top agencies in NYC and it's pretty easy to get an internship or job at one of them.

As for those of you who've majored in 'survival', or went to the school of 'hard knocks', I'm very happy that you've become successful despite the lack of a college degree, but don't think for a second that it's been all flowers and lollipops for those of us who have gone to college.

class of '96

go bears.

only wasted if you don't use it at all.. If you chose a subject you have no interest in at all then that is different i guess...

what year did you graduate? i was there too, didn't do the florida thing though

Right on, Scott! GO BEARS!!!! WOOO!!!!! Class of 92 in the house!:thumbsup

:thumbsup what'd you study? i started off cs (the new college of cs bldg was just being finished- it was sweet!) but ended up with a minor in that, major was classical history.

I have BS in Computer Sci from Oregon State (but it pre-dates the existence of the WWW by a little over a decade)

I majored in History :thumbsup

Took many units of general education and majors classes for Administration of Justice. I also was applying for and get accepted to multiple police agencies...

Then I started making $70,000 on the Internet. I thought long and hard about it and decided started at the LAPD for $34,000 a year and possibly not coming home to my kid (single father) wasn't in either of our best interests.

University of Akron - Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
Ashland University - Associates in Business Management

Get it Where Can
 

Was supposed to be "Get It Where You Can"

K.S.P.
Masters in Economics - minor of restrictive currencies & commodities
Masters in Psychology - minor in human behavior for denied pleasures

So you have two English dregrees and yet you don't know to capitalize a proper noun? Sure buddy.