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06-16-2011, 07:21 PM
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BS - U.S. Naval Academy 1981 - Annapolis, MD
JD - Yale Law School 1992 - New Haven, CT
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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06-16-2011, 08:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Louisiana Tech University -- the best my parents could afford . . . really.  . . .
NO!  It worked out quite well for me! I am thankful.
B. S. Computer Science, 1977.
Had to rely on NDSL loans and BEOG grants (and a couple of simultaneous jobs) to get through the last year, though, because by then I was totally on my own: life and death . . . it happens.
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06-16-2011, 09:12 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by Gumby
BS - U.S. Naval Academy 1981 - Annapolis, MD
JD - Yale Law School 1992 - New Haven, CT
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BS from the Naval Academy and a JD from Yale? Dang, I'm impressed!
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I purr therefore I am.
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06-16-2011, 09:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Comp Sci -- Go Bears
MBA Santa Clara University
I had scholarships, work, a small amount of assistance from mom and dad, and student loans for my undergrad. I wised up for my MBA and had 3 companies foot the bill over many years at night.
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06-16-2011, 10:50 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Waimanalo, HI
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AB, Harvard College
MA, PhD, Ohio State University
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Greg (retired in 2010 at age 68, state pension)
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06-17-2011, 06:15 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Fairfield County, CT
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Originally Posted by mh
Me too. UCSB's informal motto when i was there was "Party on Del Playa"
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It probably still is! I am a 1985 grad - how about you?
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06-17-2011, 06:46 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2007
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BS - University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
MS - Oregon State University (Corvallis)
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06-17-2011, 06:55 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: Northern Illinois
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Lewis University, Romeoville, il, future training camp of the Chicago Bears
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06-17-2011, 06:55 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Colorado, USA
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Colorado College, BA in Economics, 1973.
Coach
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06-17-2011, 06:56 AM
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gone traveling
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Location: DFW
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Originally Posted by Nords
I knew a lot of submariners from RPI. We toured there in 2007. Nice school. Our daughter was horrified to learn that the loss of a dorm's heating system was considered an emergency. I was surprised to realize how small that town really is.
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RPI had a good nuclear program and is an excellent "undergrad" engineering school, in fact it is the oldest engineering school in North America. Since it is a fairly small school it lags others in terms of grad school/research, and is not as well recognized nationally as much as in the past. As for Troy, a dying mill town, and as far as I know, not much is going on there today except for RPI and the nursing school down the hill.
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06-17-2011, 08:52 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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1985, New York University's business school (BPA, now called Leonard N. Stern School of Business), BS in Economics. Graduated Magna Cum Laude and won the Jules Bachman award in Economics.
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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06-17-2011, 12:49 PM
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Moderator
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Location: Flyover country
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I think I got a good undergraduate education, but the school has moved in a different direction since I left, and I no longer support it, so I won't mention its name.
OTOH, I do actively support another undergraduate college, and I feel good about that one.
My graduate education (MA and PhD) were more "square filling" (since I did them in my spare time while on active duty), so I don't have any warm fuzzies about those schools either.
I do have a great deal of respect for those who attended the various schools of hard knocks.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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06-17-2011, 01:09 PM
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gone traveling
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Location: Eastern PA
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Originally Posted by braumeister
I do have a great deal of respect for those who attended the various schools of hard knocks.
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Thanks for your comment.
For many of us (at least for me), the desire was there, but the family/personal situation (I won't comment on "my early life challanges" on a public board) was not.
If you had the desire, ability, and support to pursue higher education, be thankful for it....
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06-17-2011, 01:11 PM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
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Location: Gulf Breeze
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BS & MS Civil Engineering, Auburn
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06-17-2011, 02:02 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Thousand Oaks
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Originally Posted by bltkmt
It probably still is! I am a 1985 grad - how about you?
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I was 85 1/2. I graduated after the 1st quarter in 86 ( if I remember correctly )
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06-17-2011, 11:13 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
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SUNY College at Oneonta, NY - BS Physics, 1980
21 credits MSEE and MSCE courses
2 US patents
SUNY = State University of New York
I earned a full tuition scholarship by acing the NYS Regents exam, plus was awarded all sorts of federal and state FA due to my HS scholastic performance (3/99) and my Mom's extremely low income.
My signature quote is very appropos here. My Mom planted the dream, I did the w*rk to make it come true. Thanks, Mom! 
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06-17-2011, 11:43 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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University of California at Riverside
Go Highlanders!!
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06-18-2011, 02:23 PM
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gone traveling
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Location: DFW
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Lots of great schools and impressive degrees. This forum has so many smart people regardless of whether you were ivy league educated or from the college of hard knocks.
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06-18-2011, 06:05 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Another Gaucho - UCSB. Not on the party track, graduated with highest honors. MS from U of Illinois at shampoo-bananna (Champaigne - Urbana).
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06-18-2011, 06:20 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DFW_M5
Lots of great schools and impressive degrees. This forum has so many smart people regardless of whether you were ivy league educated or from the college of hard knocks.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I fondly remember what my Dad said when I had my sheepskin in hand, "And that and 10 cents will get you a cup of coffee".
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