What about college?

[ski_resort_observer]

overeducated?

I don't remember a poll about college. I suspect this might not be PC but I'm curious if folks went to college. Please post where you went. There might be a former classmate here and you didn't even know it.

I have a BS in Mathematics from Windham College(became Landmark College) in Putney, Vt. To be honest I went to grad school out west mostly as an excuse to ski. I went to the U. of Wyoming got an MA in Adult Education. I skied as much as possible.

 

[Grassi21]

Ithaca College here. Its the better of the two schools in Ithaca.

 

[gores95]

Rutgers baby! 6-0 19th ranked RU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tirolerpeter]

College?

Ithaca College here. Its the better of the two schools in Ithaca.

I suspect my older son might disagree. He's a "97" Cornell grad, and a career Naval Officer (LTC currently). But hey, it's not where you go to school, but what you do wherever you go.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Dang...I screwed up. When I was typing up the poll I realized it was in the wrong thread so I backed out and redid it in the correct thread. didn't think this post went in...sorry for the double post/poll.

 

[tirolerpeter]

College?

I took the SUNY Stony Brook route. BA Pol Sci "67" and then, after service in the military (Vietnam April 68 - June 69) I did a Masters Degree there from "70" to "71." My life experiences have cleary made me think that many people are "over-educated" and "under-smart."

 

[noski]

I graduated 13th in my class of 121 in 1979 but didn't go to college. I just didn't know what I wanted to do. I worked HARD and worked my way up thru the ranks of wherever I was working. I was a bank branch manager when I left there after 11years to take my current job (9 years ago)- which I love. I am still not sure what I want to do when I grow up.

 

[feldmrschl]

I got a BS in Comp Sci from ULowell before it got assimilated into the collective known as UMass/Lowell. Just missed graduating w/honors due to my predilection for liquor and women.

 

[Npage148]

I am at the University at Buffalo and will graduate in May 07' with a Doctor of Pharmacy. Im planning on continueing with my over-education at UB by starting for a Ph.D in pharmaceutical sciences in the fall. Maybe i'll be done in 2012. ugh

 

[mattchuck2]

Colby College . . . Waterville, ME

 

[Ski Diva]

Started at Ithaca College, then transferred after two years to Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communcations.

 

[Skier75]

SMTC, formerly SMVTI, that's Southern Maine Techical College, then USM(University of Southern Maine)1989, Portland and Gorham campus 1999

 

[mattchuck2]

Colby College

One hour from Sugarloaf . . . 50 minutes if I hauled ass.

 

[Terry]

The only college I went to was the school of hard knocks! Graduated from high school and went to work. :beer:

 

[John84]

Junior in high school, so I'm just starting to seriously look.

 

[smootharc]

Book learnin' or life learnin' ?

Quality or quantity ? Over or under ? Regurgitatin' or originatin' ? Stuffing little gullets with spoon fed wisdom hatched by school boards that want to ban books ? What defines "education" and who holds the keys to the pantry of educational nourishment ? Rest assured, I'm an idiot regarding the 2 plus 2's.....but people seem to love chatting with me at parties (or so my wife says- lovely gal).

Going existential here before moving on with the education thing, with today's "Great Lines in Movies". Woody Allen's "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982) when Jose Ferrer's character plugs Tony Robert's character with an arrow and says to himself in wonderment "I've drawn blood. Who am I ?". Good flick. Moving on, then....

When I think of over educated I think of a few trustafarian friends who have never held a job, and who, well into their 40's, are still gathering degrees and "finding themselves". Puleeze...

Now, me, I squandered an Ivy League education on beer, babes, and buds....so maybe I'm overly diploma'd, underly achievementized cause I got my diploma by the skin of my chinny chin chin. But I left with a great nickname, and a legend (perhaps infamy) trailing me like a whiff of Paco Rabanne that continues, amongst those who on campus at the time, to this day. Food fight !!!!!!

But, wait, there's more....I think I actually chose to do something I love, and turned out, somehow, to be really quite good at it, and when I wake up and look at my tired bones in mirror I can flip the boss the bird. And go to work if I feel like it (which I do....remember I love my work). Whatever education I ended up with, it somehow worked out, that liberal arts thing....that goes the way of the dinosaur in this age of micro-specialization.

And my cum laude classmates, you ask....well there's a lot of unhappy money warriors to be seen at reunions, blowing hot air up eachother's skirts, who justify things by saying.....get this...."well, at least the money's great". Huh ? Not sure if that's good education. It's certainly bad happy-camperism. But I'm sure some of them will be on campus giving buildings with their trophy wives on their tanned arms. The happiest graduate of my school....is a guy who is widely considered to be the best poker player in the world....you've seen him on ESPN. At least I think he's the happiest. He sure appears to love what he does.

Anyways, this is a more babblish post than most for me, and please note my tongue firmly in cheek. Now if me and my therapist can just get me past the guilt I feel for all those classes I skipped....then I say my education was just right.

 

[thebigo]

Undergrad was UNH, Mechanical Engineering. I have been woking on my MBA at SNHU on and off for three years, should be done in another two years.

I had a ton of fun at UNH. Managed to go out 3-4 nights a week, while working 30 hours as a research assistant and keeping a decent GPA.

Looking back I made things harder on myself than they needed to be ... but I wouldnt trade it for anything and even knowing what I know now, I would do it all over again in a second.

I wouldnt say I am overeducated, because thats not possible, but maybe underchallenged?

 

[Warp Daddy]

BA - King's college ( the poor man's Notre Dame)
Master's _ St. Lawrence U
PhD - UB

 

[Hawkshot99]

I am working Ona Accosiates in Criminal Justice From my local comunity college. What i plan to do from there is still uncertain.....

 

[Paul]

I attended 4 schools in 5 years.

Central Ct. State U - New Britski, CT
Southern Ct. State U - New Haven, CT
Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT
Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA

Got a BA in Mass Media Communications (Film and Video Production)
That was 12 years ago, now I'm an engineer designing WANs for the AT&T Evil Empire, and hold some professional certs CCNA, CCDA etc.....