Of course you’re free to say whatever you like about your life or anyone else’s. I don’t care a fig about my own degree, per se. I do, however, cherish the education that that degree represents. If I may pick on you a little further, with no personal malice or ill-will, isn’t it possible that the road to the great job you have now might have been somewhat smoother had you placed a greater value on your education and been willing and able to persuade others, particularly employers and coworkers, that your education made you more valuable and productive? If, instead, you pre-emptively make fun of your education, or acquiesce when others do so, you devalue not only your own education, but mine and that of every other person who chose to learn how to learn rather than learning how to program in COBOL or the latest thinking in how to value a company. If you don’t respect what you’ve achieved, how can you expect anyone else to?
Admittedly, this is a subject on which I tend toward terminal earnestness. But I like to think that it’s at least in part because I don’t let those cliched jokes about useless English degrees pass without comment in my presence that I’ve been able to convince others of my value to the organizations I’ve worked for and advance my career at the rate that I have.
I’m going on one the field trips, too, but I seriously doubt it’s the same one you’re planning on going on: I’ll be checking out the “Eocene Magmatism in Northeastern Nevada and it’s Relationship to Carlin-style Gold Deposits” and don’t expect to run into many paleoclimatologists.
I’ll be presenting a poster in the Petrology session (session #68; Tuesday morning) on trace-element partitioning in peralkalic rocks (including, of course, my favorite flavor of peralkalic rock–pantellerite).
Pantellerite, I’m heading down to Las Vegas for “Neoproterozoic Glacial Record in the Death Valley Region.” But I’ll be sure to stop by your poster to say hi, and see if I can’t scrub a little rust off the petrology corner of my brain.
BS in Geography, concentration in Cartography, Frostburg State University 95
but then I’ve been to
U MD Baltimore for a CS degree that I walked out of in the middle of
Mt Saint Mary’s MS in Elementery Education, I walked out of that one too!
plus a minor in History and I could have 3 or 4 other majors in about a year if I wanted to, I think I’ve got like 170 credits or something like that. I’m willing to sell my excess credits if anyone wants them!
Nah… most Aggies like Aggie jokes, well, the ones who can take a joke, do anyway. I hear most of them from my Dad and Uncle, who went there 25+ years ago.
I’m looking at going into planetary science, you got a planetary program for me? There’s a fella in Tennessee I want to work with, but I’m willing to entertain other options if they’re interesting. I’m probably going to concentrate in petrology but I’m not locked in yet.
I likely won’t be at GSA, but there is a good chance I’ll be at the LPI conference in Houston next spring.
Fillet: Make sure you do drop by, and let’s try to grab a couple of beers sometime during the conference, too.
Geobabe: Although we have a planetary geologist, we don’t do planetary geology. But if you decide to keep your feet on the ground (so to speak) and stick with earth petrology or geochemistry, I can help you out. And if you decide to stick with planetary, good luck; it’s one of the most competitive fields in geology for graduate students to break into!
There is currently only one postgraduate academic degree in the world in film archiving (though UCLA is currently developing one). It is at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and there are fewer than 100 people on the planet with this degree (an MA). With the arrival of my graded Masters thesis in the mail this week, I am now free to say that I am one of them.
I got my BA in English and Film (double major) at UC Berkeley (just a hop skip from where my wife and I–having returned to the states–now live)
Bachelors in Philosophy from Portland State University, dual minors in Psychgology and Biology.
Honorary PhD in Theology from the ULC so I get to be called “The Reverend Doctor…” just likie MLK only I use it to get laid more than he did but I never use it on a resume’.
I’m thinking of going to grad school when I retire from working. I want patches on my elbows.
