So how far does your Gumby stretch?
Undergrad? Pride? Not really. Sure, I’m glad I got it done, but it was mostly a means to an end. I wanted to go on to grad school and actually do my own research, so I completed the work I needed to in order to reach that goal.
I hate to break it to you, but while it was a lot of work and time, it really wasn’t all that hard. You just have to keep doing all the things they tell you to do until it’s done. And I graduated with first class honours, which I’m guessing you did not.
My undergrad degree does not define my life. And by the time you’re 30 hopefully yours won’t either. People who rest on their laurels all their lives - especially when they’re feeble and mediocre laurels - are really quite pathetic.
I think it’s funny you cannot even spell completing. :rolleyes:
And you plan to teach?
Heh heh heh… “Taint”!
I like you already.
Because they weren’t ingnorant pricks about it, and admitted they were irrational.
Why should he? Seems like that would be a waste of time at this point.
I vote “by this time tomorrow.”
I’ve made Dean’s List six times and my GPA: was never lower than 3.3 . I graduated with a 3.9 .
Ooh ooh will she brag about her SAT score next?
You see, I love children. I plan to give them my all. I don’t love straight dope. I don’t put extra effort into it.
Perhaps I am overly cynical, but for many things, I view attending a university as a means of making oneself more employable and increasing one’s opportunities in life. In campp’s case, how would it aid his* career? If anything, taking the time off from a lucrative career would be incredibly foolish, especially since it would cost not only the tuition and the living expenses, but also the opportunity cost of doing so.
I graduated from university and for the most part, it was far easier than working a real job. In a sense, university allows a lot of people to protract their adolescence in the guise of getting an education. I remember going out Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays when I was college, and I was fairly responsible in terms of going out. Getting a degree from a four year institution doesn’t make you a better person, it makes you someone who got a degree from a four year institution. Also, as it seems you’ve noted, it doesn’t make you very employable.
- I’m using the masculine tense since I am far to lazy to type his or her, every time I refer to campp.
No, because it’s not very high. However, I don’t pride myself on what people think.
Stating facts is not bragging.
Yeah … since June of 2000, not two Fridays ago. That’s around 2 posts per day versus your almost 15 per day.
What? They don’t teach math where you went to college?
No, but I did learn in University how to debate, to read for content and how to string together a proper and coherent argument. I went to university. I chose to stop because the economy sucked for teachers, so I found something where I could get a job. I chose to go to CC for this, because I thought I would be better off knowing how to do things, rather than just spouting theory. (I had my share of that at University.)
All this I have patiently explained, (several times) and pointed out that for some things Community College or an Associate’s degree is a better choice. Obviously for other careeers a 4 year or higher degree is required. By December I will have both.
My mother always said to me “There will be people richer, smarter and prettier than you, and you will be richer smarter or prettier than others, but no one is BETTER than anyone else.”.
I wasn’t “looking down on you” in the other thread. To quote myself
My sarcastic comment about you being a sub (and try using the term “substitute teacher” because otherwise you just sound like a player in the BDSM world…will it be the ball-gag or the nipple clamps today?) was merely intended as a point out that you were not really in such a lofty position in life, and maybe you might not like the extra fees that an extra level of education passes on to consumers and taxpayers. A four year degree is not always necessary desirable, or cost effective.
The other thing is, you started off that post in the “strange prejudices” thread by denying that yours was in anyway strange or irrational. That above all else is why you come off like an arrogant little twerp.
Isn’t that against the law in most of North America?
I would like to note, for those of you taking joy in the fact that I’m not a full time teacher yet, that I wouldn’t even have this job if weren’t for my degree. Where I live, I know it varies by state, one can not be a sub without a degree and cert. It’s becoming that way as more and more teachers get laid off. Secondly, I could seek other employment based on my schooling and get a very good wage. However, I’d rather take this track for a job I want. So, don’t feel I’m unemployable or I don’t have a job.
3.3? That’s what you’re so proud of? Lame.
You’re a sick person. I’m done with you. It’s one thing to not like me. It’s another thing to call me a pedophile.
Proud? No. However, my school thought it was good enough to give me all of my classes for free. So, if you think it’s too low call them up.
Undergrad scholarships are usually based on your high school performance. So I doubt they gave you your classes for free because of your so highly impressive 3.3. Certainly they couldn’t have based your freshman funding on that. I got to keep my undergrad scholarship (earned based on high school performance) as long as my GPA didn’t go below 3.0. I’d hardly call that a lofty goal.
But please, give me the contact info for your school, because I’d really like to know what institution produced such a fine specimen as yourself.
I’m not surprised that you choose to respond to that particular portion of my post while managing to miss the entire point of that sentence, and for ignoring the rest of my post which made a larger point.
Let me simplify my post for you. A four year degree does not guarantee a good job anymore. Around here, it is the bare minimum for an office job. I don’t care about your state of employment. However, for someone to be “snooty” about completing a four year degree is kind of funny. I don’t have any friends who haven’t graduated from college and the vast majority have a post graduate degree. Hell, my cleaning lady has a Master’s degree.
Did you get your scholarship because you were an ESL student, or for special circumstances for a girl who was raised by wolves in a cave? Because you are one of the most inarticulate university graduates I have ever met, if English is your first language. If not, then kudos, you are doing very well and you are an inspiration. :rolleyes: