# Where did you go to college?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 5, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608 "2004-10-05T04:36:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/61 "2004-10-05T16:31:29Z")

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Fall/Winter 1998-1999 Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio (school was on quarters, I only finished two ☹ )

Summer Session I 2003 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) - I took one class, then stopped. I really should have filled out my FAFSA 'cause paying almost $600 for a speech class really sucked. And then I didn’t have the money (obviously) to pay for more of 'em.

FWIW, I do plan on attending college in the future and finishing a degree, although I have no idea when or in what. I’m really busy with my Mary Kay business right now (I’m going to quit my sucky day job next May), and we’re going to have a baby next year (we hope to get pregnant in June). But then I wonder … when will I have the time? And, frankly, what’s the _point_ of going back. _sigh_

> [@](#):
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> _originally posted by **CBCD** _
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> Other Bard College graduates, c’mon down!
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> \<She stands by herself, waiting…\>

I know someone who went there! He should’ve graduated in 2002. How 'bout you?

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### Author: ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/62 "2004-10-05T16:31:41Z")

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Southern Oregon University (formerly Southern Oregon College), studying theater and music. Class of '08 or '09. We’ll see.

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### Author: ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/63 "2004-10-05T16:32:35Z")

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David Lipscomb College, Nashville,TN – B. A. in History, 1983  
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN – took graduate courses in History without finishing M. A. degree, 1984-1985  
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN – M. Ed., 1992

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### Author: ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/64 "2004-10-05T16:33:09Z")

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Ball State University, graduated 1998  
Journalism/English minor

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### Author: ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/65 "2004-10-05T16:43:34Z")

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Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa Ia, 1984, A.A.  
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 1988, BGS.

Translation: I’m qualified to do absolutely nothing.

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### Author: ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/66 "2004-10-05T16:46:03Z")

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Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison NJ (night classes)

Syracuse (a summer and a year)

University of Colorado, Boulder (the rest)

I majored in Geography, then Music, then earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music which allowed me to study both, plus a little History on the side.

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### Author: ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/67 "2004-10-05T16:49:16Z")

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> [@mack](#):
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> Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison NJ (night classes)
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> Syracuse (a summer and a year)
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> University of Colorado, Boulder (the rest)
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> I majored in Geography, then Music, then earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music which allowed me to study both, plus a little History on the side.

:smack:  
FDU Spring 1981  
Syracuse Summer 1981-1982  
CU 1983-1986

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### Author: ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/68 "2004-10-05T16:51:13Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Go Gauchos! Skip’s Pizza! Morningglory Music! The Ur-Kinkos! Cuellar’s!

Gau-chos, Gau-chos!!! And let me add; Hamburger Habit, the Falafel stand, the IV Market, the Blue Dolphin Cafe!

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### Author: ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/69 "2004-10-05T16:57:05Z")

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**College of Charleston** , baby!

Go Cougars!

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### Author: ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/70 "2004-10-05T17:00:49Z")

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**Michigan State University** 1991-1993

Took “time off” to decide on a major…  
I had 5 in the 2 yrs I was there - Journalism, Communications, Telecommunications, Advertising, Fine Arts.

Went to **Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts** and have been gainfully employed at a job I enjoy ever since. I doubt I’ll go back & finish until I retire.

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### Author: ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/71 "2004-10-05T17:10:38Z")

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In 243 days, I’ll have my BS in Chemistry with a minor in history from UMass Lowell. If anyone else is from here, Go Riverhawks? No, none of us are sure what a river hawk is. The mascot costume is scary. We call them the riverrats, but then again, we’re a bunch of cynical bastards.

Hopefully, fingers crossed, prayers to all gods listening, UC Davis for a PhD in organic.

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### Author: ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/72 "2004-10-05T17:15:48Z")

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University of Windsor  
Bachelor of Commerce  
2000

I’m taking film at Sheridan College (I think it’s actually an Institute of Technology now) right now. I have an option to finish a degree at York University which would make me class of 2007.

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### Author: ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/73 "2004-10-05T17:22:02Z")

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California State University, Long Beach, class of 1973. Majored in Anthropology. What a mistake!

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### Author: ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/74 "2004-10-05T17:26:52Z")

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Whitman College  
WallaWalla, WA

BA English, 1989

“Missionaries! Missionaries! We’re on top!”

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### Author: ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/75 "2004-10-05T17:51:19Z")

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**Michigan State University** Go Spartans!

B.S. in Microbiology w/ additional major in German, 2003

I’m applying to Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine for a MSPH in parasitology early next year… let’s hope it all works out. 🙂

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### Author: ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/76 "2004-10-05T17:56:16Z")

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Let’s see.

May 2001. BS Mechanical Engineering. Penn State.  
Dec 2004. BA History. Penn State  
Hey, **phall0106** , the armpit of PA…that’s not Altoona is it?

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### Author: ![GorillaGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GorillaGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaGirl)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/77 "2004-10-05T18:03:16Z")

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WVU, B.A., Sociology & Anthropology, Anthro concentration (Physical Anthro & Archaeology), 1988  
(waves at **nyctea scandiaca** , **WVmom** , and **JohnM** )

University of Cincinnati, M.A., Anthropology, Physical Anthro concentration (uncompleted), 1991  
(waves at **Crafter\_Man** )

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### Author: ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/78 "2004-10-05T18:06:46Z")

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UC Berkeley, Interdisciplinary Studies major (where you get to design your own), 2000

**Ghanima** and I were both there in 96-97, looks like.

I know there’s at least one other Cal grad here, because I’ve seen him post about it, but I forget his name.

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### Author: ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/79 "2004-10-05T18:07:54Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> Tulane University - New Orleans, LA  
> Class of '95  
> Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology

Cool!

Tulane University (Newcomb) 1990-1994  
B.A. in Anthropology

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### Author: ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-college/267608/80 "2004-10-05T18:13:10Z")

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\*\*\*Livingston University \* \*\* (Now known as **The University of West Alabama** , which effectively makes the name bigger than the school. I did NOT approve the name change.)

Environmental Science and Music - 1989

Any one else?

\<\<insert crickets chirping here\>\>

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