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 Oct 4 2007, 06:39 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221  |
haha I switched schools 3 times, Finally finishing in December. Taking a year and a half off and finally got a new job (kinda like career) in San Antonio today. They're going to pay for my law school :-) But I'm sure if I wanted to, I could make campaigning my career. That's icky and I hate it. So I'm leaving it.
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Oct 4 2007, 07:16 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 556 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 16 |
School: No
Degree: Yes Job: Yes |
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Oct 4 2007, 07:28 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Oct 4 2007, 07:39 PM)  haha I switched schools 3 times, Finally finishing in December. Taking a year and a half off and finally got a new job (kinda like career) in San Antonio today. They're going to pay for my law school :-) But I'm sure if I wanted to, I could make campaigning my career. That's icky and I hate it. So I'm leaving it. *snerk* By the time I'm done with school, I'll probably have 4 degrees, all from different schools, and have attended a fifth school on top of that. It's kinda sad. -------------------- |
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Oct 4 2007, 07:58 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 4 2007, 08:28 PM) *snerk* By the time I'm done with school, I'll probably have 4 degrees, all from different schools, and have attended a fifth school on top of that. It's kinda sad. haha I know. I will have my BA in Poli Sci and hopefully my law degree. |
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Oct 5 2007, 08:51 AM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 4 2007, 08:28 PM) *snerk* By the time I'm done with school, I'll probably have 4 degrees, all from different schools, and have attended a fifth school on top of that. It's kinda sad. why is that sad? and melanie, i thought you only went to tech and tx state? which other two schools did you go to? --------------------  |
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Oct 5 2007, 09:05 AM
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School: Nope
Degree: Yep 2 Job: Yep -------------------- Don't sweat the petty, pet the sweaty.
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Oct 5 2007, 09:10 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Oct 5 2007, 09:51 AM) why is that sad? Well it's not sad that I'll have 4 degrees, but it's kinda silly that I've gone all over the place. I've attended: University of North Texas (1999-2001) Texas State University (2001-2003) Texas Tech University (2003-2005) University of New Mexico (2005-2006) And I'll probably be attending UT for my PhD eventually. -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2007, 09:23 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 5 2007, 10:10 AM) Well it's not sad that I'll have 4 degrees, but it's kinda silly that I've gone all over the place. I've attended: University of North Texas (1999-2001) Texas State University (2001-2003) Texas Tech University (2003-2005) University of New Mexico (2005-2006) And I'll probably be attending UT for my PhD eventually. what all degrees do you have? |
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Oct 5 2007, 09:29 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
TX State - BS in Physics
TTU - BS in Mechanical Engineering UNM - MS in Mechanical Engineering -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2007, 12:27 PM
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 Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
How was TX State, Christine?
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Oct 5 2007, 01:47 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
I like San Marcos and the campus is pretty, but the quality of education you get there varies widely by field.
I was there during the big stupid-assed debate over whether to change the name (from SWT) and that ticked me off. Not because I cared about the name of the school, but because I gathered documented evidence that some of their reasons for the name change were complete and utter BS. -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2007, 01:53 PM
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Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 5 2007, 02:47 PM) I like San Marcos and the campus is pretty, but the quality of education you get there varies widely by field. I was there during the big stupid-assed debate over whether to change the name (from SWT) and that ticked me off. Not because I cared about the name of the school, but because I gathered documented evidence that some of their reasons for the name change were complete and utter BS. details! Hopefully their graduate political science department isn't bad. It's between them and UT (still need to send in all my app stuff to them). This post has been edited by Psykopath: Oct 5 2007, 01:53 PM -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2007, 01:55 PM
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Not a student.
No degree, I dropped out with a decent GPA (2.7) for reasons I don't feel like explaining Going back to college in January, probably St Edwards. Trying to gamble and invest my way to pay for it, cause I gotta pay for college this time. --------------------   |
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Oct 5 2007, 02:03 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Well a lot of their reasons were subjective, but there were two objective things that I checked out.
1) Claimed that lack of name recognition was the reason they weren't granted a chapter of some major national honor society. I contacted the society and found out that they hadn't applied for a chapter in something like 30 years. Reasons for turning them down included availability of library resources, number of scholarships given out, things like that. 2) They also claimed that lack of name recognition was the reason that they weren't listed as a Carnegie Foundation Tier 1 school. That I found was simply because they hadn't granted enough PhDs in the last reporting period. -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2007, 09:41 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
I freakin love Texas State and would recommend it to anyone that loves hiking and rivers... and just a really beautiful campus set in the hill country. We don't have the city like atmosphere that UT has, and our campus is far more laid back.
And Jonathan: I went to CC in high school, dual credit and took courses in the summer. So technically, 3 colleges. Zach: I'm in the Poli Sci department here at Texas State. It really all depends on what you want to do with your masters degree. I've heard some really good things and some bad things. But the good by far outweigh the bad. All of the Poli Sci professors are AMAZING. I wouldn't trade any of them in for the world. |
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