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Oct 14 2006, 11:34 AM
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![]() New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
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Oct 14 2006, 12:57 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
Wait until you get out of school. Then you will see. Unless you are engineering with a 3.2+ GPA, nursing, or teaching $13-$17 an hour is what you'll get. Thats enough to get by. There fixed. So in other words Chuck, Billy and Christine are set, the rest of us are all fucked -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Oct 14 2006, 01:07 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
There fixed. So in other words Chuck, Billy and Christine are set, the rest of us are all fucked I love getting out of school with no loan debt (had scholarships, assistantship, and a little bit of parental help) and starting at 60k+. -------------------- |
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Oct 14 2006, 01:10 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
I love getting out of school with no loan debt (had scholarships, assistantship, and a little bit of parental help) and starting at 60k+. I'm really seriously giving thought to just working a temp job for 4 months and going to grad school.... I don't have a high enough GPA right now to be considered for the jobs I want even though I'm just as capable of doing them as anyone else applying for them because the first semester I was here I had a really rough time ... But, if I go to grad school, I bet that would improve my chances of getting on with a company I wanna get on with. Case in point, I didn't spend 5 years of my life working for this degree to work the SAME job I got offered 7 years ago right after I graduated highschool.....quite literally.....heh -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Oct 14 2006, 01:10 PM
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![]() New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
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Oct 14 2006, 01:16 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
I'm really seriously giving thought to just working a temp job for 4 months and going to grad school.... The only issue is that your GPA may hold you back from grad school as well. I don't know what your GPA is, but if it's low you'd better score damn well on the GRE if you want to be considered for grad school. And go somewhere other than Tech if you can. TTU may have a good undergraduate ME program, but the grad program is severely lacking. That having been said, the math portion of the GRE (the part that really matters for us) is ridiculously easy. It was a cake walk to score the 790 on it that I did. This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Oct 14 2006, 01:18 PM -------------------- |
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Oct 14 2006, 01:20 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
The only issue is that your GPA may hold you back from grad school as well. I don't know what your GPA is, but if it's low you'd better score damn well on the GRE if you want to be considered for grad school. And go somewhere other than Tech if you can. TTU may have a good undergraduate ME program, but the grad program is severely lacking. My first semester here is debilitating, most grad schools I've looked at (not TTU ME at all, I'm gonna switch over to PE if I do this) say they consider mainly your grades on your last 30 hours of coursework, in which case i'm in like flynn ... I've done pretty well the last year with one exception (french class I am also pretty well gonna go back to the University of Wyoming if I go to grad school to their PE department because it's new and they are looking for people to build the program so it'll probably be easier there than somewhere else maybe.....heh It's just that paying for it is gonna be a bitch -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Oct 14 2006, 01:32 PM
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![]() New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
i really really want to go back to school. i just dont want to go to UT. I hate their campus. I will totally give Tech the nice campus advantage. I want to go somewhere in the northeast....away from fucking Texas. Im so sick of living in Texas. but out of state tuition is a butt fucker.....
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Oct 14 2006, 02:52 PM
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![]() Group: Moderators Posts: 2,499 Joined: 23-February 06 From: El Paso Texas Member No.: 32 |
apply to grad schools & when you interview with them, see if they'll waive your out of state tuition. one of my friends go that done
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Oct 14 2006, 03:10 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Try to get an assistantship (teaching or research). Not only will that reduce your tuition to the in-state level, most assistantships include a complete tuition waiver so you only have to pay for your books.
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Oct 14 2006, 04:24 PM
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![]() Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
Debt is ok as far as college goes imo, it is a good investment. Try getting a good job if you just graduate high school....
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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Oct 14 2006, 04:47 PM
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![]() N O E S Group: Members Posts: 421 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Hieuston, TX Member No.: 42 |
Debt is ok as far as college goes imo, it is a good investment. Try getting a good job if you just graduate high school.... Ooo, yes, I have to agree. According to the news here in houston, there's a lot of hiring going on for a lot of different fields. The bad thing is the wages aren't going up. -------------------- ![]() |
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Oct 14 2006, 06:19 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
Try to get an assistantship (teaching or research). Not only will that reduce your tuition to the in-state level, most assistantships include a complete tuition waiver so you only have to pay for your books. What if both your parents graduated from the University you're looking at going to? Don't most schools give you in-state tuition in that case? Actually if I went to UW I still have a valid Wyoming driver's license, so if I put Wyoming plates back on my truck I could claim I never even left -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Oct 14 2006, 06:22 PM
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![]() Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
Actually if I went to UW I still have a valid Wyoming driver's license, so if I put Wyoming plates back on my truck I could claim I never even left One little problem: Your undergraduate degree will say...Texas Tech University. Guess you just lived in Wyoming and commuted to class daily? -------------------- |
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Oct 14 2006, 06:41 PM
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![]() Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
nah, he just paid out of state tuition at TTU
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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