AA as a double major: Liberal Arts, and Fire Science.
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Levels of Education
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 (November 7, 2014 at 12:21 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Hi guys! I recieved an A.A. degree from Landmark College, Putney, Vermont, in 1997. I briefly lived in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains of western NC in 1998, then enrolled at Sac State in northern CA. Sac State was great in a way. I learned to socialize a bit better, which Landmark was lacking opportunities in. Sac State has D-I NCAA sports. Landmark has coed sports sometimes done on an exhibition basis. I have always struggled in school. I always really loved lectures, but homework was always an achilles heel. Plus, at Sac State, I never correctly grasped the point of a major, so I never declared, thinking at some point I would satisfy the requirements or some degree, and get notice in the mail from the U that I had done so, telling me which degree. So, when I was there, I took whatever the hell I wanted, mor or less. It was everything from Hispanic Studies to occupational health and safety, with a bit of computers math, and sexuality thrown in. Fun ride, but instead of going one direction really quickly (i.e. with a major), I was going in 100 different directions very slowly. I do wish I could turn back the clock and redo this area of my life. But alas...
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 
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Started my electrical engineering design project, but didn't graduate. Went back to school and earned a BS in Business. I am more satisfied with being an autodidact. No matter what interests me, detailed information is only seconds away.  (November 7, 2014 at 12:21 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Hi guys!That's quite impressive! Perhaps you appear to be younger in that picture so I'm having a wrong impression of your age  No I'm not going to askI have finished highschool without studying, average grades was 80/100 (We don't use the GPA system here) I'm studying law and my average grades are 65/100 (To be honest the most successful student has an average of 70 or 75/100, no professor gives a grade higher than 75, it's just how it works) - I think it will work to give me a decent job. I plan on taking other degrees further if I have time - I though about philosophy, psychology or something related to economics. Right now I'm taking a small course about "Debating, communication and public speech" - Next year I plan to take the same course but the english version (You learn the same stuff but using English as a standard language).
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
I think I read she's 38. I'd have said 30, myself.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (November 7, 2014 at 1:22 am)rexbeccarox Wrote:  Aw, shucks. Rexbecca, you made my day. I have the same ideas about a lot of the people here, you included. I am always serious about being open and honest about who I really am, but I imagine I might pepper in a little more about the good things.  I'm not perfect by any means. I have serious intimacy issues that I constantly have to conquer by brute force, just to name one thing.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (November 8, 2014 at 1:00 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm not perfect by any means. I have serious intimacy issues that I constantly have to conquer by brute force, just to name one thing. Would never have guessed. Interesting that the dedication to being open and honest can coexist with intimacy issues, isn't it. I suspect that will resolve itself for you, given how you are with people. (November 8, 2014 at 1:29 am)whateverist Wrote: Interesting that the dedication to being open and honest can coexist with intimacy issues, isn't it. I suspect that will resolve itself for you, given how you are with people. Part of that whole brute force thing. I really have to make a conscious effort to force myself not to be a closed book. Always boggled my mind, how I can be so extroverted and enjoy being the center of attention, but have this innate desire to be private and have a lot of alone time. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde thing. I do hope I can overcome it, but I've been this way as long as I can remember and it doesn't seem to be getting better, even with therapy. But Jaysus having a woman in my life that knows me and gets me and has the patience of Job helps a lot.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  RE: Levels of Education
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BS in aeronautical engineering (changing majors form biochemistry to geological engineering to astronomy to electrical engineering to nuclear engineering to aeronautical engineering, all in 6 years), MS in mechanical engineering, MBA in finance. PhD in wasting my formal education. All I really enjoyed learning i didn't have to pay to learn.
(November 7, 2014 at 1:10 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I have a bachelor's in Aeronautical Engineering. Only a pretty lousy aeronautical engineer would find himself resorting to rockets. 
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