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Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I finished school at 16, became a tradesman and am now back at college studing history.
What education do you have and what are your currently doing with your education?
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 2:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2011 at 2:54 pm by Galileo.)
I left school at age 17 without graduating. I then went back 2 years later to a different school and did pathways, which is a slower way of completing school. I graduated in 2008 when I was 24.
Now I'm studying to become a youth worker.
I am also a classically trained vocalist. I have achieved grade 8 in AMEB exams and grade 6 music theory.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm
11 GCSEs, 4 A Levels, 1 BSc in Computer Science, and currently finishing an MSc in Information Security.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I followed the usual course of American schools - kindergarden through 12th grade (graduate at 18), got an advanced diploma which basically meant shite. Dicked around for a few years then finally got off my ass and now I'm going to the local college for horticulture. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to do with the degree when I get it - enough that I'm sort of having a problem choosing, it's almost a good thing the economy sucks ass right now.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Graduated high school in 1985, got some technical training in the Army, and studied computer science in college for a couple of years. Most of my education has been via the school of hard knocks.
Despite my meager formal education, I have a great job that technically requires substantially more education than I have had.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I attended what was a Grammar School in the 1960's after successfully passing the 11plus examination which qualified me to go there. Those who failed that exam were sent to secondary modern schools, which were supposedly inferior.
Most grammar schools modelled themselves on public schools, the home of the elite of society whose parents could afford to pay for their childrens' education.
The Grammar School system was geared towards sending its pupils on to university.
I had a good education overall and am thankful for that.
I wasn't able to take full advantage of it, however, and left at 16 with 6 GCE " O " level passes.
Whatever I have learned subsequently, has been in the university of life, which has made me the person I am today.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 6:41 pm
12 GCSE grades at school. At sixth form now studying History, English language, Art and (how unfortunate!) ICT, which I can't do at all.
Maybe going to university after two years - I'm in my first year now, in year 12 - I just don't know where; something to do with Art, possibly illustration.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm
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I spent nine years at a Lutheran Grade school where everyone (teachers included) bullied me because I was there.
The next four years were spent at a Catholic High School where most of the student body were gay.
The next three were spent at a community college because I got there on a "My dad works there" scholarship.
Now, I am a little over halfway through first semester at a prestigious arts college: Columbia College Chicago. I'm studying fiction writing, and I may spend some time to attend the bartending school near there so I can eat before I make a living by my works alone.
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RE: Your Education.
November 6, 2011 at 8:30 pm
I dropped out of school when I was 16, got my GED, and went to college. I got an Associate of Science degree in Psychology, which basically only qualifies me to be a counselor, but hey, it's something. I graduated at the top of my class, if that means anything. Now I am in my sophomore year at a top-notch university. I was majoring in Astronomy and Physics, but the math was fucking KILLING ME!. (I'm not the genius I want to be)
Now I am on the road of Biological Anthropology. I intend on going all the way... so I should be done with school by the time I'm almost 40 years old. I don't really mind. I love school!!!
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RE: Your Education.
November 7, 2011 at 3:33 am
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Dropped out of school (In the year before graduation), arsed about for a few years, started to get my shit together, went to a TAFE college, studied a language and interpreting, now at uni studying either linguistics or speech-language pathology, yet to really decide.
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