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14th-January-2006, 00:24
Sprung

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Originally Posted by Man

So what did you major in? Difficulty? Career afterwards? Plans for graduate school?

Associates Degree in Computer Information Systems.
Major: Programmer/Analyist
Graduated May 2004

Nowhere to use in the area I live, and I don't want to move yet. :shrug:
14th-January-2006, 00:41
Kosmo Yagkoto

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Originally Posted by Sprung

Associates Degree in Computer Information Systems.
Major: Programmer/Analyist
Graduated May 2004

Nowhere to use in the area I live, and I don't want to move yet. :shrug:

The only place in the area is the Circle K around the corner, but I am sure they are already staffed at the Programming/analysis position. Although I do hear that they have a position for a football analyst.
14th-January-2006, 00:42
Kosmo Yagkoto

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

Too funny.

Thanks everyone. Of course it's a fact I purposely ommit in my college...no need to enrage my fellow students. :P

How are you a junior in college and only 19? Did you skip some grades or take college classes in the summer?
14th-January-2006, 01:10
Xaenn

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Originally Posted by Kosmo Yagkoto

How are you a junior in college and only 19? Did you skip some grades or take college classes in the summer?

I left high school after my freshman year. Then I was "homeschooled" and fulfilled most of my requirements of that schooling at a community college. Finally I took the SATs and was accepted. The courses I took at community college don't count towards my major, so technically I am a senior, but in the Engineering program I've completed two and a half years. I have taken classes over the summer, so I will have only 24 credits my senior year instead of 36, but I think it's still most accurate to consider myself a junior.
14th-January-2006, 01:13
Kosmo Yagkoto

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

I left high school after my freshman year. Then I was "homeschooled" and fulfilled most of my requirements of that schooling at a community college. Finally I took the SATs and was accepted. The courses I took at community college don't count towards my major, so technically I am a senior, but in the Engineering program I've completed two and a half years. I have taken classes over the summer, so I will have only 24 credits my senior year instead of 36, but I think it's still most accurate to consider myself a junior.

That is really badass, congrats to you man.....you will be getting on with your life sooner than the rest of us.
14th-January-2006, 01:17
Xaenn

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Originally Posted by Kosmo Yagkoto

That is really badass, congrats to you man.....you will be getting on with your life sooner than the rest of us.

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I think it was mostly prompted by the fact I had just moved here around high school time, and well, our high school was terrible. I believe my parents were thrilled to get me out of there due to the influences there as well.
14th-January-2006, 01:25
Kosmo Yagkoto

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I think it was mostly prompted by the fact I had just moved here around high school time, and well, our high school was terrible. I believe my parents were thrilled to get me out of there due to the influences there as well.

My high school isn't bad really. I just will have to wasted my entire senior year because I am pretty much in basic classes (for time fillers) and Econ (which is my last graduation requirement. High School should only be 3 years long at the most.
14th-January-2006, 01:28
Xaenn

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Originally Posted by Kosmo Yagkoto

My high school isn't bad really. I just will have to wasted my entire senior year because I am pretty much in basic classes (for time fillers) and Econ (which is my last graduation requirement. High School should only be 3 years long at the most.

It seems like AP classes are perhaps the best way to redeem some of that time, but that only works for heading towards college afterwards. Either high school could be shortened, or something useful could be added. I didn't feel at much of a disadvantage in not having it.
14th-January-2006, 01:29
Jaws

I start college in 1 1/2 years and I plan on majoring in either Criminal Justice or Science Education. I had 3.6GPA but it dropped to god knows what after my absence from school with surgery. I missed around 2 months of work from school. Hard to make up.
14th-January-2006, 01:32
Xaenn

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Originally Posted by Jaws

I start college in 1 1/2 years and I plan on majoring in either Criminal Justice or Science Education. I had 3.6GPA but it dropped to god knows what after my absence from school with surgery. I missed around 2 months of work from school. Hard to make up.

Given I've missed lots of school due to health reasons, I can definately relate. It's truly a shame when it affects your education as such, considering it already makes your life bad enough.
14th-January-2006, 01:38
Kosmo Yagkoto

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

It seems like AP classes are perhaps the best way to redeem some of that time, but that only works for heading towards college afterwards. Either high school could be shortened, or something useful could be added. I didn't feel at much of a disadvantage in not having it.

I did take a couple AP classes but not too many are offered at my high school. Instead I have been taking college classes for dual credit. It has worked out well so far and is one of the only things keeping me sane this year.
14th-January-2006, 01:45
Xaenn

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Originally Posted by Kosmo Yagkoto

I did take a couple AP classes but not too many are offered at my high school. Instead I have been taking college classes for dual credit. It has worked out well so far and is one of the only things keeping me sane this year.

Excellent. It really works to the same effect as AP credit, which is the exact effect I was referring to.
14th-January-2006, 02:38
Terill

Except AP is to the effect similar to school, free.
14th-January-2006, 04:49
Man

ap exams cost money
14th-January-2006, 05:01
Soeru

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Originally Posted by CheezyMadman

Majored in computer science for a semester, got a .463 GPA b/c i really didn't bother...

Working on getting a job ATM, gonna try again in the fall, after my mandatory "temporary dismissal". :(

Ouch. I got a 1.065 GPA and I'm on the "Suspension Pending" list this past fall semester. If I don't do well this semester I'll be suspended for a year.

I'm majoring in Biology. Though I'm not quite sure it's the exact one I should be studying, it's the only career offered at my college that won't make me jump in front of a freight train(it's an IT school, mostly engineering and architecture majors, which everyone asks me wtf I'm studying Bio there. Well it's simple: they admitted me, and financial aid covers the whole tuition. :wacko: ) I take my Biology class at the university next door, Rutgers, so I might transfer in the future as I hate NJIT. It reeks of unbathed nerds, and of the 20 girls in the whole college, two of them are decent, and they're both taken. It's one big stinky sausage party, I'd say.

Biology isn't a hard career, it's those fucking required courses you have to take that make it a pain. As a Bachelor of Science, you need to take like 2 more semesters of a mathematics class than someone with a Bachelor of Arts, but in Biology a B.A. is seen like if it was for wussies. :wacko:

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