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I studied at Concordia University, on and off, for a decade. I still haven’t graduated…Shows you what kind of student I am… It seemed like this undergrad stuff never ended and with the student loan I’m still paying off and will probably be paying off for the rest of my half assed life– some people take to it like a duck to water–but it really wasn’t worth it for me.
I waited to go back 10 years after I graduated high school. In hindsite it would have been way easier to go right out of high school, I would have had more options too. So while working full time, having a wife and 3 kids I decided to go back to school at night to earn a Bachelors Degree in Project Management. Though I dreamed of being a Washington Husky, I ended up at ITT Technical Institute because they were the only ones with a schedule that I could work with…… at night.
the school of hard knocks & wassamattau
I went to Gaston College (a local community college) for 2 years and before I was going to start taking classes at UNCC, I answered an ad for a consulting firm in the paper that said if you could place out on a technical test, they could find you a job. That got my foot in the door for a career in IT and that is what I am still doing. Although it is more architecture than programming these days for the 9 to 5.
I studied History in the School Of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton between 1991-94. Got a pretty average 2:2 degree but the course was’t that great (but them I’m no Einstein either
. 50% of it was pretty badly taught though 
Still I met with wife there and had a great time in Brighton for 4-5 years.
But then I haven’t used my degree directly in any shape or form in my current ‘career’. It almost knocked my general love of history out of me. I think I was better taught and learned more at school than at University. Studying for my A levels was harder then my degree course. Half the folks at my University seemed to be waiting for their pensions. Ho humI attended Southern CT State U on and off for a number of years, before getting my BA and going to UMASS Amherst for my MA. Then I transferred to Rutgers for my PhD, which I’m currently finishing, and in the fall will be a postdoctoral instructor at Caltech, though that position involves doing more research at the Huntington library than it does teaching (just 2 courses per year). It’s a sweet deal.
So, basically, I’ve never left college.
Physics @ Eindhoven Polytechnic (as it was known then, now it’s the Eindhoven University, like the old name a lot better
)Started out at Penn State right outta high school…dropped out after 2 semesters. 8 years later enrolled at Clarion University (a small state school in western PA) via 2 semesters at Arizona State. Then Cal. State, Chico for my MS (via a few clases at U. of Vermont). Currently pursuing my PhD at Cornell U.
"fata morgana " wrote:I studied at Concordia University, on and off, for a decade. I still haven’t graduated…Shows you what kind of student I am… It seemed like this undergrad stuff never ended and with the student loan I’m still paying off and will probably be paying off for the rest of my half assed life– some people take to it like a duck to water–but it really wasn’t worth it for me.hey i went to concordia for a while. it iwas way to expensive.. and i think it was stupid of them to charge so much when they had like 2 professors for a whole department… which one? i went to river forest, il..
"crazycloud " wrote:hey i went to concordia for a while. it iwas way to expensive.. and i think it was stupid of them to charge so much when they had like 2 professors for a whole department… which one? i went to river forest, il..I don’t think these two Universities are related… Mine was in Montreal, Canada. We still have affordable fees here (for now…). Even so, I still nearly lost everything… and it wasn’t worth the sacrifice. I had a better time hiding away somewhere for a month and writing music to my heart’s content–and that’s where I should have stayed. I tried doing that again last summer by going to the States but they sent me back at the border. Now I have problems every time I cross… and I have yet to forgive but that’s what I get. I know, blah, blah… My skills are mostly experiential.
I went to the University of Houston. Journalism w/ a minor in political theory. I still work at the University, so I’m toying with getting a BS in Political Science and a minor in Media Production. I get free "paid leave" for classes, so I might as well do it. Just for kicks.
"fata morgana " wrote:I don’t think these two Universities are related… Mine was in Montreal, Canada. We still have affordable fees here (for now…). Even so, I still nearly lost everything… and it wasn’t worth the sacrifice. I had a better time hiding away somewhere for a month and writing music to my heart’s content–and that’s where I should have stayed. I tried doing that again last summer by going to the States but they sent me back at the border. Now I have problems every time I cross… and I have yet to forgive but that’s what I get. I know, blah, blah… My skills are mostly experiential.ah well… in the u.s. all the concordia schools are lutheran private colleges.. there are like 30 of them.. i though it might be the same.. like all the loyola schools are jesuits…. and all the wesleyan schools are wesleyan…
"crazycloud " wrote:ah well… in the u.s. all the concordia schools are lutheran private colleges.. there are like 30 of them.. i though it might be the same.. like all the loyola schools are jesuits…. and all the wesleyan schools are wesleyan…What were you studying? Our public schools are not related to any particular religious denomination–even though we have schools with all the same names as the ones you mentioned–they’re all secular.
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