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Jordan G 02-18-2008 08:29 AM
Why am I the only one to connect the dots here?

Frosty, you dipped your pen in the company ink, didn't you? We warned you man.....and now you need a career change, don't you?

As for schooling - I don't think you can listen to us....it's a personal choice, really. I can't imagine going back - but that's not to say it's wrong/right/whatever. I'm done with institutionalized learning and I'm my own now:)

And golly, this forum can teach you everything.

frosty 02-18-2008 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jordan G (Post 1767037)
Why am I the only one to connect the dots here?

Frosty, you dipped your pen in the company ink, didn't you? We warned you man.....and now you need a career change, don't you?

As for schooling - I don't think you can listen to us....it's a personal choice, really. I can't imagine going back - but that's not to say it's wrong/right/whatever. I'm done with institutionalized learning and I'm my own now:)

And golly, this forum can teach you everything.
Haha! Jordan, no, there is no connection between the two! I've been thinking about a doctoral program long before I started this job. Some people at work know this. And no, I've not dipped anything yet! I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that 'tis better for me to admire from afar than to lose my sense of good reasoning and do something rash. I know in the context of work, it's wrong and unprofessional, yet I also understand that what I feel is very human and therefore normal, even if such feelings are a bit immature, superficial, or transient. My feelings have not completely gone away, but I'm trying to be mature in dealing with them, and also being realistic.

Maybe for a poor boy like me, I really shouldn't have such fanciful dreams of getting an impractical degree or saying such things as that I don't care about making money. *sigh* Sometimes we like to think we are above that, but alas, in such a society as we live in, it is hard to rise above the baseness of human character and so easy to fall below our own ideals.

Jordan G 02-18-2008 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by frosty (Post 1767231)
Haha! Jordan, no, there is no connection between the two! I've been thinking about a doctoral program long before I started this job. Some people at work know this. And no, I've not dipped anything yet! I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that 'tis better for me to admire from afar than to lose my sense of good reasoning and do something rash. I know in the context of work, it's wrong and unprofessional, yet I also understand that what I feel is very human and therefore normal, even if such feelings are a bit immature, superficial, or transient. My feelings have not completely gone away, but I'm trying to be mature in dealing with them, and also being realistic.

Maybe for a poor boy like me, I really shouldn't have such fanciful dreams of getting an impractical degree or saying such things as that I don't care about making money. *sigh* Sometimes we like to think we are above that, but alas, in such a society as we live in, it is hard to rise above the baseness of human character and so easy to fall below our own ideals.
See? You're already talking like a philosopher.....who needs a degree?

Botnst 02-18-2008 12:39 PM
Frosty, you have one shot at living, there is no lifetime rehearsal. Go for it.

B

PaulC 02-18-2008 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 1767236)
Frosty, you have one shot at living, there is no lifetime rehearsal. Go for it.

B
So true. Hell is looking back at opportunities that were forsaken for some inconsequential reason.

Jordan G 02-18-2008 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulC (Post 1767245)
So true. Hell is looking back at opportunities that were forsaken for some inconsequential reason.
Like banging your boss after a departmental meeting on the conference room table?

kerry 02-18-2008 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by frosty (Post 1767231)
Maybe for a poor boy like me, I really shouldn't have such fanciful dreams of getting an impractical degree or saying such things as that I don't care about making money. *sigh* Sometimes we like to think we are above that, but alas, in such a society as we live in, it is hard to rise above the baseness of human character and so easy to fall below our own ideals.
I was a poor boy like you and I chose to do it. I have no regrets.

PaulC 02-18-2008 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Jordan G (Post 1767246)
Like banging your boss after a departmental meeting on the conference room table?
Forsaking an opportunity to get the clap is seldom regretted.

SwampYankee 02-18-2008 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by frosty (Post 1766113)
I've been entertaining some silly thoughts of going to a top-notch university. My undergrad GPA is quite dismal :( but I redeemed myself in grad school and graduated with a GPA that is safely above the GPA requirements of the doctoral programs at many universities. I'm thinking of a PhD in Medieval lit but lately I've been having some really fanciful thoughts of one in philosophy. I'm insane. Or maybe I just don't know myself!
Hard.

But then again WTH do I know? I'm not sure I'd get into UConn if I had to now. Let's just say I was less than driven when it came to academics, which for the most part, came naturally to me. Until I had to apply myself that is.

I do have several friends and H.S. alumnus that did go the ivy league route, both undergrad and grad (can't say that I ran with any docs, at least none that I'm aware of) and not only were their GPAs impeccable, so were their lists of extracurricular activities.

SwampYankee 02-18-2008 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy (Post 1766478)
I never applied.:D

I beleive the Coast Guard Academy is the hardest school to get into. I will always remember them brushing aside the guy in front of me at the college fair back in HS because he didn't have a 4.0 GPA. You need more then that, but if you don't have a 4.0 they don't even want to know your name.:eek::D
My uncle (mother's twin brother) attended the CGA in Groton. My father, who enlisted in the CG after getting his Masters degree (during the Vietnam era), said that it screwed my uncle all up. :D He's convinced it was all the time he spent diving under the icecaps, burned out his brain cells. He's a neo-hippie living outside Seattle doing the massage/yoga thing with his wife. I would never guess that he attended the Academy if I didn't already know.

Back in the early 60's the standards were a little looser but not by much.

Botnst 02-18-2008 02:22 PM
Sounds vaguely familiar. Was a cabbie, too?

J/K, Swamp.

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Trakehner 02-18-2008 02:22 PM
I think Bush got into Yale as a legacy.

Botnst 02-18-2008 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Trakehner (Post 1767312)
I think Bush got into Yale as a legacy.
No kidding. Maybe that's proof as to the value of being a legacy.

Can you name any other presidential candidates like that?

B

SwampYankee 02-18-2008 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 1767311)
Sounds vaguely familiar. Was a cabbie, too?

J/K, Swamp.

B
And work for "the man"? Surely you jest! :)

kerry 02-18-2008 02:59 PM
I understand that the legacy thing applies to undergraduate programs. Does it apply equally well to graduate programs?


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