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.

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1981 240d - 135k - Arlene

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?

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1981 240d - 135k - Arlene

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.

Like banging your boss after a departmental meeting on the conference room table?

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1981 240d - 135k - Arlene

I was a poor boy like you and I chose to do it. I have no regrets.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Forsaking an opportunity to get the clap is seldom regretted.

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.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

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. 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.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Sounds vaguely familiar. Was a cabbie, too?

J/K, Swamp.

B

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

And work for "the man"? Surely you jest!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

I understand that the legacy thing applies to undergraduate programs. Does it apply equally well to graduate programs?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13