The long story?

After getting out of high school, I went to a J.C. to increase my chances of getting into a UC campus. My major was bio, and i completed just about everything to transfer as a 3rd year undergrad. Then my USMCR training suddenly decided that they no longer wanted to work around my school schedule. Once they activated me for 4 weeks 2 weeks before finals - called me up on Fri afternoon and shipped me out at 4-5AM on Saturday. Needless to say, I failed every class that semester even though I was running mid 3's in my GPA for the semester.

I repeated the classes and they did it again the following year, but I had a chance to drop all of them before it was too late. I then stayed out of college until my commitment was up in 1993. When I came back in 1994, I met my future wife there who wondered why when I was so good with computers, was I still mucking about as a pre-med student (now with NO chance of ever getting into a good med school).

So I changed majors late in the game and became a 4.0 student until I transferred. Oh, and the UC system still rejected me. Bastards. So I went to CSUN.

I graduated in 1998 and started working for Litton. Then I moved to another smaller startup DoD contractor. To this day I am thankful for not taking any offers with a dot-com (and my job cannot be outsourced). That company was bought by ATK a year ago and now here I am.

That's the long story.

Now if I want to get a PhD, I need to apply to UCLA or forget the whole thing.

 

Good story! The average age in my program is about 33-38. I'm the youngest in my program so its kind of a step back from college where most people were our age. I knew if I quit going to school I wouldn't ever go back so I hit it straight after graduating my University. It was either my MBA or a JD. Lawyers are dime a dozen though and I love marketing and strategy so it was business for me The military is very good about tuition assistance. We have some Army officers, Captains I believe, in our MBA program. The experiance they bring to class discussons is great. Half of them served over in Iraq. One guy was a CO company commander of an M1A1 Abrams Tank company. Very cool guy. Smart as fuk to. Major colleges and unversities always have a demand for professors with PHDs. A masters I think can get you Assistant Prof but PHD is the way go to if you want that full teaching career. Plus you get called Doctor

 

congrats!

i'll be going to grad school pretty soon. not looking forward to it either

 

rworne...you have one nice avatar...haha

 

You can generally take an assistant professors position at a university with a masters, but you will not be viable for tenure. Typically most research oriented universities require that you have a Ph.D. on top of any other non-research based degrees in order to apply for a tenure track position.

 

It took some creative editing to make sure none of her naughty bits showed up in it.

 

Why

Grad school has been pretty damn fun for me. You do mostly courses that you're interested in. Everybody wants to be there. It's kinda like a second chance at college to do all the stuff you missed the first time.

Granted, I went straight from undergrad to grad school, so what do I know?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by munckee

 

Congrats to rworne and good luck to all of y'all working on your post-grad degrees!