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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real7/31/14 6:37 PM |
I have to announce!!
After all these MANY years I am finally a college grad!!! I just finished my last exam and now only have to wait until they pass out the skins!!!
Not much but I started from scratch folks. I have general AS (As Science). I have studied everything from Astronomy (my favorite) to Zoology along with physics and a ton of biology classes. (Trig, Stats, Chemistry and a bunch of other stuff too)
I thank those of you who pay American taxes, you paid for my education. I could not have afforded to go to school if it where not for the post 9/11 GI bill. Thank YOU!
Now to job shop seriously, I at least have something more than HS and experience.
Put a fork in it!!!
Last edited by ErikS on 7/31/14 9:26 PM; edited 1 time in total
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sanrensho
Joined: 20 Feb 2004
Posts: 835
Location: North Vancouver7/31/14 6:40 PM |
Congratulations and well done!
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven7/31/14 6:43 PM |
Well done and congrats!
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine7/31/14 7:07 PM |
Congrats
Nice going, you did this under tough conditions. I was a total slacker in college and wasted the opportunity, I'm sure you didn't do that.
My father said of my brother's college diploma "That and 2 bits will get you a cup of coffee anywhere," but I think yours will be more valuable than that.
I do remember how good it feels to finish the last exam. Enjoy!
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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3236
Location: Midland, MI7/31/14 7:14 PM |
All the best
Good on ya!
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pete hausner
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 1551
Location: Outer Beantown7/31/14 7:16 PM |
Congrats!
Well done, Erik…
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX7/31/14 7:20 PM |
Major Congrats!!
Now you can work on your cycling. ;)
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area7/31/14 7:23 PM |
MAZELTOV!!!
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real7/31/14 7:41 PM |
@sparky now I can work on sleeping!!!!
It was Trig/Cal of all things....
Thanks again to all of you.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT7/31/14 8:26 PM |
cogratulations & such!
nm
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Garvin
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 193
Location: NH Seacoast7/31/14 10:09 PM |
Congrats!
Major props to you. Not an easy task given any one of a hundred or more life's distractions could derail your efforts! Congrats!
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC8/1/14 6:36 AM |
Well done! Congrats
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Pat Clancy
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 1353
Location: Manchester, CT8/1/14 7:35 AM |
Most excellent!
Probably beyond what you want to consider now, but there will come a time, perhaps in retirement, when you can go back selecting only those courses of interest regardless of whether they will help your career.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven8/1/14 7:56 AM |
Congratulations! That is a fine accomplishment. Good luck on the job search.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct8/1/14 9:24 AM |
Good on ya', and good luck.
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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Brooklyn, NY8/1/14 10:17 AM |
Congrats on a major achievement! We all know that you've put mucho hours into this effort, but it should be well worth it, whether you get another job or not.
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rickhardy
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1492
Location: Needham outside of Boston - the hub of the universe8/1/14 11:05 AM |
Ditto congrats
Make sure you now take advantage of the time that may be freed up from studying and classes and do something you have wanted to do. You deserve it!
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/1/14 12:25 PM |
Things I want to do.
Spend more lazy time with my family.
Go to more of my son's swim meets.
Learn to play the guitar. I told the family that last week.
Beef up my home network and set up a theater room.
Get back in the gym and build a bit of upper body mass. I am very bottom heavy.
Read more. I haves missed reading books of my choice. I hit two or three last year but want to triple that at least. My favorite authors are Sagan, Greene, Dawkins, Hitchens, Cox, Tyson, and other geeky stuff.
Get my shooting skills back in line with my past abilities and spend more time at my loading bench.
Of course ride my bike.
That is next week. Don't know yet about two weeks from now.
Rick you hit the nail on the head.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct8/1/14 12:41 PM |
quote:
Sagan, Greene, Dawkins, Hitchens, Cox, Tyson, and other geeky stuff.
I like that list. I like scientists who write well for general audiences without talking down to them. (Stephen Jay gould would be added to the list). And non-scientist journalists/essayists who learn a subject and convey it intelligently and entertaingly. like John McPhee and Richard Rhodes.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/1/14 1:01 PM |
I should add. I was given an eight inch dob I want to do some more astronomy. I gave my smaller telescope to another geeky coworker.
Cox can be a bit elementary but his filmed presentations are JUST as elegant as Sagan. Greene and Tyson both do both things very well. None top Sagan. Hitch and Dawkins; well they are IN YOUR FACE!
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Tom Price
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 505
Location: Rochester, NY8/1/14 5:06 PM |
Congrats!
Please post a pic of you in the cap and gown.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/1/14 5:19 PM |
May not walk. Summer Grads don't have a ceremony until December. I have plenty of time to decide.
I sent a picture as a place holder to walter. Maybe y'all will see it.
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area8/1/14 6:48 PM |
eriks cap-n-gown
my $0.02...you should walk-the-lawn, as much for your family as yourself!
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine8/2/14 4:47 AM |
Off the back!
Hope that's not symbolic of your class rank....:)
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/2/14 5:07 AM |
Nope not at all. I actually sprinted off the front to pull over at a SAG that my wife was working, so I could sneak a kiss, then just jumped back on the bunch. She took the picture as I rode away.
My GPA is a 3.65. Not stellar, but respectable. I am a better cyclist than student.
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