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Old January 16, 2003, 18:45   #31
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Old January 16, 2003, 19:24   #32
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Old January 16, 2003, 20:25   #33
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Old January 16, 2003, 20:38   #34
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Jeez, thats two brits that have dropped out of PhD programs in biological fields. What the hell is going on?
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Old January 16, 2003, 20:40   #35
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Old January 16, 2003, 21:54   #37
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Old January 16, 2003, 22:02   #38
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Good thread! Now we know the skills of the people in this forum.

Seems like a lot of $$$ related skills tho??

I have a bachelors degree level in art/multimedia.
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Old January 16, 2003, 22:04   #39
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and another doctorate from Princeton.

Did you hear that Oxford recently changed the definition of the word gullible?
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Old January 16, 2003, 22:59   #43
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LOL! I didn't do it the regular way. I started college in 1968 as a mechanical engineer major. I quickly realized I didn't want to be one. I spent a few years as a Political Science major, then was cast out for bad grades (It was the years of the Vietnam War demonstrations, and I got really involved with that.

In 1993, I went back to college and found that I was 4 classes short of a degree. My first college course back was "The History of the Vietnam War". How ironic...

I took 3 more political science courses after that. The others were small group seminars with students that were specializing in the subjects. I aced them all. An adult who has kept an interest in learning about all sorts of things for 30 years has an advantage over even very bright college-age students...

Anyway, I have a BA in Political Science now. It doesn't have the slightest impact on my career. A degree is only important for about 5 years; after that it is all what you can do on the job.

But it sure matters to me personally. I used vacation time for 3 years to take those classes, and I walked a mile each way from the subway station to the classrooms twice each week for three years even in the snow. But I finished it.

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Old January 16, 2003, 23:32   #46
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Did you hear that Oxford recently changed the definition of the word gullible?
nuh-uh...i just looked it up. Same as it was the last time someone told me this.
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The nice thing about being in journalism is that, well, you end up with, at the very least, a passing knowledge of just about everything and deep knowledge in certain areas. When reading and editing is your job, you tend to experience a multitude of worlds through the written words you're reading and/or editing.

Yeah, I'm waxing poetic about what I do ... back to writing PR pieces for my corporate OVERLORDS.

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Yup, journalists are the real professional students. We get paid to listen to people, analyze the info and write short essays.
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