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Question: Updated: What's Your Educational Background? :: Total Votes:192
Poll choices Votes Statistics
PhD Science 59  [30.73%]
PhD Humanities 7  [3.65%]
BS/BA/Ma Science 80  [41.67%]
BS/BA/Ma Humanities 27  [14.06%]
High School 13  [6.77%]
Lots of Scientific American 2  [1.04%]
I Done Readed a Lot on the Internets 4  [2.08%]
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blipey



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(Permalink) Posted: April 20 2007,22:09   

Quote (JohnW @ April 20 2007,12:42)
Quote (blipey @ April 20 2007,12:36)
...with masters classes in clown theatre...

On second thoughts, mentioning WAD, DaveTard or the DI here would be just too easy.

Well, yes.  While WAD does many things poorly, I think he does "street theatre" worse than anything he's "tried".  This, of course, might have something to do with the fact that he's not really doing any theatre--street or otherwise.

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But I get the trick question- there isn't any such thing as one molecule of water. -JoeG

And scientists rarely test theories. -Gary Gaulin

   
Nullifidian



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2007,12:00   

Quote (blipey @ April 20 2007,12:36)
BA - Theatre performance

with masters classes in clown theatre, juggling, mime, and stilt-walking.

This makes me qualified to drink beer, throw knives, and live in a cardboard box (simultaneously, though--that's the skill part).

I always thought an unemployed mime would live on the streets in a glass box.

My own background is a B.S. in cell biology and biochemistry, UCSD.
Currently working toward an MSc/MA in molecular cell biology and vocal performance (opera singing) at the University of Kansas.

  
blipey



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2007,12:09   

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My own background is a B.S. in cell biology and biochemistry, UCSD.
Currently working toward an MSc/MA in molecular cell biology and vocal performance (opera singing) at the University of Kansas.


And you'd move from San Diego to Lawrence for, ubwuh, wakkawakkawakka, why?

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But I get the trick question- there isn't any such thing as one molecule of water. -JoeG

And scientists rarely test theories. -Gary Gaulin

   
Gary Bohn



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2007,12:34   

Quote (Dean Morrison @ April 17 2007,18:54)
'BSc' for bachelor of Science in the UK,

'BS' stands for - 'Bullshit'

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'BSc' for bachelor of Science in the UK,

'BS' stands for - 'Bullshit'


The same holds for Canada.

The poll leaves those of us with a degree in the sciences and a degree in the humanities only half there.

  
huwp



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(Permalink) Posted: April 24 2007,08:13   

BA in French and Italian.

Arts graduates are people too!

huwp

  
mikiebob



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(Permalink) Posted: April 24 2007,16:29   

I answered "I Done Readed a Lot on the Internets" but I also have a Juris Doctor, which means I are a lawyer. :D

  
MidnightVoice



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(Permalink) Posted: April 25 2007,07:37   

Quote (mikiebob @ April 24 2007,16:29)
I answered "I Done Readed a Lot on the Internets" but I also have a Juris Doctor, which means I are a lawyer. :D

Are you a source of free legal advice?  :D

And welcome.

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If I fly the coop some time
And take nothing but a grip
With the few good books that really count
It's a necessary trip

I'll be gone with the girl in the gold silk jacket
The girl with the pearl-driller's hands

  
BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: May 04 2007,14:26   

I went to tech school where they gave me a MS in Marine Science -kind of a cross between marine biology and environmental science. Times have changed.

But my education was in the 60s/70's with a BFA/BA Ceramics/Political Science and all the nessessary chemistry to make that happen. Didn't want to go to war man :).

And I learned everything I really needed to know in kindergarten.   :)

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

The Daily Wingnut

   
Fractatious



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(Permalink) Posted: May 07 2007,07:11   

PHD Mathematics (Patriot University)
PHD Molecular Biology (Patriot University)

Honour Student for the Assembly of God - Patriot University.

(un)successful tax evasion but I own dino's.



:O

  
k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: May 07 2007,08:04   

Quote (BWE @ May 04 2007,22:26)
I went to tech school where they gave me a MS in Marine Science -kind of a cross between marine biology and environmental science. Times have changed.

But my education was in the 60s/70's with a BFA/BA Ceramics/Political Science and all the nessessary chemistry to make that happen. Didn't want to go to war man :).

And I learned everything I really needed to know in kindergarten.   :)

Oh a smarty pants eh?

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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

   
BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: May 07 2007,11:51   

Quote (k.e @ May 07 2007,08:04)
Quote (BWE @ May 04 2007,22:26)

And I learned everything I really needed to know in kindergarten.   :)

Oh a smarty pants eh?

My pants are smarter than your pants you joyce-quoting homo.

(I'm working my way up to the good stuff)

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

The Daily Wingnut

   
k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: May 08 2007,03:11   

Quote (BWE @ May 07 2007,19:51)
Quote (k.e @ May 07 2007,08:04)
Quote (BWE @ May 04 2007,22:26)

And I learned everything I really needed to know in kindergarten.   :)

Oh a smarty pants eh?

My pants are smarter than your pants you joyce-quoting homo.

(I'm working my way up to the good stuff)

Dang can't find my Fineheathens Wait.



Three quorks for mister bwe, off with his pants!

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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

   
BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: May 08 2007,03:46   

Well, maybe not but I've got "Portrait of a fukkin homo as a young man" Sittin right here and it's got all you damn pix on it.

Naked.


Hmmm.


Not sure that one worked out quite right there...

I'm working on not sleeping much tonight. So far - so good.

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

The Daily Wingnut

   
k.e



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(Permalink) Posted: May 08 2007,05:26   

Quote (BWE @ May 08 2007,11:46)
Well, maybe not but I've got "Portrait of a fukkin homo as a young man" Sittin right here and it's got all you damn pix on it.

Naked.


Hmmm.


Not sure that one worked out quite right there...

I'm working on not sleeping much tonight. So far - so good.

"The Portrait" of a young BWE as a smarty pants.

The feckless freckle finkled frankly, following unfinking but friskly.

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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

   
Richard Simons



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(Permalink) Posted: May 08 2007,21:07   

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BSc' for bachelor of Science in the UK,

'BS' stands for - 'Bullshit'

When I was a student at Bangor, Wales, they awarded a degree of Bachelor of Forestry. One former student asked them to change it to B.Sc. as he did not like having the letters BF after his name. The Registrar wrote back saying he quite saw the point, but felt that in the case of that particular student BF was more appropriate. At least, that was the story.

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All sweeping statements are wrong.

  
MidnightVoice



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(Permalink) Posted: May 08 2007,21:48   

I went to Imperial, and you could get an ARCS (silent c) and a DIC.

:D

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If I fly the coop some time
And take nothing but a grip
With the few good books that really count
It's a necessary trip

I'll be gone with the girl in the gold silk jacket
The girl with the pearl-driller's hands

  
ScaryFacts



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(Permalink) Posted: May 28 2007,22:39   

I HAVE A PHD IN KICKIN' ASS AND TAKIN' NAMES - YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

Davetard

   
PennyBright



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(Permalink) Posted: May 31 2007,20:04   

hrmph.

Two years of HS at a hoity toity private school.  Transferred to a not-so-great public school system,  put in three months of hell,  and "home schooled".  I'd use the word autodidact, but it's been tainted by tard.

Talked my way into an early admission to the local U, finished two years (no degree) and left school.  Anyone care to talk about the insane costs of education these days?

Depending on the rhetorical needs of a given argument I can have,   "dropped out of HS - so if I can get this concept, you with your college education shouldn't have any problem" ,  or "studied that a little bit in college,  but didn't really get into depth with it."

I answered the poll "High School".

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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. - Shakespeare (reputedly)

  
khan



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(Permalink) Posted: May 31 2007,22:35   

BA in Math

One year of graduate work in Math, no degree.

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"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall

That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad

Frequency is just the plural of wavelength...
-JoeG

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: May 31 2007,23:21   

Quote (khan @ May 31 2007,22:35)
BA in Math

One year of graduate work in Math, no degree.

Welcome, kahn. Your homepage?

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"Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield
"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,06:29   

Quote (PennyBright @ May 31 2007,20:04)
it's been tainted by tard.

What a lovely phrase.  Sorta just rolls off the tongue.

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“Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas?

Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

   
khan



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,16:40   

Quote (Richardthughes @ May 31 2007,23:21)
Quote (khan @ May 31 2007,22:35)
BA in Math

One year of graduate work in Math, no degree.

Welcome, kahn. Your homepage?

No.

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"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall

That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad

Frequency is just the plural of wavelength...
-JoeG

  
Ichthyic



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,17:06   

richard-

go easy, he's not used to your sense of humor yet.

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"And the sea will grant each man new hope..."

-CC

  
Steviepinhead



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,19:40   

Ahm gettin moor eddicated all teh tiem.

Spellins a reel strawng pint.

  
qetzal



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,19:56   

Quote (Steviepinhead @ June 01 2007,19:40)
Ahm gettin moor eddicated all teh tiem.

Spellins a reel strawng pint.

You're being taught by a Moor?

Kewl!

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: June 01 2007,21:09   

Quote (khan @ June 01 2007,16:40)
Quote (Richardthughes @ May 31 2007,23:21)
Quote (khan @ May 31 2007,22:35)
BA in Math

One year of graduate work in Math, no degree.

Welcome, kahn. Your homepage?

No.

oh...

:(

It's in my favourites.

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"Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield
"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
mcstew



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2008,05:03   

Lame first post in the most neutral thread on the board =) go undergrad students go.

  
Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2008,07:44   

Lesson: How to clear a (virtual) room quickly:

1. Bachelor of Civil Law
2. Solicitor, Republic of Ireland
3. Solicitor, England and Wales


Hello? Is there anyone . . .

Oh never mind.

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JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
Ra-Úl



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2008,12:30   

Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 24 2008,07:44)
Lesson: How to clear a (virtual) room quickly:

1. Bachelor of Civil Law
2. Solicitor, Republic of Ireland
3. Solicitor, England and Wales


Hello? Is there anyone . . .

Oh never mind.

What is a BCL? I'm not familiar with British jurisprudence and Law studies, and what I do know is based on reading way too much Dickens, in Spanish translation, as a 12 year old. I see you are a solicitor; what kind of practice do you have? As a solicitor, do you deal with criminal matters? And what do solicitors drink?

Ra-Ul

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Beauty is that which makes us desperate. - P Valery

  
Lowell



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2008,13:14   

I'm an attorney in the U.S., so I voted as Phd, humanities, like steviepinhead.

I'm starting to rethink that. Even if it's technically a "Juris Doctor" degree, it's only four years, no dissertation or anything like that.

Then again, the concept of elevating form over substance is not entirely alien to me.

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