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Starting off in Sex education in 93 at Auburn it got so good I lost track. So, finally graduated 20 plus years later graduated in technical management. Now getting Masters at UAB.
Freshmen Year: Undeclared
Year 4: Phish Tour
Year 8: Dropped out 21 hours shy of degree (210+ overall credit hours) thanks to Katrina.
There were several semesters within all of that in which I didn't enroll in classes.
I always felt bad for the folks who went through in 4 straight years. Seems like they wasted an opportunity to see the country and experience life before they went off into some entry-level, nose to the grind-stone, corporate drone work.
Year 4: Phish Tour
Year 8: Dropped out 21 hours shy of degree (210+ overall credit hours) thanks to Katrina.
There were several semesters within all of that in which I didn't enroll in classes.
I always felt bad for the folks who went through in 4 straight years. Seems like they wasted an opportunity to see the country and experience life before they went off into some entry-level, nose to the grind-stone, corporate drone work.
I tend to agree, You dont get real world experience and sometimes this will hurt you once you graduate. I wouldnt trade anything for the work and life experience I gained over going through college 4 straight years. I was fortunate to travel the world which helped grow me so much.
Also, I think the Real World Experience factor is probably a lot higher these days than the days when you and I were starting college. It seems like there is a much higher percentage of college graduates who've never had a job until graduating college. Momma and Daddy coddling these youngsters so they can "concentrate on their education" is putting out a generation of entitled job seekers with no experience doing dirty work.
My boss has a mid-twenties son who is in grad school that has never worked a day in his life. Boss is still paying this "kid's" tuition, room, board, allowance, etc. From everything he tells me about his son the "kid" is a real POS but it's hard to blame him when that's how momma and daddy raised him to be.
To answer OP:
pre-engineering
Computer Engineering
But I graduated AU at 26 due to taking the real life experience tour as well.
Finance and Finance. If I could do it again, I would’ve taken something where I learned a technical skill as that’s needed now and now I’m having to learn all those skills on the job
Finance majors should have to take Python and other programming classes, imo. Business Intelligence is becoming a huge field, even at the SMB level.
Agreed. I’m currently trying to teach myself Python when I’m not swamped at work.
Learning SQL in school would help a lot help too
started in International Business for a year
took a couple of years off to race my bike
came back for a semester and couldn't get into it
6 years later i decided going back to school and getting a degree sounded better than working 60 hrs a week on my feet.
Graduated w BFA Graphic Design
working on MBA now
really want to get back to making shit with my hands again and get out from behind my desk
took a couple of years off to race my bike
came back for a semester and couldn't get into it
6 years later i decided going back to school and getting a degree sounded better than working 60 hrs a week on my feet.
Graduated w BFA Graphic Design
working on MBA now
really want to get back to making shit with my hands again and get out from behind my desk
I had a really cool hands on job that required long hours, tons of cool travel, and basically had me traveling to LA on the gov. dime 6 months out of the year.
I missed family and my kids, now I sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day but I get to go home at night and not worry about work.
I wouldn't trade my "married at 23, kids at 28, barely ever leave the house" life for anything though. I've passed up a few promotions over the years because of that.
I missed family and my kids, now I sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day but I get to go home at night and not worry about work.
I wouldn't trade my "married at 23, kids at 28, barely ever leave the house" life for anything though. I've passed up a few promotions over the years because of that.
Finance and Finance
Wish I'd have taken a lot of elective classes and found out what actually interested me instead of a degree that I was told would make me money...and if I had one recommendation for anyone currently going to college, it would be to take time off and travel and work internships and do a bunch of shit before you graduate. That shit is a lot harder to do once yore in the real world. I can't really wake up tomorrow and decide I want to intern for some cool company and not bring in any money for the next year or so... do it while you can and really see what interests you instead of listening to some professor tell you what to do
just my .02
Wish I'd have taken a lot of elective classes and found out what actually interested me instead of a degree that I was told would make me money...and if I had one recommendation for anyone currently going to college, it would be to take time off and travel and work internships and do a bunch of shit before you graduate. That shit is a lot harder to do once yore in the real world. I can't really wake up tomorrow and decide I want to intern for some cool company and not bring in any money for the next year or so... do it while you can and really see what interests you instead of listening to some professor tell you what to do
just my .02
Undeclared
Communication
5 years later - Masters in Education at UAB
Communication
5 years later - Masters in Education at UAB
Begin: Biomedical Science
End: Math and Econ
Currently teaching myself python and R.
End: Math and Econ
Currently teaching myself python and R.
#Blazing ON in 16 months at UAB
I expect some of you guys better show up and watch me walk across the stage.
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Freshman:Early Childhood Development
Sophomore: Management information systems
Sophomore .5: dropped out, college isn't for me.
Sophomore: Management information systems
Sophomore .5: dropped out, college isn't for me.
Freshman: Pre-engineering
SO/JR: Computer engineering
JR/SR: English
SR2: Aimless wandering
SR3:Applied Math
SR4/Graduated: Electrical Engineering
SO/JR: Computer engineering
JR/SR: English
SR2: Aimless wandering
SR3:Applied Math
SR4/Graduated: Electrical Engineering
Freshman: Had no Fuggin clue what day it was half the time, much less my major
4.5 years later graduated with a degree in Building Science
4.5 years later graduated with a degree in Building Science
Awesome. My low point was when I had four classes and dropped two of them. This left me with a T/Th basic computer class that met at 12:15 and I slept through it for over half the semester and pulled a "D." My other class that I didn't drop was bowling.
My low point was 8 a.m. Physics during the spring of my Freshman year. I passed by one point. Pretty sad looking back on the effort I put in that semester. I was real close to having to come home and chill with Rice at AUM
Started/Finished with my BA in Public Administration (have no idea why I got this degree) in 2 years. Still had 2 years on my GI Bill (Chapter 31) so I got my Master's in Community Planning. Since I f'ed up my undergrad and couldn't go into Engineering as an occupation, got that particular master's so that I could go into Transportation Planning.
Are you AICP? My Pops did professional planning for years, along with a lot of historic preservation work.
I am not, as of now. Still not fully decided on if I’ll go that route or not. However, I will be starting the process in the next few months to be PTP through the ITE. ykwim?
Double fun major-
History and Foreign Language/German/Portuguese
BA- three years later as I attended every Summer Quarter while I was a student at AU and I have to add--Summer Quarter was my favorite quarter.
Students and professors were a bit more loose and fun during the Summer--also, of course, much less crowded. Probably 8,000 in attendance for Summer as opposed to 22,000 back in 78.
Blaze ON!!!!
History and Foreign Language/German/Portuguese
BA- three years later as I attended every Summer Quarter while I was a student at AU and I have to add--Summer Quarter was my favorite quarter.
Students and professors were a bit more loose and fun during the Summer--also, of course, much less crowded. Probably 8,000 in attendance for Summer as opposed to 22,000 back in 78.
Blaze ON!!!!
Went to school for finance and graduated in finance. Joined the financial industry immediately, and plan to do it the rest of my life. I love helping people.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering
10 months later, Trailer Salesman Extraordinaire
Freshman year: International business then wanted to go to law school.
Finished up: Finance/accounting double-major, MAcc and CPA.
There's not a day i don't regret my decision (not that the original plan would've been any better, just not sure i was mentally wired to be an accountant)
Finished up: Finance/accounting double-major, MAcc and CPA.
There's not a day i don't regret my decision (not that the original plan would've been any better, just not sure i was mentally wired to be an accountant)
I would have loved to do that but my parents were teachers and we never really had much money. I worked my whole time in college but never made close enough to travel.
It doesn't take much when you're camping out of your car and gas was $1.50/gallon. I paid for all of my school, minus 2 semesters, and earned to do anything esse I wanted. Tour was easy though. Once you got on you just taxed the custies to make your way.
