I am two quarters away from my B.S. in Microbiology at Cal Poly, then it is off to Chiropractic college.
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I wouldn't take it personally. There seem to be a good amount of UM people with an inferiority complex about their school. They fail to realize that *everyone* calls their respective school "The Harvard of the <insert region here>". I've even bumped into Embry Riddle grads that call their school "Harvard at 35,000 feet."
To me ranking colleges is like ranking cities. It only makes sense if every person's requirements and priorities are exactly the same.
Yup, I hate that "Harvard of the ____" phrase. Schools should embrace their own character and pursue excellence within that context--while engaging in an aggressive fundraising, construction, hiring, and PR campaign.
I've got a B.Sc (Hon's) in Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology. Was working on my PhD in Microbiology but it never panned out. Now I'm a Flash Designer for a media company.
Aye...it's an odd career change!
During my time as a scientist I worked at the University of Oxford. I had two students working for me during that time and both were in no way, shape or form smart. Their parents however were not short of cash. Wasn't hard to work out how they got in!
One of them had the most amazing pair of....er......erm....well....let's just say that maybe she got in for other reasons!
B.A - University of Western Ontario
B.Ed - University of Windsor
Various other bits of knowledge gained - York University
B.Ed - University of Windsor
Various other bits of knowledge gained - York University
One thing about studying for certs is that unless you really stick to it, you have to almost restart from the beginning as most exams require a lot of cramming right before you take 'em.
Yup, I hate that "Harvard of the ____" phrase. Schools should embrace their own character and pursue excellence within that context--while engaging in an aggressive fundraising, construction, hiring, and PR campaign.
many schools get obsessed with rankings and want to be some sort of "harvard" in some field
so berkeley is the harvard of the east bay, stanford is the harvard of northern california, usc and ucla are the harvards of southern california, hastings law school was long considered the harvard of the west in law schools and actually had a lot of ex-harvard law professors on their faculty, and ucsf is the harvard medical school of california
i am sure oregon and washington have their own harvards of their state, too
one can go to just about any accredited school and make a great experience of it if they apply themselves and put themselves into their studies/field
there is no big need to go to the harvard of their region in their specific field of study they choose
cert tests are definitely unforgiving, much more than college exams
but a cert is what gave me more money than my college degrees
get the CCIE cert, once basic training for a cisco router salesperson, and there are no jobs out there less than six figures for you...even today, post dot.com
during dot.com, however, CCIEs were making several hundreds of thousands a year, but those days are probably gone for good
A close friend of mine is studying for some advanced Cisco cert. He has a lab setup in his apartment to practice and prepare for an 8-hour test in some Cisco lab.
My PMP cert is way off track, I should have taken it immediately after taking a nice full week class, but I ended up changing jobs and couldn't keep up. Gonna see what I can do about it in the near future before I lose all the training credits!
I went to the University of Utah for a few years and then decided it wasn't for me.
Currently I am working on my Cisco Certifications which at my work equals a raise!!!
Hey, I'm going to the U of U right now!! Small world, you're the third person I've encountered on here this month that is or was at the U of U.
I'm working on my bachelors degree, in Health Promotion and Education, as well as Biology (double major). I'm going to apply to Medical School next year.
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I was in highschool from years 8, 9, 10,11. I left 2 weeks into year 12 work at my currently place of employment. So there fore i didn't graduate.
How ever the knowledge i have picked up makes it worth it and plus i have done Cert III in iT, Cert 4 in iT A+.
How ever the knowledge i have picked up makes it worth it and plus i have done Cert III in iT, Cert 4 in iT A+.