What College did you attend?

Alligatorob said:
Lots of those out there, LOL.

I worked for a consulting company and anyone in your position they insisted on calling "PhD pending". Had a friend who added "PhD contemplating" to his name, always liked that.
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Another common one was "abd" "all but dissertation". I tried that for a while but then it brought up the obvious question "when will you be completing your dissertation?". The answer was never, not that I said it aloud. I had lost all desire and interest by that point.
 
Right out of HS, two year Associates at a local community college. Then my BBA from a nearby private university. After the Navy, MBA through night courses at the previously mentioned private school. Then years and years of continuing education for professional development and certifications. Nowdays, I just sit around getting dumber and dumber.
 
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.

people always point to B. F. Skinner having been an alumni, but the one we enjoy talking about a lot more is Bruce Cutler, who became the lawyer for John Gotti !!!

I mean, we had fun talking about it. Not that we actually thought the Mafia was great....

Ezra Pound went there. I went to school with Peter Cameron, who became an author. Very very nice guy. Quiet, polite.


I knew one of the Bristols...from Bristol Meyers. He went there. We both loved dogs. I also knew the daughter of a US Senator. Yes...that's right...she was also in our group of dog lovers. There were some "campus dogs" that had no owner, who just hung around campus. Lee Bristol, Christine and I all took care of this one dog...named Duke.

Lot of old money in that place. Famous families. I was just a working class kid from New Jersey. But everyone got along. Was a very nice place to go.

Oh, and my English teacher David Lehman, became big in the poetry world. I just remember hanging around with him, when the campus pot dealer was trying to convince him to smoke a little of the wacky weed.

I remember this math genius kid, who got 1500 on the SATs and was a drummer in a punk rock band. I remember trying to work that out in my head...the connection between the two things.

Gorgeous campus...upstate NY. Quiet, small student body.

I am confident, to this day, that it is a great school....if folks have relatives looking for a place to go.

When I went there, I think the total student body was maybe 1200 students. My high school had 700 per grade! I was looking for something smaller...
 
UC Berkeley. Lived at home and commuted on a motor scooter. Undergraduate degree in economics. After college I was draft eligible. Rather than wait to be drafted I joined the Navy where my degree got me into OCS. OCS had an academic aspect. We were frequently tested and the test scores were added to a cumulative score. At mid point those with a score below a predefined number were rolled back to day one. A failing number in the final half and you were rolled back to the mid point. Being rolled back was a dreaded fate. I noticed something interesting in this process. Those who graduated from colleges with a big name tended to do better than than those from smaller schools.
 
I took the scenic route! I started at an Upper east side school in '63 at the age of not quite 17. Gathered some credits there, while working part time. Then working full time and taking fewer classes. Then life got in the way. I finally attained a degree in 1982!! Never thought I would make it.
 
Raddragn said:
Syracuse University 1955 to 1958 in a 4 year BSN Nursing program. Went back to finish program for a year and a half in the early 70's in Sacramento, Ca. Smartest move I ever made.
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I got an M.S., in technology management, at the ripe old age of 48 from University College, University of Maryland (now Global Campus). I was older than just about every other student and often times older than the professor. I found it much easier than in my undergraduate years. Life's experiences, I guess, being able to "read" the professor after a class or two to determine what his expectations were.
 
spectratg said:
I got an M.S., in technology management, at the ripe old age of 48 from University College, University of Maryland (now Global Campus). I was older than just about every other student and often times older than the professor. I found it much easier than in my undergraduate years. Life's experiences, I guess, being able to "read" the professor after a class or two to determine what his expectations were.
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I got my Bachelor's degree when I was in my 30s and found it to be fairly easy to get good grades, even when I took Master's level classes. I started working on a Master's in my early 50s and found it to be a real pain-in-the-!@#$%. I'm pretty sure it was due to my changes in attitude and level of enthusiasm.

I loved college when I was in my 30s and the opportunities it presented and all the doors I believed it would open. In my 50s, I didn't appreciate people younger than me having authority over me and telling me what to do. 🤣 I completed two semesters and then decided it wasn't worth the money or the tedium and drudgery.

Now I learn whatever piques my interest at the time, whether it's something technical or simply something I'm curious about.
 
I was a bit of a flake when I was young (maybe still, who knows, ha) and so I bounced in and out of college.
Started out at University of Missouri at Kansas City, kind of enjoyed Political Science but had not declared a major at that point, then I dropped out for a year, then went back for a year and discovered I really liked Chemistry. But then I dropped out again and next I attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I don't think I'd declared a major but I'm not sure, I vaguely remember being accepted by the Geology department after the entrance exams, the only course I have distinct memories of was Physics -- mostly due to the instructor not using whichever Hebrew word I knew for "test" and consequently all exams were surprise pop-quizzes for me, as well as the textbook writing words like electromagnetism backwards in Hebrew characters without vowels and causing me to waste precious study time trying to figure out what the heck word it was.
Then I dropped out again but tried later at George Washington University in Washington DC. I think my declared major (if I had one) was Statistics.
But once again I dropped out, this time for more than 4 years. By this time I was not a youngster anymore so I had to work, but I worked for a company that had paid-tuition benefits and would let me leave early on days I had class, so I was going part-time to George Washington University, but then I lost that job and the next job didn't allow leaving early so I switched to University of Maryland's University College that offered its courses in the evenings.
But after a few years chipping away at courses I suddenly decided I was tired of going to school (working all day, classes in the evenings, doing homework all weekend) - partly motivated by having discovered a passion for all-things-horse and wanting time for that hobby, and so I asked my university advisor what was the fastest major I could complete my bachelor degree. To my disbelief it turned out to be mathematics, as I was only two math courses away from a BS in Math. So, with financial help from my parents (with thanks to a great-uncle that died without a will and so my parents had gotten a portion of his estate) I went full-time for one semester and finally, at the embarrassing old age of 33 yrs old, got my degree.
Then I got hired to test software, so I don't think I had any work use for math above maybe three times in my whole career.
 
I have a BS in Microbiology from Louisiana Tech University...I did attend the Univerisity of Illinois for 1 year. It took me more than 4 years to graduate because I took the minimum number of courses and partied hardy..I loved school :D Louisiana Tech was known for its engineering school so there's a ratio of 4 guys to one girl..I had fun:)
 
B.A. in Biology from Case Western Reserve U. with minors in Music and Theater. After that, worked in the cancer research field for 15 years. The MFA in Creative Writing from National U. came in my 50s, after publishing enough books/poetry to enroll in that program with a portfolio. Currently a PhD student in Leadership and working on dissertation. Plan to finish end of this summer. The students I've met these last three years are all high achievers. Some of them already have Ph.D.'s and going for their second one. Others have more than one Master's. A student in one of my classes was 76 years old. I always wanted to get a PhD, just didn't know what to major in until now. It's been fun. Technology has made it possible to get an education from home. So if you're like me, and have wanted to get a higher education, don't give up.
 
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