Who else is going back to school soon?

[Lester C.]

It's back to school for me. If my pattern holds I will be the oldest person in my morning class, and the youngest person in my night classes. The plus side is that I'm finally going to get my bachelor's degree, which alas has been nine years in the making.

[shrike]

School.

hahahaha!

/sigh

[blackcanary_416]

Me, my last year at the community college and then onto the last two years at a four year :confused: ...ok. lol. Any way I wish I still had some more summer to go.

[amirab]

I go back to school September the 5th.

[Kyuubi]

Just started on Monday, hopefully my last semester at a community college too.

[Lester C.]

For you kids reading this, make see to see your damn guidance counselor before selecting your classes, as wish I did when I was younger. Another this I wish I knew is that you can get up to 1500 dollars back in a federal refund, if you pay at least that much for your classes and or supplies. The catch is that your refund can't exceed what you paid in federal taxes, but still how cool is that?

[Clement]

Well, I'm not exactly going back to school, but...

A couple of times a year, I get that dream where there was some government paperwork screw up and I have to re-do my last year of high school.

I'm 28 years old, so I've been having that dream for about 13 years.


Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one.

[Dark Galaxy]

All three kids are going to start school soon...does that count?

I wish all the time that I could go back to school and get my Master's degree. I don't know in what subject matter though. It would probably be history cause, you know, that's so useful in the real world. I just love being in school. I love using my brain and learning things. It really doesn't matter what.

[DuelaDent]

I went back to school Monday.

Taking 3 classes this semester (and working full-time, as usual). Sigh...

Oh well, getting closer to the degree...gotta keep that in mind! :)

[foxfire]

I'm looking forward to going back to school, but not for the work. Just so I can get away from home and go back to living in Manhattan...

[Gingold]

I start teaching again right after Labor Day.

[Ed Cunard]

I start graduate school Monday, five years after graduating from college.

Those'll be fun days. Get up at six am. Drive an hour to work. Work until five. Drive an hour to school. Take night class. Drive an hour home. And I'm totally geeking out and looking forward to it--the course description for the bibliographical methods class sounds downright sexy.

[Expletive Deleted]

I'm starting my second pass at grad school on the 5th. I'm a lot more jazzed about getting started this time (Library & Information Studies) than I was last time (Chemical Engineering).
And I'm totally geeking out and looking forward to it--the course description for the bibliographical methods class sounds downright sexy.Bibliographic methods? Ooooooh . . . niiiiiiice . . .

[WhiteRose]

What's this going back soon business? I've been back the last 5 weeks. End of the year, that's my big holiday! 4 months baby!

[foxfire]

What's this going back soon business? I've been back the last 5 weeks. End of the year, that's my big holiday! 4 months baby!
Wow really? Where do you go to school?

[WhiteRose]

Wow really? Where do you go to school?

Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. We art students need ample time to charge the batteries and get wasted for the next year.

[Ninja Kris]

We art students need ample time to charge the batteries and get wasted for the next year.

Now I see why Breebree speaks highly of you.

Kristin

[foxfire]

Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. We art students need ample time to charge the batteries and get wasted for the next year.
Ah ok. I work with an Australian guy and he's mentioned they usually start school a bit before the US does.

[The Xenos]

Hmmm... This reminds me. I need to go talk to my college advisor as how to get those final credits to graduate.

[foxfire]

I really need to get back into the "school mode"... I just learned that I have to move in two days after I thought I was going to or else pay $30 bucks extra.

[Night Swordsman]

I really need to get back into the "school mode"... I just learned that I have to move in two days after I thought I was going to or else pay $30 bucks extra.


I keep having that song "School's Out" stuck in my head when reading this thread. Giggling.

[WhiteRose]

Now I see why Breebree speaks highly of you.

Kristin

...because I'm a derro art student with nothing better to do than drink and draw?

[Night Swordsman]

...because I'm a derro art student with nothing better to do than drink and draw?


I'm with Kris and Bree! Your the Bee's Knees! :)

[WhiteRose]

Do bees ACTUALLY have knees? Or is that like 'The Chicken's Teeth?'

[Night Swordsman]

Do bees ACTUALLY have knees? Or is that like 'The Chicken's Teeth?'


You have to BEE careful with questions like that. I will have to COMB over some resources and find out the awnser.


Till then,BEE good. :p

[Lester C.]

You have to BEE careful with questions like that. I will have to COMB over some resources and find out the awnser.


Till then,BEE good. :p
Poor Cam 63. He's going to BEE pissed that WhiteRose is BUZZING around his man.

[WhiteRose]

Ugh. BAD Night, BAD!

Edit: DAMMIT LESTER.

[Night Swordsman]

Poor Cam 63. He's going to BEE pissed that WhiteRose is BUZZING around his man.

Lester,BEEHAVE!

:D

[Kris Gen]

Classes started last Thursday for me. Why we start on a Thursday, I'll never know. Barring unforeseen complications, I should be getting my degree next spring. Yay!

Meanwhile, my eyes will almost certainly fall out from the sheer amount of reading I have to do. ;)

[foxfire]

Classes started last Thursday for me. Why we start on a Thursday, I'll never know. Barring unforeseen complications, I should be getting my degree next spring. Yay!

Meanwhile, my eyes will almost certainly fall out from the sheer amount of reading I have to do. ;)
Same... although I usually just fall asleep when I try reading ANYTHING. It's sad... :(

[heystacy]

I took a break from grad school. From having a high pressure job, and the crazy learning curve at the new job has told me to sideline my education for the moment. That and I am changing my major. SCAD now has a contemporary writing MFA program. Ahhh the challenges of putting together thirty pages of fiction and non-fiction material. I live to write. :)

[hellokittykat]

I've thought about going back to school because, like DarkG, I love learning new things. Right now I only have time for the cheaper alternative which is just reading a lot.

[Sharpandpointies]

It's back to school for me. If my pattern holds I will be the oldest person in my morning class, and the youngest person in my night classes. The plus side is that I'm finally going to get my bachelor's degree, which alas has been nine years in the making.

Hey, congrats! :) Good stuff!

Nope. I'm heading out on vacation, myself. Three weeks in Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle!

[K'Nort]

Not I. Graduated in June. Bwah ha ha ha!

For the third time. That's plenty.

[stealthwise]

I'll be teaching, typing, tutoring, and doing thesis work, the four T's.

[cactusmaac]

I'll be starting studies for advanced tax in a couple of months. Will be in for about 3 days a month until May.

[hellokittykat]

I'll be teaching, typing, tutoring, and doing thesis work, the four T's.

We have two in our family entering their first year of college. If they have a 'typical' college experience, I'll be seeing the R's:

Ralphing, retching and regurgitation.

[siviusx]

I'm actually about three weeks away from graduating, does that count?

[I'm in complete denial about it, not so much because I'm not ready to start working, but because it means that I'll have to have written 45 pages in three weeks time. Sigh. I wish time spent on CBR forums counted as research. :( ]

[Gilda Dent]

I'm not going back to school. No not me, not Gilda, she's not going back to school. I'm willing to work anywhere, hell, I'd teach at a frickin' junior college if they'd have me but no, NOBODY WILL HIRE ME!

In other news, I still don't have a job.

So just in case it wasn't clear, no, I'm not going back to school soon.

GILDA

[Monkey Boy]

School is just for those losers that are trying to better themselves. I say be cool and say no to school.


Ok the reall reason is that I really have no clue what the hell to go to school for but I'm told thats no excuse.

[Puma]

graduated last Spring with my MLIS; first time in forever I'm not going to take a class if the Fall. Although I'm having to fight the urge to buy school supplies.

[StarsAndGarters]

I am. Two more terms and I'll have an Associates to transfer with.

[Corrina]

My kids! My kids are starting school on 9/5.

:throws confetti:

[Puma]

I am. Two more terms and I'll have an Associates to transfer with.

and where will you go then?

[Gumbo Maximillian]

Yep; first week back to college, looks like it will be fun, at least something different from just work for a change.

[Dark Galaxy]

My kids! My kids are starting school on 9/5.

:throws confetti:


Ditto.

I see your confetti and raise you a can of silly string!

[WhiteRose]

Oh you parents, such riots.

A friend of mine was CONVINCED all through primary school that all his mother did all day was sit and drink iced coffee, which was what he came home to everyday. Meanwhile, the floors were clean, the shopping was done, his toys were shoved in a corner and that coffee wasn't coffee, it was brown tequila.

He was a bit of an idiot.

[StarsAndGarters]

and where will you go then?Up until Kristen moved I was planning on staying in Portland to go to PSU. Now? My inclination is much further eastward.

[PatrickG]

I took a break from grad school. From having a high pressure job, and the crazy learning curve at the new job has told me to sideline my education for the moment. That and I am changing my major. SCAD now has a contemporary writing MFA program. Ahhh the challenges of putting together thirty pages of fiction and non-fiction material. I live to write. :)

Interesting.

I'm in my senior year over at Berry (FINALLY -- after way too much time off) and browsing grad schools with writing programs.

I have thought about SCAD. Also considered Naropa up in Boulder, Colorado. Any advice? I need to get moving because my goal is to start grad school right away next summer or fall and have an MFA by spring of 2010 at the latest.

There are some British Universities that offer PhDs in Creative Writing and I'm a bit ashamed I've put more thought into that than I have where I'll get my MFA.

My only major criteria are that I'm looking for a TRUE liberal arts or arts school (ie. not a place that emphasizes pre-med, education and business) without a terribly strong religious affiliation. Preferably with a stipend and/or a low residency option.

Most of the grad school listings and search engines I've encountered are slanted towards MBAs or professional degrees and, honestly, I would relish the chance to bask in a solid dose of higher education that isn't trying to recruit me based on the money I'll make with their degree. The kind of school that markets more to the student than their parents and doesn't pander or resort to gimmicks like athletic programs or morally charged mission statements or cheesey testimonials. A place where THEORY and the exploration of literature and craft guide the school's mission.

I want a school where the faculty and the ideas and the process of making art are more relevant than the board of trustees or the regents board or the political climate of academia.

[Hugin]

I've been in school for two weeks, and I'm quite certain that AP homework wants to kill me.

[MacQuarrie]

I might be taking a storyboarding class if I can get in. It's very limited enrollment.

[stealthwise]

I might be taking a storyboarding class if I can get in. It's very limited enrollment.

Bah. F all that noise man. Pay me one quarter of what that class costs and I'll teach you correspondence.

Sure, I may never have had any works published.

Sure, no one's ever even seen my stuff, let alone purchased it.

Sure, I may have a highly self-inflated opinion of my half-finished screenplays, all of which end with an Army of Bearstm invading the city/village/marina and killing all of the humans.

Sure, there won't be anyone else in the class, saved a stuffed chipmunk named "Maurice."

Sure, the room will smell of baby vomit and cream cheese.

Sure, I may not know what a "storyboard" is.

But you're saving at least $12 going in, just do it!

[MacQuarrie]

Argh. I missed the sign-up date. The idiots in the office failed to (a) send me the catalog that I requested over a month ago or (b) post the relevant information on their website until 4 days after the deadline had passed.

Time for plan B.

[siviusx]

There are some British Universities that offer PhDs in Creative Writing and I'm a bit ashamed I've put more thought into that than I have where I'll get my MFA.

In my experience living here, actually, most universities in the UK (barring Oxbridge, I think) have a combined MA/PhD track for people who want to go straight into that. I can't say that this is specifically the case for Creative Writing but I have a few friends who study things like literature and history and who just segued right into a PhD after a preliminary year of doing either a regular masters, OR even just signing up for a PhD and being on sort of a probationary year where you either leave with an MPhil or get to continue into the PhD program.

Like I said, not sure if this happens for creative writing degrees but I've had it happen to friends who do law, neuroscience, Victorian literature, and modern history, which to me makes it seem like it might be possible in just about any field. So, you're not actually all that far off and crazy in looking at the UK for PhD programs; it might be a step you can take now, and it be a lot cheaper than the US options even if you couldn't get any scholarships to help out. [PhD students in the UK aren't allowed to enroll without funding, which either your faculty will supply, or you have to rally for yourself, or you can get some sort of scholarship--but you will have a stipend to support you while you're here.]

[PatrickG]

The PhD programs I looked at did seem to be different and... if I wanted to put the work in, I could probably get into an intensive one year MA over there.

I'm just not sure if I want to bypass the MFA over here since that's the more standard terminal degree.

[siviusx]

I'm in the last stretches of an LL.M. here and I have to say, I don't blame you--American Masters of any kind seem to really be more bang for your buck, to put it bluntly. I didn't hate my degree and was more or less prepared for it to be a lot of self-maintenance, but in general terms, in the British tradition there's an excessive focus on research as opposed to teaching, disscussion, and skill-building. Although my friends on non-law degrees did have to sit through 10 seminars on how to make a Powerpoint because, apparently, my university believes that that's not covered in undergrad. Or, you know, high school!

But, they're all one year programs, and it nearly caused everyone I know from different systems to have a nervous breakdown. I had approximately 9 weeks of teaching per subject--which was nuts--with no assessment until final exams in MAY--which was nuttier because I finished four courses in December and basically got to retake them in April just so I wouldn't fail--and then I got approximately 4 months to write a dissertation that I, like a true champ, started on this week, with 2 weeks to go. British graduate level education is for people who can work really well without constant deadlines and who are willing to basically pay 3000 pounds for library use, so I really don't blame you for wanting to do it US-style.

[Lester C.]

In order for me to go to graduate school I need to take some classes at my local junior college. Twelve years back I would mock, in my head, the thirty year old guy in the room. Now I am the thirty year old guy. Funny how life works sometimes.

[Gilda Dent]

It appears my previous post was somewhat prophetic.

I am teaching at a community college.

It's not quite the same thing as a jr. college, but the differences are negligible enough not to matter.

We've been back at school for about a week. I'm enjoying things more this semester and not all wound up in knots over whether I'll make it or not, which is good.

It isn't my dream job--that would be a first grade class at pretty much any local school--but it's a good job that I'm good at, that I enjoy, and that pays a fair salary with decent benefits. And I get to wear nice clothes to work.

[Violently Apathetic]

Starting teacher's college on the 2nd of September, although I have to be there on the 28th and 29th for registration and orientation, even tough my apartment doesn't open until the first.

So I get to live out of a hotel, yay!

[Dr Ray Palmer]

Well, I'm not exactly going back to school, but...

A couple of times a year, I get that dream where there was some government paperwork screw up and I have to re-do my last year of high school.

I'm 28 years old, so I've been having that dream for about 13 years.

Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one.

I still have that dream. I'm always like, "I'm 35 and have a master's degree, how can you possibly be making me take high school algebra (English, etc.)?", but they won't listen to reason.

I also still have the dream where I can't remember my locker combination, or where I'm in college and realize I have a final exam today for a class I forgot to go to all semester.

[LtMarvel]

I face the students tomorrow.

[Kid Kamikaze10]

I moved in on Sunday, starting classes on Wednesday, and working on Thursday (and only Thursdays)...

And I've already missed like four appointments...


Responsibility and time management are my weakness... College is gonna suck for me without friends (which I do have, just not in my departments).

[Kid Kamikaze10]

Is anyone going for a double major? If so, how is it?


Because, I'm going for Comp Sci and Writing (specialty being fiction/creative).

[C-Cool]

I moved in on Sunday, starting classes on Wednesday, and working on Thursday (and only Thursdays)...

And I've already missed like four appointments...


Responsibility and time management are my weakness... College is gonna suck for me without friends (which I do have, just not in my departments).

GET ON THE BALL, STUDENT!!!!

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Bah. F all that noise man. Pay me one quarter of what that class costs and I'll teach you correspondence.

Sure, I may never have had any works published.

Sure, no one's ever even seen my stuff, let alone purchased it.

Sure, I may have a highly self-inflated opinion of my half-finished screenplays, all of which end with an Army of Bearstm invading the city/village/marina and killing all of the humans.

Sure, there won't be anyone else in the class, saved a stuffed chipmunk named "Maurice."

Sure, the room will smell of baby vomit and cream cheese.

Sure, I may not know what a "storyboard" is.

But you're saving at least $12 going in, just do it!



Attention, mods! Another Olney sock-puppet here!

[Kid Kamikaze10]

GET ON THE BALL, STUDENT!!!!

Shut up! You're not doing any better, from what I've heard!


:biggrin:

[Sgt. Fuzzy]

Funnily enough, I start my one-week break in three days. Then it's back to the grind.