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Where did you go to college?

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  • #52
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    I haven't?

    Wait - define college..


  • #53
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Jaysus who does three degrees. Pick a topic and focus on it

    Professional student?


  • #54
    ComputerKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 770 ✭✭✭ComputerKing


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Jaysus who does three degrees. Pick a topic and focus on it

    Eternal Students or some people just can't decide what to do so do a number of degrees.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ComputerKing wrote: »
    Eternal Students or some people just can't decide what to do so do a number of degrees.

    Some people just love learning.

    Nought wrong with that.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Candie wrote: »
    Some people just love learning.

    Nought wrong with that.

    That's fine, I'm a lecturer myself. But at least progress to a masters, then maybe phd or whatever. A love of learning needs to be supplemented with a bit of pragmatism


  • #57
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    DCU - Undergraduate degree
    UCD - Currently studying for a masters part time while earning all the monies. :P


  • #58
    ComputerKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 770 ✭✭✭ComputerKing


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That's fine, I'm a lecturer myself. But at least progress to a masters, then maybe phd or whatever. A love of learning needs to be supplemented with a bit of pragmatism

    I suppose that would be the obvious progression and it seems strange that they didn't follow this line of progression. Also the degrees do seem very unrelated except for maybe the accounting and actuary.


  • #59
    forgotten password
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭forgotten password


    3 years nuig, waste of time

    1 year humboldt berlin, best move ever :D


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's fine, I'm a lecturer myself. But at least progress to a masters, then maybe phd or whatever. A love of learning needs to be supplemented with a bit of pragmatism

    The man likes variety. :)


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  • #61
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That's fine, I'm a lecturer myself. But at least progress to a masters, then maybe phd or whatever. A love of learning needs to be supplemented with a bit of pragmatism


    I'm one of those people who has a love of learning and a number of degrees to my name, started with computer science and mathematics, then business and finance, and I'm currently doing a degree course in social care. I think the more pragmatic approach would be to learn enough to be useful, and progressing to a masters or phd level would've been more than I had actually needed because my objective was always more from a personal development perspective rather than a career development perspective.

    Basically if I liked the idea of something, I knew what I had to do to make the most of the opportunity and that usually involved upskilling or educating myself in that field, and that meant going back to university or college or a private course. I consider the money spent on my education a long term investment, so I would say I certainly take a more pragmatic view to education than someone who progresses to a masters or phd level and then doesn't utilize their education to exploit their full potential.


  • #62
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I went to the school of hard knocks. I graduated top of my class for aggressive knocking specialising in wooden doors. I went on for a masters in PVC door knocking, it's just the way the market went you had to adapt to the new doors around today.

    Really? Me too!!


  • #63
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Bovine University :D



  • #64
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I'm one of those people who has a love of learning and a number of degrees to my name, started with computer science and mathematics, then business and finance, and I'm currently doing a degree course in social care. I think the more pragmatic approach would be to learn enough to be useful, and progressing to a masters or phd level would've been more than I had actually needed because my objective was always more from a personal development perspective rather than a career development perspective.

    Basically if I liked the idea of something, I knew what I had to do to make the most of the opportunity and that usually involved upskilling or educating myself in that field, and that meant going back to university or college or a private course. I consider the money spent on my education a long term investment, so I would say I certainly take a more pragmatic view to education than someone who progresses to a masters or phd level and then doesn't utilize their education to exploit their full potential.

    So you're a nerd then?





































    <just teasing> :)


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Candie wrote: »
    The man likes variety. :)

    Can't argue with that :-)


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I'm one of those people who has a love of learning and a number of degrees to my name, started with computer science and mathematics, then business and finance, and I'm currently doing a degree course in social care. I think the more pragmatic approach would be to learn enough to be useful, and progressing to a masters or phd level would've been more than I had actually needed because my objective was always more from a personal development perspective rather than a career development perspective.

    Basically if I liked the idea of something, I knew what I had to do to make the most of the opportunity and that usually involved upskilling or educating myself in that field, and that meant going back to university or college or a private course. I consider the money spent on my education a long term investment, so I would say I certainly take a more pragmatic view to education than someone who progresses to a masters or phd level and then doesn't utilize their education to exploit their full potential.

    I take the point. Because our perspectives seem to differ, so will our definition of pragmatic! That's life :-)


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  • #67
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    I went to prison with a Bachelor in marijuana and left with a doctorate in cocaine.


  • #68
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    chillywilly wrote: »
    I went to prison with a Bachelor in marijuana and left with a doctorate in cocaine.

    Did you choose the thug life or did the thug life choose you?


  • #69
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,661 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    IT Tallaght, cert, dip and level 8 degree in electronic engineering.

    Just finished a Part time MSc in Kevin street.


  • #70
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,534 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Tee-see-dee.


  • #71
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    Diego Simeone wrote: »
    Trinners for winners

    FYP. :pac:


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  • #72
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    IADT it was nice, but i felt like i was in an episode of skins with all those trendy hipsters all over the place.


  • #73
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,534 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Fat Christy wrote: »
    FYP. :pac:

    It's impossible to saying you go to Trinity these days without getting stick about it, even when you make it sound inconspicuously like a fairground ride. :(


  • #74
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    Diego Simeone wrote: »
    It's impossible to saying you go to Trinity these days without getting stick about it, even when you make it sound inconspicuously like a fairground ride. :(

    I'm only messing with ya! :P My best friend is in Trinity. I get battered over the head every time I say that phrase. I still do it. Nothing is going to keep me down. :pac:


  • #75
    ikarie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭ikarie


    scumbag college


  • #76
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    AIT, GMIT, SCFE abd from September coming NUI Maynooth.


  • #77
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    NUI Maynooth
    McMaster University


  • #78
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Degree in Athlone IT
    Masters in NUI Galway

    Loved every minute and this coming from someone who left secondary school at 16 because I detested every second of it :D


  • #79
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Couple of certs at PLC level then moved on to IT Carlow. Still there and enjoying it.


  • #80
    yawhat!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 970 ✭✭✭yawhat!


    W.I.T and now earn 80k a year. Only mid twenties lad. I'm that good.


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