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What is your level of formal education?

I have completed the following formal educations

  • None or very little

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • Attended school, but did not graduate

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • GED or graduated from high school

    Votes: 18 23.7%

  • Some college

    Votes: 17 22.4%

  • 2 year college degree

    Votes: 15 19.7%

  • 4 year college degree

    Votes: 26 34.2%

  • formal education based technical degree/certification

    Votes: 15 19.7%

  • Military or other past-high school degree

    Votes: 10 13.2%

  • Lawyer, doctor, other high education degree

    Votes: 5 6.6%

  • Masters/PhD

    Votes: 27 35.5%
  • Total voters
    76
nota bene said:
With you on time and effort, but like it or not, the MFA is regarded as the terminal degree and so by definition carries the same "prestige" as a doctorate.
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Not really "the same prestige"...unless maybe amongst other "fine arts" people; but not the general public. A doctorate entitles the person to use the title "Doctor," do holders of MFA's call themselves doctors too?
 
Two Bachelor's degrees and a Master's.

I agree with Captain Adverse's comment about the poll options. Pretty badly botched. Sorry joko. :shrug:
 
joko104 said:
There were only 10 options allowed in the poll, so I put Masters/PhD together. There also is overlap. For example, an attorney technically has a PhD (at least in most states - ie Doctor Jurisprudence or something like that), plus a professional degree plus it could be defined at a technical degree.

The reason I grouped Masters and PhD was due to that limit but also a comment my daughter now in an advanced college. She stated she does want a Masters but definitely NOT a PhD, because each opens doors, but a PhD closes some doors too. The "over qualified" thing.

The part about military education is that did not want to exclude career or specialized military academics and again only had 10 options.

Besides, get off my ****ing case. I already acknowledged I'm "none to little." So I think I did pretty damn good with the poll. :2razz:
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Ahhh, I didn't realize it was multiple choice, so I did not vote when I made that comment. I fell into seven categories and thought it was looking for the highest level attained only. My mistake, I've checked off all seven now.
 
This academic year I'll have earned my masters.


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Masters degree.
 
Aderleth said:
Juris Doctorate.

FYI, you might want to separate Masters degrees from PhDs (if possible). Those are two very different animals.
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The entire polls is messed up, there's more to fix than that.
 
BA in Political Science and History
Master's in International Affairs, Early American History (Civil War and Reconstruction)
PhD in International Affairs
 
PhD in math. My qualifying exams were in algebra, logic and probability and my dissertation fell into combinatorics and number theory.
 
B.A in English. I could probably gotten a certificate in Medieval Studies but I didn't bother to apply for it.

One thing I learned was that a cultural norm asserted in Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance literature was 'homosocialism' -- which, far from being a conservative's worst nightmare, maintains that Platonic male friendships are the primary building block of society, or at least the most civilizing influence on collective behavior. The nuclear family is tertiary to that.

This is and other fascinating bits of lore courtesy of four years and fifty thousand or so dollars in tuition.
 
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Mathematician said:
PhD in math. My qualifying exams were in algebra, logic and probability and my dissertation fell into combinatorics and number theory.
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Math dissertations are so crazy. The titles are like gibberish and the content like sanskrit. Fascinating though at the same time. I remember when I took just basic Calc I in college (even though I had tested out of it) and I started having crazy dreams about math half way through the semester.

I ended up acing the class but it required serious effort. It was the last class I ever took that both challenged and motivated me. My biggest educational regret was that I allowed myself to be scared away from engineering, math, science, and stats as majors.
 
Currently in college right now.
 
PHD in staying alive from the school of hard knocks
SUMA COM LOUD! ... or something ....


would you believe ..... thrown out of Chemistry 4 Being a FREE RADICAL (?)

1 ea, aging disciple of Mario Savio ........
 
Neomalthusian said:
Math dissertations are so crazy. The titles are like gibberish and the content like sanskrit. Fascinating though at the same time. I remember when I took just basic Calc I in college (even though I had tested out of it) and I started having crazy dreams about math half way through the semester.

I ended up acing the class but it required serious effort. It was the last class I ever took that both challenged and motivated me. My biggest educational regret was that I allowed myself to be scared away from engineering, math, science, and stats as majors.
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The master's thesis was a lot easier than the PhD dissertation, primarily because it's like a 50-page book report. OTOH, the dissertation has to be research with results nobody else has obtained. With a full-time job while I was working on my dissertation, the research alone took three years.

Looking back, would you choose one of those technical fields? If so, which and why?
 
Mathematician said:
The master's thesis was a lot easier than the PhD dissertation, primarily because it's like a 50-page book report. OTOH, the dissertation has to be research with results nobody else has obtained. With a full-time job while I was working on my dissertation, the research alone took three years.
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Jeebus. It seems pretty obvious to me that doctoral dissertation research was essentially just the attempt to create real knowledge. What has always kind of turned me off about PhDs was my impression that unless you can make a groundbreaking discovery, you'll end up cornered into hyper-specificity and the reason no one else had ever come up with that knowledge is because frankly no one cares.

Looking back, would you choose one of those technical fields? If so, which and why?
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Probably mechanical engineering because I'm noticing especially the older I get how absorbed I am by how things actually work, or maybe industrial engineering because I just love being a job-killer. Ahem, I mean, I am naturally drawn toward eliminating inefficiency.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Not really "the same prestige"...unless maybe amongst other "fine arts" people; but not the general public. A doctorate entitles the person to use the title "Doctor," do holders of MFA's call themselves doctors too?
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Yes, they do.
 
nota bene said:
Yes, they do.
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Please show me some link proving that. I've never heard of any person with a Master's degree being authorized to use the title Doctor.

P.S. ...and after searching the net I still can't FIND any indication that an MFA grants the recipient the right to the title "Doctor."
 
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BA
JD
Masters

plus certifications in several coaching disciplines (squash, table tennis, archery, defensive pistol, international shotgun)
 
You can't Google?
 
Master's: writing and pedagogy.
 
Aderleth said:
There are lots of terminal degrees, and they're not all treated equally in terms if prestige. MD's, JD's, MFA's and PhD's all get treated differently in society. :shrug:
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JD's are not considered terminal degrees. LLM's are above them
 
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