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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 12:50 AM
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Did you go to College/University or a Tech School or a Vocational School?
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 12:52 AM by HEyHEY
I went to like...all of them..well not really.

College, and University... I don't know how as I barely passed high school. Serously! In grade 12 I once had a grade point average of .75

EDIT. Guess you should add what you took to make it more interesting.
I studied French in University and Journalism in college
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 12:52 AM
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1. Well, at 18 I went to vocational school
(secretarial), and at 31 I went to University. Learned more in vocational school.
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neverborn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:08 AM
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2. What's the difference?
between College and University?

oh, and I'm in high school :p
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:10 AM
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3. A word - in the US
In Canada there actually is a difference. Colleges don't offer anything besides two-year courses here.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 02:27 AM
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8. You can major in many more things at a university
Especially on the Graduate level. Dartmouth college, for example offers no PhD in Economics
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LastDemocratInSC Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:29 AM
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4. I did both, and loved every hard minute of it ... I think
When I got out of high school at 18 about 5,230 years ago I had no idea what I wanted to do. I went to a 4 year college because that's what we did in my family. I did fine in the courses I enjoyed and badly in the courses that were boring. On average, obviously, I did poorly. So, I left after 3 years.

I worked around, discovered what I could do best, and went back to tech school at night, effectively starting over. In the mean time I had gotten married and had a child. Now, ain't that education enough for one lifetime?

It took forever for me to finish, but I did. I graduated with a respectable GPA from the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg after years of night classes. The funny thing is that the computer science department, in which I had taken a lot of classes, wanted to make me their "Student of the Year" in 1996. I said "Sure dudes, let's go for it!" The only problem was that I wasn't in their department, but I didn't know at the time that it would be a problem. They eventually told me that I didn't qualify as their top student because I was in another academic department, but they did dedicate the blank space for 1996 on the big hallway plaque to me.

I feel honored, in an odd sort of way.
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gyopsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:48 AM
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5. Still am going to a university
I love it. It isn't for everyone though. Some people would do better in a vocational school.
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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 02:13 AM
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6. Got my BA
in history, and am currently applying to med school
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 02:18 AM
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7. University
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 02:22 AM by JVS
I was informed that I would receive a full tuition scholarship in the 6th week of my senior year in highschool. Those were the good days. Many of my classmates were incredibly bitter. It was a good year of relaxation.

I majored in Math, German, and Economics; excercising the dual degree option to get a 5th year of free tuition. So I did a BS in math and econ and a BA in German. I also spend some time abroad at the University of Augsburg and got a Sprachpraxis, which certifies a high level of proficiency in the German language.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 02:36 AM
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9. Tech School and Vocational School
Vocational School for Electronics in High School and a Technical School for Truck Driving.

Also 2 years in an Electrical Apprenticeship course.
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