Bridge Deconstruction Ahead

[Jenne]

Yeah, I have an MA...but got it ages ago at UCLA, so it's quite ancient and dusty.

[AFK]

I'm a bit more pretentious and have mine hanging on the wall in my office directly behind me and just over my head.  I also put the letters at the end of my name, which for my degree is MPP.  I wanted to put them on my checks too but my wife thought that was a bit much.   

[Jenne]

Well, lately I've been thinking of biting the bullet and getting that doctorate I set out to get before I sold out to motherhood and raising children.  But now my focus would be (surprise surprise) on getting an EdD.

[AFK]

You could become the Education Czar of California, though from what I hear in the news, that probably would be an unpaid position. 

[Cain]

From what I hear in the news, pretty much every position in California is going to be an unpaid one soon, de facto if not de jure.

[Arafelis]

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

You seem to be reading something into my post that wasn't there.  I wasn't commenting on your response, I was commenting on the general turn of subject in the thread.

Ah, my apologies.

[Jenne]

I was introduced to the notion of a select group of R&D individuals (made up of social workers, PhD/EdDs, teachers, administrators and legislative analysts) that go around to schools of at-risk pops and diagnose the situation, reward schools and administrators employing "best practices" and training others how to use those practices for their own school.

I want to do that.  This is the one I met in San Jose this year:  http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/pc/

So, they've waved something sexy in front of me and got me thinking I might be into this...don't know, though.  I'm still too lazy (har!) for that at the moment.

[Cain]

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

You seem to be reading something into my post that wasn't there.  I wasn't commenting on your response, I was commenting on the general turn of subject in the thread.

Ah, my apologies.

No problems.

[Kai]

I was introduced to the notion of a select group of R&D individuals (made up of social workers, PhD/EdDs, teachers, administrators and legislative analysts) that go around to schools of at-risk pops and diagnose the situation, reward schools and administrators employing "best practices" and training others how to use those practices for their own school.

I want to do that.  This is the one I met in San Jose this year:  http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/pc/

So, they've waved something sexy in front of me and got me thinking I might be into this...don't know, though.  I'm still too lazy (har!) for that at the moment.

That's really cool Jenne, you should go for it. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

Well, I'm one of the 4 or whatever.  

I think it might be five, actually.  You, Kai, Nigel (IIRC), zen_magick and me.  There are probably at least one or two I have forgotten, though.

Edit: Jenne as well, I think.

I'm undergrad, actually... give me a couple of years though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, lately I've been thinking of biting the bullet and getting that doctorate I set out to get before I sold out to motherhood and raising children.  But now my focus would be (surprise surprise) on getting an EdD.

DO IT!

[Jenne]

@Kai & Nigel--I think I might look further into it for next year...gotta stop being PTA president long enough to get my head out of my ass career-wise...

[Thurnez Isa]

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

Well, I'm one of the 4 or whatever.  

I think it might be five, actually.  You, Kai, Nigel (IIRC), zen_magick and me.  There are probably at least one or two I have forgotten, though.

Edit: Jenne as well, I think.

I almost became a grad student in Theory and Composition. 
Before I moved to New Brunswick was thinking about going to the University of Manitoba. But of course I came to quit music and went back to school starting at the beginning again

[Kai]

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

Well, I'm one of the 4 or whatever.  

I think it might be five, actually.  You, Kai, Nigel (IIRC), zen_magick and me.  There are probably at least one or two I have forgotten, though.

Edit: Jenne as well, I think.

I almost became a grad student in Theory and Composition. 
Before I moved to New Brunswick was thinking about going to the University of Manitoba. But of course I came to quit music and went back to school starting at the beginning again

yeah, but I'm remembering you sayin that you'd be going for grad school after finishing your undergrad in paleobotany.

[Thurnez Isa]

depends... I've been in education limbo since I started

Right now I do Earth Sciences, with minoring in the study of fossilized Bacteria and Stromatolites... so i don't know what that makes me anymore - lol

The way things stand now is after my next two semesters all I'll have left is maybe one semester of courses... so depending on what I pick up next summer, and since I have to transfer to become a grad student in paleontology I maybe able to transfer in fall '10, with only one or two undergrad courses to go. I have no dissertations to do for my undergrad, and my art (music) transfer credits took care of all my electives (except for that stupid English course I took). So in a year and couple of months from this date I could be starting on my grad, without actually being an official grad student yet.
One university in New Brunswick I talked to seemed to promote this course... so I'm assuming that other universities would make the same offer. So that is completely up in the air.

In other words I'm completely in education limbo right now and it may actually get worse in the future