Nigel's Shiny New Life Thread

[Don Coyote]

I'm fresh back from my math midterm and I am pretty sure I aced it.

Physically I'm falling apart, but mentally I'm a rapier! 

Mentally I am an anvil, shat upon the world from a great height. 

Sharpness not a requirement.

Just velocity.

I just gotta be me.  Gravity does all the nasty stuff.

Fucking science making shit heavy and crap. Making things fall all over the place.

I am TOTALLY yoinking this as a tagline!

WUT!!!!

I did. It made me LOL so I made it my tagline on the little bbs only my local geek friends and I are on. It is attributed to you though. 

Now the interwebs are going to think I am retarded.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm fresh back from my math midterm and I am pretty sure I aced it.

Physically I'm falling apart, but mentally I'm a rapier! 

Mentally I am an anvil, shat upon the world from a great height. 

Sharpness not a requirement.

Just velocity.

I just gotta be me.  Gravity does all the nasty stuff.

Fucking science making shit heavy and crap. Making things fall all over the place.

I am TOTALLY yoinking this as a tagline!

WUT!!!!

I did. It made me LOL so I made it my tagline on the little bbs only my local geek friends and I are on. It is attributed to you though. 

Now the interwebs are going to think I am retarded.

Or as funny as shit!

[Cainad (dec.)]

I'm fresh back from my math midterm and I am pretty sure I aced it.

Holy shit I hope I do well on my math midterm this Monday.

how do i calculus?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm fresh back from my math midterm and I am pretty sure I aced it.

Holy shit I hope I do well on my math midterm this Monday.

how do i calculus?

I am definitely not the person to ask that! Not for at least three more terms. My maths < your maths.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

You know, I thought you were talking about your head.

Me too, until I got to the end. I was easily distracted, apparently.

[hirley0]

I C it makes no ¢ents whatever | SCHEDULE
http://www.nativecenter.pdx.edu/schedule.php         1st
http://www.pdx.edu/registration/class_schedule.html  2nd
2012 02/26 01:58
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OFFLINE:  thus the 1:30 am Oregon Field Guide Anthro
was a take of PSU geologist A.F. Sum .edu notes  in order
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AS i understand the tail A.F. is the Husband for V.B.
anthropologist {see site) Because at the level of the
Collier cold " gone in two hundred " etc
= =
alloon Archaeology2311
1818 Watch this for VB?AF?MeMe
Look there is more to this than i will try to tell | Watch him Listen to HER | see Gamburg 2
: : :
the ACtual tail By the time U arrive will be Mt Hood South flank include Government Camp
My cross country skies should still be there at the turnout to ski bowl
Well across the Hiway, details if required
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it may be required to climb to the Silcot {Warming Hut) to get to the Starting point
the weekend prior to fall term is my guess. AF took that route UP to the Kitchen
years ago with the person from U Chi. think in terms of that year | HUT closed Nights


http://web.pdx.edu/~virginia/ VB Anthro
http://www.geol.pdx.edu/AGF/   
http://glaciers.pdx.edu/fountain/ ..... Andrew G. Fountain { DEPT HEAD


http://www.lvji.pdx.edu
  ?BUY NY NOON RED AU"

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Pix, this is a wonderful idea! Yay!

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Best of luck. I vote religious studies!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Best of luck. I vote religious studies!

I think that sounds super-interesting, too. But so does environmental science!

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Best of luck. I vote religious studies!

This would be amusing as I describe myself as an apathetic agnostic. I cannot prove the existence of deity either way and I frankly don't give a shit. Environmental Science is my wildcard, and would take far longer to get to teach.


English Lit is my first choice because I know there is an English Lit course at Southampton University.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Best of luck. I vote religious studies!

This would be amusing as I describe myself as an apathetic agnostic. I cannot prove the existence of deity either way and I frankly don't give a shit. Environmental Science is my wildcard, and would take far longer to get to teach.


English Lit is my first choice because I know there is an English Lit course at Southampton University.

If you think of your education not as a means to an end but as a career in itself, the length of the program becomes less daunting.

I would definitely look up what the employment opportunities are for English Lit... hopefully they are better there than they are here. In the States, a degree in anything involving English, Music, Art, or Literature pretty much guarantees that you will end up in retail management.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

So it dawned on me today, that I am unlikely to make a decent living wage or get out of catering/retail hell without doing some more education.

I am seriously considering teaching in the 11-16 year old bracket. For this, I need some kind of part time or evening Access course, or Foundation Degree and a course in the local area or by correspondence course, as I don't want to move. Then I would have to do a degree, then a PGCE.

Subjects I would consider in ranking order-

English Literature/Language.

Religious Studies.

French. (it's a stretch, that one, but I was bloody good at it at school)

Environmental Science (but that would have to be 16-19 age)

I am waiting on a callback from the Open University and will be looking into my options.

Best of luck. I vote religious studies!

This would be amusing as I describe myself as an apathetic agnostic. I cannot prove the existence of deity either way and I frankly don't give a shit. Environmental Science is my wildcard, and would take far longer to get to teach.


English Lit is my first choice because I know there is an English Lit course at Southampton University.

If you think of your education not as a means to an end but as a career in itself, the length of the program becomes less daunting.

I would definitely look up what the employment opportunities are for English Lit... hopefully they are better there than they are here. In the States, a degree in anything involving English, Music, Art, or Literature pretty much guarantees that you will end up in retail management.

French teachers are in pretty high demand, as there is a shortage and it's the most commonly taught language, but that would mean a bunch of refresher courses and getting into that path of study looks a lot more complicated, but to be honest if I couldn't get into teaching with an English Lit and PGCE, well retail management is higher up the pay and food chain than I am now, so it wouldn't be much of a loss.


Actually, looking at the government website, there is nothing relating to English teachers. I guess it's a popular subject at degree level and most of what you can do with it IS teaching. Balls. That's that one dropped down the ranking, even though I would really get off on the degree...

Environmental Science is up there as a degree that can lead to science teaching. (it just went higher up the list.)- Science teachers are in shortage at the moment. Add to this the impending doom of running out of fossil fuels and private industry might be more receptive by the time I actually graduate.

For foreign language teaching it suggests you learn two languages, at least one European, and it helps if you learn a language used by immigrant families. I'd probably choose the second language as Mandarin, or Polish. Actually I'd more likely choose Polish. With the large Polish community in this country being a quite audible if not visible minority it would be good. Hell even learning Polish to A-level might help if I decided to teach in a lower age bracket. This could be lucrative, hold good chances of work in the private sector if teaching is a no-go, but is looking like way longer period of study.

however, Religious Studies, interestingly enough will let you take an Anthropology (I assume they mean cultural, rather than biological) degree, and that's another subject I have expressed an interest in doing at that level in the past. I think that one can also be done at a local Uni.

In the Design and Technology category you can even have a degree in Jewellery, so maybe add that to my bucket o'choices of subjects to teach, and before I went mad I was looking at jewellery degree level courses. The big disadvantage would be having to move, as jewellery degree courses are not common.

There seems to be a common thread though. The most in-demand subjects don't seem to be local to study, and the local to study isn't in as much demand.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I suspect you would do very well with French, any science, and any socio/anthro angle.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have added a Spanish class. I know that five classes is too many, but the homework will be really easy and it fills up an otherwise unused chunk of time on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.