How Old Are My Fellow A2K Members?

What about all these grants I keep hearing about for all of you south of the border? That's one area I'd look into.

There might be a Pell Grant (or one of it's cousins) available to CdK. I don't know anything about these, as I was never eligible. Most American higher education is still about loans. No Free Lunch and all.

(In fact, all should probably be warned that I really don't know much about any practical matter...)

Here is a nice education story: My uncle entered university at a young age, and excelled at his major, philosophy. He graduated, and worked at a shitty job in an unrelated field for a decade. Then, due to his social anxiety and depression among other things, he was forced to quit his job and retire to a life of glorified hermitism. The only thing he does now - the only thing he can do - is take more useless university programs, which he is never able to apply or make use of because he rarely leaves his mothers house and talks to virtually no one. But when he dies, his degrees will keep him warm. The end.

My father has three exams to go, and a diploma.
He says he wants to finish school before he retires.

My woman is doing an MS in informatics/economy, on top of two degrees. She says she doesn't want all that and I have to push her a bit.

I'm a uni fallout, or in other words, I didn't care to finish the ones I started.

I'm too lazy, but if situation changes around here I still have a plan for my early forties...

Okay, I know this is totally unrelated, but I love Jer's new avatar!

Whatchya takin' Ceili? Er...I mean, what's your aspiring degree?

OPh, by the way, is it the seasonal changing (i noticed a lot of people changing avatar pictures...)?
Summer cleaning? Just coincidence?

Some people change avatars like other people change underwear. I think it's just a co-inkydink.

Er - I see nothing wrong in education for the delight of it. Would you rather your uncle did nothing, ILZ?

On the journey from birth to death, we must do SOMETHING.

Or are you saying the initial philosophy was somehow at fault?

I mean, philosophy was one of my majors, but I still found gainful employment! lol

Mind you, my gainful employment makes me want to help treat your uncle! Social anxiety can be treated....not always easily, though...sigh.

But how do you treat being a social outcast?

Ooo! Ooo! I know that one!

You move away and go to a place where no one knows your name, er, reputation.

We ended up doing this for our oldest, who was a little free of the mouth in First and Second grade. He got over it, but his classmates didn't, fifth grade now. Moved to a new school, Bam! everyone likes him.

Maybe he (your uncle) doesn't need such a change as this, but a new job with new people in a different part of the city may do wonders for him.

I graduated when I was 22 and went t work straight after that.....I still have a desire to go back to college - maybe one day I will

Doesn't look like I'll get back to uni until Oz universities have the resources to run classes at night. Not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

Do American universities run modular degrees? i did my Art degree as a mature student, whilst working p/t and with 2 growing up daughters. Being modular made it possible, with a sympathetic employer at the time, who allowed me to change my hours about a bit.

It meant that i didn't have to end up in debt with student loans. It was a killer but it was worth it.

Some subjects run classes in the evenings but Fine Art didn't.

How about coming to an English Uni Craven?

you should go for a degree with your IQ and broad knowledge - you need that 'bit of paper' to open doors - with your IT and language skills, part time work to keep you through a degree should be possible here

My daughter who had dropped out of a psychology degree half way through as not being for her, did a law degree part time at uni at night, whilst holding down a full time job - she did it over 4 years instead of the normal 3, she was nearly the same age as you Craven,

In US the student loans a guaranteed - meaning that your credit history is not relevant. You also can not discharge the loans through bankruptcy.

Speaking of schools, I'm thinking abut applying for a position at a prestigious art school. I ran across it on an industry website yesterday, just out of the blue, and realized after reading it that I actually qualify! I'd apply as a lark more than anything else, just to see how far I'd get in the process. My curiosity been piqued, to say the least.

I wonder if Craven has any interest in teaching? I think he can discharge a lot of student loan debt for a teaching degree if he agrees to teach somewhere difficult like the Navajo reservation. (Of course, I am old and frequently misremember details like this.)

My age is a prime number... a large prime number equal to Satt's formula minus the multiplicative identity.

Piffka, I've got you pegged at 16. How close am I?

my age

Errr. That's worth a smooch! But Gus, I dunno think 16 is a prime number.

No, no, you old coot, you got pegged at 16, not Piffka.

Let's see a prime number,,,,,, hmmm.

Is it:

(2-1)*(3-1)*(5-1)
----------------- == 8 bits / 30 integers ?