What is your education level?

Masters in Electrical Engineering.

All it did was prove to me how much I don't know.

highschool grad, plan on futhering my education after the army.

working on grad/med

I am a college graduate, having a degree in counseling psychology. Now I am finishing pre-med. Want to serve the poor in a community mental health facility.

Shooter429

Auburn University, class of '73, BA ( War Eagle!)

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We won't hold that against you! ROLL TIDE

MBA 06. Starting Phd program in Econ 09'ish

Got a BS in Graphic Design
Got a BS in Graphic Communications
Will be working on a MS in Graphic Communications

Piled high & Deep

Just looking for an answer to post #124.....

While it may not seem like it sometimes, I have my AA, BA, BS, and MBA degrees.
All are from UF, my MBA was in 1970

Posted by Nomad101bc:
A gradaute degree is same as BA or BS without getting picky.

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This is incorrect; as others have stated. You cannot start a grad degree until you have completed your undergrad curriculum (aka, BS or BA).

Other than being a leading question, many are thrown in forums like ours, for use later on to show or prove a point. Don't answer leading questions, it's no ones business, and can be used against the innocent, if you put some of these leading questions like, how many guns do you have, what would you do if someone broke in your house at night, How many times would you fire, etc, it gives the wrong people profiles, which can later come back to show evidence of certain patterns which is not a good thing when cherrypicking random surveys for personal or political agendas. It's rude first of all, like asking "how much money" you make, ballsy and personal. Bad manners to boot

Juris Doctor

BS in MIS

but I'm a software engineer

Why are Associate Degrees not listed? Or Professional Certifications?

Why are Associate Degrees not listed? Or Professional Certifications?

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I have no clue. I don't understand why baccalaureate degrees aren't listed, either.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Will shortly begin a master's degree program to become a Family Nurse Practitioner.

My degrees prove that I have too many interests.

Bachelor's Degree (BS) English Literature
Bachelor's Degree (BS) Philosophy and Religion
Bachelor's Degree (BS) Biology

Master's Degree (MA) Public Relations


-- John

I spend 7 years in college and have three degrees to show for it. You do the math.

I'm currenty in college majoring in Spanish and pre-medicine (not actually a major, but a prep for med school).

+1 gym. i may be paranoid, but i have always wondered about posts such as this one. even when asked in sincerity, it would not prevent data mining.

Not sure I want to tell but what the hell?

I have an IQ of 145 proven by repeated tests every few years since I was around 14. I dropped out of high school because the teachers were idiots and I was bored to death because they could not teach me anything that I wasn't already way ahead of the class on. Back then there was no such thing as classes for gifted or exceptional students.

I figured out after some years of beating my head against the wall that to get anything but a dead end job I needed an education. So I went and took the GED with a 9th grade education and no studying or prep classes and made about 5 points less than a perfect score back then.

Since then I have gone to universities and technical schools and got the following degrees.

1. Associates of Liberal Arts Majoring in PreMedical / PreProfessonal studies.
2. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
3. Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Specializing in Telecommunication Systems and Computer Networks
4. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Specializing in the design of Medical Devices and machinery.

While I was working on all these degrees I also as part of my work (Yes I paid my own way. I don't believe in government freebies and handouts.) I also worked on, studied for and earned the following certifications.

A+ Certified Computer Technician
Certified Computer Hardware Repair Technician
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Certified Systems Programmer
Solaris Certified Administrator Level 1 and 2
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Certified Network Professional
Cisco Certified Security Professional
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert

I worked my ass off for all of this and usually when I tell people about it they either call me a liar or they think I'm some overeducated idiot. I am neither.

You asked. I answered.

These days I'm older and tired of academia but all of the above has been very beneficial to me both employment wise, monetarily and the in having the freedom to know that I can go most anywhere in the USA or the world and get a good paying job inside of a couple of weeks with no problem.

I am not at liberty to talk about what I do for a living or who I work for. It's part of my non-disclosure agreement with my employer. If I break the agreement I face not only loss of job but also loss of freedom in a big way.

Today, in my spare time I only want to read about, collect, learn about and shoot every firearm I can get my hands on before I die. I love firearms and am trying to become enough of a gunsmith to just take care of my own collection and maybe help a friend out in need. I also read and study history concerning the founding and development of our great USA and the Constitution, Bill of Rights and other Amendments along with the people that worked on these document and developed them. I have an unquentiable thirst for trying to understand what these people were thinking and dealing with and what their intent was when the developed our country and the above mentioned documents that we all now live by.

I think I've said enough. Why does anyone care how educated a person is on a gun forum? As long as your smart enough to learn how to handle a gun safely, legally and accurately, what does your level of education matter.

I never give out this information in public because some people get all weirded out when they find out you have a very good college education or that your level of education is higher than theirs.

Hopefully in an anonymous forum the same thing will not happen. I look and sound like a big dumb country boy, good old southern drawl and all. It works to my advantage because people get the impression that I am either a dumb hillbilly or just a run of the mill country boy. I'm a little of both but I am also not your average joe heh?



Joe

BS Biology (bugs)
MS Biology (systematics)
MS Math (probability theory)
PhD Biology (ecology and evolution)

Taught college for 8 years.
Now an independent educational consultant.

University degrees say nothing about intelligence
(based on decades of experience with college profs,
some of whom were very intelligent, others not so much),
only how one spent a lot of time (in my case 16 years)
at university while living below the poverty line,
driven by an avid curiosity about nature
developed while walking, backpacking and hunting.

I don't regret a minute of it.

I know a lot about science and mathematics as a result,
but there are folks at THR who know way more about guns (and other stuff) than me
(which in the end, could prove to be more useful for survival).

Now working on a post doc in guns at UTHR.

Working on my masters in physics. Specializing in semiconductors and electromagnetic field theory. Doing research on organic field effect transistors. I would like to go into weapons development when I'm done.

organic field effect transistors

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Physics, suggested reading on that topic?

{Added by edit: found this essay on field effect transistors.
Fascinating reading. Interesting implications for biological systems.}

Poll count as of now:
15, 107, 340, 261, 73.

That's 796 voting,
with a median score (462)
in the "graduate" range.
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Added by edit: most seem to be interpreting that
as some college after high school.

It's also very clear that regardless of where "training" came from
- whether college, military, self-taught or schools of reality -
- THR members tend to have a high level of intelligence.

Bachelor of Arts, American University, Washington, DC.