Levels of Education

[boltaction]

new guy/education

Yeah, well, I'm brand spankin' new around here. I don't usually post on websites, but THR seems to be an exceptional site with exceptional people. So, here I am.

My education: PhD; my BS was in Chemistry and Geology.

Been in Academics now for 20+ years, and I have the only NRA sticker in my parking garage; and don't let anyone tell you that universities are NOT packed with leftists.

My research experience is broad, and involves earth science applications of chemistry (esp. thermodynamics), physics, mathematics, as well as some evolutionary biology and microbiology. But what I really love are my Taurus .454 Casull, Glock 23, FM Hi-power (9 mm), Taurus .357 Magnum, Moss500 (esp w/ the 18.5 incher) .30-06, and last but not least, my M-N M91 and M44 (gotta love that muzzle flash). Oh yeah, the geek side of me is partial to internal, external, and terminal ballistics. BTW, the last two firearms in my list are the origin of the name:

boltaction

 

[chaim]

boltaction,

Where do you teach and where do you shoot?

 

[MarkDido]

Boltaction,

I am a newbie here as well, and I agree with you. The people that frequent this board anr some of the nicest and most helpful I have ever met in an online communnity.

Almost like getting together with a bunch of friends on the front porch.

Welcome aboard!

 

[P95Carry]

Welcome - boltaction, to a great community ....

 

[boltaction]

Thanks for the hearty welcome...

Thanks for the warm welcome folks. In response to Chaim, my fellow Marylander: I teach at the Univ of Md (College Park), and I shoot mostly at:

1. Damascus (WAC) chapter of the Izaak Walton League,
2. Gilbert indoor range in Rockville.

 

[ed dixon]

Good to meet you, doc. I like to consider myself a mirthful supplicant here, but whispers of "village idiot" lilt across our pleasant valley.

 

[eviltravis]

Well,

I'm a product of the public school system. I'm lucky to have made it out with the ability to read.

 

[Hand_Rifle_Guy]

I went to a vocational training course when I was in high school. I wanted to learn how to work with metal, so I trained to be a machinist. Did that for a year, building manifolds for Hewlett-Packard Mass Spectrometers, (Got right good at it, too.) then quite to go back to school, as there's a long history of doctors and rocket scientists in my family.

Dropped out with less than a year of crummy general ed. backround with designs on a degree in Mechanical Engineering. The machinist's training was a part of that, as I'd heard lots of stories about smarty-pants engineers with no practical experience designing stupid stuff. Didn't want to design stupid stuff, but discovered that working hands-on was where my desires lay.

Got laid off from the machining job, (It was getting boring, anyway.) and bumbled into furniture/cabinetry/retail fixtures/tradeshow exhibits when I was 21.

14 years later I am now a Master-class wood/stone/metal/plastic-worker/carver/fabricator, capable of building just about anything I care to put my mind to, with an excellent level of quality and whatever degree of precision is neccessary. I'm a right good seat-of-the pants engineer, also, and I know production manufacturing down to the nitty gritty details. Heck, I make my own Porsche parts better than the factory pieces. (Gloat: Got my stolen car back. YEA! )

Union scale would earn me about $60,000/year if I can get job in this stupid business-unfriendly state. (I HATE the stupid union, but they make it so I can earn what I'm worth, and have bennies. ) I think that's more than my 13-year-Ph.D'd+5-years-in-the-field astrophysicist brother makes working for NASA/Jet Propulsion Labs, or my aerospace engineer-degree'd sister made when she worked for Rockwell on the Shuttle program.

Hmmph. I'm a college dropout, a category for which there is no choice in the poll.

But I am the best crafstman I know, and if I had a machine shop handy, I'd give Hamilton Bowen a run for his money. What level of education do you call THAT? I've been studying guns continously for nine years, but there's no degree program for that. (Liberal educational institutions aren't into "Gunology", you know.)

And of course, Liberal Democrats KNOW that a collitch-eddicated drone is smarter than a Journeyman Tradesman. Ugh, we get our hands dirty! (No offense to you college folks or gun-toting liberal Dems, of course.)

I need a digital camera. I gotta post pics of the knives I'm building right now. By hand. (Well, with a 6" bench grinder and files and stuff. ) I think you'd like 'em.

 

[Smoke]

I attended a one year, certificated program right out of high school fully intending for that to be the extent of my education. Picked up my "Ranch Management" certificate, worked for a year, and decided more education might be a good thing.

Went back to the school that had the Ranch Mgt. Program and enrolled in a Economics program. After earining enough credits, but not completeing a full degree program (according to my counselor) I begged and pleaded, on my knees, kissing the feet of any professor that would listen to please let me out of here.

I graduated with the only Ag Economics degree they have ever awarded. (With the promise that I or my offspring never attend that particular University again.)

 

[Dave Markowitz]

BS in History Politics, 1991.

JD (Law), 1996. Admitted in PA, Federal E. District of PA, and Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Haven't practiced in a few years, though.

IT certifications: MCSE-NT4, A+, Network+, Sair Linux & GNU Installation & Configuration, Linux+ (for which I was a subject matter expert). I admit it, I'm a geek.

 

[CW-op]

High School, plus 43 years at the University of Hard Knocks. But you did not include that.

 

[Ian]

Graduated high school (got the International Baccalaureate diploma), and now I'm halfway through a Bachelor's in aeronautical engineering. Probably going to change my major, though.

 

[Soap]

Ian, what are you switching to? Do you have "Krannert envy"?

 

[ed dixon]

Well, I hope this isn't offensive, but I'll just add that I've met some of the dumbest people of my life in college (and graduate school) and some of the smartest on back porches and street corners. There is not a grain of irony intended in that statement. Lots of dumb folk go to college. Lots of smart folk don't. Simple as 2+2.

 

[Moparmike]

Simple as 2+2.

Thats 22, right?

 

[Old Pa]

J.D., M.S. (criminalistics), B.A. (history) and still have most of my teeth!

 

[Ian]

Krannert envy? Hah! More like machine shop envy. I'm looking very seriously at mechanical engineering technology. I want to make stuff!

 

[Dot_mdb]

MBA, Finance. Thirty-three years in bank management.

 

[trooper]

Hmm, let's see...

Finished high school '99

Border Police College '99 - '02

Graduated with a degree in Public Administration and an officer's commission (which is pretty much the only job I can get with this degree


Regards,

Trooper

 

[pax]

College dropout and autodidact.

pax

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. -- Isaac Asimov

 

[aerod1]

Two yrs. of college.
Graduated from Plumbers and Steamfiiters UA Local 100 apprenticeship school, class of 1971.
Texas master plumber with medical gas endorsement.
Texas Air Conditioning Contractors "A" License with "C" endorsement.

Jim Hall