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Get Your Book On, Fool!

nevilleneville The Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
edited September 2007 in Social Entropy++
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Its that time of year when young men's thoughts turn to that of fancy... fancy book learnin', that is.
I'm going back to school and I'm excited about it. Who else is bettering themselves in edumacation?

Post, denizens of the Cocklounge, and let your goals be known!



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I am going to Digipen to learn to be one of those newfangled game programmer-motrons.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    awesome Nevs.

    I will maybe be going to classes at the local FAU campus in the spring.

    Get my Journalism Degree.

    Then uh...move to Seattle.

    And hang my Degree in Nap's office.

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  • Auntie ShibbyAuntie Shibby Horrible Visalia, CARegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    I never have to go to school again.

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I haven't seen Nap's office, but I have seen his house and I enjoy it.
    I want a basement apartment - being high up without A/C is crap.

    As those of you who experienced my party situated in the middle of Burning Hades Itself may be aware.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'll be going back to school next year. Will probably get a degree in English, maybe be a teacher.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    god the neighborhoods in seattle look so fucking cool and stuff

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    also, uh, nevs, there's already a school thread :o

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'm going to community college. Because I can go there for free, and I get to study music recording

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  • tomisboredtomisbored Cavalier, NDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I am in my second week already, and man this shit is getting old.

    But then again I am in a fairly unique postion(like the back seat of a volkswagon) I am an information systems major. I am almost done with my degree... the information systems program was part of the comp. sci program. Well it ran out of money to support two "schools" so the school of business bought us out and now I have to take a shit ton of accounting and marketing classes bullshit. Tom is not a happy camper!

    edit: I go to UND the school thats in the middle of suing ncaa to keep its native american logo

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was going to go back to school for the winter semester.


    Then EA hired me.


    So, I got the job without any schooling.


    So suck it conventional thinking.

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  • EndomaticEndomatic Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Digipen is the good one right?

    Is it Fullsail or something that's not so good?

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    business degree then culinary school

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Stale wrote: »
    I was going to go back to school for the winter semester.


    Then EA hired me.


    So, I got the job without any schooling.


    So suck it conventional thinking.

    My roommate didn't even finish high school.

    He's making around $50k a year (probably more) as the IT/IS Manager of the company we both work for.

    Hell, he barely has an certifications. What he does have is about 6 years experience in the field, which is a fuck of a lot more impressive than a piece of paper.

    He's doing the night classes thing to get his business management degree when he has the spare time.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    goin' to Cal Poly Slo for architectural engineering

    4 (5) years of rape just so i can have some homo hand me scribbles on a napkin and say "MAKE THIS WORK"

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    Endomatic wrote: »
    Digipen is the good one right?

    Is it Fullsail or something that's not so good?

    Fullsail is, indeed, the bad one.

    if neville was cool though he'd be going to Ex'pression

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  • ZombotZombot Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Going to a brand new college in a different state for god knows what reason.
    This business degree better earn me the big bucks.

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  • You BastardYou Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Bachelor of science (Double major in mathematics and statistics)

    then probably a graduate diploma of secondary school education

    then a high school teacher

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  • tomisboredtomisbored Cavalier, NDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dumb Hero I totally envey your roomate... wish i had a full time it job instead of the part time one I have now

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  • tomisboredtomisbored Cavalier, NDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    so nev whats digipen like? I see comericals for them all the time... do you do lots of hands on or what?

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I don't have a college degree and I'm doing alright. Not fantastically, of course, but I'm getting tons of experience in print media and after six months at my current job I'm already being moved up.

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  • ZombotZombot Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I vote this the better of the two school threads because I posted in this one.

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  • EndomaticEndomatic Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Endomatic wrote: »
    Digipen is the good one right?

    Is it Fullsail or something that's not so good?

    Fullsail is, indeed, the bad one.

    if neville was cool though he'd be going to Ex'pression

    What's the difference between the two?

    Shittier teachers at Fullsail? Less up to date hardware/software? Shitty program?

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    tomisbored wrote: »
    Dumb Hero I totally envey your roomate... wish i had a full time it job instead of the part time one I have now

    He's worked for it. The company he's been working for since he was about 16 (part time, then full) did IT setup for all manner of business and did their support as well. He would be driving up and down the south florida coast to do service and support work. The company we work for now used to be a client of theirs, till they hired him away from his old job.

    The offer was lucrative enough to stop him from going on a year-long backpacking trip across Europe.

    He is my sugar daddy.

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    wow i looked for it too
    apparently they need to teach me to read, first.

    I'm not sure what the difference is, but from my friends in the industry, they look favorably on Digipen. The schools like the awful one with the "YOU HAVENT MADE THE NEXT GAME YET" / "TIGHTEN UP GRAFIX IN LEVEL 3 DURF" ads... are more of a joke.

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    DH, pretty much described me.

    except I'm a QA Manager.

    And I don't have anywhere near 6 years experience in the field.

    no comment on pay.
    "probably more" is a very good guess

    Stale on
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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    Endomatic wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Endomatic wrote: »
    Digipen is the good one right?

    Is it Fullsail or something that's not so good?

    Fullsail is, indeed, the bad one.

    if neville was cool though he'd be going to Ex'pression

    What's the difference between the two?

    Shittier teachers at Fullsail? Less up to date hardware/software? Shitty program?

    I could go in-depth, but the program is shitty and they have a tendency to hire students fresh out of the program to come back and teach there.

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  • EndomaticEndomatic Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Shit yeah I remember that ad. Yeah, I guess I wouldn't want to go there either.
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    they have a tendency to hire students fresh out of the program to come back and teach there.

    Can they do that? Jesus.

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  • tomisboredtomisbored Cavalier, NDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    tomisbored wrote: »
    Dumb Hero I totally envey your roomate... wish i had a full time it job instead of the part time one I have now

    He's worked for it. The company he's been working for since he was about 16 (part time, then full) did IT setup for all manner of business and did their support as well. He would be driving up and down the south florida coast to do service and support work. The company we work for now used to be a client of theirs, till they hired him away from his old job.

    The offer was lucrative enough to stop him from going on a year-long backpacking trip across Europe.

    He is my sugar daddy.

    Damn! i thought I had it bad doing IT for my local paper part time (been here for 4 years while i finish my degree) getting raped driving all over my town but thats nothing compared to a state... also is he taking applications for more sugar babies? cuase I could use a sugar daddy

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    neville wrote: »
    wow i looked for it too
    apparently they need to teach me to read, first.

    I'm not sure what the difference is, but from my friends in the industry, they look favorably on Digipen. The schools like the awful one with the "YOU HAVENT MADE THE NEXT GAME YET" / "TIGHTEN UP GRAFIX IN LEVEL 3 DURF" ads... are more of a joke.

    Aw, I was about to ask you to help me tighten up the graphics on my game. :(

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'm all gradumacated.

    It feels weird not to be going back to school right now.

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    guys i go to high school for the first time this year

    woooooooooooooooo

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was a QA Manager at my last job and have 7 years experience.
    Going into programming though (also interested in design) because of the "I'm not listening to you because you're just a tester" attitude too many people have.

    Yeah, I may be "just a tester" but my idea is good and yours is fucking stupid. So soon I will have a degree and title so you have to come up with better excuses than that. Also I will get to make neat games, pew pew.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    What the hell zephyr how did your mom let you in here

    #pipe on
  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    tomisbored wrote: »
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    tomisbored wrote: »
    Dumb Hero I totally envey your roomate... wish i had a full time it job instead of the part time one I have now

    He's worked for it. The company he's been working for since he was about 16 (part time, then full) did IT setup for all manner of business and did their support as well. He would be driving up and down the south florida coast to do service and support work. The company we work for now used to be a client of theirs, till they hired him away from his old job.

    The offer was lucrative enough to stop him from going on a year-long backpacking trip across Europe.

    He is my sugar daddy.

    Damn! i thought I had it bad doing IT for my local paper part time (been here for 4 years while i finish my degree) getting raped driving all over my town but thats nothing compared to a state... also is he taking applications for more sugar babies? cuase I could use a sugar daddy


    No I am his only sugar baby. We're pretty much brothers, and the way he sees it, with the cash he makes he doesn't mind picking up the tab at a meal or a movie cause he knows that I'd do the same for him, and do so, when I can afford to.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    neville wrote: »
    I was a QA Manager at my last job and have 7 years experience.
    Going into programming though (also interested in design) because of the "I'm not listening to you because you're just a tester" attitude too many people have.

    Yeah, I may be "just a tester" but my idea is good and yours is fucking stupid. So soon I will have a degree and title so you have to come up with better excuses than that. Also I will get to make neat games, pew pew.

    I will play your neat games

    :winky:

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    #pipe wrote: »
    What the hell zephyr how did your mom let you in here

    i don't live with my mom fag

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  • tomisboredtomisbored Cavalier, NDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    neville wrote: »
    I was a QA Manager at my last job and have 7 years experience.
    Going into programming though (also interested in design) because of the "I'm not listening to you because you're just a tester" attitude too many people have.

    Yeah, I may be "just a tester" but my idea is good and yours is fucking stupid. So soon I will have a degree and title so you have to come up with better excuses than that. Also I will get to make neat games, pew pew.

    I will play your neat games

    :winky:

    any games with pew pew lazers gets my vote for bad ass!

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Finishing up a BFA in Interactive Media Development in June of 2008.

    However, due to a series of clerical errors and circumstance, I have been promised by the department head that we can choose what we want our degree name to be on our diploma.

    I thought he was joking, but I asked him, and he was serious.

    I need ideas.

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  • FrogFrog Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I am going to Green River Community College this year to finish my AA transfer to WSU. For my general goals at WSU I will be going for a masters in American Studies, hopefully on a full ride.

    I expect Oprah to be receiving my letter any time now. :lol:


    Actually I am somewhat mad because I got my grades back from Summer Quarter and i am .01 away from Honor role. I am going to talk to my Psych professor to see if he can raise my grade for his class to a 3.6

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    neville wrote: »
    I was a QA Manager at my last job and have 7 years experience.
    Going into programming though (also interested in design) because of the "I'm not listening to you because you're just a tester" attitude too many people have.

    Yeah, I may be "just a tester" but my idea is good and yours is fucking stupid. So soon I will have a degree and title so you have to come up with better excuses than that. Also I will get to make neat games, pew pew.

    I will play your neat games

    :winky:

    itt DH thinks I'm making sex games.


    .... hmmm...

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Masterful Awesome Coding and Homo-erotic Studies

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