What is your Educational Background?

[JDSD]

Softmore at a csu school, Major, Mechanical Engineering.

 

[JerryBlunted]

-When I was a kid I graduated from Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. (concentration: writing and psychology)
-graduated public high school on Long Island (an achievement in its own right)
-went to a year of school at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. Took a leave of absence to work construction.
-applied to Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Now currently in my junior year as a psychology major/religious studies minor (with a concentration in mystical experience).
Still trying to hustle a job up here, though. The market is TIGHT with all these college kids around here.
Most of what I know about drugs comes from Erowid, the experience of the previous generation (I have cool relationships with some uncles and family friends where we can talk truthfully), and of course personal experience. Some drug info came by way of my motivation and abnormal psych classes...

 

[ocean_dreamer]

Originally posted by PhreeX:
If I may hi-jack this thread slightly...
So many people wasting monwey with computer science majors... ahhhh help! Turn back before you have blown all yer money only to make $9/hr doing tech support
......
"paper tech" out there - meaning he could do it on paper but he had ZERO real world experience and was a total idiot.. last I heard he was still doing phone support ..

If you believe that the field of computer science involves mainly tech support then you have a very narrow view of a very vast and differing domain. In tech. support you are talking about a very specialised field and requires its own bunch of specific skills. I do agree that experience is very important (in all fields), but I also know people in tech. support who have vast amounts of technical knowledge. They can setup and run some really cool stuff, but if you asked to go through the “design process”, especially a formal (high-integrity) design process they just don’t have the THEORETICAL background to back up their practical skills. I work in distributed systems research (about to start a PhD) and I know that others have far more practical skills and experience than me, but I find learning new technologies is simple because I’ve been given the underlying theoretical knowledge on which these technologies are based.
Universities don’t give us the skills to be computer scientists, they teach us how to THINK like computer scientists. You may find that as a recent graduate you can’t compete with other with much more experience, but I bet in a couple years time the people without the theoretical background will still be doing tech support and you will be designing the systems that they are maintaining.

 

[meagain]

Impressive and interesting backgrounds, most of you. Me: bachelor's degree with honors from large, Midwestern public university; law degree from UC Berkeley. Currently practicing law.

 

[5-HT2]

Graduated in top 5% of class from one of the top public high schools in the country.
Junior at one of the top ten universities in the country (yes I go to school with fairnymph). Biology major, French minor (perhaps major), perhaps a Chemistry minor. My directly drug-related knowledge comes mainly from research and personal experience, but I've learned a lot of stuff that is indirectly related to drugs in my chemistry/neuroscience/behavioral biology classes.

 

[Jubester]

meagain!! can i ask you some questions about boalt?
/me nervous law school applicant.
but.. um.. going back to the subject. i graduated with a non too impressive gpa. from a supposedly impressive school.
as for le drogues.. i dont really know anything about them.

 

[ceryc]

Biochemistry major, grad from the top Med school in the country (I will always think Harvard Med is #2). Currently practicing medicine in FL, where I'm trying to decide between drug strudies and emergency surgery.

 

[Young Shaman]

Junior in High School
Completely Self Taught
Used erowid, dextroverse, library etc... since 8th grade I've been studying solo.
I've also had a broad range of first hand experiences

 

[meagain]

Jubester, I can't seem to find an email address for you, but I'm not too adept at using this site. Email me at [email protected]. I'd love to tell you all about Boalt. Best three years of my life. In fact, did my first E while a summer associate in Los Angeles. Warm summer night. Loft in Hollywood. One pill. Life forever different. Went to work the next day and thought all the lawyers were just so NICE.

 

[ikarus]

This coming May I'll be graduating from high school and from there on to pursuing a career in teaching. My drug knowledge was from my friends for about ten minutes until I realized they were full of shit and got on the internet.

 

[Benzo-messiah]

Got BSc in organic chemistry...

 

[adamKY]

BS Electrical Engineering Technology specializing in broadcast engineering: like AM, FM, TV & like weather radar, satellite transmission, microwave, etc.

 

[Mahan Atma]

Originally posted by meagain:
Impressive and interesting backgrounds, most of you. Me: bachelor's degree with honors from large, Midwestern public university; law degree from UC Berkeley. Currently practicing law.
Boalties unite!
Currently halfway through the Boalt JD program.
In the pocket: BA, MA and PhD from Berkeley.
Meagain, where are you practicing? I'll probably be at the public defender's office again this summer (Alameda, Co.Co. or Federal).

 

[Mahan Atma]

Originally posted by Jubester:
meagain!! can i ask you some questions about boalt?
/me nervous law school applicant.
but.. um.. going back to the subject. i graduated with a non too impressive gpa. from a supposedly impressive school.
as for le drogues.. i dont really know anything about them.
I'll field questions about Boalt too. Feel free to email me at [email protected]

 

[vvumpscu7]

* Almost finished with a BA in sociology at a top-ten private university.
* Erowid, Erowid, Erowid. Bluelight recently and I also read printed material. I share knowledge with a number of close friends -- mostly students like myself who are intent on becoming *experts* in their areas of interest.
Recently, I've been learning things from a state-run drug abuse program (a sentencing alternative), but most of the propaganda from these programs are uninformed inferences, overstatements, and ouright lies.
They tell us weed makes you lazy and you'll lose your job and your friends, but they're preaching to many daily smokers who haven't run into those problems. These ideas are just opinions and generalizations, but I've had to correct the "teacher" multiple times on factual information regarding what damage these drugs *really* do to the body and mind instead of the vague generalizations that they try to feed us. Part of the course material was produced by the Partnership for a Drug Free America ("This is your brain on drugs"), so what do you expect?

 

[autopilot]

I'm in law school, after which I plan to become a lawyer in order to shut this god-forsaken website down!!!!
Also, I get all my drug knowledge from watching 60 Minutes and various other primetime specials about the newest generation of drugs.
Also, I could be a pharmacological biochemistry expert, or i could be a high school dropout. How do you know?
Still wanna take my advice about your drug use?

 

[RiCePlaYa]

third year of Chemical Engineering at McMaster (in Canada)
most of my drug knowledge comes from friends, Erwoid and this board.
RP.
PS. I'm so fucking glad i'm not doing computer science or comp. eng. That shit is unnatural...
[ 30 October 2002: Message edited by: RiCePlaYa ]

 

[*=Regulator=*]

1 year off B. Commerce (Marketing) and B. Arts (Psychology).
I think I will do honours then masters in Clinical Psychology...
be a rats and stats geek

 

[ebeneezer_geeza]

In descending order of what has provided me with the most knowledge for this forum:
1. experience/life being a hedonist, former junkie, pill head etc. and having been around similar types for half me 34yrs.
2. books/internet
3.BSc Psychology (with neuroscience, lots of drug stuff).