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Your education
KernelPanic:
I was just wondering what educations different posters on the FMS/MES forums had. If you dont mind, could you give a brief summary of you education (ie subjects/courses)studied and possibly what you are working as now. Dont post your whole CV though, i just wanted an idea of what everyone had studied.
ps. I dont care about primary school, kindergarten/nursery
badkarma:
I got my HAVO diploma (equivalent to a High School diploma I think) and did 2 years of college which I didn't finish due to a couple of personal reasons. I got very lucky and have a job as a programmer, I must admit that I learned more in the last year on my job then in the 2 years of school.
So basically I am self educated
voidmain:
University of South Carolina - computer science/math. 11 weeks at USAF computer programming school (40 hour weeks learning several languages, ASM, ADA, COBOL, etc).
Several few day UNIX admin classes for AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX. A couple of week long Cisco router classes. Various other programming and OS classes...
But like Karma said. I have learned 1000 times more on my own than in any school. I'm not saying you won't pick up any valuable information in schools and classes, just that there is nothing like learning while doing real world stuff. Classes might give you a kick start, or might make up your mind whether you want to learn more about the subject, make it a profession, or drop it altogether..
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
University of South Carolina - computer science/math. 11 weeks at USAF computer programming school (40 hour weeks learning several languages, ASM, ADA, COBOL, etc).
Several few day UNIX admin classes for AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX. A couple of week long Cisco router classes. Various other programming and OS classes...
But like Karma said. I have learned 1000 times more on my own than in any school. I'm not saying you won't pick up any valuable information in schools and classes, just that there is nothing like learning while doing real world stuff. Classes might give you a kick start, or might make up your mind whether you want to learn more about the subject, make it a profession, or drop it altogether..
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Yeah i know you learn most things 'on the job' and in courses and the like i was just interested in what you had done to get you into a position where you were 'employable'. My goal for now is to get into MIT... if only
badkarma:
On the technical side there was not much use for my education (most of the stuff I already knew, or was so easy I didn't have to do anything for it) however the social part (verbal courses, presentations, language (we had a course 'High technical english' ;) ) is really, really good for general use and personal development.
I have no regrets not finishing my education (and don't think I'll ever have) however it would have (ofcourse) been better if I had finished it (but there were some circumstances I had no control over)
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