What's your Alma mater (or current). Was (is) it a good experience?

[heedpantsnow]

Auburn University. Loved every aspect of it; no where else on the planet I would have rather gone.

Double major of EE and CS with a discrete math minor. I sort of wish I had a different major. It was super hard and I'm not really using any of it now.

Ongoing seminary study at Gordon-Conwell outside Boston. Great place, but I'm sure there are a lot of great seminaries out there.

Warrrrr Eagle!

[vivalarevolución]

I'm at University of Guelph, Canada. I absolutely love it, and wouldn't change a thing.

I had an obsession with Guelph in high school.  Just loved the name and the mascot.

Went the Miami University of Ohio for three semesters and Indiana University for the last 2.5 years.  They both had their good and bad parts.  Just wanted a bigger school with plenty of options and then went Indiana University to pursue a major more oriented towards my career goals.

[VesperSAINT]

I went to the University of Michigan twice.  First for a BA in Economics, then for a JD.  The undergrad program at Michigan was awesome.  I had a great time.  I had the best time of my life, probably.  But tbh, the law school was really not fun at all.  The professors were totally un-fun, the school itself is made of grey stone, and the other students were a bit weird.  I found some guys to hang out with during the 2d and 3d years, so it wasn't totally horrible, but it was not like undergrad.  Also, back then, they didn't teach you anything that you need to know to become a lawyer.  I have read that law schools have changed their curriculums, and that now they try to teach more practical skills to the students, but back when I went they didn't really teach you anything, mainly because the professors didn't know anything.  The most experienced "litigator" at the UM law school back then was Prof. Richard D. Friedman*, who had worked for two whole years at a Wall Street Corporate law firm, with 1,000 lawyers.  Which means that he didn't know a damned thing, except how to make coffee for the partners.  My first job after law school was in criminal defense (because it was the only job I could get), and in that first year, I basically knew nothing about lawyering, and I had to learn from the criminals that I was representing.  The criminals (or alleged criminals, I should say) knew the law, the system, the Courts and the Judges, basically everything you need to know be an effective lawyer, better than every prof. at UM Law School added together and x 100.  So anyway, at least I got to become an expert in criminal law, even though I don't do that type of work anymore.  But I could, if any of you guys ever gets arrested in NYC.  But don't do that, 'cuz it sucks, and you have to go to Riker's Island, at least for a night or two, until I can get you out on bail.  But worst of all, I would have to go to Riker's Island to see you, which I don't want to do, because there are some scary people in there.

*Prof. Friedman argued and lost UM's case before the US Supreme Court on affirmative action.  See, Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003).

Interesting and entertaining post Thanks!

[GankIndustries]

I went to Elizabethtown College in central Pa. Double Majored and graduated 3 years. Whatever you do, don't do this unless you are 150% SURE it's what you want. Nice area, I had some amazing profs (some not so amazing, but everyone has those). We always had this game in the spring about what the air would smell like in the morning. It was 25% chocolate, 25% manure, and 50% both.

Looking to go back to school again for another BA in ECE at Penn State, so we'll see how that goes.

[jacobolus]

Looking to go back to school again for another BA in ECE at Penn State, so we'll see how that goes.

ECE = computer engineering, or ECE = early childhood education?

If you already have a bachelor’s degree, and you want to start a career in software, I think another bachelors degree in computer science (or similar) is a waste of your time and money. If you set aside the same amount of time to teach yourself and work seriously full time on building side projects, you’ll be better prepared and more hire-able as a software engineer than someone who spent the time doing a formal degree, IMO.

(If you want to be an electrical engineer or something, and the ECE program you’re looking at is mostly hardware focused, then disregard my advice; I know nothing about EE type jobs / employers, or their education requirements/expectations.)

[GankIndustries]

Looking to go back to school again for another BA in ECE at Penn State, so we'll see how that goes.

ECE = computer engineering, or ECE = early childhood education?

If you already have a bachelor’s degree, and you want to start a career in software, I think another bachelors degree in computer science (or similar) is a waste of your time and money. If you set aside the same amount of time to teach yourself and work seriously full time on building side projects, you’ll be better prepared and more hire-able as a software engineer than someone who spent the time doing a formal degree, IMO.

(If you want to be an electrical engineer or something, and the ECE program you’re looking at is mostly hardware focused, then disregard my advice; I know nothing about EE type jobs / employers, or their education requirements/expectations.)

Yep, computer engineering. I'd like to work in hardware development/electrical engineering at some point. I worked as an archaeological tech for a few years and really hated it. There are several programs I'm looking at besides PSU, all focus primarily in ee and the like. Thanks for the advice though, I still intend to teach myself something about software engineering in concurrence with schooling.

[dorkvader]

I was at VPI (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University AKA "Virginia Tech") for 3.5 years.

I hated it.

I would have been much better served from a career perspective by going elsewhere, and better served educationally by not going to college at all. I ended up deciding that "higher education" was not for intelligent people, nor was it a place to learn anything. At the time I though it solely served as a transition for adolescents into adulthood as well as "The only socially acceptable thing to do after highschool".

Now I'm not so sure about my opinions of the time but the fact remains: I absolutely hated it.

The year before I took 33.5 hours (more than full time) at Western Kentucky University in bowling green. It was probably the best and happiest year of my life.

Now I feel bitter and old. The bright ideals of youth have been crushed and the world is a dark and terrible place.

[tp4tissue]

I was at VPI (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University AKA "Virginia Tech") for 3.5 years.

I hated it.

I would have been much better served from a career perspective by going elsewhere, and better served educationally by not going to college at all. I ended up deciding that "higher education" was not for intelligent people, nor was it a place to learn anything. At the time I though it solely served as a transition for adolescents into adulthood as well as "The only socially acceptable thing to do after highschool".

Now I'm not so sure about my opinions of the time but the fact remains: I absolutely hated it.

The year before I took 33.5 hours (more than full time) at Western Kentucky University in bowling green. It was probably the best and happiest year of my life.

Now I feel bitter and old. The bright ideals of youth have been crushed and the world is a dark and terrible place.

haha.. exactly How I feel.. 


The only thing college taught me was how to w00 girls and drink alot to escape boredom.

[Glod]

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Class of 2008 BS in Information Systems with a specialization of Business Analysis

The last year of college I feel that I pretty much "woke up" into being an adult, I credit college for that. I was so much of an idiot coming out of high school. Lots of college really seemed useless though, you pay so much just to take multiple choice tests that you study for, get an A, and then forget everything. This program was taught in the school of business instead of the school of engineering as it was a business specialization, i had to take economics, accounting, finance, marketing, operations management, etc on top of computer science and technology classes, i really felt that was a really useful path.