[geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits

[Tom Borton]

I cheated - I did both a BS/MS (master of sh!t) in four years because
that's how long my scholarship lasted.  I didn't have to gopher for the
professors, but I do admit that I made a point of making a good
impression on the department chair when I took her class ;).

Seriously, I never really saw that much politics involved, and our
department had a non-thesis option - I spent a year working an
internship building robots (controlled through an SS2->VME
backplane->VxWorks) for a professor who left to return to research.  So
my full-time job included course credit.  Writing a dissertation, along
with Dave M's point about it not being a real life, are the two major
reasons I haven't gone for the PhD yet.  If I found an employer
interested in contributing, I'd probably take them up on it.  But life
is definitely a better learning experience.

You might try talking to different colleges and finding out if they'll
credit experience as a non-thesis option.  All you have to do is pay for
the credit-hours.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Michael A. Turner
Sent: 07 March 2002 17:40
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits


	I'm fighting that same battle on wether I want to go back and
get my
master while I can. Unfortunatly I am unsure I can  do all the other
stuff
required of me to do that. I work full time and go to school full time.
All
well and good, won't change any in getting my master. What worries me is
that I have been told straight out that getting a masters is at least
50%
politics. You have to do crap works for the professors in order to move
forward. I am not sure that I can squeeze that into my schedule and I
definatly cannot afford to quit working. Still toying with the idea
though....

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:47 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] For Dave M - Fscking Suits


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:44:11AM -0500, Michael A. Turner wrote:

>  I am not sure what is geekier here , the fact that you posted that or
the
> fact that I just read that and understood it instantly. Must be
getting
> close to graduation for me.....
> 
> BS in CS in 7 more weeks....

I have a grueling summer and fall to go before I'm in possesion of a BS.

Strongly thinking of going straight for a PhD though.  We'll see.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd