What kind of education do you plan to follow /are you following/ have you followed?

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

I live in England, I'm currently doing the 2nd year of my A levels where hopefully (but unrealistically) I'll achieve high enough grades to get into university so I can study English Literature and Creative Writing.

I decided to pick this course because I'm not good at anything else and being paid to write down my opinions sounded good at the time.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Found two sources: #1 [http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/55/6/1196S.pdf] and #2 [http://www.aihw.gov.au/mediacentre/2006/mr20060405.cfm], both stating an average lifespan of 53-56 (male-female) years.
Still too short to have a reasonably high chance of developing cancer, especially since the chances to die from any given disease like diphteria were a lot higher.

Sigh, this is what happens when you put American statistics into an Australian lecture, it throws everyone off! Well done on finding those statistics by the way.

As I've said, I'm not sure what any of them died of... but I have a feeling heart disease would be a big candidate. Fun.

 

[Specter_]

Found two sources: #1 [http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/55/6/1196S.pdf] and #2 [http://www.aihw.gov.au/mediacentre/2006/mr20060405.cfm], both stating an average lifespan of 53-56 (male-female) years.
Still too short to have a reasonably high chance of developing cancer, especially since the chances to die from any given disease like diphteria were a lot higher.

Sigh, this is what happens when you put American statistics into an Australian lecture, it throws everyone off! Well done on finding those statistics by the way.

As I've said, I'm not sure what any of them died of... but I have a feeling heart disease would be a big candidate. Fun.

That's why I never trusted any lectures or teachers during school. You can find only so many discrepances before you lose complete faith in their knowledge

 

[Acrostica]

I live in the US. I have a B.S. and an M.S. in Biology, and I'm working on my Ph.D. right now. My topic of interest is plant disturbance ecology.

 

[teisjm]

i'm a bit surprise to see how little people are heading toward the gaming industry on here!
i myself am currently studying in 3D modeling/animation, i only just started 2 months ago but hell do i love it!
Planning on working for some big shots eventually, if everything goes as i want, my name will appear in futur Valve games! (Half Life 4 or Left5Dead perhaps?!)
Blizzard would also be very pleasant.

I'm starting on that this fall gonna start with a 12 week drawing class, so it'll probably be a little less than a year b4 i start the actual CGI education, but i'm really looking forward to starting

 

[FinalGamer]

High school graduate here, got straight A's in most subjects with aspirations to be a writer of some sort.

I'd enjoy having a shot at professional videogame journalism out of the tiny little site I'm with right now which I enjoy at least as a taster of it. I did try to take psychology at college because the mind has always fascinated me, especially psychology, but...the combination of a mental breakdown and an incredibly incompetent backwater college system has made me turn away from wanting any further education.

 

[Inverse Skies]

That's why I never trusted any lectures or teachers during school. You can find only so many discrepances before you lose complete faith in their knowledge

Well for the most part they're pretty good. It's always fun to point out flaws like that though

 

[Specter_]

That's why I never trusted any lectures or teachers during school. You can find only so many discrepances before you lose complete faith in their knowledge

Well for the most part they're pretty good. It's always fun to point out flaws like that though

Sure it's fun... for a couple of months. But at some point it really get's frustrating that you can teach your class better than your teacher...

 

[Inverse Skies]

Sure it's fun... for a couple of months. But at some point it really get's frustrating that you can teach your class better than your teacher...

At that point I never got frustrated, I always got a smug sense of satisfaction to know I could teach it better. It makes you feel really good about yourself and still makes you better than the lecturer. Try it! It's a good tactic.

 

[Specter_]

Sure it's fun... for a couple of months. But at some point it really get's frustrating that you can teach your class better than your teacher...

At that point I never got frustrated, I always got a smug sense of satisfaction to know I could teach it better. It makes you feel really good about yourself and still makes you better than the lecturer. Try it! It's a good tactic.

Ah well, I'm a bit too old for that now. In college it's not about doing the stuff right and knowing how it's done right, but how your lecturer wants you to do it.

 

[DoctorNick]

This summer I'm planing on going back to school again.

I'm going into a technical program to learn to be a machinist, it always seemed like a good practical field to go into for a bunch of reasons.

I'll always have a useful trade I can fall back on if nothing else.

Long term I plan to take the skills I get from this program and go into something like gun smithing, probably starting off fabricating replacement parts and doing repairs. After that I'll probably try my hand at manufacturing entirely new firearm designs, I've got several ideas on paper that I think have potential to go somewhere once I have the mechanical skill to start producing prototypes.

That's my current plan. It's not my ideal course of action, but I'm only going back to school because I managed to get into a federal program that'll pay for it. The problem with that is that whatever I choose to take has to be DONE in two years, limiting me to tech programs.

IF I had unlimited funds I'd ideally like to be studying some sort of bioscience, I've always been fascinated by things like genetic engineering and I think I'd do well in that field. Perhaps if the machinist thing works out and I can make reasonable money doing it part time I might be able to fund further education in the future. For the moment however, I have to work with what I've got and a practical skill that there will always be some need for seems like a wise thing to acquire in the current economy.

 

[Jenkins]

only on year 10 here, but so far I think that iv narrowed it down. if I don't go into game designing, id love to get a masters or even a doctorate in history.

and yet, every time I look up at the night time sky, and see those stars, I cannot help but think "maybe I should become an astronomer"

I would have liked to go to culinary school but then I realized I wouldnt get money from my family to go to it if I went.

 

[PureChaos]

at the moment i am at Exeter University studying the BA Education Studies degree. going to do a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) to be a primary school teacher. if i wasn't doing this i'd like to have done a psychology degree, would have been really interesting.

 

[DreadfulSorry]

Currently I am an archaeology undergraduate student. I had originally planned on getting a doctorate and doing my own research in Classical archaeology (probably Roman archaeology, since I know more Latin than Greek ), but lately I've been leaning more towards contract archaeology, since one of the largest contract archaeology firms in the US is located about 30 minutes from my hometown. The more I look at contract work, the more it seems like my cup of tea, but it's kind of hard to change a goal that you've had since you were five :\ No matter what I pick, I'll get a graduate degree, hopefully at Johns Hopkins University, which has an excellent classical archaeology program, and is pretty close to home. At this point, as long as I'm elbow deep in some kind of dirt, finding pottery shards and marble fragments, I will be a happy camper.

 

[Reqium]

Matriculating in June, and attending university in July to pursue Fine Arts and Photography, would also like to take up the Animation course on the side

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

I plan to major in Forensic Science and go to a Bachelor's degree, maybe a Master's. Right now, though, I'm only a sophomore in high school, and I'm trying rather hard to get into Penn State University.

 

[WhiteRavven]

The formal title for my major is: Writing for Performance, Publication, and Media.

It basically means Creative Writing + Journalism all in one major together. I'm pretty much learning how to improve my writing in fields of creativity (novels, poetry, playwriting, etc.) as well as in the one that will keep me employed consistently (articles, reviews, essays, etc.).

I love writing.

<3

Working on a novel as we speak actually, trying to get past the hurdle of the beginning haha.

 

[thiosk]

Finished highschool.

Finished B. S. in Chemistry.

Nearly finished with phD in Chemistry.

did you know carbon can have more than four bonds if its connected to boron? pretty sexy stuff.

 

[Aqualung]

Still in high school here, but I'm hoping to go to university and become an archaeologist/historian. Who knows, maybe I could help make Assassin's Creed 3. I want to minor in english though, so I have a novel, a video game, and a television series that I want to see brought to life.

 

[Portaldude]

My national school system consist of primary school, high school and then further education.

primary school goes from 1st to 9th grade, and people usually begins school at the age of 6, tough it can vary +/- 1 year. After 9th grade, one has achieved the legal amount of education, yet one can choose to go to grade 10th grade as an extension to primary school, continue to high school or educate them to certain proffesions like lumberjack, cook and similar.

High school consist of 3 main branches: General, technical or buisness, where technical focuses on science and technology, buisness on buisness and general on humanities and some science. This is a three year period, and subjects in the high school are ranked from C to A and determine how long one has that subject (from 1 to 3 years). After high school, one is eligible to university and college.

I am personal finishing technical high school and plans on starting on my bachelor in mathematics this september, then my master and finally my Ph.D. Tough, I must say my math classes leaves a lot to be desired, mainly since they are more calculation than math.