Except meeting someone with any sort of significant pull is more prone to luck with a HS diploma than it is with a degree. College is a pretty good place for making contacts. It’s far more difficult to find good contacts out of high school.
How much did it cost you? My high school performance in Math is average right now, and due to tuition debacles, so is all of my other subjects. I don’t think I will be getting a scholarship anytime soon.
Doesn’t this happen primarily and more readily at private Universities with big names?
They want to make sure that you actually grew up!
The legal regulations and requirements that govern the hiring of adult clones are actually pretty messy/complicated, and I think most of the time employers feel it’s just not worth the hassle. Especially when the clones can suddenly decompose at any moment.
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I got a lot of grants, so the whole thing cost me approx 26K.
but aren’t the connections at say Caltech compared to UCLA, in engineering, more valuable? That’s what im trying to say, of course this is at the undergraduate level. Graduate level is a whole diffrent ball park.
Who needs college when you got
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What kind accessories do you sell?
Not Hank Hill, but you, what do you sell?
Maybe, maybe not. Academia is difficult to break into no matter the level no matter the location, so anyone can be anywhere. I went to a State college yet did an internship at CERN because one of my professors does shifts on ALICE there (Good luck with that no matter WHAT college you go to as an undergrad), and parlayed that into two internships at a national laboratory. The other issue is that the bigger the college the smaller you are. Maybe you’ll have some big wig at UCLA that could snap his fingers and get you working somewhere, but what’s the likelyhood that you’ll have enough interaction with him for him to recommend you?
…I know a PhD. at a high school who’s an M.I.T. alum. Tier one schools are nice and all, but not as glamorous as you seem to believe.
Im only saying this because im under the impression that those private school’s have a smaller population that the public universities.
Yeah grants are the way to go. I just got mine officially last week, and I can’t imagine paying all that money out of the pocket.
If you check employers or temp agencies or even local colleges you can get a certification. That plus experience can go a long way.
I meant make good money.
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Do most grants require you to be an A student. Can you only get one grant at a time?
Nope. Not at all.
However, most DO require you to get/have good grades. Or, simply put, just passing your classes without heavy repetition. I suppose the better your grades the more options you can explore when applying for a grant, because some grants offer more money than others. Obviously, the best grants go to those students who show more dedication than others. It’s a possibility that a student can get more than one grant if there aren’t any exceptions to the grant they are currently receiving.
EDIT: I’m at the very least averaging close to 3.0 and I got my grant.
Grants are weird, at least they are in PA. I have never gotten lower than a 3.1 and yet they always say I never meet requirements. One semester, I got a 3.94 and still didn’t get a grant. Maybe it’s because I only dealt with the state when it comes to grants.
Yeah I have Security + certification while being in the Air Force. I’ve been doing “IT” for 5 years in the Air Force… I’ve learned so much shit for a guy that went from Burger King to System Administrator.
At 20 years old (now less than 2 months from 25) the Air Force trusted me with playing around with Blackberries, Virtual private networks (VPN), Systems Management Server (SMS), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), backup servers using Comm Vault program, playing with all tons of Windows Server 2003, 2008 servers, and etc. I was a System Administrator for XP, to Vista, to Windows 7 doing all sorts of crap. Played around with Gold Disk, FRED, VMS, and all that other vulnerability tool junk.
I’d probably know a lot more than some 22 year old fresh out of college unless they actually did intern work or something on the side to strengthen their college degree.
I should definitely be finished with my bachelors before I leave the military, but I think all the management skills/leadership skills and work experience as a system administrator would aid me in finding a job.
It depends on the employer. As an owner of a photography company, after 6 bad experiences in a row hiring someone with a degree in photography, I won’t hire someone who went to school for photography, takes too much time to try to get them to forget all the garbage they learned, and since they have a degree they think they know everything already and have been impossible to teach.
pretty much this. This guy’s work experience (especially military!!! owns a degree so hard its funny)
I work in banking, and a college degree has no weight whatsoever. Now, banking is mostly sales but whatever.
I knew a guy in college who was 21 making 60k a year because he played with computers in high school and could operate and setup networks and servers, IT stuff and he never went to college.
OP, if you were in college at 16 you must have been smart as hell anyway and it turned out to be something very technical so you are the 1% lol.
A degree is the way to go, for sure though. The trick to degree’s is that you need to know what you are doing when you are 18-20 and get one that is necessary. I was in the business admin group lol, and there are so many people that started in banking 4-5 years before me that are farther along now because they put the time in.
Also, consider this for business (unless you are getting an accounting, or analysis degree) your time in the company is 100x more useful than a business degree (work experience > degree) and if you start at 18-20 you will have 4-5 years on someone who goes to college, which means you will have more contacts, a longer work history, and a place within that company. It all depends on what you want to do. You will not get a nursing admin job without a 4 year nursing degree, you will not be a lawyer without law school, etc etc. it comes down to reality, you need o be good at what you do to be successful