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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,soc.college
Subject: Re: Credit for experience!
Message-ID: <408@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 09:56:28 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <6149@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> cy@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Cyrus Foughty) writes:
|	The professors and grad students were ALL attacking me. The main
|	point they got across was,"Whom do you think you are! Experience
|	is meaningless, school is the only place to learn!". Several asked

Ok, I'm a grad student, and am not going to attack you.  I hope this proves
that not all of us are academic snobs...

I have a friend who had been working for about 5 years as an
instrumentation engineer, and he had only an equivalency test diploma,
and a few electronics courses at a junior college.  However he had
much practical experience outside of school.  It was suggested to him
by his boss and a few others that he should go to college, and they figured
that based on his experience, he should be able to go to grad school.  He
was able to get an honorary bachelor's degree from Northrop University,
without taking a single class there (I think he took a few tests), and now
he is a grad student there.  So experience definitely can count for
something in school.

 
-- Dan Howell  <...!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan>  
-- The Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
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