Xref: utzoo comp.edu:1477 soc.college:2107 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucsbcsl!comdesign!ivucsb!dan 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 References: <6149@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 23 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: -- You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.