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Yes and I've considered it. Psychology, history, creative writing...all very interesting stuff.
Yes! So much of the college experience was wasted on me, because I was too young to 'get it'. I'm now re-reading many of the books I had to study back then, and I'm embarrassed by the clueless notes I wrote in the margins 
by mojo on Fri Dec 31, 04 11:04am
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yeah I'm afraid some of mine was lost on me too :)
Sure. I read all the time anyway, and I'm always trying to learn new things. The only thing that would prevent me is that I'm currently too busy with other things to work it into my schedule.
Yes, I did just that when I was approaching my thirties, i stayed home when my babies were small, but when they started school, I decided it was finally my time, I now have a great career and am currently opening a business. Its never too late to start. :-)
minni - wouldja hire me 
Happy new year!
by mojo on Fri Dec 31, 04 11:32am
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Mojo. of course, your first on the list :-)and all the best to you too.
No, there would have to be another motive. I would've already dropped out if I didn't need my degrees to get into grad school. Everything that is covered in my courses, I can teach myself better than the professor. I would consider going for the labs but only because it would be really expensive and possibly dangerous to set those up on my own without prior experience. Everything outside of the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering is full of idiots and even those fields I mentioned have their share of quacks and fools. It truly saddens me to see how much influence these fools have on our society.
Actually I understand that, even in school most of my reading was done unrelated to the classes & there are so many books out there, too little time
In a heartbeat. I loved school, and can't wait to go back to further my education.
Yeah I would -- I graduated from school in 3-1/2 years just to see if I could do it, and in hindsight I wish I'd have stayed and taken it in more. I loved it there, and I'm considering going back.
I wouldn't go back to 4th grade to do that..
thc check your head. I think its inflateded itself a bit. But I'm sure you're so smart you didn't need anyone else to tell ya that.
I graduated in June but have considered taking some classes at the local college in subjects I never had the time to study during my major. I probably won't have the time for a couple years as I expand on my career but I especially plan to when I am older. You never know what advancements each field has to offer.
Not everything in those fields is crap but most of it is and I really can teach myself the worthwhile stuff better than a professor would teach it to me. Just think about how Marxist sociology departments are or how dumb education majors are. Now, I've said before that if I was a billionaire I'd be teaching gifted children but that doesn't mean I condone the actions and inactions of the morons in the college of education.
I'm better off teaching myself the worthwhile stuff because then I don't have to go at everyone else's pace. I learned advanced algebra on my own in 3 weeks. The course would've lasted ~4 months. I value my time, the only reason I'm still in college is for labs and two pieces of paper.
That makes a lot of sense. I sometimes wish I hadn't gone to Film school. If I'd only known what I wanted to do before I went to college, I could've taken out an $8,000 loan to buy the equipment necessary rather than a $26,000 loan to learn how to use the stuff, which I mostly taught myself anyway. So I guess I see what you're saying. I just hope you realize that other areas of study have much to offer. In fact, yes, science courses have taught me the most. Those and those "worthless" philosophy classes everyone shuns so quickly.
I might at some point, but not if I could learn the same thing from a book. I wouldn't want to go back to the college I graduated from because the teaching was lousy. The lectures were often incomprehensible and extremely advanced, and if they weren't, then the problem sets were on a whole different level.
I've done this more than once.
A trick, if the class is a really big one you can sit in and not be noticed. Learn the stuff and later test out.
Lots cheaper than paying full price for tuition.
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