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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
 Posted - 05/13/2002 : 17:26:26
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Well everybody, This Saturday, 18 May, I will (after many years of tooling around) finally get my aptly-named BS degree (it's in math, with a minor in physics). I will also be getting my commission in the US Navy (that E-5 to O-1E pay raise is pretty nice, I'm told).
Anybody near Moscow, Idaho is more than welcome to show up, eh?
-me.
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Physiofly
Skeptic Friend
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 17:41:19 [Permalink]
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quote:
Well everybody, This Saturday, 18 May, I will (after many years of tooling around) finally get my aptly-named BS degree (it's in math, with a minor in physics). I will also be getting my commission in the US Navy (that E-5 to O-1E pay raise is pretty nice, I'm told).
Congratulations!
Always good to see another sceptic in the officer ranks.
So where to now? You going black or brown shoe Navy?
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a
deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." - Niccolo Machiavelli
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 19:05:33 [Permalink]
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quote:
Well everybody, This Saturday, 18 May, I will (after many years of tooling around) finally get my aptly-named BS degree (it's in math, with a minor in physics). I will also be getting my commission in the US Navy (that E-5 to O-1E pay raise is pretty nice, I'm told).
Anybody near Moscow, Idaho is more than welcome to show up, eh?
-me.
Congratulations, Boron. 
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
431 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 19:10:39 [Permalink]
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very good, Boron! Congrats!
Now it's time to start repaying those student loans...
But remember to throw away that case your diploma comes in, or you'll be contacted by the Alumni Association. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 19:15:38 [Permalink]
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Well everybody, This Saturday, 18 May, I will (after many years of tooling around) finally get my aptly-named BS degree (it's in math, with a minor in physics).
He takes after me. Except that I don't have a degree, I hate math and I was a draft dodger... I'll be there!
The Evil Skeptic
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Espritch
Skeptic Friend
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 19:49:57 [Permalink]
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Congratulations. Glad to see I'm not the only person here who got a degree in math.
Of course I got mine all the way back in the 80's, so they may have changed the way numbers work since then 
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
431 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 20:00:15 [Permalink]
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... Glad to see I'm not the only person here who got a degree in math. Of course I got mine all the way back in the 80's, so they may have changed the way numbers work since then
My degree dates from 1979, but the only change I've seen is that students now substitute calculator button-pushing for thought. |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 23:51:11 [Permalink]
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quote:
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Well everybody, This Saturday, 18 May, I will (after many years of tooling around) finally get my aptly-named BS degree (it's in math, with a minor in physics).
He takes after me. Except that I don't have a degree, I hate math and I was a draft dodger... I'll be there!
The Evil Skeptic
I was going to ask if Kil would be there. Have a good trip.
That's great Boron. Now I know who to ask if I need help balancing my budget.
Best wishes, and good luck in your future endeavors.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 23:55:06 [Permalink]
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Now I know who to ask if I need help balancing my budget.
Ps. Or for building a bomb!!!  |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2002 : 00:22:50 [Permalink]
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Hehe .. thanks, all! Physiofly, I'm going black-shoe Navy: submarines. Of course, I found out that brown shoes are authorized all officers, so that's what I'll be wearing. They just look better in khakis.
To the rest of you, I am really bad with numbers (so yes, Zandermann, I love calculators). That tends to shock people, since I study math. My talent, however, lies in proofs, which are the essence of mathematics. Once you throw numbers into the mix, you are really only doing arithmetic.
-me. |
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2002 : 02:45:50 [Permalink]
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Sergeant Kiefer saultes you, Boron 10. Good luck sir.
(That's the last time I'll call you: "Sir." Consider it a graduation present)
Lisa
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Mr. Spock
Skeptic Friend
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2002 : 05:15:16 [Permalink]
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Every time I hear someone bemoan the use of calculators or some other technical device in education, I am reminded of Thamus' words to Thoth, who had just invented the written word, in Plato's Phaedrus:
"This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblence of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be onmiscinent and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without its reality."
Anyway, congratulations. As you are finishing this phase of your education, I'm thinking of beginning mine again (I came within 6 credit hours of my MA in philosophy before dropping out 8 years ago, partly because I had become a pariah for not bending over for the postmodern irrationalism which had infested the department, partly because I was quickly realizing that, since I was not a black lesbian with a Spanish surname or some other similar creature, my employment opportunities would be meagre even if I were to complete my advanced degrees).
I'm looking to study something a bit more empirical this time around, and the local college (UNC-Charlotte) has good programs in biochemistry and biotechnology (at this point in my life, I also need something I can eventually cash in on) any suggestions?
"The only thing that bands nations together is the fact that their governments are universally bad."--Frank Zappa |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2002 : 08:39:49 [Permalink]
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Congrats, sir. I could be mean about here and say something about the 'lowest form of Marine life', but I won't.
You're in good company with the math Boron, a friend, working on his doctorate in applied mathematics also agrees about the calculator. (Yes, Lisa, you met him.)
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2002 : 00:53:46 [Permalink]
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I'm looking to study something a bit more empirical this time around, and the local college (UNC-Charlotte) has good programs in biochemistry and biotechnology (at this point in my life, I also need something I can eventually cash in on) any suggestions?
Don't go to that school!!!!!
My cousin is/was a professor there (haven't talked to her in years, heard she might move back to Calif.). She's a left wing radical, pro womens rights and all that shit. Won't listen to reason or any thing rationaly. I assume it's a bad place to go if people like that work there.
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Mr. Spock
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2002 : 05:12:19 [Permalink]
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Snake: I actually received my BA from UNCC in 1993. I learned how to deal with the occaisional out-to-lunch "more radical than thou" nut cases then; fortunately the philosophy department didn't have too many of these types in the staff. It was actually at Purdue (which, with it's great engineering and space science departments, you might expect better), where I did my graduate studies, where I found an alarming concnentration of this type of irrationalism---not so much with the profs, but among the other grad students. After being accused of being the worst kind of oppressive scum every time I made a pro-rational or pro-scientific assertion, I literally headed south and gave up the academic game for a while.
BTW--I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to ask for a name, but what department does your "friend" at UNCC work in? I may have run across her, assuming she was there in the early 90's.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2002 : 13:17:49 [Permalink]
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Snake: I actually received my BA from UNCC in 1993. I learned how to deal with the occaisional out-to-lunch "more radical than thou" nut cases then; fortunately the philosophy department didn't have too many of these types in the staff. BTW--I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to ask for a name, but what department does your "friend" at UNCC work in? I may have run across her, assuming she was there in the early 90's.
Mr. Spock, Thank you for understanding what I meant.
My recent philosophy teacher was great too. A fellow Libertarian who tried to explain to his students about the liberal attitude of, for example, affirmitive action, etc., in academia today. But I fear most were too young to comprehend OR care, when it's the grade not the education that counts.
I was under the impression that my cousin got her doctorate in political science (from UCLA). I will send you her name privately.
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