I graduated 129/131 in my high school class, college wasn't an option. Most teachers assumed I was "special" not "gifted"

Congratulations, Angela ! Proud of ya !

Associates through the Air Force in Industrial Security ,then additional classes when I went over to the Navy . Never achieved anything more than that. In hindsight, I believe going to work for the Justice Department at a young age was detrimental to getting more education. I couldn't justify it. Squandered opportunity.

Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA
B.S. in Biology '77

Associates degree, civil - highway engineering Madison Area Technical College.

Zim

LOL High school I hunted, trapped, wreslted and played baseball. Finished 46 out of 48 in my class. Teachers new nothing of me or my abilities nor did they care. I knew I could do better.

It's nice to have a couple down syndrome kids in the class when it comes time for ranking at the end.

AAS in Wildlife Technology at Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Ga.

Almost completed my BS in Criminal Justice Administration at Columbus State University in Columbus, Ga.

Congrats on your degree Angela!!

when I started it was called Wisconsin School of Electronics.

by the time I graduated with my associate degree 2 years later in electrical engineering technology it was called Herzing College of Technology.

a year of night school more I graduated with a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and Computer Science. The name was Herzing College as I understand it they had added career studies like Nursing in addition to electronics and computer aided drafting.

It was tech school that picked up the ability to offer a bachelors degree.
didn't do the "college experience" as many call it
school was intentionally condensed with classes close to each other and like 5 minutes between classes so you could start at 07:00 and you could be at work by 12:00-12:30 depending on where you worked.
we took off for thanks giving and black Friday
Christmas eve through new years day
and 2 weeks in June
memorial day , labor day and 4th of July
basically exactly what you would expect stating your first job other than your 2 weeks vacation came in June
that was it went ever other week day

when you signed up for classes you had 3 options
07:00 start
08:00 start
13:00 start
no mix and match , get in , get out , get to work no wasting time waiting around.
Night school started at 18:00 and went to 22:00

everyone started in June there was one graduation a year in June.

about half the faculty back then had been military and probably 10% of students were.

almost everyone was working and going to school , a lot of people full time second shift
I worked 30-36 hours a week which someone told me is now considered full time , it wasn't then. that was 40 I also did some contract work on weekends but that wasn't as steady.

congrats on the Degree , paid in full is not something many people have stamped on their education any more.

sure beats decades of debt.

Lot of educated folks here....

Did 1 semester at the community college in 1971, going for marine technology....got fed up with that fast and went back clamming...I think I ended up with 13 credits, lol

I know a biology professor up at Doane. Never knew anybody who attended though.

I got BS in Wildlife Biology from Kansas State.

Two non liberal colleges........C of S , and S of H K ....

Started at Eastern Michigan University Industrial Arts Education to be teacher, draft lottery in 69 changed it to Hospital Corpsman school then to Fleet Marines Force. Never got teaching degree and do not regret it one bit.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Such a nice city Sammy Kershaw name dropped it in a 1990's country beauty!

Louisiana Tech Univ - graduated 1977, BS Wildlife Management, minor in botany

SIUE Edwardsville Illinois major geology

I dropped out of high school in tenth grade to get a full-time job, had to have paperwork signed so I could work as an adult in a factory.

My friends talked me into joining a construction company where I started as a mud man/laborer on a masonry crew. Within a few years I was the head of a framing crew building twenty houses a year then got into the excavation and septic system installation end of it.

I started my own general contracting business in 96, still run it today.

Here's the college part. LOL I was ask to manage an apartment building by a customer. In PA you need a college course and must become a real estate agent to be a property manager and collect rents for the owner(s). So I took the course at Lehigh Carbon Community College, passed the real estate exam and became a real estate agent/property manager for that one, six-unit building.

I started a property management company and at it's peak, I managed 43 properties.

If not for the state requirement I probably would not have gone to college. Oh, I had to get my GED to get my real estate license too.