Education Stats Of Phatmass

[i<3franciscans]

[quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1319664664' post='2327440']
My sister in law got her PhD in Philosophy at 19. She graduated highschool at 13 or something.
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I think I would die. It sounds like too much hard work at too young an age.

[i<3LSOP]

I'm in middle school!


I accomplished elementary homeschooling and sixth grade homeschooling!

[the_rev]

Working towards Mdiv. STB candidate, with prospect of STL and STD

[Totus Tuus]

I voted four year degree because I'll have on in 16 more credits...

BA in Classics and Early Christian Literature with a minor/double major in Theology

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1319664664' post='2327440']
My sister in law got her PhD in Philosophy at 19. She graduated highschool at 13 or something.
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It seems like everything you say is just too good or too impossible to be true. You have an interesting life.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='i<3franciscans' timestamp='1319747801' post='2327874']
I think I would die. It sounds like too much hard work at too young an age.
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She went to school to escape their house. With my MIL for a mom, I'd have done the same thing or joined the Foreign Legion.

[TheresaThoma]

Ok correction to mine
In the spring of 2014 I will graduate with a BS in Aerospace Physics. (Even with going part time it is only a year later than my original graduation date! ) I just have to do all of the pesky paperwork now.

[Little Flower]

Im a high school junior

[Little Flower]

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1318890302' post='2322899']
BS... and I'm not talking about degrees....
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[quote name='vee8' timestamp='1318997518' post='2323526']
I have a STD
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[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1319191417' post='2324565']


EVERYONE takes the French. Don't feel bad.
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I don't get it. explain?

[Luigi]

BS = Bachelor of Science .... or some other choice phrase

STD = Sacred Theology Doctor (or something like that - I think it's as high as you can go, degree-wise, in theology)

I have no idea about the French, unless it's the cash-cow course at a particular college or in a particular program. By 'cash-cow course' I mean: There's no really good reason to require all students to take this particular course, but in our college/program EVERYBODY takes the French/Western Civ/Philosophy for Non-Philosophy Majors/Whatever Else. You'll see, when you get to college.

[LaPetiteSoeur]

[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1321077540' post='2335279']
BS = Bachelor of Science .... or some other choice phrase

STD = Sacred Theology Doctor (or something like that - I think it's as high as you can go, degree-wise, in theology)

I have no idea about the French, unless it's the cash-cow course at a particular college or in a particular program. By 'cash-cow course' I mean: There's no really good reason to require all students to take this particular course, but in our college/program EVERYBODY takes the French/Western Civ/Philosophy for Non-Philosophy Majors/Whatever Else. You'll see, when you get to college.
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Lots of people take french at my university, but then again it is taught in EVERY elementary school in my state (French influences). Most kids (unless they are majoring in it or minoring) only have to take two semesters or so. And French is one of the easier languages to learn.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Little Flower' timestamp='1321073507' post='2335245']
I don't get it. explain?
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Luigi did a great job explaining the first two. But the last one was a jab at the French and their historically inept military .

[BG45]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1321220816' post='2335796']


Luigi did a great job explaining the first two. But the last one was a jab at the French and their historically inept military .
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Aside from conquering Europe a few times, making Britain falter enough to allow the independence of those pesky Colonial rebels, and fighting on against the Nazis throughout World War Two even after their homeland had fallen (both the Resistance and DuGaulle's Free French Army).

Question for the JDs and not trying to be disrespectful, I know how hard law school is from more than a few offline friends who have gone through it. Despite the American Bar Association saying it should be considered a terminal degree for hiring in Academia, a lot of job postings I've been looking at outright state that JDs need not apply, as it isn't a research degree. Do any of you have the research law degrees as well, like the LLM (Master of Laws) or the SJD/JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law)?

[CatherineM]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1321224645' post='2335825']

Question for the JDs and not trying to be disrespectful, I know how hard law school is from more than a few offline friends who have gone through it. Despite the American Bar Association saying it should be considered a terminal degree for hiring in Academia, a lot of job postings I've been looking at outright state that JDs need not apply, as it isn't a research degree. Do any of you have the research law degrees as well, like the LLM (Master of Laws) or the SJD/JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law)?
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The only professor I had in law school who had a LLM was the tax law guy. That's common for tax specialists though. Law School is mostly about teaching you to think like a lawyer. That's not really useful for teaching. You definitely learn to do research, but of a different kind. Some of my professors were working on LLMs while teaching. You probably have to have one to move up to a more prestigious school.

[BG45]

[quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1321231935' post='2335867']
The only professor I had in law school who had a LLM was the tax law guy. That's common for tax specialists though. Law School is mostly about teaching you to think like a lawyer. That's not really useful for teaching. You definitely learn to do research, but of a different kind. Some of my professors were working on LLMs while teaching. You probably have to have one to move up to a more prestigious school.
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Neat! And God bless that man, I can't imagine ever having the patience to do tax law...I never wanted to do law school period, not after a friend became known as the "King of Footnotes". I call him every time I need a case law citation for a paper though; his skills in finding them far outstrip my own. Though since he went to law school, I kinda hope he always does.

I've only met one LLM also, at a conference once; he was some sort of consultant for higher end clients that his firm serviced. I felt extremely dumb in legal matters while we chatted.