Where should I go for graduate school?

[paradise!]

lulz, nice try on this one its a load of shit though. you should really not exaggerate.

unless you were in a running start program, which would have given you an associates upon graduation, you didn't have a year and a half of credits. AP transfers into public universities max out at 45 credits. but how would i know this! oh yeah, i am an academic adviser for my university...damn bi-laws are boring.

i will maintain my point though. you have 0 grounds to speak about the academic rigor of your university after a year of attendance. as for your claim that taking 1 of the intro level courses in the mathematics major requirement dismantles and discredits everything i claim, here is my response: be glad you're a math/science major. seriously...that argumentation would get shit on in any respectable department of education.

look you're just the typical pretentious prick you've always been. continue to be a complete american and assert that you are correct about everything you say even though you have no expertise or authority on the matter. it'll get you places in this country....seriously....it will. however, i have a shred of decency, a little morality, and some humility.

haha, i don't give a shit what your university says summa, it isn't OSU. I came in with 60 something quarter credits, which is roughly a year and like halfway between 1/3 and 1/2 of a year at a normal pace. Would you like a score-by-score breakdown of my all my AP results? How about a nice page-by-page display of all of my scores by subject?

lol man, you haven't even taken these courses you spout off like 'real analysis, abstract algebra, etc.' yet you insist they are difficult. Simply because I don't rush to call them difficult you are suddenly seriously offended? Did I hit a soft spot buddy?

Sounds like YOU my friend have the attitude to get absolutely nowhere in life. The whiniest kids like you are always the one's with mouths engineered for complaining about things they've never tried themselves. There is no meat to argument man, it's accusatory with zero foundation, and is a piss bad outlook on life.

[Jason]

That I'll have a masters in International Management, basically the courses I got during my masters were International HRM, Global Marketing, Global Corporate Communication, Strategic Decision Making, Corporate Strategy, Organizations and Society and Technology, Innovation and Organisation (although that's because of my thesis, which I'm doing in Innovation Management).

So I get something from every major discipline in business and that in a global setting, how does the global marketplace that exists nowadays effect the way we do business?

Like I said, I haven't really learned anything, I mean I have book smarts about all these subjects, and I know theories and stuff, but I'm in no way fit to actually run a big business. What I'm hoping for at first is an internship in either Tokyo or New York, or perhaps London. Just something temporary like 6 months to a year and then I'll probably enter a traineeship at a big company where I'll spend 2 years being prepared for the big work. I'm thinking about a Dutch multinational, like Unilever, Shell, Philips, KPMG (although not likely, goes more towards accounting, not a fan), etc. I'll see, I'm in no rush.

no offense gall, for real i mean no disrespect, but damnnn that sounds boring.

[Ilya]

no offense gall, for real i mean no disrespect, but damnnn that sounds boring.

as far as business majors/jobs go, i think international management/business is generally the sexiest.

though i still get boners from my accounting degree

let me do your taxes, goddamnit

[gran guerrero]

let me do your taxes, goddamnit

the answer is still no

[Ilya]

the answer is still no

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...172m_bill.html

fine but don't come crying to me when this happens to you >:~{

[gran guerrero]

lol he didnt even know what the IRS was, what a scrub

my dad's an accountant, I think I'll be alright

[Summa]

haha, i don't give a shit what your university says summa, it isn't OSU. I came in with 60 something quarter credits, which is roughly a year and like halfway between 1/3 and 1/2 of a year at a normal pace. Would you like a score-by-score breakdown of my all my AP results? How about a nice page-by-page display of all of my scores by subject?

lol man, you haven't even taken these courses you spout off like 'real analysis, abstract algebra, etc.' yet you insist they are difficult. Simply because I don't rush to call them difficult you are suddenly seriously offended? Did I hit a soft spot buddy?

Sounds like YOU my friend have the attitude to get absolutely nowhere in life. The whiniest kids like you are always the one's with mouths engineered for complaining about things they've never tried themselves. There is no meat to argument man, it's accusatory with zero foundation, and is a piss bad outlook on life.

this may be the dumbest butchering of the english language that i have read in a long time.

whatever college in the nation it doesn't matter. the laws state that you can only transfer in 45 credits of AP, barring you weren't in a running start program. i mean i can go find the law and show it to you. you may have earned 60 creds worth of AP credit, but only 45 transferred in. and if more did, its illegal.

i will say i have no personal grounds to stand on in regards to the classes i named. i gave up on mathematics after calculus because i realized the futility of learning any more in that field. mathematics beyond calculus only contributes to a very small number of professions, all of which do not interest me. however, as i said, i am an academic adviser and i deal with people in these classes all the time. i have had some very intelligent people tell me that those classes are quite difficult. i will trust their opinion over yours because they understand what dangling a preposition means and other such simple rules of the english language.

no you didn't hit a soft spot. i am quite a stoic.

as for my attitude, it is one that isn't arrogant and presumptuous. if that is what gets people ahead in life, then i don't want to "get ahead". i care about the person i am more than some stupid fucking job or how much money i make because every night i have to lay in bed with myself; and i would rather not sleep with a pompous dickbag every night. but hey, law school isn't bad for someone who gets nowhere in life right?

your last sentence makes the least sense though. at first i thought you were using a clever literary device called analogy....but then i was disappointed....then i perhaps thought: "maybe there is symbolism"....no dice...anachronism? lol no way. argumentation is completely substance...if it is only accusatory, then it is merely an ad hominem attack....but you can get far in America w/ only ad hominem...look at any news channel...that's probably where you learned your argumentation from.

all that said, i am done here. this is a waste of time

[Galleleo]

no offense gall, for real i mean no disrespect, but damnnn that sounds boring.

I take no offence, I'm not going to try and say that my study was super exciting or super fun. Hell, part of it was complete bullshit in my opinion. But it's what I needed to do to get my degree, so I did it. I'm not a beta kind of guy, my strengths are that I learn incredibly easy and fast, that I can read people, that I can read situations reasonably well and that I can keep an eye on the long term. I didn't so much pick my study because it sounded like the most awesome study ever, I did it (or am doing it) because I want to go into business and I did international business because I love travelling, I like being in different countries experiencing different cultures and I would love to work in various countries.

This year, I have been to the US (Indiana), Tokyo (where I did research), Sweden and Ireland and I'll be going to New York for Christmas and new years. That's how much I like travelling so getting a degree in international management is really what interests me as opposed to the complete study itself. Don't get me wrong, there have also been courses I really liked, that I found very interesting, but in my opinion for a course to be fun you need to have good teachers. It all depends on the teacher. For instance, I had global marketing this past year which has potential to be interesting, but goddamn that asshole bitch of a professor.... fucked it all up. You need to really, really, really love something if it doesn't matter what kind of professor you get for something.

If I take my time in the US for example, that shit was so easy compared to our university level that I had straight A's in every course I took (all 300 and 400 level) and I honestly didn't do a single thing (I'm not trying to be Paradise here, I'm not getting straight A's in advanced math no matter how hard I try, but it honestly is a lot easier there). Which made 3 out of my 4 courses boring as hell (but I had plenty of free time and awesome people that balance that out with), but for one the courses I had an awesome professor which made that course fun and motivates, at least me, to try harder.

In the end, I see my time at the university as necessary to get the papers to get where I want to go, but I don't particularly feel like I have been enlightened and I'll have to start at the bottom (well a bit higher than most, but still) like everyone else because I definitely don't know everything. Most important part about uni is to use the things you learn left and right (specified to my field business at least) about practices and combine them with your own and try to form an image of how you would do things. But I can't say that because I do Global Corporate Communication you can now put me in charge of the communication department at a corporate company because I'm the hot shit, all that course taught me practice wise is given me some general ideas of how I would do certain things, but I'll still need to learn everything in practice.

[Pandagirl!]

blah blah blah

*cough* It's not like I go to OSU or anything and know the rules, seeing as I did take AP classes. However, I came in with 70 credit hours - but that's because I took college classes in high school, which doesn't count as AP credit, therefore doesn't apply to the 45 credit hour guideline.

http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourwe.../CurrentEM.pdf
See "How much EM Credit can be earned?" in the right column.

Also, I'm trying to remember what AP classes our high school even offered. If I remember correctly - Government, Chemistry, Calculus, English, German, Psychology. I know you took French, so scratch that one off the list. And I heard AP Gov't and Psych are both jokes that aren't really AP classes, but I'll count them anyway.

Now, assuming you got 5's on everything (ha), you'd get 5 credit hours for Gov't, 10 for Chem, 10 for Calc, 5 for English, 5 for Psych. If I did my math right (and I did, I'm an actuary), that's 35 credit hours.

The only way your story would be slightly plausible was if you took AP German and got a 5, like I did, awarding 25 credit hours. Except you took French. And you can't transfer in 60 credit hours of AP.

Nice try though :flowers:


PS - Ilya do my taxes

EDIT: And don't try to say that you were good enough after 4 years of French to take the AP test on your own and score a 5. Anyone that went to our school can attest to the fact that French is a complete joke. Madame is a cool person, but she's no Frau when it comes to teaching.

[Ilya]

paradise you really blew it this time dogg

also, panda and paradise went to the same highschool? what? this is not in my pandagirl encyclopedia

[D1st0rt]

Seriously paradise, shut the fuck up. Calculus being easy is not really that big of an accomplishment. By the time you get into serious engineering classes you end up performing entire multivariable solutions several times as intermediate steps in most problems. I crushed diff eq and was pumped to start using it in other classes, but guess what? Nobody actually solves differential equations that way, you just laplace that shit and be on your way. Being able to do math is not noteworthy, it's expected of everyone. Nobody gives a shit because computers are better than you at it anyway. The value of an engineering degree is being able to determine what math to perform and how to interpret the results. Numbers are useless without context. I'm tired of your shit.

[Fit of Rage]

Too bad there's more to engineering than math. Thanks for playing, paradise.

Nobody actually solves differential equations that way, you just laplace that shit and be on your way.

QFT

[Jeenyuss]

i get boners all the time from international business men, shit not just that but exercising clothes, portfolios, energy shakes, rugs hung on walls, i could go on for days.

d1st0rt is awesome.

d1st0rt gives me a boner.

[Jerome Scuggs]

holy jesus last night i went to my world military history class and yup, i think i've waited like 18 years to be in this class. the professor was born in georgia (the one outside of russia), and went to school and grad school in france and belgium. i've had him before but in 100/200 level history classes, where he was forced to neuter his tests, but at the 400 level he does not fuck around. oh christ i love this course. i'm currently writing a paper on angled bastions.

[paradise!]

*cough* It's not like I go to OSU or anything and know the rules, seeing as I did take AP classes. However, I came in with 70 credit hours - but that's because I took college classes in high school, which doesn't count as AP credit, therefore doesn't apply to the 45 credit hour guideline.

http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourwe.../CurrentEM.pdf
See "How much EM Credit can be earned?" in the right column.

Also, I'm trying to remember what AP classes our high school even offered. If I remember correctly - Government, Chemistry, Calculus, English, German, Psychology. I know you took French, so scratch that one off the list. And I heard AP Gov't and Psych are both jokes that aren't really AP classes, but I'll count them anyway.

Now, assuming you got 5's on everything (ha), you'd get 5 credit hours for Gov't, 10 for Chem, 10 for Calc, 5 for English, 5 for Psych. If I did my math right (and I did, I'm an actuary), that's 35 credit hours.

The only way your story would be slightly plausible was if you took AP German and got a 5, like I did, awarding 25 credit hours. Except you took French. And you can't transfer in 60 credit hours of AP.

Nice try though :flowers:


PS - Ilya do my taxes

EDIT: And don't try to say that you were good enough after 4 years of French to take the AP test on your own and score a 5. Anyone that went to our school can attest to the fact that French is a complete joke. Madame is a cool person, but she's no Frau when it comes to teaching.

Wow where to begin even on this post.

Well first off, I came into big nut as a sophmore and entered in french 4 that same year and aced it. Yes, the class was a joke, and madame is a nice person. I grew up in canada so I learned a bit of french there and tested out of 3 levels of it. So, I took the AP class that year and got a 5 (I was 15 and literally studied only the night before). Who cares if the classes themselves are jokes? Who is even talking about the classes themselves? The AP scores are the equalizer.

I'm not sure what '25' credit hours youre talking about as the requirement for foreign language at OSU is only 4 classes or 20 credit hours. Either way, I got my 20 there. 4 in gov, 5 in calc AB, 5 in psych, 4 us history (freshman year), You can do the math, mrs. actuary, oh and feel free to count the EM hours i got for getting credit for taking a calc exam at orientation that put me in 153 in the fall. All I had to do was take this small exam to prove to him I knew my stuff, and he put me in. It might not add up to exactly 60, but the shit is close enough

now get to tabulatin'