Associates of Arts in Graphic Design and just finishing paying that off after 10 years.

Currently working on Liberal Arts Associates Degree in Music Performance and paying for it as I go. Going to need more loans when I take the Liberal Arts degree to Wayne State University.

Where can I go to school for free? I've always heard an urban legend that after you've lived in California for a year, school is free. Anyone else ever heard of this?

BA Semiotics (study of signs and symbols)
MFA Cinema Production



Now I'm free.

Slave2daGroove said:

It's true. I went to grad school at SF State and it was cheap! $798 per semester, I think, which got waived because year after year (it took me 7 years to get out ) I qualified for a scholarship. Still killed myself with student loans though, to pay for my movies.

I think the prices have gone up since then, but yeah, it's an unbeatable deal.

CalhounSq said:

in what?? C'mon tell me, tell me...

Slave2daGroove said:

Uh what now? I was born and raised here and went to a UC and now have $20,000 to pay off.

too embarrassing to say what i'm studying now...plan on changing.

Mach said:

Same here. It helps your chances of graduating if you can spell "psychology" right.

missfee said:

PurpleKnight said:

Aye, I did. BSc Physiology/Pharmacology

Im there at the moment, BSc Building Surveying. Gonna stay for my Masters too.

I wanted to do Architectural History but you cant get a decent job with that, so Im just gonna manage and survey them instead!

I studied Dutch and English at university for 2 years, quit (with a degree of that 2 years) and started to study psychology.I'm a Bachelor in applied psychology now.

isadora said:

Hello, haven't seen you around yet. Enjoying the org a bit are you??

heartbeatocean said:

Slave2daGroove--before you pack up and move to Cali, make sure you find out if you have to be a California resident to qualify for those tuition rates. It's like that in a lot of states--if you are a resident (which you become after living there x amount of time) and go to a state university the tuition is thousands of dollars less/semester than those who attend from out of state. (I know Iowa, Illinois, & Maryland also have this...)

Well, arent we all some ed-ju-ma-kated folkz.

B.A. in Interior Design.

Never actually broke into the field.

Now I'm a desk jockey making less than the schleps who flunked High School and work for the Sanitatoon Dept. across the street from my office!

PurpleJedi said:

I know how you feel...I have an MA from Columbia University, and 6+ years of experience working in contemporary art museums; yet when I left the museum where I worked during grad school (it's in New York and rhymes with shitney) the girl they hired to replace me had no contemporary art background, let alone museum experience, never finished her BA AND makes more money than I do. But I'm not bitter, really I'm not...

PurpleJedi said:

Are you sure they flunked out of high school? I know a couple sanitation dept workers that have BAs A lot of people can't use their degrees for one reason or another.Or they've been downsized out of their jobs.

Oh yeah I went to SUNY.I'm going back for more someday. I'll probably be one of those old ladies getting their doctorate at 80 years old that's in every graduating class.

jone70 said:

Like Slave mentioned, it takes a year of living in CA to become a resident. It's not much of deal if you're from out of state.

jone70 said:

That's quite a story. But why would a place like the Whitney hire someone with so little experience? That's a cut-throat world.

i'm going to a community college right now to get my core requirements out of the way then i'll be transferring to Illinois State to get a B.A. in Information Technology

heartbeatocean said:

Of course there are other details surrounding that situation & others situations that happened while I was there about which I didn't elablorate and that would make everything more understandable; but the internet is not the place for me to air my former employer's dirty laundry...so I'll just leave it by saying it's not a very nice place to work...

Their loss, not mine.

jone70 said:

I have a friend who was trying to get in there years ago and she called it a "Viper's Den".

heartbeatocean said:

excellent description...did she end up getting a job there?

I work at a different museum now and the first two things I always tell new interns are:

1. CYA (cover your ass)
2. if you're offered a job at that museum take it at your own risk, b/c it's the worst museum I've ever worked for...

jone70 said:

My friend didn't get hired, but she's now teaching at CalArts. On the other hand, I know someone who used to work at the Guggenheim and loved it.

I went through one year of university (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), doing Computer Science. Needed less math and more programming, so I lost interest.

Now I have a bachelor degree of applied computer science ("Toegepaste Informatica") at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool, and I have the job that I've always wanted (for about two years now).

Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing- Holmesglen College of TAFE...also did Advance Diploma of Music Studies- Songwriting and Composition- Foundations of Music part time but had to drop it cause i was still doin my writing and it wasn't working out the way i wanted it to! (i needed to get my theory up to scratch and had not much time to dedicate to it!)
Bachelor of Multimedia and Media Studies- Swinburne University of Technology
Done some short courses too like Announcing for Radio.

I've got a BA in Philosophy from the University of Washington.

Next fall I'm going to start premed classes, and hopefully in a couple of years I'll be studying for my MD at UW. I'm excited, but the idea of being a full-time student again is daunting. I've decided not to try to work during this process, which will be a first for me, and the idea of living off of loans makes me sick to my stomach. But I think it's the best decision in the long run, and my loved ones are backing me up on this.