Author Topic: Masters Degree (Read 3604 times)

Don R · « **on:** July 23, 2013, 08:29:11 PM »

A racing aquaintance's wife just posted on facebook, now that she has her masters degree she would like to do some reading. She wondered where she could rent or borrow some books without buying them and then have them sitting around getting dusty.
I don't have a degree but isn't that called a library?

rb550four · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2013, 08:39:56 PM »

Can usually get used books at that college book store or on line new or used , The best part is that she doesn't have to hang on to them, she can resell them to the book store or put them up on line and help shave the cost of an education for another student.

Don R · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2013, 09:13:23 PM »

I just thought it was rather ironic she wouldn't know how to obtain books.

pangloss · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2013, 09:20:24 PM »

Wrong post area... Should be in Humor..!!

Gordon · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2013, 09:25:05 PM »

There's book smarts and street smarts. My wife is book smart.

Jay Ace · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2013, 09:37:59 PM »

why are you FB friends with your buddy's wife???

Don R · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2013, 11:22:09 PM »

Just too friendly I guess. Trust me, not my type.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #7 on:** July 24, 2013, 08:28:08 AM »

What exactly did she get her Master's in??

switchum · « **Reply #8 on:** July 24, 2013, 09:35:03 AM »

Some Master's degrees are useless. I have one of those.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #9 on:** July 24, 2013, 09:51:08 AM »

I had no idea you needed a master's degree to read, as of now I will stop reading until I obtain a master's degree that will allow me to read.

azuredesign · « **Reply #10 on:** July 24, 2013, 10:09:36 AM »

Heck, I am going to Oz to see the wizard. Maybe he will give me some brains...
One would think I could come up with something funnier, but all I have is a doctorate.

70CB750 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 24, 2013, 10:59:31 AM »

Education is overrated.

LesterPiglet · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2013, 11:01:30 AM »

A lot of people I know went on to further education, they still haven't a clue. I left school at 15 and am more intelligent.

nccb · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2013, 11:28:30 AM »

I agree, at times it is over-rated. You can essentially learn how to do anything on the internet. I have an MA, it was really one of those situations where you have to pay to play. I prefer open-access journals but I do have subscriptions to a couple. Tell her if she wants some free articles, and at times books, to create a profile on academia.edu. A lot of scholars from differing disciplines are on and upload their articles due to the open-access movement.

I keep all of my books regardless of how mundane or old. You never know when you might need to cite one or refresh a subject.

70CB750 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2013, 11:55:58 AM »

And there is always Gutenberg.

333 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2013, 05:23:53 PM »

I'll always remember a childhood friend's parents. Both "intellectuals"(Masters and all), and had absolutely no common sense at all. She broke her arm whist pruning a tree in the front yard. I don't know if she spilled her martini, but you can bet a martini was involved.

CaféElite · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2013, 08:22:43 PM »

How does one get a masters without mastering the ability to use google.

Don R · « **Reply #17 on:** July 25, 2013, 08:19:05 AM »

She is a teacher. My wife takes art supply orders from teachers, her and my daughters that work there have a booklet of things they have been asked. Like- how many sculptures can you make from 50 lbs of clay? One ordered 30 lbs of each color of clay for each student, or about 2 tons.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #18 on:** July 25, 2013, 09:07:59 AM »

That's a lot of ashtrays or what have you.

evanphi · « **Reply #19 on:** July 25, 2013, 10:22:48 AM »

Yeah some masters degrees are useless. It is just how the job market is turning now, unfortunately. The BA is the new highschool diploma. Some, OTOH, are great. [tooting-own-horn]Mine is a professional degree and very specific training.[/tooting-own-horn]

Don R · « **Reply #20 on:** July 25, 2013, 10:31:29 AM »

but the problem is, where can you borrow a book?

nccb · « **Reply #21 on:** July 25, 2013, 11:17:54 AM »

Quote from: evanphi on July 25, 2013, 10:22:48 AM

Yeah some masters degrees are useless. It is just how the job market is turning now, unfortunately. The BA is the new highschool diploma. Some, OTOH, are great. [tooting-own-horn]Mine is a professional degree and very specific training.[/tooting-own-horn]

I agree. A BA is useless in a lot of fields, you have to have a graduate degree nowadays in order to move up. Especially if you want to meet secretary of interior standards in a lot of environmental fields, you need at least an MA.

Trevor from Warragul · « **Reply #22 on:** July 25, 2013, 05:16:21 PM »

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What exactly did she get her Master's in??

"Applied basket weaving"?

Xnavylfr · « **Reply #23 on:** July 26, 2013, 04:35:28 PM »

Think of all the DOCTORS in the world and all the education they HAD to have to become one but yet they have never MASTERED their field of training because they either PRACTICE in the field of PHYSIOLOGY or NEUROLOGY. MAYBE someday they'll become REAL DOCTORS and not have to practice anymore!!!

Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

LesterPiglet · « **Reply #24 on:** July 28, 2013, 03:43:42 AM »

Prime example.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-23457489

surveywaters · « **Reply #25 on:** July 28, 2013, 02:49:00 PM »

High school grad here doing great in my chosen career, never been out of work and never wanted for anything. My sister in-law and her husband both are college grads, they've been unemployed for 4 years now and our tax dollars support them. There's your higher education at work. All it taught them was that the government was on their side....

nccb · « **Reply #26 on:** July 28, 2013, 03:45:37 PM »

I would probably argue that there are more without a high school degree that are milking the unemployment. It is a shame that we are taught you have to go to college to excel in life, obviously you don't. I wish we could have a two tract system in our public schools, those who are more mechanical or technical and those who want to pursue other things.

Viktor.J · « **Reply #27 on:** July 29, 2013, 09:24:02 AM »

Hey hey, take it easy on us stupid but educated people

I have a Master myself in Mechanical engineering/ energy systems.
One thought is maybe she ment the literature you use while studying your master years ? beacuse at least in Sweden most of them books can't be found in the schools library, not to talk about the city library.... Many of these books are the kind of books that you never ever even knew existed beafore you heard of them....just a thought.

Otherwise It's the same problem worldwide. I hade this discussion on this summers holiday trip in Croatia where I met a couple from NY, Rio de janeiro, Hong kong and then me and my girl from Sweden. It's a common sign when the economy goes bad, that many many people goes to study. and some of them end up on a education that the government had to force out due to increasing pupils.
In the discussion to study or not, for me there's a simple answer (obviously) and every time when I visit my hometown (low educated area) many old friends and knowabouts comes to me and tell me "man I wish I studied instead". With that beeing said I do understand that some people shose not to study, and I totaly respect that.

But people who complain about engineers and doctors and what not being useless and overrated are just plain stupid. Try do a surgery on your own family, or why not bouild your own car or mobile, and while you'r at it make your own electricity

70CB750 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 29, 2013, 09:33:19 AM »

I have two master degrees myself, my comment was in a sense that only education is not enough.

In the die making factory I learned at least as much as in my Mechanical Engineering masters program - from guys with just industrial education or what would you call it in English.

Don R · « **Reply #29 on:** July 29, 2013, 10:30:42 AM »

Just so my point is understood,
I wasn't a great student until I outgrew my undiagnosed ADD a little and spent a few years working in a factory. I got a Plumbers apprenticeship at 26 and all of a sudden I got straight A's in trade school. They didn't compare scores then but I assume I was near the top of my class. I started out cleaning drains and retired a licensed plumber, stick, mig and tig welder/ fitter and certified medical gas systems installer. The last job I managed was a 2.6 million dollar Geo Thermal HVAC retrofit in a high school done over summer vacation. So I do have great respect for an education.
Her book search just caught me as funny, especially after all of her whining about books and studying on her facebook.

Viktor.J · « **Reply #30 on:** July 29, 2013, 12:01:23 PM »

I hear ya, nothing is more anoying then the idiots roaming around at facebook looking for "friends" to pad them on the back over their ACCIEVMENT, when they in fact do the same things as I did when I was 17-19. It's like asking for a golden star beacuse you managed to wake up in the morning...

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Author Topic: Masters Degree (Read 3604 times)

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