formerroomate99
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jul 31, 2013 10:33:45 GMT -5
Just smile and say congratulations. I think it's ridiculous and pathetic too, but no good can come from taking away their moment of joy or coming off as an elitist snob.
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Formerly SK
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Post by Formerly SK on Jul 31, 2013 11:01:47 GMT -5
I have a friend who tells everyone she has a BA when she doesn't. Through a SNAFU she was short one math class. She never took the class - even though the school let her participate in the graduation ceremony as they thought she'd take it that summer. It's now been 18ish years. Yes, it's on her resume and everything.
I think I prefer OP's situation to my friend's.
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greeniis10
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Post by greeniis10 on Jul 31, 2013 12:28:10 GMT -5
actually I think people should know if they have a college degree or not. What if the beautician/wedding planning thing doesn't work out and they try to get a corporate-type job that requires a college degree? Talk about embarrassing.... I agree - they should know, but whether said via Facebook or in person I personally wouldn't be the one to tell them. Embarrassing, yes, but I'd let the "real world" give the lesson for them. If they believe this way already they probably wouldn't believe someone else saying that they in fact do not hold a degree.
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Knee Deep in Water Chloe
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jul 31, 2013 20:30:14 GMT -5
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Knee Deep in Water Chloe
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jul 31, 2013 20:32:18 GMT -5
Lmao! Seriously, I'm not knocking anyone who gets certifications or what not...I pay my stylist a boatload of money to make my hair look good (she owns her own salon and does very well). But she does not have a college degree. I wouldn't be rude enough to say something if she claimed she did (shocking, I know!) but it would make me laugh to myself Maybe she went to the University and got a BSBA so she would know everything there is to know about running a business, and went to beauty school. Our school had a well respected "Entrepreneur program" and I met all sorts of people with all sorts of goals in that program - guys who wanted to do A/C installation, women who wanted to open a day care, etc. I thought they were smart to get a really good education before opening their own business. My XSIL didn't either. I do understand and agree with the don't call them out on it as a matter of manners in addition to don't make assumptions about people's backgrounds.
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 31, 2013 22:43:17 GMT -5
Yep, certificate program does-not-equal college degree. But what can you do? Smile and nod, like swamp says. DH reversed this situation. When his employer closed down due to a NAFTA situation, they were all offered retraining of some type in certificate programs. He had already been considering going back to school to become a teacher, so he told them he wanted to get his teaching certificate . He went back for his masters, and got at least some funding for it before they closed that loophole.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Aug 1, 2013 0:22:40 GMT -5
So, I am going to confess something to you all and then I am going to sleep, feel free to laugh behind my back.
For the LONGEST time I couldn't figure out/remember US school system. I couldn't remember if pre-school came before K. To me PRE-school should have been right before SCHOOL, which in my mind was 1st grade bc where I am from K is for 3-6 yr old and then you start 1st grade.
Then I couldn't figure out the whole "secondary" education. I thought "secondary" means after High School bc in my mind grades 1-12 should have been primary.
Then I was all confused about what college years were called. And what the advanced degrees were called.
Needless to say, it created for a lot of awkward conversations in bars and clubs when guys wanted to know what I did, etc
Anywhooo, I think I am better now, but still not sure
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 9:38:33 GMT -5
Yes, other country definitions can confuse things. Singpore's high school math curriculum is entitled New Elementry Mathematcs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 13:24:39 GMT -5
Our Technical College offers AA/AS programs as well as certificates of proficiency & certificates of completion. The programs that get certificates are less credits than the AA/AS, but can be anything from 9 months to 18 months. I can see how people going through those programs would consider themselves to have a college degree.
I would congratulate the individual on their commitment to complete the program and wish them well for their future.
<<yesterday at 5:20am garion2003 said: I once knew a guy who called himself a post-graduate student. I assumed he'd been to a college, had a 4 year Bachelor's degree, went on to grad school, did a master's and was now taking classes in something else. Not entirely. He had a 4 year BA. So he'd graduated. So now that made him "post-graduate".>> Post Baccalaureate is the right term IF you are continuing as a student.
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Phoenix84
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Post by Phoenix84 on Aug 1, 2013 14:38:20 GMT -5
I just smile and nod. Doing that will get you far in life.
Though for the record, I don't consider certificates to be college degrees.
I don't know if I'd consider an associates as a "college degree." I guess so, that's kind of a gray area.
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Phoenix84
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Post by Phoenix84 on Aug 1, 2013 15:01:55 GMT -5
Art degrees never made much sense to me. Being good at art to me seems like more of a talent thing than an education thing. Either you have the talent or you don't, I don't see how you can teach it. But I suck at art so what do I know?
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 1, 2013 16:03:34 GMT -5
Art degrees never made much sense to me. Being good at art to me seems like more of a talent thing than an education thing. Either you have the talent or you don't, I don't see how you can teach it. But I suck at art so what do I know? Well, I could see if you wanted to work in a museum as a curator, or wanted to be an art teacher, or work at a fine art auction house, that a degree in Art would be helpful, but not so much if your goal is to work as an artist. I know a guy who is a very successful painter, and he did a kind of apprentiship working for an older artist for a while, to work on his technique. (He sent examples of his work to the guy and asked him to mentor him, and he did). That to me seems like the way to go, to be an artist.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 1, 2013 17:57:46 GMT -5
Colleges and universities call them degrees and that's good enough for me. It would be no different than considering a master's a degree but not a bachelors. Higher education institutions offers certificates in various things, which they don't call degrees, and they offer associates, bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees.
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