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Title: how long
Post by: Rick Daris on May 10, 2009, 05:48:25 PM: bmw thread got me thinking. how long did it take you to graduate college (assuming you've graduated)? do you wish you woulda stayed longer? finished sooner? It was six and a half years for me (from the time i finished high school until i got my bach). took a semester off though 8-) .

all in all kind of a good deal i guess. i kinda liked college, much more than i like working and i'll prob work for like thirty years of my life. always thought that people who were in a hurry to graduate were kinda weird ya know. i mean, it really was a good time (college).
Title: Re: how long
Post by: cyclist on May 10, 2009, 06:04:05 PM: Graduated in four years (BSEE). At the time, I was ready to get out and work and I needed the money...

Oh, because I know you hate moving emoticons:

:cyclist: :cyclist: :cyclist: :cyclist:
Title: Re: how long
Post by: cireksu on May 10, 2009, 06:16:40 PM: 4.5 years. I was ready to move on.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: highway61 on May 10, 2009, 06:17:27 PM: It took me 5 years to get my masters degree. I knew at the time graduating was a horrible mistake, and I have regreted it ever since.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: The1BigWillie on May 10, 2009, 08:34:54 PM: I was in school from 93 to 98 and then from 2006 to 2008 for my bachelors. I enrolled in 22 semesters of college counting summer sessions and changed my major 5 times. It wasn't exactly a Van Wilder re-make.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: fatty fat fat on May 10, 2009, 11:56:30 PM: Quote from: cyclist on May 10, 2009, 06:04:05 PM
Graduated in four years (BSEE). At the time, I was ready to get out and work and I needed the money...

Oh, because I know you hate moving emoticons:

:cyclist: :cyclist: :cyclist: :cyclist:

ha. that explains your weird euler references
Title: Re: how long
Post by: sys on May 11, 2009, 12:08:05 AM: 17 yrs (and counting).
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Trim on May 11, 2009, 01:59:17 AM: 4 to graduate. Wanted to stay for the '98 'ship, so I picked up some more majors and stayed for a 5th.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Chingon on May 11, 2009, 09:43:57 AM: 10 yrs total

probably should have taken a half year break somewhere in there

but now I have fancy plans and pants to match
Title: Re: how long
Post by: catdude33 on May 11, 2009, 09:53:02 AM: 5 yrs.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: jthutch on May 11, 2009, 10:15:17 AM: 4.5 years. Should have went longer but all my friends were graduating and I was influenced by peer pressure.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: ltrain37 on May 11, 2009, 10:20:55 AM: 6 years for undergrad and masters. Loved college, but was having trouble finding people to hang out with since most of my friends had already graduated and were gone by then.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: steve dave on May 11, 2009, 10:22:17 AM: Quote from: ltrain37 on May 11, 2009, 10:20:55 AM
but was having trouble finding people to hang out with since most of my friends had already graduated and were gone by then.

I recycled my outer group of friends about every year anyway. Making new friends was the fun part.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Pete on May 11, 2009, 10:29:02 AM: 4 years flat at EMAW.

Then immediately spent 3 years getting an MBA while going full time....but not at EMAW.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: RonLongshaft on May 11, 2009, 10:37:48 AM: 6 yrs.

wasted a year at a local U (not anywhere close to what i am getting my degree in now) and spent a year at Highland in Wamego to make up for the wasted year to get into KSU, then 3.5 at KSU, done in 5 days :ohno: :cheers:
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on May 11, 2009, 11:37:00 AM: Knew a guy who started in I think '93 as an ArchE (160 hr program instead of the usual 120). Kept dropping classes and whatnot. Took a whole bunch of German classes and had enough for a minor, then a degree. Still didn't graduate. Wanted to work on the ArchE thing still. Last I knew, in 2007, he was still working his way toward a bachelors, but not sure if it was still in ArchE or not. By that time, he probably had to go back and retake College Algebra and the other beginning course he took at the beginning because the credits expired.

I took 4.5. Spent another 1.5 part time working toward a certification later. School was much, much easier the 2nd time around at age 30. Just more mature and less distracted by all the stuff that is college when you're 19/20/21.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: AzCat on May 11, 2009, 12:09:58 PM: I took the slow boat: 7 for my BS & MS in engineering, I finally left when my major professor informed me that I had enough course credit not only for my MS but also for a PhD and that I needed to either defend my MS and leave or start a dissertation. JD was the standard 3-year slog but after engineering it was cake, an extended cocktail party. LL.M. was a year.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: CatsNChiefs on May 11, 2009, 12:45:41 PM: 4 yrs BSME, 2 yrs MBA, real world sucks, should have gotten more degrees to delay responsibility.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: CrushNasty on May 11, 2009, 01:57:15 PM: Quote from: Pete on May 11, 2009, 10:29:02 AM
4 years flat at EMAW.

Then immediately spent 3 years getting an MBA while going full time....but not at EMAW.

Where'd you get your MBA from?
Title: Re: how long
Post by: CrushNasty on May 11, 2009, 01:58:52 PM: Quote from: ltrain37 on May 11, 2009, 10:20:55 AM
6 years for undergrad and masters.

This and...
Quote from: steve dave on May 11, 2009, 10:22:17 AM
I recycled my outer group of friends about every year anyway. Making new friends was the fun part.

pretty much this. Worked on what seemed like 2 year cycles I guess...
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Pete on May 11, 2009, 02:14:33 PM: Quote from: CrushNasty on May 11, 2009, 01:57:15 PM
Quote from: Pete on May 11, 2009, 10:29:02 AM
4 years flat at EMAW.

Then immediately spent 3 years getting an MBA while going full time....but not at EMAW.

Where'd you get your MBA from?

It started as a JD/MBA, the four year deal. Ditched the law after a year and finished with the standard MBA at......The University of Kansas. Quite a few EMAW running around the grad programs there, actually.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Rick Daris on May 11, 2009, 02:33:41 PM: Quote from: Pete on May 11, 2009, 02:14:33 PM
Quote from: CrushNasty on May 11, 2009, 01:57:15 PM
Quote from: Pete on May 11, 2009, 10:29:02 AM
4 years flat at EMAW.

Then immediately spent 3 years getting an MBA while going full time....but not at EMAW.

Where'd you get your MBA from?

It started as a JD/MBA, the four year deal. Ditched the law after a year and finished with the standard MBA at......The University of Kansas. Quite a few EMAW running around the grad programs there, actually.

25% of the people in my ku masters program were emaws.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: ew2x4 on May 11, 2009, 07:19:30 PM: Masters in 5 years.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: pwrcat1 on May 11, 2009, 07:40:15 PM: Five years in the land of EMAW, not sure from here.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: BigCat on May 11, 2009, 08:43:53 PM: Quote from: pwrcat1 on May 11, 2009, 07:40:15 PM
Five years in the land of EMAW, not sure from here.

same here, with an ongoing two-year stint in the real world. thinking seriously about going back to fantasy land.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: ew2x4 on May 12, 2009, 02:11:39 PM: College was fun and all, but I worked more and had to pay thousands of dollars a year, as opposed to now where I never do anything after 5:30 and get paid a good chunk of change. I'll pass on going back.