My pursuit of higher education was interrupted due to being dragooned to work in a large government project that consisted of hot and distracting days and very noisy nights. Once my obligation was fulfilled I utilized the GI Bill to finish up my education and took a number of corses over to improve my grades and increase my chances of ga…
My pursuit of higher education was interrupted due to being dragooned to work in a large government project that consisted of hot and distracting days and very noisy nights. Once my obligation was fulfilled I utilized the GI Bill to finish up my education and took a number of corses over to improve my grades and increase my chances of gaining employment. (I found studying much easier the second time around.)
My idea worked as I was hired at the job I wanted before I set one foot off campus and ended up working there for 38 years and retiring.
So thank you FDR. I was born the year after you died and the thing still worked just the way you planned it.
When I graduated high school, I had no plans of higher ed. But I discovered in the Navy that those with college degrees were treated much better than we without (they were officers). I got into school through a program in their education dept that wanted to test/study students with low grades and high test scores (me - 125 from the bottom of a graduating class of 825) in high school. Motivated by experience to get through and having learned self-organization in the Navy, I went through school dean's list at the three I attended.
My pursuit of higher education was interrupted due to being dragooned to work in a large government project that consisted of hot and distracting days and very noisy nights. Once my obligation was fulfilled I utilized the GI Bill to finish up my education and took a number of corses over to improve my grades and increase my chances of gaining employment. (I found studying much easier the second time around.)
My idea worked as I was hired at the job I wanted before I set one foot off campus and ended up working there for 38 years and retiring.
So thank you FDR. I was born the year after you died and the thing still worked just the way you planned it.
When I graduated high school, I had no plans of higher ed. But I discovered in the Navy that those with college degrees were treated much better than we without (they were officers). I got into school through a program in their education dept that wanted to test/study students with low grades and high test scores (me - 125 from the bottom of a graduating class of 825) in high school. Motivated by experience to get through and having learned self-organization in the Navy, I went through school dean's list at the three I attended.