BCB College Diary

Undergrad: Moraine Valley Community College (AAS)
Grad: University of Chicago Illinois, Psychology, Secondary Education (BA)

(Yes.  That one.  If you have any negative comments or derision about my Alma Mater and its football team, kindly stick them up your you-know-what.  Thanks.)

I also have both my JD and my MBA from The University of Denver.

Texas Woman's University, Ph.D. in Family Therapy, ABD and hoping to graduate in Fall of '07

Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy - Masters expected 2008

Pharmacy School: University of MN, PharmD expected in 2008

Despite being in Gopher country, I will forever be a Hawkeye girl at heart!

saint xavier university, marketing, 2000
&
university of illinois @ urbana-champaign, urban and regional planning, 2005

BA, English Lit, 2000

May eventually look to get further education in writing or film, but for now, happy to be done with school.

(I have likely made it very easy for anyone to figure out who I am, too, in that there were very few male English majors in that graduating class.)

Not positive where I'll be heading to Law School, but Kansas University is the leading candidate.

One interesting note: I'll be studying abroad in Italy this summer.

I will hopefully be attending University of Chicago Illinois...

Lamar Community College (Lamar, Colo.) - Associates of Arts, 2003 [Random School Fact: Lamar CC is the alma mater of current White Sox pitcher Brandon McCarthy]

Centenary College of Louisiana (Shreveport, La.) - Bachelor of Arts, Communication, 2005 [Random School Fact: Centenary is the smallest Division I school in the nation with an undergraduate enrollment of just over 900; also the alma mater of Robert Parrish and Hal Sutton]

Miami (Ohio) University (Oxford, Ohio) - Master's in Speech Communication, exp. graduation in 2008 [Random School Fact: Former Chicago Bull Ron Harper was a two-time MAC Player of the Year at Miami]  

Graduate: TBD (UNC Greensboro is likely: their Educational Research program is currently interesting me)

Now I work in politics.

No degree, although I still consider going back and finishing up with a law degree, but I probably won't.

phat

B.A. Northwestern University - Political Science and Economics, 2001

J.D. University of Virginia School of Law, 2006

mostly i like lawyers, i have a couple friends that are lawyers. i will say i think that malpractice lawyers are a bigger part of the health care problems than insurance companies (but less than technology and the aging population).

University of Illinois with a History major and Political Science Minor. Graduating in Spring 2007.

Al, how did you move from PS to TV stuff? I was thinking of possible jobs after college and media was one idea.

Grad: Not yet, but it will be Law School.

My dad introduced me to Cubs baseball in the mid 60's.  He would shake my bed around 7 saying come on son we are going to a Cub game.

We would ride the old North Shore train and get off right in front of Wrigley (if I remmber correctly).  Eat at Franksville (outstanding foot long hot dogs).  And then go in and sit in the lower grandstands.

Used to go to a lot of Memorial Day Double Headers (yes they actually did play 2 back then).

Come 1972 the USN beckoned (seemed like a good idea at the time).

17 years and a service connected disability later I started at UW Parkside in Kenosha (born and raised there, live here now).  Got a BA in History in 1995.  Wrote a rotating column for the Kenosha News (1998 - 2000).

Had a stroke in 1999 (not some thing I recommend by the way).

Recovered and have been working for the VA in Norh Chicago since 2004.  (could have almost had another stroke on a certain October night in 2003, but we will not go there will we).

All in all not a bad life.  

Wish I could use my educaton some though.

Graduate level will be an MBA from Notre Dame that I'm in the process of...

BS - Computer Science, Quincy University, Quincy, IL 1988

At the time, going on for more schooling was not an option, I was pretty burned out by that time and ready to get to work and make some money. Looking back, I should have made the choice to go on.

I am currently going to grade school for Geography working with Satellite images

Also I am impressed with the number of grad schoolers here either great students or accomplished liars :)

Grad: Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 2006

I'm also a newly admitted member of the Illinois bar, as if this state needed any more lawyers.

working on masters in technical management

BA, Communications, (Broadcast Emphasis) Western Illinois University 1977, minor in business

(Also attended Triton College, River Grove, IL)

I hope to go to law school next year in either Chicago or Dallas. I am working on my law school apps as we speak eeek!

I transferred to the University of Nebraska Lincoln after my junior and only have one semester left here.  When I get done here I will have B.A. in History, Art and Art History, and Religious Studies.

After this it is law school although I am awaiting acceptance letters that probably won't come until February or March

My biggest motivator came from a teacher I had when I was a freshman in high school. At the time I was the most unmotivated, laziest punk of a kid you'd want to meet. (Stil am, but to a more tolerable degree) Until I met my Geography teacher for the first time. It was by his hand, and his alone that I learned I could do much better things if I just sat down and put my mind to it. He challenged me in every way to be better, which at the time I found to be a nuisance, but in retrospect, I owe this man my thanks, times 1,000.

The biggest thing for me is when I was told a few years back when I received my AA what he had done at a parent teacher conference that year.

Mr. Boone at the time had held up two student's works, one was neat and looked like an honor roll student had done it (which was the case) and the other looked like someone did it at the last minute. He looked to the parents of the room and said, "Which do you think I'd rather read? Which student do you think I would much rather have in this class room?"

Of course we all know the answer they gave.

To which he responded, "I would take this student with the chicken scratch 10 times over this honor roll student, never in my 30 years of teaching have I come across a student with so much going for him"

That night my parents introduced themselves, where he stood dumbfounded, and sung my praises.

It's because of Mr. Boone that I will do what I do. He impacted me so much, I feel it just makes sense to give back what I got.

now I'm doing my MArch in Boston

Family problems caused me to pull out of school, return to Chicago, and kept me stupid until 1988 when I attended:

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, BA, History, Art History, magna cum laude, 1990

Graduate work:  UALR, art history, French history

And what do I do?  Write--which I have been doing since I was thirteen.  Glad to see that degree got me somewhere ... NOT!

Majors: Marketing/Finance

Also attended:
Ecole France Langue in Nice, France
Sprachinstitut in Tubingen, Germany

What do I do?  I do IT support for GM Dealerships.  Very related to my degree, huh?

Majored in Journalism, minored in Sociology.

If you want to check it out, turn on ESPN Saturday at 4 p.m. as we are playing in the semifinals for the I-AA Championship. I will be up there freezing my butt off.

Going for Back-To-Back titles, baby!

Me:

Grand Valley State University, 2000, B.A. Advertising/Public Relations

Capella University, 2005, M.S. Education (Specializing in Training and Performance Improvement)

And the only guy from NM?

New Mexico State University:
I have two semesters left on a BS in electrical engineering and a supplemental major in mathematics.

I haven't decided on grad school yet, but in engineering, besides gaining knowledge, it usually only translates into a higher starting salary.

Us engineers are a rare breed I tells ya. You can't spell geek without EE.

Not giving years

Virginia Tech, BA in Physics, minors in Math and Astronomy, class of 2002.