GED: yes or no

[Dante Bunny]

I have set my goal to recieve my GED, so I can move on to college and plan on working at WB animation. For those who have goals to achieve I have set a poll if is GED is good or bad.


Another useless poll.. ;) :D

[gtracer72]

That is very good for you :D. Moving on to a higher education is the best thing you can do.

[Pilmedium]

My only education-related goal at the moment is to try to stop the teachers from giving review work for half of the school year. :yawn:

[dendawg]

Originally posted by gtracer72
That is very good for you :D. Moving on to a higher education is the best thing you can do.

I agree. I just earned my GED this past June, and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I, too, plan to attend a community college this January. (I was going to attend a couple of weeks ago, but the financial aid I got wouldn't pay my tuition. that still burns me up. :mad: ) Best of luck to you, dude! :cool: :D :)

[Barb Gordon]

My GED is very perty...kinda little, wish it was a bit bigger,lol. Anyhoo, I think getting your GED is one of the best and most important things any person should acomplish. The only thing I find more important then a GED would be a BA in college, which is what I'm beginning to go for this year, my freshman year of college. It'd be incredibly neat to go for a Masters too....not sure if I have the time, or my parents the funds, to go for a PHD though.

~Barb

[TimTwoFace]

Uhhhhh...what's a GED? That's what you get to finish high school if you drop out, right? *THINKS* Maybe it's a different thing in the US than it is in Canada. *SCRATCHES HEAD*

Either way, whatever it is, it sounds like a GOOD thing, so yeah, I voted for yes. :)

-Tim

[Patrick Bateman]

Uhhhhh...what's a GED? That's what you get to finish high school if you drop out, right? *THINKS* Maybe it's a different thing in the US than it is in Canada. *SCRATCHES HEAD*

You're right. The GED is what you take after you drop out of high school. But there is another GED that you can take after high school or the other GED. I myself dropped out of high school when I was 17 because I hated the atmosphere I was really getting depressed. I then got my GED (the one that gets you a high school diploma). After that, there is another GED that you can take that will make you acceptable for college. I got that one too. It's much more difficult than the high school equivilancy one. That thing is a piece of cake. You can tell that they really want people to pass it.

[Clayface]

Originally posted by Barb Gordon
It'd be incredibly neat to go for a Masters too....not sure if I have the time, or my parents the funds, to go for a PHD though.



If you make it through the BA, you shouldn't have any problem going on for a Masters and/or PhD. Its funny - you have to pay them for the BA schooling, but generally you can find research funding for the Masters/PhD, so that they're actually paying you for your schooling. I went $14k in debt to pay for my BS, but I was paid full tuition plus a monthly stipend to cover living costs while I was working toward my Masters/PhD. Don't let the money issue scare you away from continuing your education if you're truely interested in going on.

[TimTwoFace]

I concurr about the Bachelor's/Master's/PhD thing. I have a BA myself, and if it were in something I actually REALLY, REALLY enjoyed, I would DEFINATELY go on to get my MA. (My BA is in English Literature - it's more of a stop-gap and a back-up to what I really want to go into - FILM! :D )

Anyway, yeah, if you spend the four/five years to get your BA straight out of college, chances are that you're still just 21 or 22. When you're that old, do you REALLY want to get thrown into a career just yet? I know don't...so that's why I'm going further with my education by getting a degree in something else.

Heck, we've known for a long time that just getting a high school diploma isn't enough any more. Soon you'll need more than a Bachelor's Degree, too.

But a PhD? Hmmmm...I'll get back to you in four to six years. :D

-Tim

[Lu775]

A PhD, then you'd be Dr.TwoFace.
too weird!

*paging Dr.TwoFace*