[Shark50521]

Thank you, my brother keeps trying to convince me that I should just get an MBA and I have the same feelings that you guys do.

 

[appophylite]

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Originally Posted by Shark50521 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Another question to all of you, do you think its better purely for employment reasons,to go specific in what you want to do (like masters in MIS) or go broad with an MBA?

I had a similar option: MBA or Masters In Engineering Management: MSEM. I went with the MSEM because it was more specialized to management of engineers as an engineer(my undergrad was EE and my PhD is to be in Permafrost Engineering), but it won't prevent me from taking on the job market that an MBA would look at when they graduate.

 

[tintin47]

People have told me that getting an MBA would be a good idea as well. I don't buy it. I can't imagine why it would be useful. It seems like pretty much anyone can get one with a minimum amount of work and there is no clear skill set that an employer can derive from seeing "MBA" on a resume.

 

[alysony]

Honestly the only reason I kept going was two fold.
1) People kept offering me money to go to school and do stuff I already knew how to do
2) These same people never told me to stop.

So pretty much if someone who I had academic respect for had told me exactly how useful my degree would be, I would have stopped a lot sooner, I'm just a bit of a cynic though.

 

[eucariote]

B.A. UC Berkeley
Ph.D. UC San Diego
Post-Doctoral fellow, Montreal Neurological Institute

 

[jeremynwolf]

BA Simon's Rock College
PhD Candidate in Political Science (Political Theory) at the University of Massachusetts, studying the development of "the economy" as a historical object.

 

[appophylite]

PHD Comics: How Grad School is just like Kindergarten

Just spotted this coming across Facebook and thought this would be the perfect place for it

 

[BryanP]

BA Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley.

Nice to know there's some Bears here

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Originally Posted by S J /img/forum/go_quote.gif Graduating with BS in Civil Engineering this spring from University of California at Berkeley. I'm continuing on for a Masters (same field/school) in the fall... just got my acceptance 2 days ago ^_^ good times!

Congrats!

 

[wink]

Duggeh posted:-
'm at The University of St. Andrews, studying for a PhD in Social Anthropology. My supervisor is Prof Nigel Rapport. My research area is the doctor/patient relationship in general practice..

Duggeh, would you really own up to that.?

I'm a Ph.D (Failed).
I failed to get to uni, so I failed to get a chance to do Ph.D.
But I never fail to enjoy life without one.

I think set theory is a set-up.
I believe guage theory is in the wrong guage
I'm still not too sure about Heisenberg's Uncertianty Principle.
The second law of thermodynamics leaves me cold.
Newton's three laws of gravity make for light reading.
As does E=MC sqrd..
Relativity is relatively simple.
QED is the status quo.
Chromo Electrodynamics is a colourful subject.
Neutrinos are newer than old trinos.
What colour is a black hole..?
The big bang went off unheard. How can nothing explode...???
Brown dwarves live in central Africa.
White dwarves live almost everywhere else.
A neutron star is less well known than a rock star.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.