The School/Uni Thread

[Zephyrus]

Got a faculty tuition waiver, so I can take any class at UMaine for free. Fuck yeah! Signed up for German 306, a lit class. Mein Deutsch ist sehr rostig geworden.

On the downside, the Latin class I was slotted to teach got cancelled due to low enrollment. I'll be making half as much money as I thought. FUCK.

 

[Episteme]

Considering doing my masters in mechanical engineering part time while I work full time. Fees are expensive as all hell though.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

A P.Eng is worth sbout 10 times more than a masters.

 

[The Ozzman]

Got a faculty tuition waiver, so I can take any class at UMaine for free. Fuck yeah! Signed up for German 306, a lit class. Mein Deutsch ist sehr rostig geworden.

On the downside, the Latin class I was slotted to teach got cancelled due to low enrollment. I'll be making half as much money as I thought. FUCK.

Welcome to Burger King. May I take your order?

 

[Der Morgenstern]

At least he'll be able to ask that question in more than one language.

 

[Episteme]

A P.Eng is worth sbout 10 times more than a masters.

That's what they call a Chartered Engineering status over here in Australia and the UK. I plan to get my chartered status, and that only comes with work experience which I will have soon. It takes more than just a couple of years to obtain it anyway.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Hey, question for Ozzman/SkeletonWitch: are there any common financial certifications that don't take a shitload of time/money to get? I'm vaguely interested in doing some sort of private financial services practice, but i don't know if that's a realistic goal for someone without an educational background in economics/finance, and i haven't dug up much useful research on it so far.

 

[Zephyrus]

Welcome to Burger King. May I take your order?

I'm still teaching Greek, and that's a 4-credit course. I'm financially secure for the semester but just can't afford a vacation to Greece now.

And I don't know Spanish so I'm not qualified to work at Burger King.

 

[Episteme]

 

[unknown]

still don't know if I'll be teaching this semester

 

[Einherjar86]

First class of the semester went well. Eight in the morning is going to suck though on Mondays and Wednesdays. I wake up at six in order to beat the rush hour madness that is I-275.

 

[sevag00]

It looks like everyone starts the semester today. Mine starts at February 24th.

 

[The Emptier]

Wow, I started today as well

 

[Srontgorrth]

I start next week, and then I'm taking a some community college classes which start the week after that. Two on line, two in person, hopefully going to be a nice and easy semester.

 

[The Ozzman]

Hey, question for Ozzman/SkeletonWitch: are there any common financial certifications that don't take a shitload of time/money to get? I'm vaguely interested in doing some sort of private financial services practice, but i don't know if that's a realistic goal for someone without an educational background in economics/finance, and i haven't dug up much useful research on it so far.

You need a sponsor for most certifications. The only one where you can really do self study is what I'm doing (actuarial) but you have to take like six exams and a bunch of seminars before you can get the lower level actuarial designation.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Actuariness sounds neat. How much time + money are you spending on it?

 

[The Ozzman]

Actuariness sounds neat. How much time + money are you spending on it?

Manuals are 150-200 dollars a piece (although there's a free one online) and the test is 200 bucks. Any additional materials vary in cost.

You'll also need certain calculators for them. You can have as many as you want during the test.

I've spent about a year studying, but I'm not on a definitive time frame. Most entry level analysts are on a 6-8 week time frame once they get the materials for the exams

More info: www.beanactuary.org

 

[zabu of nΩd]

A device runs until either of two components fails, at which point the device stops running. The joint density function of the lifetimes of the two components, both measured in hours, is

f (x,y)=x+y/8 for 0< x < 2 and 0< y < 2 .

What is the probability that the device fails during its first hour of operation?

1. 0.125
2. 0.141
3. 0.391
4. 0.625
5. 0.875

How the fuck am i supposed to know this? What's a "joint density function"?

Guess you can just do the math and ignore the jargon they use though. I could only solve that one by manually graphing points by hand, i don't know a formula for it.

 

[The Ozzman]

Google, motherfucker, do you speak it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function

If you buy a manual, it will teach you this shit.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Wow my German teacher is so freaking hot. I wish I had that class every day just to stare at her. Easily the hottest teacher I've ever had.

Starting my Deleuze and Aristotle seminars tomorrow. Reading the whole of Aristotle's metaphysics. Should be cool.

Teaching my first class. So far pretty happy with how its going. My biggest fear was that the students would be disengaged or not participate and so far that hasn't been the case at all. They're sharp and involved with the material.