The Pursuit of Knowledge

[Szymon]

For those of us finished with high school and who have their degrees, what are you learning now?

I've been out of school for 9 months and I feel like the blade is starting to turn dull. I've been reading book on programming in my spare time at work in order to satisfy the itching sensation that tells me to keep learning. Learning and self improvement should be a life long venture, and not something that finishes when you're finished with school.

Infact, I believe that the real learning starts when you finish school because you then have the opportunity to learn what you want to learn. There's no schedule or hounding teacher or instructor. You learn what you want, however you want, and stop learning it if it doesn't interest you.

I signed up for some courses in PHP programming yesterday.

How about you, what have you been learning lately?

[Fox 6]

Graphic communications technology which includes:


KODAK Prinergy workflows, Konica Minolta MFPs, Fiery rips, heidelburg GTO 52 & QM 46 printing presses, EFI PSI estimating software, ColorSync color profile creation software, and general color science. theres probably more.........

[Bond]

I'm still in school working toward a BBA with Honors in the Liberal Arts. Then off to law school.

Things I've been learning of interest lately... some interesting things about the insurance industry in my Risk Management class.

[Teuthida]

Studying anatomy.

[BlueFire]

I'm in school working towards a degree in philosophy and political science. At the moment, I'm learning about..

1)war and peace in the international system
2) why some nations develop really good social welfare programs and some don't
3) ...Marx. My 5th time reading him since I was a freshman.

[KillerGremlin]

Psychology y Espanol.

[Angrist]

Finished my BSc Forest and Nature Conservation a year ago. I'm now working on my thesis for my MSc Leisure, Tourism and Environment. Should be finished in June.

[Acebot44]

Almost Done with my History Major but I decided to pick up a Minor in Afro-American Studies which will keep me busy for a few more quarters. Then I'm off to Law School to focus on Sports or Entertainment Law.

It's funny, not funny ha ha but funny peculiar, that this thread was made when it was, because I've been thinking lately about all the things I am constantly learning about, and enjoying at the same time, that are totally separate from school. The thing is though, all this ancillary knowledge has definitely helped me more in my present work reality and will prove very beneficial to my career path in the future.

TED.com is my favorite thing in the world, and the fact that this years conference is happening an hours drive away from me is kinda of agitating, but I'm not gonna cry about it. Hearing the worlds most intelligent and creative speakers talk about what they love inspires me to not only learn more about what it is they speak of, but to find out what it is that I love...and that seems to be a combination of technology, media, and egos = sports and entertainment.

So I read tech blogs constantly to get my fix, watch TED.com and subscribe to the HBS Youtube Channel to broaden my knowledge in hopes of increasing my networking abilities, and go on informational interviews to Agencies and Sports Franchises to get their input on what that life is really like. Which reminds me, I've got to get ready for one with CAA today.


ps: I've also been reading up a lot on photography as a result of buying myself a dslr this past holiday season. Wish I had more time to play with it though.

[Dylflon]

Graphic communications technology which includes:


KODAK Prinergy workflows, Konica Minolta MFPs, Fiery rips, heidelburg GTO 52 & QM 46 printing presses, EFI PSI estimating software, ColorSync color profile creation software, and general color science. theres probably more.........

Dude...next time we make a band in Rock Band, we are calling it The Fiery Rips.

[Fox 6]

hahahahaha deal.

[Bond]

Graphic communications technology which includes:


KODAK Prinergy workflows, Konica Minolta MFPs, Fiery rips, heidelburg GTO 52 & QM 46 printing presses, EFI PSI estimating software, ColorSync color profile creation software, and general color science. theres probably more.........
What kind of job does that set you up for?

[Fox 6]

Theres more which sets me up for all jobs in the field basically.

That is just this term.

Also have bindery, accounting, image manipulation and creation, web printing, digital printing, e commerce, and some other stuff cant think of.

Basically a sample of everything, theres also a term long project where my group develops 5 items for a client.

In addition i have work placements to build contacts and get a sense of the real workplace.

[The Germanator]

I stopped going to college when the Spinto Band started touring often. I have 1.5 years left at my old school. I'd like to get that down to one solid year by getting some credits somewhere else and then finishing up the year straight through.

Honestly, if I get it done by the time I'm 30 I'll be pleased. It just kind of depends on the direction of the band.

[Bube]

Wow, you guys have such a great system..

I'm in med school. I really don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing..

[KillerGremlin]

Wow, you guys have such a great system..

I'm in med school. I really don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing..

Damn.

It at least implies that you are a smart, hardworking SOB. Where you at med school at?

[Bube]

Damn.

It at least implies that you are a smart, hardworking SOB. Where you at med school at?
Well, I'm not really that much of a hard worker. We have a university entrance exam after we graduate from high school, and after you see how scored on it, you make a list of the schools you would want to go to and submit it. Then you're placed in one of them depending on your rank. So it's just a years worth of crazy studying. I wasn't that good a student in my previous years.

Of course, med school itself is 6 years of crazy studying, so..

Anyway, I live in Turkey, as you may know. Nobody here would probably know about my school..

[ZebraRampage]

I graduate in December of 2009, and I'll get my BS in Civil Engineering. I'll be glad when I'm out. I'm taking something called the FE Exam at the end of April. It is the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, and it classifies me as an Engineer in Training (EIT). After four or five years of experience after gaining my EIT, I will have to take the PE exam, which is the Principles and Practice Engineering Exam. When I finish that one I'll have my PE, which will allow me to stamp drawings under my name. With that status, I'll be the one they sue if my bridge collapses.

[KillerGremlin]

Switching majors has been somewhat of a setback, but I'm really enjoying my new focus of study. Once I graduate I'm going to try to get a steady job and then dive into grad school. Possibly for teaching first, and then go back to grad school sometime later in life for Psychology (once i have more real world experience).

[BreakABone]

I don't know if this count, but had to go to a training for my job on Family Driven Care, which looks to better incorpate the family in the community residence/placement environment.

And I thought it was a great theory, and would love to see some of it implemented into my work place, but we just don't have the man power.

It also got me thinking about taking another course in life and focusing on behaviroal psych because let's face facts. I can be pretty damn good at getting people to do as I like. Why not use it to help people overcome things.

[Angrist]

I can be pretty damn good at getting people to do as I like. Like coming back to GT and helping you in mafia games?
Your mindtricks don't work on me.