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volvotom
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Any other grad students here?
What are you studying? Where? Plans for career?

Apr 2 2012 10:01PM
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shocker611
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threads, wanna hear some opinions
Apr 2 2012 10:20PM
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rockyhockey11187
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just completed a master of public health; studied at St. George's university in Grenada; looking at jobs right now
Apr 2 2012 10:24PM
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eheath
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I plan on getting a graduate degree in film, probably not for a couple years and im not quite sure where yet, i want to build my resume so that i can go to a real good school like USC, UCLA , NYU or Columbia chicago.
Apr 2 2012 10:25PM
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MrWadsworth
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Was. Out now. Got my master's in Electrical Engineering. Work for a small engineering consulting firm travelling all over the US to nuclear power plants.
Apr 2 2012 10:26PM
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Spinoza
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when i was in first year i planned on eventually getting my masters in philosophy,   but now that im almost done i just want to get the hell out of school.
i may still go to law school,    but havent decided yet
Apr 2 2012 10:26PM
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*rkp*
Posts: 8198 - Karma: 257
Half way through my Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University. (Grad spring 2013)

Currently interning at Hughes Condon Marler Architects in Vancouver/Victoria.

I'll be relocating back west once my degree is finished. Probably setting up in Vancouver or Seattle.

Apr 2 2012 10:45PM
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t-roy
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graduated last year. undergrad was applied biology. grad school was optometry in Michigan. currently in residency in Boston. looking for jobs right now...might work at walmart and take in $120k/year
Apr 2 2012 10:46PM
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TechnoPotamus
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working towards a master's in accounting over here. undergrad was in finance so i'm completing the undergrad level accounting stuff currently, starting grad school as soon as it's done this time next year.

goal is to intern with one of the big 4 auditing firms and then land a job with one/take the CPA exam as soon as i'm ready after graduating
Apr 2 2012 10:57PM
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TechnoPotamus
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my bad, undergrad at CU, grad school at Rider University - private school in NJ
Apr 2 2012 11:01PM
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iFlip
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Finishing up a Masters currently, and excited to have a solid plan for the future. I will work for a few years and then return for a PhD.
Apr 2 2012 11:01PM
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Funkadelic
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I begin getting my M.S. in biology at Villanova in the fall. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do when I finish. I'll either get my phd or try to get a job in environmental consulting. I'm doing my research on invasive plants.
Apr 2 2012 11:06PM
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corona
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I like hearing this. What are you studying in?

also I'm sure there are others on NS who have completed a PhD. Come out of the woodwork! What's your field of study and what do you do now with your PhD?
Apr 2 2012 11:07PM
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pointandshoot
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Unless you're getting a 168+ on the LSAT and can get in to top 10 school DON'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL... most saturated job market currently. I know lots of kids with 3 years wasted, 150K in debt and no job... do not go there
Apr 2 2012 11:18PM
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DrZoidberg
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Any chemists on here by any chance?
Apr 2 2012 11:21PM
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An10a_Eng
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currently working on an MS in electrical engineering focused on microwave and antenna engineering. should be done with it next may, looking to get a job after. i considered a Ph.D. but i'm just too burned out. the Ph.D. is way more useful for research and teaching than for industry and i'm about ready to get out of academia.
Apr 2 2012 11:32PM
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corona
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I blame this on our current mentality of society teaching that going to university makes you better than others and trades are a tier below and for dumb people. This is completely false and has lead to incredibly saturated job markets for many careers that require a higher education (like what you said) while jobs that are just as respectable in any sane society (like the trades) are having a massive brain drain causing quality of work to plummet as now it IS for the large part the lower end of the intelligence scale. It's a very sad situation.
Apr 2 2012 11:36PM
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grown-ninja
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I graduated in 11 with a degree in finance and sociology, im an analyist at a financial firm in nyc, im debating between a mba right now and a masters of science in finance, i cant imagine doing more school though...well see where my life takes me over the next few months i guess
Apr 2 2012 11:45PM
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pointandshoot
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I agree and I think part of the issue are kids who are scared of the job market and don't really know what else to do besides stay in school. This job market sucks, so who can blame them. And schools make a killing of Grad tuition too, so there's part of the issue.

On the flip side lots of my friends are now lifties, ski instructors, and epic mix photographers for vail resorts. Which is great b/c I always have place to crash on weekends... but I don't think there will ever be a drain of over educated kids willing to scan lift tickets
Apr 2 2012 11:49PM
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Spinoza
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thats my #1 plan right now lol.    get my level 2 instructors then head to banff the day after i graduate
Apr 2 2012 11:51PM
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ldc_
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finishing MES (masters in environment and sustainability) this month. working for a municipal government to help them implement their environmental management plan, and hoping that it will help me get a similar job in the public sector out in BC. if it doesn't, i'll still be heading out there when my contract ends, but falling back to my former career of serving tables...
Apr 3 2012 12:02AM
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DrZoidberg
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Kinda agree too. I was driving somewhere with my dad, a lawyer of many years, and we passed a law office. He saw the guy's name and said it and laughed. I asked if he was a good lawyer, and he said the kid was dumb in school and is still dumb now. And he says there are plenty of lawyers that are technically book smart but suck at actually being lawyers, and they'll make fools of themselves in court frequently.
Apr 3 2012 12:06AM
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saskskierftw
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haha, a little bit of contradiction?..
Apr 3 2012 12:13AM
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-Alpha2-
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in my opinion, being a lawyer is one of the most creative jobs out there. If you want to be a good lawyer, you gotta be able to think outside of the box and come up with shit that no one else has thought of. It could be an easy job, or a hard one, it depends on how much you want to work. that being said, i disagree with the person who said law school is a waste of money. (actually im not sure if we are in the same situation because i live in canada and i hear very different things about universities here and in the states) but to me, law school is what will seperate you from the thousands of kids who get bachelors in things like sociology, anthropology, criminology, psychology, philosophy. Anything in the social sciences is the exact same (until 4th year) its all bullshit. being a criminology student, i know that nothing sets me apart from the 2000 other people in my program. yes alot of people are in law school, but that opens up soo many doors. the field of law is huge. and a law degree could get you at least an interview in most government jobs.

didnt mean to write that much.
sparknotes: Gotta be creative to be a good lawyer, gotta think outside the box. law school isnt a waste of time
Apr 3 2012 12:17AM
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-Alpha2-
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in my opinion, being a lawyer is one of the most creative jobs out there. If you want to be a good lawyer, you gotta be able to think outside of the box and come up with shit that no one else has thought of. It could be an easy job, or a hard one, it depends on how much you want to work. that being said, i disagree with the person who said law school is a waste of money. (actually im not sure if we are in the same situation because i live in canada and i hear very different things about universities here and in the states) but to me, law school is what will seperate you from the thousands of kids who get bachelors in things like sociology, anthropology, criminology, psychology, philosophy. Anything in the social sciences is the exact same (until 4th year) its all bullshit. being a criminology student, i know that nothing sets me apart from the 2000 other people in my program. yes alot of people are in law school, but that opens up soo many doors. the field of law is huge. and a law degree could get you at least an interview in most government jobs.

didnt mean to write that much.
sparknotes: Gotta be creative to be a good lawyer, gotta think outside the box. law school isnt a waste of time
Apr 3 2012 12:17AM
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DrZoidberg
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Yeah you still gotta do law school stuff to learn about, well, the law. I was't saying you shouldn't go, just that some people can go through schooling and not take anything good from it. Or they just stick to what they learned and don't create anything new.

It's like something I learned in chem a while ago. If you want to add a methyl group to benzene, you could blast it with MeOH and heat until something happens, or you could do other methods that work much better. In theory the MeOH way will work, but in real life you'd never ever do that. And some people were smart enough to say I can make this process work faster and better with a bit of bromine.
Apr 3 2012 12:27AM
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volvotom
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 I am really glad this thread blew up! Keep the experiences coming!

Apr 3 2012 12:52AM
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Ye_ol_wild_Koala
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I'm a third year dental student, PM me if you have any questions about this sweet career!
Apr 3 2012 1:47AM
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thecounty
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I am about to finish my first year of my MBA at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. It is a super intense program down here, but I am very hopeful that the reward will be worth all the hard work I have/will put in. I want to be a wealth management consultant for one of the top financial firms when I graduate, but we will see where the job market is when that time comes. PM me if anyone has any questions. I would be glad to help anyone trying to embark on this journey.
Apr 3 2012 2:08AM
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proZach
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Starting a masters in health science to be a pa at quinnipiac in two months
Apr 3 2012 3:05AM
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Austeeze
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Graduated 2 years ago in sports administration/event management, got a job straight away in an admin/event assistant position, left there to go do a work a snow season, now
Apr 3 2012 4:50AM
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Austeeze
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Graduated 2 years ago in sports administration/event management, got a job straight away in an admin/event assistant position, left there to go do a work a snow season, now returned to the original organization in a much better position as an operations manager.
Apr 3 2012 4:52AM
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Yossarian
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MSc in Defence, Development and Diplomacy at the University of Durham. No real career plans of yet, still toying with the idea of rocking out a few more seasons before being tied down to the inevitable political/Foreign Office job that awaits me.
Apr 3 2012 4:55AM
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rossi900
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undergrad biomedical studies, medical scholars in medical technology for immunology (current) and then physicians assistant program. 

Anyone else in healthcare?!
Apr 3 2012 9:26AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Got my Masters in Accounting a few years ago. Now I sit in an office for 8-10 hours a day trying not to kill myself.

Haha, it's really not that bad - best job I've ever had and the money is great. I'd love to do something more exciting, but for the most part those kind of jobs don't pay enough, so I just go nuts outside of work to keep my sanity.
Apr 3 2012 9:56AM
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Blurst
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Thats sounds like my worst nightmare. Did you always plan on going into accounting?
Apr 3 2012 10:04AM
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kvan
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Thats sick man what did you get your undergrad in? Looking into getting into architecture but theres not much of a demand for them these days..
Apr 3 2012 10:11AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Pretty much, yeah. I've always been really good at it, and it's always come really easy for me, so I kind of just went with it. I always knew I could make a great career out of it, financially. I took my first accounting class my sophomore year of h.s. and got like a 103% in the class without even trying while all of the older kids struggled, so it kind of just snowballed from there.

i don't know that I'll do it forever, but it's not a bad career to tack some zeros on my bank account until I find something that I'd really love to do and could make a good living doing it.
Apr 3 2012 10:32AM
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*rkp*
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I got my undergrad in Environmental Design, which is essentially just a different name for "bachelor of architecture"


And current 'job demand' is fairly based on regional/national economies and hot spots. I'm working in Victoria BC, and sharing work with Vancouver. It's booming right now. If you're in some recessed parts of the states, there indeed isn't really any need for new design/construction. Like most careers, it is economically driven. (have you seen what is happening in China now/over the past 10 years?)

There is always going to be a need for architects, regardless of short-term economic ups and downs.
Do it because you love it. Life is better that way.
Apr 3 2012 10:49AM
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kvan
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Can you still get into a grad program if you have a bachelors in business?
Apr 3 2012 10:53AM
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Spinoza
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lol yeah i know,   thats why i italicized may.         
   if i think thats the best route ill do it,  but i do not want to
Apr 3 2012 10:54AM
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ajax
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Working on my masters in mechanical engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman. It's been pretty good so far, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna be doing afterwards.
Apr 3 2012 11:14AM
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Ski_the_east01
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Over halfway done with my MBA w/ a concentration in finanace from Boston College

It's pretty exhausting working a full time job and then going to class two nights a week (3 hour class) - plus additional time spent on homework/group projects...but the benefits are tremendous when you graduate

If I had any advice it would be enroll sooner rather than later, that way you can waive a lot of core courses from your undergrad program which will save you tons of time and money

Apr 3 2012 11:24AM
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corona
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I would love to believe this. What's your job?
Apr 3 2012 11:40AM
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Ski_the_east01
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shit in one hand and wish in the other..see which fills up first

I love kids that say blah blah i studied here and studied this and that so im guaranteed to make $x amount of money

no youre fucking not. you still have to get a job, just because your friends couins ex-boyfriend's uncle did something similar when he was in school does not mean your a guaranteed any sort of astronomical base pay
Apr 3 2012 11:44AM
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*rkp*
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you can be accepted into a M.Arch program with any undergrad background. academic diveristy is one of the coolest things about arch school. it brings all sorts of different precedence/thinking to the table. its more of a social understanding, rather than a construction tech knowledge (for example), that will benefit you. just make sure that you have a creative knack. being able to draw/model well is key to representing your ideas as well. you learn those skills very quickly in school too if you feel like they are lacking. PM me for anything else if you want!
Apr 3 2012 12:17PM
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kvan
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Good to know because Im halfway through an undergrad in business and am just now realizing that I want to be an architect haha
Apr 3 2012 12:43PM
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Blurst
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Well good for you man sounds like you got it figured out for the time being.
Apr 3 2012 12:59PM
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PagesHouse
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Will be attending U Montana for a masters in wildlife biology
Apr 3 2012 1:01PM
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