Stijn!!

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by HHI944

He's........ Ummmm, interesting...

Sounds like he was a perpetual student. Or else he had no life.

But wait, I have no life and I don't even have a BS yet.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by tweezers74

Sorry, fellas... It's the Tweeze picture hour.

Tried on the dress that I am planning to wear to the reunion... Yay or nay?

Gunna drag this one back to current....

I think the dress is very sexy Tweeze.... Need a young guy to show off at your reunion?


If ya do... Well I might know of one....

[HHI944]

He worked for the 'Army Corps of Engineers' for over 30yrs......including at the height of the cold war..... You do the math

frikkin cable and internet are out here because of the storm and my tablet is only picking up a very slow 3g.....

36 minutes and I'm officially 27....breakfast tomorrow will consist of a 30yr Talisker and a very good cigar

[nynor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I guess any Phd is a lot of work. A philosophy degree is not quite the same as a physics degree. At least in my uneducated view.

think again. philosophy is the study of everything that the hard sciences are based upon. isaac newton, chemist/mathematician, was a natural philosopher at heart, along with all his peers that helped him on his way. when you are using your computer/calculator to figure out the stresses on a strut, a philosopher was there before you to figure out how that crap worked and what it meant.

Originally Posted by Flieger

Where do you find work as a doctor of philosophy? It seems the only place is teaching.

you'd be surprised. philosophy majors score the highest on the LSAT and they are a shoo-in for MD degrees.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yep.

i've been thinking about taking the MCAT and the LSAT, just for grins. i could major in test taking. my ACT scores were off the hook, and i was still seeing pink elephants from the night before. i passed all my board exams, for RRT, on the first go with flying colors. the tests are much harder than they need to be for what i am doing. i have yet to meet anyone that passed them all on the first go, including my boss. i've heard of a few, but not met them.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by HHI944

He worked for the 'Army Corps of Engineers' for over 30yrs......including at the height of the cold war..... You do the math

Wow, respect.

[nynor]

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by nynor

think again. philosophy is the study of everything that the hard sciences are based upon. isaac newton, chemist/mathematician, was a natural philosopher at heart, along with all his peers that helped him on his way. when you are using your computer/calculator to figure out the stresses on a strut, a philosopher was there before you to figure out how that crap worked and what it meant.



you'd be surprised. philosophy majors score the highest on the LSAT and they are a shoo-in for MD degrees.



i've been thinking about taking the MCAT and the LSAT, just for grins. i could major in test taking. my ACT scores were off the hook, and i was still seeing pink elephants from the night before. i passed all my board exams, for RRT, on the first go with flying colors. the tests are much harder than they need to be for what i am doing. i have yet to meet anyone that passed them all on the first go, including my boss. i've heard of a few, but not met them.

But test taking does not pay the bills.

Edit: post #65,000

[HHI944]

I have the most character traits similar to him of anyone else in my generation on that side of the family...... Kinda a running joke that hes actually my father. Im way more mechanically inclined though....


Tweeze, im still stuck at wow, but i still want to see the shoes, gotta make sure they work.
Oh yeah, marry me.....

[Flieger]

Philosophy now seems most relevant in astrophysics and things like string theory and the beginning of the universe where we can't really prove stuff or test so much. It is getting to the edge of the physical world. I don't see how philosophy really relates to mechanics but I suppose at one time it could have been.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Flieger

But test taking does not pay the bills.

it does when those tests lead to letters behind your name. plus, it is fun.

[RKDinOKC]

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[nynor]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Philosophy now seems most relevant in astrophysics and things like string theory and the beginning of the universe where we can't really prove stuff or test so much. It is getting to the edge of the physical world. I don't see how philosophy really relates to mechanics but I suppose at one time it could have been.

read the first sentence you posted. then posit that from the 18th century to now. all of what einstein thought was philosophy, until it was put into practical use.

[HHI944]

I did very well on the SAT with a huge hangover and no calculator....... The LSAT was tedious, but interesting. I did very well on that to.... Can't be a lawyer, i know myself to wekk and it would end poorly....

[HHI944]

Oh yeah, Terrapin Monk's Revenge is excellent, but i still prefer a nice Ruination or Double Bastard

[nynor]

i took the SAT when i was in fourth grade. really. then i repeated that activity almost every grade afterwords. totally annoying.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by nynor

i took the SAT when i was in fourth grade. really. then i repeated that activity almost every grade afterwords. totally annoying.

We took standardized tests but they weren't the real SAT.

[Flieger]

Hmm. I should make post #65,000 better than that.

[nynor]

i scored at a junior in college level in fourth grade. i took two standardized tests that year. in fifth grade, i was put into a gifted program where we started learning physics and trigonometry.

in my parents' infinite wisdom, we moved to utah that year, with probably the worst academic program in the USA, and i proceeded to read novels (and experiment) until i graduated.

[Flieger]

I don't really think standardized tests are that great an indicator of true smarts. Except for the specialized tests like the EIT/PE and similar.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Flieger

I don't really think standardized tests are that great an indicator of true smarts. Except for the specialized tests like the EIT/PE and similar.

of course not.