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Nano-rant: Application forms
Aug. 17th, 2004 05:44 pmI suspect this particular nano-rant will be a recurring theme.
Anyway, today's nano-rant is on job application forms, specifically the education section.
High school: North Middlesex Regional High School
Years completed: umm... 1
Graduated: not really...
You see, I only completed freshman year. I did two months of sophomore before dropping out... after just not going for about 4 months. Massachusetts will allow a student to remove themselves from school when they turn 16 as long as they have a letter of permission from their parents. Those 4 months were spent with shrinks (don't get me started on them) biding my time until my 16th birthday.
All that is irrelevant though, I got my GED immediately (or rather I passed the exams for it, 99th percentile across the board) and enrolled in the local community college than fall. So when my high school classmates were walking up for their diplomas I already had my associates in hand and was enrolled in my 4-year college as a junior.
I got my GED certificate a couple weeks before I got my BA.
All of this was over a decade ago and I really don't see how it's relevant to my current job applications, I should be able to just put down that I have a BA and that I did complete 2 years of graduate studies (though I did not do a thesis so do not have an MS).
Of course, having a BA makes me over-qualified for most of the local jobs so I'm screwed either way.
Anyway, today's nano-rant is on job application forms, specifically the education section.
High school: North Middlesex Regional High School
Years completed: umm... 1
Graduated: not really...
You see, I only completed freshman year. I did two months of sophomore before dropping out... after just not going for about 4 months. Massachusetts will allow a student to remove themselves from school when they turn 16 as long as they have a letter of permission from their parents. Those 4 months were spent with shrinks (don't get me started on them) biding my time until my 16th birthday.
All that is irrelevant though, I got my GED immediately (or rather I passed the exams for it, 99th percentile across the board) and enrolled in the local community college than fall. So when my high school classmates were walking up for their diplomas I already had my associates in hand and was enrolled in my 4-year college as a junior.
I got my GED certificate a couple weeks before I got my BA.
All of this was over a decade ago and I really don't see how it's relevant to my current job applications, I should be able to just put down that I have a BA and that I did complete 2 years of graduate studies (though I did not do a thesis so do not have an MS).
Of course, having a BA makes me over-qualified for most of the local jobs so I'm screwed either way.
