Diploma thread

There's a masters program for that?
pic related. redacted for privacy, obviously

I'll have my masters by september technically, but it's really just something I can give to my mom to show off to her friends. I'm in a phd program so another piece of paper doesn't matter unless it means they'll pay me more (it doesn't).

Just checked for the first time - the university wound up paying me over $14k to get this piece of paper. Doesn't quite make up for the year of unemployment I had after graduating, but it's something.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but why are you guys here?

Yes, hotel administration is a big deal in Las Vegas, and having a Master's puts you in a position for executive level management in the casino industry.

that actually makes a lot of sense. Cool man, I hope you make a lot of money.

I'm waiting until I finish my PhD to post anything, but I have BS and MS in ECE

Yeah, but so does not having a degree, which is the case for most executives and directors at caesars and MGM.

Nice
Very nice
You had a year of unemployment with magna cum laude in mechanical engineering? Damn dude.
Holy fucking shit. I'm going to UNLV too once I can afford a semester, just got hired as a victim advocate. But holy shit.
You can post to Veeky Forums, as well as enjoy science, without actually having a degree in science.

I'm not familiar with Vegas too much, but I'd argue that most of those high level executives are old Vegas boys that had some sort of foot in the door back in the day. Now you probably want someone with some level of qualification to manage your staff.

Not the case. Casinos promote heavily from within and most directors and VPs have unrelated degrees or no degrees at all, having started as literal maids, barbacks, etc. The unions hold a lot of sway in LV, and although management is not union, it serves casino interests to promote line level employees.

Also, having a degree in hotel administration doesn't really prepare you for managing within a casino, which is why most UNLV hotel grads start out as beverage supervisors, the same place recently promoted line level employees start their managing career.

Source: my brother is a VP at caesars and I worked in the casinos while I did my mechE undergrad at UNLV.

5/10
Same
3/10
How's that ITT tech degree treating you?
8/10
9/10 for mcl
5/10 since an MBA is useful
0/10 kys

It's really depressing to think people go to school for this like that. It's not an academic subject

Neither is business. Some of the richest people out there never graduated high school, let alone college. But most business degrees are still effective at giving you an edge in the industry. I think it's like a paralegal or AAS degree. Where it's mostly something you go to school for to either advance a career you already started, or to do a job you already have better. Many employers will also encourage you to work on your degree, with offers to pay for school and pay you more. Probably to keep you in the field or have someone highly qualified working for them.

>paying $60000 for a bachelors
>at a STATE school and still no full scholarship
>in ECONOMICS
holy shit what in the hell did you do in high school to not get a full ride/near full ride?
t. high school slacker that got full tuition scholarship + some extra for BSEE at best state school in my state (shit midwest state) and now have full tuition + living for top 5 MSEE in US

I'm not trying to totally discredit the program, because it does what it claims to do - it gets you a job as a manager in the casino industry in Las Vegas, but the idea that having a masters in it is a ticket to a VP (or higher) position is laughable, and really, shows a pretty high degree of ignorance in the area.

I don't know why anyone would want to manage in Las Vegas, anyway. The directors (a realistic goal for most dedicated career managers) cap out at around 100k, and have to put in awful hours to get it. I know so many kids who did hotel admin at UNLV and now work 12 hours a day as allow level management for 45k/year and they hate it:

Yes but maybe affirmative action didn't apply to him.

Cal is not the only uni on the semester system in California

I am a white male from parents with college degrees (not same uni as my state school for legacy). Still went in some debt for bachelor's but only like $5k for room and board freshman year.

>pic related. redacted for privacy, obviously
fake unless time stamped.

I live in a different city, as I am now a phd student. The degree is back home. I get this is Veeky Forums and you have to be judgmental to fit in, but seriously? An undergraduate degree is not something worth faking.

>An undergraduate degree is not something worth faking.
Tell that to the chinks that cheated on every damn test. Damn chinks

My $60k bachelors in CS got my a $115k job right out of school, so yeah I'd say it was worth it.

Lol, bruh, no one is going to fake a degree from a cal state

posting this

Same with my undergraduate degree. I've never seen it and I don't think it has even been taken out of the envelope.

Also, what the fuck is up with this image captcha?

Which CSU your from? I live in CA as well and I want to know which has the best physics programs since UCB and UCLA are very far out of reach.

What CSU has the best engineering, chemistry and physics programs?

Apply to all of them, which ever you get accepted to. Otherwise, a genius like you should be able to use USNews for rankings.

Don't pay too much attention to the rankings of programs, your top concerns are student quality of life, cost, distance, and available financial aid programs for your demographic. Also look and annual endowments to the program as well, as that's more important than where it ranks for most students.

>$60,000k degree
I spent $60,000 for my first year at Harvard and I flunked out and I have nothing to show for it

>flunked out
How do you get accepted to Harvard than somehow flunk out?

By doing drugs

Can always get your CDL. Truckers make good money.

>graduated last month
>walked across stage and everything
>still don't have my diploma
>university decided to send diplomas in the mail 6-8 weeks after commencement

Did literally anyone else's school do this?

>Did literally anyone else's school do this?
Literally all of them. I didn't get mine until two months after I graduated.

Huh weird. This was the first year they've done it and it wasn't even the entire university, just the college of arts of sciences. Didn't realize this was common practice.

It's more common with large graduating classes and undergrad diplomas.

Why would you not keep and frame a reminder of all of your hard work? At least you could show it to your kids down the road, I remember a study that showed a correlation between parents that displayed their achievements and their children's long term success.

At least frame it so your kids subconsciously compete with you.

>no math diplomas
>1 physics diploma
>bunch of pleb schools

Wow I guess Veeky Forums really is a bunch of plebs

>cap out at 100k/yr
That's good money in Vegas, Vegas has low cost of living. That's more than what most hosts make.

>bunch of pleb schools
>t. Highschooler

let's see your degree fag

1 year of unemployment with Magna cum laude in mechanical engineering !?
So your classmates with lower GPA had more trouble.

That's Why STEM degrees are Memes.
People say "Employment Guarantee after Graduating".
But even if your GPA is high, the market is saturated. There is lack of Jobs.

Programming is booming for a while. However Pajeet Outsourcing can kill the CS Jobs soon. The Hardware is already done by Chinks. Now Software would go to Pajeets.

If there is another Economic Crash in Tech Industry like the DotCom Bubble we are fucked.

Meanwhile Sillicon Valley Companies like Google spread the Meme on Media that
>We are importing Pajeets because there are ""not enough"" CS graduates in USA.
While the truth is that Google just want the Pajeets because they are cheaper.

Now Tech & Engineering companies are also replacing Technician & even Engineering Jobs with Automation.

Economic Crisis Fear is Real.

>tfw addicting rats to cocaine and heroine for neuroscience research

After working in the research environment for a bit, this is definitely not for me. I prefer systematic work that doesn't really change much on the day to day, I'm thinking of taking the GRE and going to PA school or even biting the bullet and seeing how well I can do on the MCAT cuz getting a perfect score on that would be my only chance of getting into med school b/c
>3.2 GPA

I'm not too worried about my future though because I can always make it work but reee I don't know where to go from here.

Can you go the pharmaceutical tech route?

>pharmacy tech

Tbqh any high schooler can get a job doing that stuff. I've been thinking of a variety of paths to take at this point, from going to OCS to becoming a cop to teaching AP/honors Bio at some high school.

Do both MCAT & GRE.
If you get a high score there's still a chance.
>But Med School is more difficult to get into than Grad School.
>Try everything: Grad, Med, Pharma, Vet, Dentist, Physiotherapy, etc.

I'd be surprised to learn that you've made it to high school if you think Harvard offers nuclear engineering degrees lmfao.

That's probably enough information to dox you on Veeky Forums. Hope you're doing better now.

Harvard School of Engineering offers Electrical, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

Applied Math, Computer Science & Engineering, (Graduate) Applied Physics, Environmental Science.

Civil & Industrial which are for Plebs aren't offered.

I don't know why Chemical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering aren't offered. But Chemistry is offered.

I think it's possible to do a Minor taking classes from the Nearby MIT.

>I don't know why Chemical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering aren't offered.
All subsets of Mechanical. Besides, who goes to Harvard for engineering?

Those engineering disciplines aren't offered because engineering is typically a vocational degree. Harvard only offers lip service to STEM because otherwise they would lose out on star prospects to Stanford. Their computer science degrees, for example, are quite good. And with their recent $100+ million donation to the Engineering Department, the other fields may soon become competent as well. But Harvard was never known for engineering because MIT could always suit that niche.

I'd choose forensics way before real police work. Safer, great pay, using your degree, etc. CSAs/CSIs usually aren't sworn officers.

I am a grad student there. I get paid to study. you mad?

I'll bite.

If a cop walked into your lab could he arrest you for possession of cocaine? Saying "no, I was just going to give it to animals" can't possibly make you immune to the crime.

STEM used to be the way to go to make real money, but it's only true if you get a graduate's degree or higher. A shitload of people have undergrads. That's why for undergraduate studies the best degrees are medical field majors like nursing, medical equipment techs, dental hygiene, physical therapy, etc.

Hell, right now where I live degrees that involve social work are really high demand right now, and there's a bunch of county and state hiring booms for social workers, both entry level and with experience. With a master's you can get into management and directorial duties, which are starting out at 70k usd/year and going up to like 90k. It's ridiculous.
Agreed. If you can't post proof of your education, don't bother shitting on others in this thread. You're automatically considered full of shit. Besides, I have my AAS in diagnostic medical sonography hanging in my home office. Even if it's sitting in a $7 Walmart frame, I don't see why you wouldn't want to hang your achievements up at home. It makes the walls look less empty.
My brother did this. Graduated HS with like a 3.7, had a bunch of extracurricular activities under his belt, was what I considered to be really smart, etc. I went to community college because of my shit grades, but I always figured he'd go to UF or FSU. Instead he got his fucking cdl.

Last year he made 90k and he wasn't even working full time. I'm so fucking salty it's ridiculous.

>Instead he got his fucking cdl.
>Last year he made 90k and he wasn't even working full time. I'm so fucking salty it's ridiculous.
Should've done this desu. I mostly went into engineering to make cash and to be left alone. I've got that now, but I'd be farther ahead financially as a driver.

At least truck driving will likely be automated first.

Even if you don't drive forever, having a cdl opens up a great fallback career. My fallback is pest control, making at most 40g annually.

What do you do?

Trying to figure it out still. Not in graduate school or anything at the moment but I'll probably end up with a Masters in something.

Wow, you had to pay that much to get buttraped in the shower? You should have just gone to prison for free.

>Cal State
lmao

Harvard is looking for future leaders, inventors, all that meme. They only offer the engineering degrees conductive to inventing the next big thing, so EE for electronics, BME for medical breakthroughs/devices, MechE for MatSci but more flexibility (notice that they have far more MatSci professors than MechE ones despite the fact that they do not offer a MatSci degree, there is a clear focus on that) and CS for Silicon Valley. There is an option for EnviroE because its the part of Civil they actually care about, as they are a bunch of liberals. No ChemE because its focuses (MatSci & EnviroE) are already covered by MechE/EnviroE and has inferior job prospects, no AeroE because MechE is better, no NukeE because again they are a bunch of liberals and if they want to figure out Nuke Fusion then their physicists or MIT's physicists are going to figure that out rather than NukeEs.

Also their department will be great by default because they have metric assloads of money, the ability to easily get amazing professors, and the ability for students to just take classes at MIT.

>B.Sc. Biochemistry
>M.Sc. Inorganic Chemistry
>Ph.D. Research in electrochemical materials

I don't wanna go home and get my diploma right now

>Giving 8/10 for a degree from a Cal State
wew

BA Philosophy, MA Mathematics, JD here.

He was doing it based off of major and if there is honors or not obviously. Otherwise it would be a crime that he gave Penn State a 5/10 because its far and away the best uni out of those he rated.

>shitting on someone who worked hard to get an education because they didn't go to your special meme school
Funny, it's almost like you're an elitist about schools despite not yet graduating high school.

Mine's in the closet of my old room at my parents' house. Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from (((X))) State University

>implying it's a bigger crime than 9/10 for some no name Kansas state uni
Where's your degree again? Oh wait.
Can't wait for those pictures to upload.

I didn't pay anything for my piece of paper, but it feels good to finally have it.

I have a math bsc, but it just says bsc on it. I was so disappointing. whats the point of doing math if people cant see it on your wall?

pic related is my other degree, which looks like something you give the special kid in grade school.

Why does the H in that old timey font look so weird? If I could think of a single other university that ended in "ouston" I wouldn't even think it was Houston. It looks more like a capital I then a little than an H.

Dear sweet Mendeleev, that looks utterly disgusting.
Burn it now and go to a real university.

>kaopa

I thought the exact same thing. It kind of bugs me.

How can you be so fucking stupid? This is obviously going to be used to make falsifications.

Who the fuck uses an actual physical diploma for verification of anything? They have electronic transcripts, you know.

Of course. These pictures are definitely better and more usable than the millions of diploma scans on google images.

>used to make falsifications
I work for one of the world's biggest aerospace companies, and no one could be arsed to check if I actually had a degree

Degrees are just memes for people who are too cowardly to lie about their credentials

Well I feel a bit better for doing environmental science.

>Degrees are just memes for people who are too cowardly to lie about their credentials
Or for people who want real jobs that verify credentials.

my diploma cost me literally $0. In fact it cost me negative money because I got a full ride from the state through grants.

How to do?

>spend up to 2 hours in transit just to take a stupid class several times a week
I seriously hope nobody does this.

I'm not him, but I just got good grades at a good high school and got National Merit from the PSAT exam and got offered tons of scholarships. Lots of state schools offered a full ride or close to it, the school I ended up going to offered a full ride for National Merit and I also got another full ride academics scholarship from them. Between the two scholarships I ended up getting like $100k in free money, it covered tuition, books, housing, food, fees, and pretty much everything except the parking passes. I'd say it was well worth it even if it meant not going to a big name private school or whatever.

Same senpai desu, whenever I see meet someone with kids in high school, I tell them about this stuff, because it's criminal that so few students know that all this free money is just sitting around

Always kek @ people thinking that only high schoolers ever call out shit tier schools

Because people with degrees understand it almost never matters where you went to school.