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I got out June 2007. I used up the majority, but not all of my time before graduating in 2014. Is my GI Bill eligibility expired?
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Legislation recently passed to make Post-9/11 good for forever rather than for just 15 years. If you have at least 10% service connected disability you should apply for vocational rehabilitation and employment, also known as chapter 31. I took chapter 31 all the way to my bachelor's; I'm a few years away from hitting a soft ceiling at my job without a Master's. I've gotten conflicting answers on whether Chapter 31 will pay for post-grad (I'm kinda assuming it's negative). I will miss those twice-yearly 100 dollar office supply shopping trips 
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Jun 29, 2018 01:57
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Cool beans. Thanks for the help, y'all.
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Jun 29, 2018 03:12
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edit- already answered my own drat question
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Jul 30, 2018 05:49
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boop the snoot posted:The only people I really make fun of about how they dress are people who go out trying to look like they’re in the navy Seals or something. With a motto shirt, one of those hats with the Velcro American flag on it (bonus points if it’s an IR flag), combat boots, and an assault pack. My second semester I bought a 5.11 bag with MOLLE all over it, I clenched my teeth doing it but I needed a bag that could hold six textbooks and assorted poo poo and nobody else made one. It was exactly as much of a motard magnet as you think, but goddamnit is it a good backpack.
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Sep 17, 2018 04:27
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I met one guy in community college that checked virtually every box. Field jacket with the stupid-big 1st Cav patch. He had half the class cringing during his turn at "tell us about yourself" the first day. He never came back to that class again, and I've never seen him again in my life.
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Oct 16, 2018 01:29
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:iirc you only need one physical class to get 100% of the BAH? Could be worth looking into. I thought it had to be half your course load (or at least half a full-time load in 6 hours, can't remember which). Although it quite possibly could have changed. I talked with some of the people that did the Executive MBA program I'm in. I was bitching about hotel costs (really pointlessly, because they guy I was talking to didn't get BAH to cover it like I do) and he told me he spent the first few weekends in the bar scene in T-town until he landed a side piece, and then he just stayed with her anytime he came to town. Kinda clever.
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Nov 8, 2018 02:36
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Holy gently caress there is a huge jump in difficulty to post-grad. Being out of school five years doesn't help at all either.
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Nov 23, 2018 05:59
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So technically my first semester is Spring 2019, but we have an immersion week here (plus a three-day orientation a while back) I'm having to stay in a hotel for. Apparently BAH/book stipend isn't going to kick in until after drop/add for Spring semester in mid-January. And they're giving me mixed signals on if they're going to pay for this month. "Things to ask BEFORE you whip out the credit card". One good part is that all but one of the professors use incredibly cheap textbooks.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:44
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mods changed my name posted:did you burn through your piles of mod money already??? lol I have a couple of paychecks invested in tile that's slowly being laid in my house. Every time I end up with one out of alignment enough to piss me off, I think of grover.
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Nov 28, 2018 06:15
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Vasudus posted:We weren't allowed to have more than two finals in a day. If you somehow miracled three, you could go to the professor with the one you wanted to move and they would have to move it. We had a professor have a meltdown over it once because they had a vacation booked the next day and didn't anticipate it. Sure as hell hope that wasn't an essay final.
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Nov 29, 2018 03:58
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Vasudus posted:School administrations are perhaps the single most incompetent group of people in the world when it comes to running a business, customer service, and overall efficiency of communications. It's impressive really. The team they have running the EMBA program at Bama have got their poo poo watertight. I'm continually amazed at how detail-oriented they are, and they come back with answers immediately. (In the case of the thing I was just complaining about, it was a polite "read the email you got in August". Whoops.) It probably helps that they're a small unit (4 people) whose main job is keeping the program humming. It probably doesn't hurt that the campus is swimming in money, and is not afraid to spend it. Tuscaloosa is the frigging Death Star of more than just football. In undergrad, I used to shop around for actual advising. Usually there's someone in your department who knows their poo poo and is willing to help. It's never the person they assign you.
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Dec 1, 2018 20:56
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God, I would love to. SAE racing looks loving awesome. But I live four hours away, I'm only up there every other weekend, and my best contribution would be "ok so who had the latte" edit- drat. Reading their website and it looks amazing. They actually even have a business case (cost/benefit) analysis as part of their judging. Wish I could do it. GD_American fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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Dec 4, 2018 07:00
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Is the massive law grad glut from a few years ago still as bad? And how many people get their JD to just get straight to lawyerin'? I knew one guy who went FBI with his, and his brother went fed LEO as well (Labor, and I think now he's OIG at Interior) with his. I know where they went wouldn't be a top school.
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Dec 9, 2018 07:40
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Week one, MBA immersion- "oh man, these dudes are high achievers, maybe I'll break the group project/"gently caress it I'll just do it myself" paradigm, I just hope I can keep up" Week two- "yeah (team member), you work in advertising, if this is in your wheelhouse why don't you take the Powerpoint/team charter project while we take these." Week four- hey week one me, about that-
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Dec 12, 2018 05:09
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MrDesaude posted:Semester is done. 2 A's and a B. if a roommate dying is an automatic A shouldn't that be at least worth a B-?
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Dec 13, 2018 05:15
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It means you've been an undergrad for more than five minutes. I was in the habit of pegging the boat anchors in class within the first session and (if possible) getting away from them.
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Dec 14, 2018 03:06
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Literally could not be happier with being a big dummy with a business degree after reading that
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Dec 16, 2018 02:31
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Vasudus posted:Don't worry, they'll be in touch. I laughed. Yeah, you'll get a very polite packet in the mail. I'm trying to do the opposite and defer payment while I'm in grad school, and apparently they won't even start the process until after drop/add in late January.
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Dec 18, 2018 01:03
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Jesus, I had no idea this was a thing. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service Co-worker of mine that's also a vet told me about this. He's on an income-based repayment plan for his student loans, so he pays 11 bucks a month. (He has kids and his wife doesn't work.) If he makes this payment 10 years straight while working as a federal employee, they wipe his balance. I'd never get the 11 dollar deal (no kids, my wife makes about what I make) but the idea of wiping the balance at the end of a decade sure is nice.
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Dec 20, 2018 03:48
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Why on earth do you have student loan debt as a GWOT veteran?..did you use up all your GI bill and Voc Rehab eligibility’s? I went back to school full-time when I got sick of the layoff cycle at the chemical plant. GI Bill paid my mortgage, wife's job paid most of the bills, we dialled back our lifestyle and used student loans to cover the remainder of it. Some folks could do the full school load and 40+ hrs at work a week; I knew I was not mentally equipped to. Of course, now I'm doing exactly that with grad school. But this job has wayyyyyyyy more flexibility than any other job I ever worked. Time off basically on demand.
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Dec 20, 2018 08:53
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Right on, good to see you were able to use the GI bill, I was concerned that perhaps you were somehow not aware of the benefit or something. Are you a chemist or a chemical engineer? Those are the only two jobs I know of at chemical plants lol nope. There's a whole bunch of rednecks that shovel poo poo and push buttons, and there's other rednecks that fix the machines. I was the latter. (I was a millwright, but people understand the first way to put it a lot better.) Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I think I have enough bennies for grad school and that makes me pretty happy If you exhaust your post-9/11, you get the 1200 as a refund. How much time do you have left? I'm in an 18 month MBA program, and had 10+ months left on my certificate.
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Dec 20, 2018 09:13
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I've heard so many stories about professors proud of their sadism and ridiculous fail rates. I'm glad I never ran into one of those pricks.
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Dec 28, 2018 06:28
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Soulex posted:Oh hey every introduction to Army schools. Every military instruction I ever had passed 100% or as close to as to be the same.
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Dec 28, 2018 13:29
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Vasudus posted:Barring some sort of obscure use cases that I can't think of, the VA should be fully funded until September along with a handful of other agencies. Their appropriations bills are specifically off-cycle for this exact situation. Even the GOP isn't dumb enough to turn off the spigot on VA and Social Security checks.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:41
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BigDave posted:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE nope nope nope nope. Their end pipe dream is some weird Randian paradise where the VA and SSA is padlocked shut forever. None of the GOP Congressmen have the guts to actually issue a killing stroke- even Paul Ryan, who had a murderboner for Social Security (despite it, you know, paying for his college), tried "reform". They'd never turn the checks off because then the retired E-6 with EGAs all over his Dodge Durango who says government can never do anything right would go apeshit the first time his gubmint check wasn't deposited. It'd force their base to confront their cognitive dissonance when it comes to their hatred of government versus their reliance on it. You notice VA and SSA are fully funded right now? That's not by accident.
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Jan 6, 2019 04:20
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This seems like a neat program, although maybe this email should have gone out earlier.quote:Dear Student,
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Jan 8, 2019 00:29
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Having a six week break between the 2nd and 3rd class periods is....something. I guess I understand it's the nature of an EMBA program, but jesus. We're all struggling today.
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Jan 10, 2019 20:52
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lightpole posted:You want some sort of entrepreneurship class. You should be able to understand a business model canvas and then look for an accounting, finance and possibly an economics class if you can fit it. Not all of that will be covered so you will be doing your own research into a lot of it but entrepreneurship and accounting would be critical, an understanding of finance a little less so. Oh, you might be able to find a marketing class as well that would help. This is excellent advice, just do a little research on the program first. I took a few classes from the guy that did the Accounting classes for the entrepeneurship program at USA, and he had some horror stories of other programs that were basically giving Degrees in Positive Thinking.
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Jan 11, 2019 04:16
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Vasudus posted:My 300/400 + graduate program had a "lol if you miss these classes you're gonna fail, dumbass, roll the dice if you dare" statement on them. We got a weird blend of this and a sympathetic "we understand life happens so if you need to miss something we can work with you"
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Jan 24, 2019 13:22
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DoktorLoken posted:
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Jan 26, 2019 06:49
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How behind are the VA right now in processing enrollments? Nobody I get on the phone even wants to give me a rough sketch.
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Jan 31, 2019 02:02
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The VA lady at Bama basically spent 15 minutes not listening to my questions and going on about how I should apply to have my percentage upped. Every single person I've dealt with besides her at that school has been frighteningly competent. I'm sure she's handling my packet.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:53
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Vasudus posted:Don't worry, in grad school you'll either spend a thousand bucks for a book or hardly anything yeah our Stats professor uses a textbook from 2005. It cost me three bucks on Amazon. As he put it, "you'd need about ten more years of math class before you got the point where things would change".
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Feb 3, 2019 01:39
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My community college had some good teachers, but the math department was awful, just terrible. Which was really doubly worse, because if there's any spot where you need to be strong with non-traditional students, it's math.
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Feb 18, 2019 01:19
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MrDesaude posted:My C.C. has the same issue. There are 2 good teachers. 1 teaches the stupid kid math (Thank god I got her class), and one teaches Tech Math and nothing else. Thankfully, Stats at our community college was under the business department. I took one class under a very good jack-of-all trades business professor, and the other from (of all things) the President of the Mobile County School Board. He loved stats and that was the one class he continued to teach. Awesome guy. I could not say enough good things about him. Really, all the teachers I had at Bishop State were great, apart from the math department and one idiot who was basically forced into retirement while I was there. Our Business Law class basically became a Glenn Greenwald polemic. (Seriously- most of our assignments were from Greenwald's loving book.)
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Feb 20, 2019 04:09
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The Aardvark posted:Doing all the basic science classes you need at CC is great too. I took ochem2 at CC and the class was 24 people, which is a class that seats 150 at the 4-yr I transferred to. Good luck trying to get help with that. Science classes were my biggest pain in the rear end to schedule at CC because they always cancelled half of them for low enrollment.
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Feb 20, 2019 18:50
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Gray Matter posted:I was a hair away from doing just that today, but that's exactly the type of subtlety that's lost on this guy. You'll never get the message across to him. Your goal now is to look like the reasonable person who's just had enough and has to say something for the good of the class. Like Vasudus said, you're not trying to change the dipshit's behavior, you're trying to change the professor's. Wait for a particularly galling example before setting your foot down. I had to do it once to a stereotypical adult student- know-it-all, dismissive of other students, irrelevant anecdotes, can't pick up on conversational cues that everyone else is moving on. The prof looked like he could kiss me. I was basically bailing him out by playing the bad guy. GD_American fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 05:07
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Yeah I'm double-posting here but gently caress it, this marketing prof straight-up photocopied a 1990 case study on Scope mouthwash in the Canadian market and I'm googling for data and all I find are completed case studies and papers on this same poo poo from students across the globe at Bumfuckistan State U. I'm putting exactly as much effort into this as he did.
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mods changed my name posted:i can't fit in with anyone though because the truth is IM THE OLD WEIRDO Felt like this at times, looked for kindred souls like that chubby girl in the Blind Melon video. Except I never found the pasture full of fuckin bee-costumed weirdos. Someone told me to try the vet lounge, but way too many Oathkeeper stickers on laptops for me. Peaced out
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