Education

[pegkerr]

Gacked from klig. I'd be interested to know what the level of formal education is among my LJ friends. I'm not snobby about education - I'm very well aware that a piece of paper is only part of the story.


[Poll #349908]

Leave details of your areas of study in the comments if you so wish.

Edited to add: I'm sorry I didn't have choices that fit some of the experiences that you have recounted, i.e., still in junior high, still in high school, finished some college but have no plans to complete, etc.

But I just wanted to say that you are all pretty damn impressive. It's been very interesting reading about the wide variety of your education and experience. Thank you, and congratulations to all those of you who have recently completed degrees!

Comments

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly, Lois McMaster Bujold never completed college. A couple of years ago, she decided to take a college course on medieval Spanish history "just for kicks" and her study of the life of Isabella of Spain gave her the plot for The Curse of Chalion. Which as you probably know, did quite well for her, being a finalist for the Hugo and winning the Mythopoeic.

So even just a smidgen of book learning can be grist for a good writer's mill.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. That's why I read everything from physics textbooks to tabloids. You never know where your next plot is going to pop up...