Really?! Hmm.. which floor do you park? Don't tell me you're one of those guys with your own reserved parking space... Cuz that might mean you could be my boss' boss' boss! I'm usually all the way up there because I get in late. Mine's very lightly modded. It's a silverstone one with WORK Meister S1 rims in black. There's another guy in my team that owns a silver one that has a nismo v2 front bumper on. I know the other Z that you're talking about. But I've never seen yours!

 

Oh you work with Matt then? I'm actually in the underground garage so that's another reason you don't see me much. And don't worry, I'm just a level 1 :P

 

I don't work directly with Matt but he's in the same team. He was actually my "sponsor" on my first day. It's funny because he never received the info about me coming and was off that day. So I was wondering around the buildings not knowing what to do.

I need to go underground to check out your Z! Is your Z lowered with a lip? If so, do you have problem going through those crazy speed bumps (aka yellow curbs) in the garage?

 

anything in California for a UC Berkeley legal studies grad?

 

Oh how I agree with this. I started my current job as a workstudy student in highschool and I've been promoted 3 times since I've been here. Never went to school for anything I do at my job. My last promotion was last month and I bought my Z . I may go back to school but dont see me doing it anytime soon.

 

As much as I agree with you guys that a college degree doesn't mean the everything, you should at least respect it. It's a lot of money and dedicated to go through the 4 years. It's a proof that shows employers that you're capable of learning. Now that I have a BS degree and making okay money, I still feel uneducated since everyone around me seems to have a master degree or is working on it.

 

I agree that a degree is a useful thing and takes hard work to achieve. But honestly, if I want to learn something I read books, watch the Discovery channel, PBS, NatGeo, History Channel and join forums/chat groups for additional support/ questions as necessary. I rely heavily on learning from others and having access to a huge combined knowledge base of experienced people both in person and via the internet. Of course there are some things that are best learned hands-on in a classroom, and for those things I can take an individualized course.

I just never agreed with the idea of paying a college to take courses that I don't want to take because they say I need it for my degree. College isn’t cheap, so I should be able to take the classes I want to take, not be forced to pay for stuff I don't agree with just to get a piece of paper.

I spent my college years in the Army, learning lots of stuff I wanted and didn't want to learn, and they paid me for it... Now of course, it was not a lot of money, but hey, at least I was not paying them to learn how to lead/ read people, or memorize some textbook. I learned a lot more ‘soft’ skills while in the military then I think I would have ever learned in college.

Ok, off my soapbox again. Just my .02 of course
--B

 

IMHO. Degrees absolutely need to be respected, but I also think it depends on what you plan on doing. In the technology fields, I would think degrees are more important. But in some, say Land Development (which is what I do), a degree can't come close to experience.

Some of the most successful people in the world don't have degrees. So I definitely wouldn't feel "uneducated" if I didn't have one. Book smart can only get you so far in this world.

 

+1 Very well said.
To be successful in this world you need a combination of book smarts, street smarts, good common sense and a little bit of Luck thrown in for good measure

 

I only went to college to get that piece of paper so I could make more money right out of the box and have more respect at my young age. I don't even respect my own Computer Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and I can promise you I could have learned more useful stuff in 6 months of freelance programming than 4 years at Virginia Tech.

But man did I have fun :-)

To all you old geezers (jk :P) that didn't go to college, I recommend you take next fall off and live in the dorms and get crazy haha.

 

+1.. lol.. I totally agree with you. I want to go to gradschool so my salary can have another big jump. Btw, I just ordered JP Vizage Type A sides and rear. I'm about to order Aerosync N-style Front bumper! You'll see my new ride in about a month!

 

If you guys want a good laugh .... here's the reason I went for an Electrical Engineering Degree at Maryland.

Freshman year ...

"hmm let's see Mechanical Engineering or Electrical. Whoa! ME classes at 8 am eff that. EE classes start at 11 am. I guess I'll try EE and see how it goes."

That's right, I chose majors (and potential careers) based on how much extra sleep I could get in the morning. Around my Junior year I had already despised EE and all the microelectronics, electromagnetic wave theory and propagation bullsh!t.

I knew quite a bit about programming (C/C++) so I took a Software Engineering co-op job at end of my Junior year and have never looked back. I will say that having a EE degree looks good on your resume (as long as I don't have to tell them why I chose EE)

 

Engineering is one of the hardest undergrad degrees to get PERIOD. I don't care what anyones says. We deal with so many topics: physics, math, chemistry, and all the other standard courses like english, history, etc etc. Then only we have the engineering classes on top of all that which are by no means a joke. I am a Computer Engineer myself but work as a Software Engineer. I am happy though with what I do and what I studied though...no regrets.

 

RYAN----..u know jeff( ur boss) is a goooood friend of mine!!! lol..jk

 

Oh he knows it! Trust me