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Well after working full time during the day and taking 12-15 hours of engineering classes at night, for spring, fall, and summer semesters... I finally graduated magna cum laude this past Saturday. F'ing 0.03 off a 3.9..... well anyway wanted to share since there is so much good news going around lately. I finally was able to get shithouse drunk for the first time in a long time. I mean sailor on shore-leave drunk.

No more 4 hour nights, no more waking up in the middle of the night to finish a problem I solved while I was sleeping, ..........just a honey-do list a mile and a half long from all the things I avoided or had no time to do.

Take the good with the bad.
 
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Congrats man. Not only did you graduate, but you graduated in one of the few fields that is useful these days in securing employment. Not to mention with a dang good GPA to boot.
 
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Now that's crack slacky! Awesome job and congratulations!
 
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I had 19 job offers waiting on me when I walked. The Citadel Engineering School has a job placement within 1 year of graduation in the 80% range.

Luckily I have been and am still employed in a job that pays well and is with a good company. We will see how it plays out. Gotta pass the EIT test and apprentice for four years so got some more work to do but now i get to enjoy my family life and some bourbon.
 
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That's great to hear man! I'm finally finishing my education next Thursday. 7 years of learning (4 undergrad and 3 grad) and it all comes down to the test in July. I can't wait to actually be getting paid for what I've been doing on all my clinicals haha.

Good luck on your exams!
 
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That's great to hear man! I'm finally finishing my education next Thursday. 7 years of learning (4 undergrad and 3 grad) and It all comes down to the test in July. I can't wait to actually be getting paid for what I've been doing on all my clinicals haha.

Good luck on your exams!
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Oh I finished and walked already. I am done done done. Good luck to you.!!!! Dont burn yourself out studying for that July test. I took a week off of work to study for the EIT (8 hour math-athon) and I was wasted by the time I took it.
 
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Cackalacky said:
I had 19 job offers waiting on me when I walked. The Citadel Engineering School has a job placement within 1 year of graduation in the 80% range.

Luckily I have been and am still employed in a job that pays well and is with a good company. We will see how it plays out. Gotta pass the EIT test and apprentice for four years so got some more work to do but now i get to enjoy my family life and some bourbon.
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There's Bourbon and then there is Blanton's. It sounds like this is Blanton's news. Congratulations, you should be very proud of what you have accomplished thus far.
 
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There's Bourbon and then there is Blanton's. It sounds like this is Blanton's news. Congratulations, you should be very proud of what you have accomplished thus far.
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Funny. Came home from work last night and my wife had a new Flat Screen tv and this waiting on me:

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Congrats man. And the most important thing you said is that you already have a job and it pays well. It seems that too many people have a hard time or can't find a job after graduation.
 
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Redbar said:
There's Bourbon and then there is Blanton's. It sounds like this is Blanton's news. Congratulations, you should be very proud of what you have accomplished thus far.
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This^^^^^^^^

Blanton's is superb.

Congrats!
 
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arrowryan said:
Congrats man. And the most important thing you said is that you already have a job and it pays well. It seems that too many people have a hard time or can't find a job after graduation.
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You are right. I want to start my own business so I needed to do it. I did have a lot of offers but none that would pay me what I am making and others that required me to move elsewhere, which I don't want to do right now.

I am proud to say that all of the guys I graduated with left with offers or jobs in hand after graduation.
 
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Congrats man!
 
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Congrats - Hope you can now enjoy some of that beutiful city you live in with your family.
 
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Outstanding. The harder you work for that degree, the better it feels. Well deserved.
 
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Cackalacky said:
Well after working full time during the day and taking 12-15 hours of engineering classes at night, for spring, fall, and summer semesters... I finally graduated magna cum laude this past Saturday. F'ing 0.03 off a 3.9..... well anyway wanted to share since there is so much good news going around lately. I finally was able to get shithouse drunk for the first time in a long time. I mean sailor on shore-leave drunk.

No more 4 hour nights, no more waking up in the middle of the night to finish a problem I solved while I was sleeping, ..........just a honey-do list a mile and a half long from all the things I avoided or had no time to do.

Take the good with the bad.
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Congratulations! How long before you get your own train? :wink:
 
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CONGRATS!!

It's always much more satisfying when you work so hard. Great job, buddy
 
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You can pretty much build anything knowing the properties of a circle and a triangle. That goes from a road to a 10-story building.
 
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Bubba said:
Congrats! Feels great, doesn't it!
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Yes! Still coming down, but I have been operating at such a high level for so long, I honestly don't know where I am at.

Just trying to watch TV and I am like, "I know there is something I need to be doing, or a problem I have to solve" LOL.
 
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Feels great doesn't it?? I was in some form of school for so long that within a couple weeks I didn't know what to do with my free time... So I started posting here more....

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