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Old 12-22-2009, 02:24 PM
 
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
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I graduated from University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and outside of Arkansas my degree isn't taken very seriously. And with good reason too, the most advanced stuff I was studying at UA Fort Smith in their IT department was beginner stuff at colleges here in North Carolina or even University of Arkansas Fayetteville for that matter. It doesn't help that Westark College was one of the bottom community colleges in the United States. The only college in Arkansas worth going is the main U of A campus in Fayetteville.
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Might I ask......why didn't you attend/transfer to Fayetteville?
But then what would he complain about?
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Old 12-22-2009, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC (in my mind)
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Might I ask......why didn't you attend/transfer to Fayetteville?
My parents wouldn't co-sign on fanancial aid for me to go anywhere that I could not live at home while attending school. There wasn't really a logical way at the time for me to do that without dropping out, working full time then tranferring.
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Old 12-22-2009, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Fayetteville
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My parents wouldn't co-sign on fanancial aid for me to go anywhere that I could not live at home while attending school. There wasn't really a logical way at the time for me to do that without dropping out, working full time then tranferring.
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So what if you didn't get the very best bachelors degree on the market.
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I'm having a hard time sympathizing with you.

Last edited by Chickrae; 12-22-2009 at 11:30 PM.. Reason: off topic
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Old 12-22-2009, 05:52 PM
 
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This post is silly!!!
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Old 12-22-2009, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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This post is silly!!!
why is it silly? Because the OP is biased or because many of us have opinions on the value of AR?

Nita
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Old 12-22-2009, 08:43 PM
 
Location: NW AR
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This post reminds me once again life and ones happiness is all in what we make it on our own.
I grew up in Ar. was born in Iowa lived in MO MS TN and have lived almost 20 years in MN. I didn't go to college I quit high school in the 10th grade because somebody needed to take care of my younger brother and dad was working on getting married to his 9th 10th or what ever wife at the time. I did get my ged before my oldest child graduated high school.Ive raised 4 children and have lived very comfortably. When I was eighteen a drinking buddy of mine needed help in his cabinet shop and I've been a cabinet maker ever since. I found something that I enjoy doing and stuck with it. When I was 24 I was a foreman in a big company and had people working for me who had many years of college and made less money than me. I make well above the national average wage,have only had unemployment one time for 2 weeks before I started building cabinets.
I believe a lot of my success has come from growing up in Ar and having a good attitude about life.
And I really dont get how people start saying people from Ar are nasty or what ever because when I grew up in Ar in the 70s and 80s there was very few people actually from Ar in Ar and there is even less now.So where are these nasty people you are tacking about really from?
Ar is home to me no matter where I live and someday I might be back so I take it kind of personal when people run it down.
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Old 12-22-2009, 09:37 PM
 
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My parents wouldn't co-sign on fanancial aid for me to go anywhere that I could not live at home while attending school. There wasn't really a logical way at the time for me to do that without dropping out, working full time then tranferring.
So, really you are not mad at Arkansas, but mad at your parents...isn't that about right. I think it is asking too much to have a first rate state owned university in every town in the state. I can't think of any state in the country that has that.

You had me on some of your points, but you completely lost me on this point. If you grew up in Georgia, you could have got the peach scholarship. That State pays for anyone who graduates with a 3.0 gpa to go to any state university including Georgia Tech and Georgia. The money comes from the lottery. I would be in favor of Arkansas going that way.
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Old 12-23-2009, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
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If you grew up in Georgia, you could have got the peach scholarship. That State pays for anyone who graduates with a 3.0 gpa to go to any state university including Georgia Tech and Georgia. The money comes from the lottery. I would be in favor of Arkansas going that way.
It seems that the new lottery has something similar in mind. We do have the Arkansas Challenge Scholarship already, but I don't know the specifics of that one.
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Old 12-23-2009, 09:11 AM
 
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My parents wouldn't co-sign on fanancial aid for me to go anywhere that I could not live at home while attending school. There wasn't really a logical way at the time for me to do that without dropping out, working full time then tranferring.
Working your way through school?

Whoever heard of such an absurd concept?
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Old 12-23-2009, 09:14 AM
 
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Working your way through school?

Whoever heard of such an absurd concept?
Rog.....it's so good to see you! Been missing ya.
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