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Old 10-22-2014, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Squirrel Hill PA
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I'm confused. If you are going to get here by bus or train how are you going to make money whole here by doing Uber? Don't you have to use your own car for that?

Anyway. Good luck with that.
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Old 10-22-2014, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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I think it is best for you in every way to work and live in the DC area. You were here and complained nonstop. Why be involved in Pittsburgh? Goodness, you move out and get a job down there for goodness sake!
Excellent post! There are TONS of schools here, surely you can find AT LEAST one that you would be able to handle.
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Old 10-23-2014, 01:43 PM
 
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Barq, do you HAVE to go to Pitt. Many schools (not Pitt, as far as I know), offer even graduate classes online. Harvard University, too!

Check it out - you'd be surprised. Here are some that I know of - Stanford, one of the Colorados, University of New York/Buffalo, U of Wisconsin/Platteville, one of the Mississippis, etc.

You live in Alexandria? Old town?
one of the reasons im looking going back is so I can fix that gpa. pitt essentially killed my odds of getting into other Us locally.
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Old 10-23-2014, 02:08 PM
 
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one of the reasons im looking going back is so I can fix that gpa. pitt essentially killed my odds of getting into other Us locally.
The last thing I would recommend for someone struggling academically is to add a weekly 500 mile (round-trip) commute to his or her routine.

Have you even checked with local schools to see if you have a chance of getting in, or are you just assuming? I don't know what your transcript looks like, but there are schools in NoVA with very high acceptance rates (e.g., George Mason and Marymount). If a school has an acceptance rate of 80%, as does Marymount, I can't imagine that they are turning all that many people away.

In addition, you could look a little farther south at schools like University of Mary Washington, which also has a high acceptance rate. I think an hour commute would be manageable.
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Old 10-23-2014, 02:08 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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one of the reasons im looking going back is so I can fix that gpa. pitt essentially killed my odds of getting into other Us locally.
Pitt did it? Pitt killed your odds?
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Old 10-23-2014, 02:11 PM
 
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Pitt did it? Pitt killed your odds?
I was going to comment on that, too. Talk about a lack of accountability!
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Old 10-23-2014, 02:26 PM
 
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My experience is that you can often be accepted as a nondegree student, take a couple classes, and get yourself off of academic probation. My experience is also that a lot of depressed people do better at work than school, and the associates degree is sometimes enough to at least get a foot in the door with a network engineer job. I find that a full time IT course load while working full time is basically impossible to excel in even without depression/focus issues, but I have known many highly successful network admins who dropped out of college. Driving back and forth is the worst option I can imagine for someone in your position.
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Old 10-23-2014, 04:03 PM
 
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I was going to comment on that, too. Talk about a lack of accountability!
Train wreck
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Old 10-23-2014, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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one of the reasons im looking going back is so I can fix that gpa. pitt essentially killed my odds of getting into other Us locally.
How is that even possible? Pitt killed your odds? I'd have to say that YOU probably killed your odds.
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Old 10-23-2014, 04:59 PM
 
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this isn't going to be another self-congratulatory "you're a screwup" c-d circle jerk, is it? I imagine he heard enough of that from mom and dad already. I know a lot of college dropouts and a lot of clinical depressives, and they're pretty good at self sabotage without being coached. What happened happened but he can dig himself out with an honest assessment of what he needs to do to take care of himself and what the university is going to expect.
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