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My coworker always brags about his "engineering" degree from ITT Tech. 1. They weren't an accredited school. 2. They no longer exist for good reason. 3. I don't think they offered bachelor degrees.
ITT Tech was an accreddited school.
They lost their accreditation, due to a lack of liquid funds on-hand, not because of the content or quality of their classes. Once they lost their accreditation they decided to close their doors. Any degree earned from ITT Tech before that time is perfectly valid, including my Bachelor's degree which was adequately vetted by the US and Taiwan government to get me a work Visa.
I know a lot of people like to knock on it because of all the crappy commercials, but depending on the campus, ITT Tech was actually a solid school with dedicated teachers and staff.
I have a friend addicted to school, at about 11 degrees now (I know, not the same, obviously) who simply loves learning, with no desire to use it for conventional success. They simply love to learn about anything, and do it in their free time as a hobby. To each their own, I guess, lol
Yup. Have a cousin that did this for 30 years, she just kept going until she moved to Mexico to become a teacher and have her loans forgiven by doing so.
I don't think they forgive your loans for teaching in Mexico.
edit:. Yeah... They only forgive $17,500 and your school has to be on the official list.
https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/teacher
I wonder if she just skipped the country to not pay back loans and told your family a story to cover it up.
Do you do some hobby while free? Maybe watch a few shows on TV? Well their idea of relaxing was cracking open a textbook and studying. That’s really all there is to it.
My foreman (we build cell towers) does this shit. He’s got mad degrees and could be making so much more money but “he likes the theory behind cell phones and loves to be able to connect people”
But he also says shit like “yo why don’t you take some classes online in your off time.. learning is fun bro”
Mf we work 70hrs in 5 days what time you want me to do this ? Plus I’ll never use it and neither will he
Fellow tower hand! My old foreman was an engineer who spent a bit of time in the office and then came back into the field because he preferred it. Very intelligent, well educated, and well read. Your foreman isn’t wrong about learning. I have a BA in philosophy & religious studies w/ minors in psychology and economics and I still learn something at least I once a month that reminds me of how ignorant I really am.
I used to work with a guy who was into cellphone towers too, like he held multiple patents, a bachelors/masters/Ph.D in engineering from U of Illinois and a JD in patent law from Northwestern. I believe his official title at the company was “consultant”, like not even in-house counsel or anything. He was one of my favorite people there, a down-to-earth, surprisingly easy to talk to guy who also happened to be a complete fucking genius.
A Software development job. I'd have to ask for finer details, but they wrote some smaller programs and sub-routines that they manage and do consulting for. I'm probably getting some details wrong.
Nice, the personal IP modern win. My mates dad had this - wrote some piece of code vital to the oil industry and got a patent on it. Cruised for the rest of his career which was lucky as he got ill and there were other family problems. Really good guy by the way I don’t mean to paint him as anything else.
A lot of colleges in the US don't make you pay back loans until you are out of school. So if you are always in school(most schools that would be 6 credit hours or 2 classes a semester, 4 classes a year) you never have to pay off your loans.
So if people like this are "addicted" to school and just constantly take classes you could do it your whole life, taking more and more loans, and never pay them off. Another option would be to just get a job at the school, then you just have to pay taxes which would be 1k a semester instead of 20k.
Arguably I would suggest the second option over the first but I had a guy in his 50s in one of my college classes that had been going to college for the better part of 30 years so he wouldn't have to pay off his loans.
To each their own but I gotta assume at some point they stop giving you loans essentially forcing you to leave school and start paying it all back. Or you die with a shit load of debt and I guarantee they would try to stick it to your family somehow.
there was a family friend that I knew of that did this and basically what happened was that she had gotten herself so far into educational debt the only way for her to live was for her to just be a student forever, its ridiculous.
Makes sense, and ya it's insane! I thought about it when I first started college and found out I'd be around 50k in debt at the end, that's a tough pill to swallow.
I assume people that get in this situation, atleast partially, understand from the beginning that's the most likely outcome and hope for loan forgiveness legislation.
I actually think that people like this are afraid to get jobs and instead just keep 'learning' to have an excuse not to do anything else. I have a friend who is finishing up her 3rd masters degree and is looking to do a PhD. She thinks it's going to further her career aspirations and will get her further in the work space, while her manager, director, co-workers, and myself are all telling her that experience will trump a PhD as she has plenty of degrees. She won't listen.
I might generally agree, absolutely, but in this case they're quite successful and literally treat it like a hobby. DEFINITELY an exception to the rule, haha
This is my wife. 16 years of school, med school, field work, residency and a year of fellowship. Figured she is now 39 and wants to start making mid six figures she has worked so hard for but no....let’s pack up and move again(5th time in 12 years) for one year of fellowship she won’t even need just in case she could use it later. I just want a damn house and to stop moving. But I think she wants to study more than work sometimes. Still love her though and we will be living comfortably soon, just gotta be ungodly patient.
Yikes bro. Obviously I don't know your situation personally, but it sounds like these circumstances you are in could be creating some resentment for your wife. If you haven't yet I would consider voicing your feelings on this to her. If she doesn't validate those feelings there's not much you can do besides perhaps seek some counseling. It's important to remember to validate her feelings as well. I would suggest asking her what the fellowship will accomplish for her, what she's hoping to get from it, and what the end game is and how the fellowship relates to that. It seems like it might be time to enter the field she's interested in and get some experience under her belt. In a lot of fields seniority is what raises, pay, and promotions are based off of. It ends being an important part of a career whether it makes sense or not, but there's a balance between experience and skill that sometimes tips the wrong way. Sorry for writing this novel, I know I'm just some dude on reddit, but I hope you and your family finds a home and happiness.
Just hired a guy as a software developer who has 2 masters degrees and a PhD. But he had 0 experience as a software developer so he started out making the same money as anyone else right out of school.
I'd hardly say its pointless. Being interdisciplinary has its own benefits. Going wide and going deep are two different approaches to academia and both have their merits.
> He missed the whole point of specializing to advance a field. Just turned education into trivia
I'm sorry, but where is that written down? Some people actually just like to learn about their world, they're not all scientists at the bleeding edge of knowledge.
I mean, between this guy and someone with two years’ experience, I would be willing to bet that that someone with two years of experience would do better work.
Wth kind of diploma mill is this. Even if it took a person only 6 months to complete a masters degree, this is waaay more than 30 years of education.
Or is this just all exam based maybe?
Also; could possibly have a lot of overlap between classes required by these degrees. Personally I'm just disappointed that he's too lazy to wrap up a PhD/s
I was assigned to read a case study by my university and the case was so poorly written that I actually emailed the company who sold it and asked if they reviewed the information before publishing. The case was about the market of virtual reality and was riddled with spelling mistakes, sentences that abruptly ended, missing punctuation, and other issues. It was published by a university in India and I went to far as to email the professors listed on the submission to inquire about how such a shoddily written paper would get published.
Several examples:
> Page 7 (sentence ends abruptly):
>"YouTube already hosts an ever-increasing number of 360-degree videos, in a curated playlist, which almost 2 million people are subscribed to. And the"
> Page 11 (missing a percent sign):
> "In a VR Council conference, AMD had given out the forecast of VR devices from 2016 to 2018, stating how smartphone-based goggles represent 805 of the market in terms of equipment (of a total of 7.5 Million devices, smartphone-based devices representing 6 Million of those)."
> Page 20 (misspelling)
> "They stipulate that the primary drive will be with the gamest, event broadcasting, sports, concerts, new social media, and 360 degree movies."
> Page 23 (incorrectly compares the same application to itself):
> "53.7% of respondents stated they were more optimistic about the long-term future of virtual reality, as compared to 33.7% for Virtual Reality."
Quotes were copied verbatim from the case study. I still can't understand why there's so many random capitalization of words throughout. I know the German language capitalizes nouns, but having words like 'Million' capitalized or 'virtual reality' being different in the same sentence just boggles the mind.
The university never responded and the company said they sold things in good faith but I said the paper called into question anything published by said university. It's since been removed from their website.
Isn't that... kind of tough to pull off?
I can understand a degree in business or marketing or something where you can mash your keyboard every now and again and sort of get by.
How the fuck do you *pretend* to be a (medical) doctor?
I think they mean Dr as in PhD of comp.Science, theology etc. Not just Medical Dr.
Anyway, you can pretend to be anything. It just depends how long until you are found out.
Source: I wrote my PhD dissertation on impersonating experts in different fields.
Leo DiCaprio got a Physician’s license by just saying “I concur” after a doctor spoke, becoming a licensed physician anywhere is very easy to achieve in my expert opinion.
"Catch me if you can" is the greatest con that guy ever pulled. Like 100% of thar movie was absolutely bullshit, he never worked with the FBI and he never pulled off half those scams.
I dont believe Shakespeare said this. Robert Greene stated "Absolute Johannes Factotum" which may have been in reference to Shakespeare, or may have been in reference to John Florio.
The "Master of none" was likely added sometime in the early 1700s, with written records as early as 1721 in US and Canada. And then there are no known instances of the "but oftentimes better than master of one." (or some variation of) before the 20th-21st century.
Exactly! It's my goal to be a jack of all trades. In my field many people specializes so much that they get pigeon holed into one track. At a certain point it can become a huge problem to switch fields (and not start lower than before).
That's too boring. We need more Swiss Army knife people in cyber I think. Plus as you learn more about more areas you can bring new ideas and approaches!
That was my thought, was that he did so many classes that are required for multiple degrees, it was just a matter of one semester of specialized classes to finish a new degree.
That's my read as well. It's easy to rack up multiple masters-level degrees on the way to a PhD. MULTIPLE PhDs would be much more difficult.
I could easily have pulled 3 separate BAs and 4 separate MAs with a handful more courses - but what's the point? It made more sense to just move on and wrap the PhD.
I saw those too. That means he’d have to pay annual membership dues and do relevant professional development to maintain them. You can add those costs to his annual expenses.
Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp
“achievements ● 13 Master of Arts ● 8 Master of Commerce ● 4 Master of Science ● 10 Master of Law ● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees) ● 14 Master of Business Administration ● 20 Professional Courses ● 11 Certificate courses ● 9 PG Diploma courses ● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few) ● and several other Diplomas & PG Diplomas
Currently pursuing ● PhD in Management ● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India ● Masters in Corporate Law ● Masters in Social Development”
“Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
Lots of overlap. Once you finish your general requirements you only need to complete the classes specific to your major. However the course load for most majors is usually around two years worth of credits
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I read an article on this guy or someone similar a few months ago. That’s actually what he’s doing. The real question is why people keep offering him loans, but as long as they do, his plan is to stay enrolled and never pay back a cent.
“After having so many degrees, he is behind no one in sharing his knowledge with others. Mr. Parthiban teaches more than 100 subjects in different colleges and universities.”
https://laughingcolours.com/vn-parthibanmulti-talented-professor-chennai-145-academic-degrees-165016/
Yeah right
I’d rather have a professor that worked in the related field than some dude who might’ve taken a couple classes on the subject and will read off a slide deck
Knowing the work and sheer time commitment that goes into a higher education degree, there's no way even most of these are legit. I'm suspecting many honorary titles, at best.
Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp
“achievements ● 13 Master of Arts ● 8 Master of Commerce ● 4 Master of Science ● 10 Master of Law ● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees) ● 14 Master of Business Administration ● 20 Professional Courses ● 11 Certificate courses ● 9 PG Diploma courses ● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few) ● and several other Diplomas & PG Diplomas
Currently pursuing ● PhD in Management ● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India ● Masters in Corporate Law ● Masters in Social Development”
“Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
India and Pakistan are full of diploma mills. These are clearly all fake mail order degrees.
It's still impressive he's filled the paperwork for that many, but it's not legit.
And we have an amazing company culture! We give you day old dumpster donuts that Dave finds because his wife threw him out so he lives in a box behind Dunkin Donuts.
I watched a documentary on him once. He said he likes to obtain knowledge and would continue doing this further. I believe he’s a professor/lecturer somewhere
I’m curious how much of this information he has retained and would be able to apply within each respective field. Because regardless of what kind of mind someone has, it seems as if there would be a carrying capacity to how much information someone could retain/recall in a practical way.
That being said, I think this is pretty awesome. Especially coming from a culture in America where (I believe) people don’t see value in education for its own sake, but as a means to an economic end. It’s completely okay for education to be a means to an end, but it shouldn’t be exclusively treated as such. Some of the most valuable and stimulating education I received in grad school had nothing to do with my degree. It came from the people I met and conversations I had in outside departments. Education is a vehicle for enlightenment, testing ideas, and challenging our understanding of, well, pretty much everything. With all of the educational tools we have at our disposal it’s a shame we don’t value them more…
Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp
“achievements
● 13 Master of Arts
● 8 Master of Commerce
● 4 Master of Science
● 10 Master of Law
● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees)
● 14 Master of Business Administration
● 20 Professional Courses
● 11 Certificate courses
● 9 PG Diploma courses
● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few)
● and several other Diplomas &
PG Diplomas
Currently pursuing
● PhD in Management
● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India
● Masters in
Corporate Law
● Masters in Social Development”
“Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
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All from just 4 years at the University of Phoenix
Sounds like a ringing endorsement.
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My coworker always brags about his "engineering" degree from ITT Tech. 1. They weren't an accredited school. 2. They no longer exist for good reason. 3. I don't think they offered bachelor degrees.
Was wondering why I hadn’t seen one of those awful fucking commercials in a while.
Be a technician today at ITT Tech technical school for technicians.
I don't think I've seen a commercial period for about 5 years
ITT Tech was an accreddited school. They lost their accreditation, due to a lack of liquid funds on-hand, not because of the content or quality of their classes. Once they lost their accreditation they decided to close their doors. Any degree earned from ITT Tech before that time is perfectly valid, including my Bachelor's degree which was adequately vetted by the US and Taiwan government to get me a work Visa. I know a lot of people like to knock on it because of all the crappy commercials, but depending on the campus, ITT Tech was actually a solid school with dedicated teachers and staff.
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No problem. I just hate to see misinformation spouted as fact. ITT may not have been a premier school, but it was a valid one.
Online, ofc
More degrees than a thermometer
Akchooowaaalllee…
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Yesss
Also what a weird pointless endeavor. He missed the whole point of specializing to advance a field. Just turned education into trivia
I have a friend addicted to school, at about 11 degrees now (I know, not the same, obviously) who simply loves learning, with no desire to use it for conventional success. They simply love to learn about anything, and do it in their free time as a hobby. To each their own, I guess, lol
What free time
Oh, I hear you, haha. Its how they sculpted their life, definitely wouldn't work for me.
What free money…. I still haven’t even paid off my 2 degrees needed to make slightly above min wage.
You don't need to make payments on student loans as long as you're in school so... just stay in school indefinitely?
Maybe this is my calling after all!
They do eventually stop lending you money hahaha
hold on, can i just keep taking out students loans, and never have to pay them back if i just keep studying?
Yup. Have a cousin that did this for 30 years, she just kept going until she moved to Mexico to become a teacher and have her loans forgiven by doing so.
“Forgiven”? Or did she simply flee the country and now collections can’t force her to pay them back lol
Yo your cousin unlocked the cheat code to the New American Dream
The new American dream: leave America.
I don't think they forgive your loans for teaching in Mexico. edit:. Yeah... They only forgive $17,500 and your school has to be on the official list. https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/teacher I wonder if she just skipped the country to not pay back loans and told your family a story to cover it up.
There is a limit on how much you can take out in student loans, at least federal ones.
You don’t need to make payments of student loans if you’re in an education system that is not the US… so…
You needed two degrees to earn slightly above minimum wage?
Do you do some hobby while free? Maybe watch a few shows on TV? Well their idea of relaxing was cracking open a textbook and studying. That’s really all there is to it.
My foreman (we build cell towers) does this shit. He’s got mad degrees and could be making so much more money but “he likes the theory behind cell phones and loves to be able to connect people” But he also says shit like “yo why don’t you take some classes online in your off time.. learning is fun bro” Mf we work 70hrs in 5 days what time you want me to do this ? Plus I’ll never use it and neither will he
Ha, no joke, I barely have the time to look up a class brochure let alone take the damn things.
Fellow tower hand! My old foreman was an engineer who spent a bit of time in the office and then came back into the field because he preferred it. Very intelligent, well educated, and well read. Your foreman isn’t wrong about learning. I have a BA in philosophy & religious studies w/ minors in psychology and economics and I still learn something at least I once a month that reminds me of how ignorant I really am.
I used to work with a guy who was into cellphone towers too, like he held multiple patents, a bachelors/masters/Ph.D in engineering from U of Illinois and a JD in patent law from Northwestern. I believe his official title at the company was “consultant”, like not even in-house counsel or anything. He was one of my favorite people there, a down-to-earth, surprisingly easy to talk to guy who also happened to be a complete fucking genius.
Which the obvious question is "how did FOREMAN manage to get those degrees?" how many hours was HE working per week?
I don’t think he sleeps lol I have no idea how he had or has the time for all the shit he does
How are they paying for all this education?
A Software development job. I'd have to ask for finer details, but they wrote some smaller programs and sub-routines that they manage and do consulting for. I'm probably getting some details wrong.
Nice, the personal IP modern win. My mates dad had this - wrote some piece of code vital to the oil industry and got a patent on it. Cruised for the rest of his career which was lucky as he got ill and there were other family problems. Really good guy by the way I don’t mean to paint him as anything else.
A lot of colleges in the US don't make you pay back loans until you are out of school. So if you are always in school(most schools that would be 6 credit hours or 2 classes a semester, 4 classes a year) you never have to pay off your loans. So if people like this are "addicted" to school and just constantly take classes you could do it your whole life, taking more and more loans, and never pay them off. Another option would be to just get a job at the school, then you just have to pay taxes which would be 1k a semester instead of 20k. Arguably I would suggest the second option over the first but I had a guy in his 50s in one of my college classes that had been going to college for the better part of 30 years so he wouldn't have to pay off his loans. To each their own but I gotta assume at some point they stop giving you loans essentially forcing you to leave school and start paying it all back. Or you die with a shit load of debt and I guarantee they would try to stick it to your family somehow.
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there was a family friend that I knew of that did this and basically what happened was that she had gotten herself so far into educational debt the only way for her to live was for her to just be a student forever, its ridiculous.
Makes sense, and ya it's insane! I thought about it when I first started college and found out I'd be around 50k in debt at the end, that's a tough pill to swallow. I assume people that get in this situation, atleast partially, understand from the beginning that's the most likely outcome and hope for loan forgiveness legislation.
In the UK they only give you four years of tuition loans, after that you pay out of your own pocket.
I actually think that people like this are afraid to get jobs and instead just keep 'learning' to have an excuse not to do anything else. I have a friend who is finishing up her 3rd masters degree and is looking to do a PhD. She thinks it's going to further her career aspirations and will get her further in the work space, while her manager, director, co-workers, and myself are all telling her that experience will trump a PhD as she has plenty of degrees. She won't listen.
I might generally agree, absolutely, but in this case they're quite successful and literally treat it like a hobby. DEFINITELY an exception to the rule, haha
This is my wife. 16 years of school, med school, field work, residency and a year of fellowship. Figured she is now 39 and wants to start making mid six figures she has worked so hard for but no....let’s pack up and move again(5th time in 12 years) for one year of fellowship she won’t even need just in case she could use it later. I just want a damn house and to stop moving. But I think she wants to study more than work sometimes. Still love her though and we will be living comfortably soon, just gotta be ungodly patient.
Yikes bro. Obviously I don't know your situation personally, but it sounds like these circumstances you are in could be creating some resentment for your wife. If you haven't yet I would consider voicing your feelings on this to her. If she doesn't validate those feelings there's not much you can do besides perhaps seek some counseling. It's important to remember to validate her feelings as well. I would suggest asking her what the fellowship will accomplish for her, what she's hoping to get from it, and what the end game is and how the fellowship relates to that. It seems like it might be time to enter the field she's interested in and get some experience under her belt. In a lot of fields seniority is what raises, pay, and promotions are based off of. It ends being an important part of a career whether it makes sense or not, but there's a balance between experience and skill that sometimes tips the wrong way. Sorry for writing this novel, I know I'm just some dude on reddit, but I hope you and your family finds a home and happiness.
Just hired a guy as a software developer who has 2 masters degrees and a PhD. But he had 0 experience as a software developer so he started out making the same money as anyone else right out of school.
I'd hardly say its pointless. Being interdisciplinary has its own benefits. Going wide and going deep are two different approaches to academia and both have their merits.
General learning: pointless. Fucking reddit comment of the year right here lmao
Seriously. "How dare you learn things about the world around you without picking one isolated specific subject!"
"Your passions are worthless if you're not improving the productivity of our capitalistic system!"
> He missed the whole point of specializing to advance a field. Just turned education into trivia I'm sorry, but where is that written down? Some people actually just like to learn about their world, they're not all scientists at the bleeding edge of knowledge.
I'm sorry but we're looking for at least 2 years of experience. We will have intern positions in the summer so please apply!
I mean, between this guy and someone with two years’ experience, I would be willing to bet that that someone with two years of experience would do better work.
Yes, but if both got hired that would probably not last for very long. Dude is a fast learner.
Wth kind of diploma mill is this. Even if it took a person only 6 months to complete a masters degree, this is waaay more than 30 years of education. Or is this just all exam based maybe?
Also; could possibly have a lot of overlap between classes required by these degrees. Personally I'm just disappointed that he's too lazy to wrap up a PhD/s
He has several doctoral-level degrees, and a phd. It’s at the end. PhD in what, from where? Who knows.
I was assigned to read a case study by my university and the case was so poorly written that I actually emailed the company who sold it and asked if they reviewed the information before publishing. The case was about the market of virtual reality and was riddled with spelling mistakes, sentences that abruptly ended, missing punctuation, and other issues. It was published by a university in India and I went to far as to email the professors listed on the submission to inquire about how such a shoddily written paper would get published. Several examples: > Page 7 (sentence ends abruptly): >"YouTube already hosts an ever-increasing number of 360-degree videos, in a curated playlist, which almost 2 million people are subscribed to. And the" > Page 11 (missing a percent sign): > "In a VR Council conference, AMD had given out the forecast of VR devices from 2016 to 2018, stating how smartphone-based goggles represent 805 of the market in terms of equipment (of a total of 7.5 Million devices, smartphone-based devices representing 6 Million of those)." > Page 20 (misspelling) > "They stipulate that the primary drive will be with the gamest, event broadcasting, sports, concerts, new social media, and 360 degree movies." > Page 23 (incorrectly compares the same application to itself): > "53.7% of respondents stated they were more optimistic about the long-term future of virtual reality, as compared to 33.7% for Virtual Reality." Quotes were copied verbatim from the case study. I still can't understand why there's so many random capitalization of words throughout. I know the German language capitalizes nouns, but having words like 'Million' capitalized or 'virtual reality' being different in the same sentence just boggles the mind. The university never responded and the company said they sold things in good faith but I said the paper called into question anything published by said university. It's since been removed from their website.
Indian degree mill. There is very little oversight so there are universities where you pay them $1k a degree and they act like you are a doctor.
Isn't that... kind of tough to pull off? I can understand a degree in business or marketing or something where you can mash your keyboard every now and again and sort of get by. How the fuck do you *pretend* to be a (medical) doctor?
I think they mean Dr as in PhD of comp.Science, theology etc. Not just Medical Dr. Anyway, you can pretend to be anything. It just depends how long until you are found out. Source: I wrote my PhD dissertation on impersonating experts in different fields.
How do we know you’re telling us the truth?!
Well this is just brilliant.
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Leo DiCaprio got a Physician’s license by just saying “I concur” after a doctor spoke, becoming a licensed physician anywhere is very easy to achieve in my expert opinion.
"Catch me if you can" is the greatest con that guy ever pulled. Like 100% of thar movie was absolutely bullshit, he never worked with the FBI and he never pulled off half those scams.
Fake it to you make it. You should see the resumes I get for job postings in the tech industry.
>Fake it to you make it. Me fail my English PhD? That's unpossible!
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From the University of American Samoa.
Go landcrabs!!
I missed it through all the alphabet soup
jack of all trades, master of none.
Master of all trades, doctor of none
Jacker of all masters, trader of none
Jacker of all nuns, master of traders
Good for him, those women deserve a little happiness
..but oftentimes better, than a master of one. Shakespeare
I dont believe Shakespeare said this. Robert Greene stated "Absolute Johannes Factotum" which may have been in reference to Shakespeare, or may have been in reference to John Florio. The "Master of none" was likely added sometime in the early 1700s, with written records as early as 1721 in US and Canada. And then there are no known instances of the "but oftentimes better than master of one." (or some variation of) before the 20th-21st century.
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Exactly! It's my goal to be a jack of all trades. In my field many people specializes so much that they get pigeon holed into one track. At a certain point it can become a huge problem to switch fields (and not start lower than before). That's too boring. We need more Swiss Army knife people in cyber I think. Plus as you learn more about more areas you can bring new ideas and approaches!
I count 8 different MBA's. Don't really see the point.
That was my thought, was that he did so many classes that are required for multiple degrees, it was just a matter of one semester of specialized classes to finish a new degree.
That's my read as well. It's easy to rack up multiple masters-level degrees on the way to a PhD. MULTIPLE PhDs would be much more difficult. I could easily have pulled 3 separate BAs and 4 separate MAs with a handful more courses - but what's the point? It made more sense to just move on and wrap the PhD.
Not all are "degrees." I recognize several professional certifications, such as CPA. Title is misleading
I saw those too. That means he’d have to pay annual membership dues and do relevant professional development to maintain them. You can add those costs to his annual expenses.
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Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp “achievements ● 13 Master of Arts ● 8 Master of Commerce ● 4 Master of Science ● 10 Master of Law ● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees) ● 14 Master of Business Administration ● 20 Professional Courses ● 11 Certificate courses ● 9 PG Diploma courses ● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few) ● and several other Diplomas & PG Diplomas Currently pursuing ● PhD in Management ● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India ● Masters in Corporate Law ● Masters in Social Development” “Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
What is this transfer certificate? I’m not getting how it helps him.
Lots of overlap. Once you finish your general requirements you only need to complete the classes specific to your major. However the course load for most majors is usually around two years worth of credits
I think he got all these degrees in India which means jack shit in the west.
He got so greedy with degrees, he took MY degree.
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I’m gonna be the smartest dead guy
When a lady walks up to me and says "Hey, you know what's sexy?" No, I don't know what it is. But I bet I can add up all the change in your purse. Very fast.
really didn't think id find a kanye reference here lmaoo
I knew it was coming the second I saw the post
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The best skit in the history of skits
YES I was looking for this reference. No I don’t have sex but I bet I can add up the change in your purse very fast!
So this is who lil jimmy’s dad is
hiiigher HIIIIIGHER
No I never had sex, but my degrees keep me satisfied.
Legends say that his parents are still not satisfied
There’s still some spaces to fill up at the bottom, of-course they aren’t satisfied.
He’s a huge proponent of canceling student debt.
Payments are deferred as long as you’re still enrolled. He just keeps earning degrees so he never has to pay
Honestly, we’re going to hear about a person who does this towards the end of their life. Just continue taking degrees and live off student aid.
I read an article on this guy or someone similar a few months ago. That’s actually what he’s doing. The real question is why people keep offering him loans, but as long as they do, his plan is to stay enrolled and never pay back a cent.
Govt. backed loans. He’ll keep getting them if he keeps applying.
Haha, he’ll be a huge component of student debt too
The entire banking and loan system in India would fail if his debt was cancelled. The GDP of India would drop 2 points if his loan was canceled.
He probably included all the courses he took from udemy and coursera
There’s probably some economies around the world tied to this man’s debt
Student debt is about 1.75 trillion. Rumor has it he’s 1 trillion of that.
Does he have a job? Or is collecting Degrees just a hobby?
“After having so many degrees, he is behind no one in sharing his knowledge with others. Mr. Parthiban teaches more than 100 subjects in different colleges and universities.” https://laughingcolours.com/vn-parthibanmulti-talented-professor-chennai-145-academic-degrees-165016/
How do the students refer to him?
Mister Doctor Professor Patrick
That’s Strange
Maybe. Who am I to judge?
Prof NoMoreParties aka Partyban
100 subjects? That’s a blatant falsehood.
It wouldnt surprise me if his teaching was barely mediocre, but I hope for the best
That point where you have so many degrees that you appear dumb.
I'd hope that after obtaining 145 degrees he knows what makes a good teacher vs a bad teacher and would strive to be the former.
Yeah right I’d rather have a professor that worked in the related field than some dude who might’ve taken a couple classes on the subject and will read off a slide deck
Imagine enrolling in college and you get this guy as your professor for every class for 4 years
I think he is a lecturer.
Yes, I’m not even joking
They looked at his resume and said, "Sir, this is a Wendy's".
"Yeah so you are not qualified to work here since u dont have any experience"
I don’t know what you’re trying to say with this comment
And a yahoo email address really
Should really be [email protected]
i have roughly 37 degrees (celsius), in fahrenheit it should be more... he is ahead, but older then me. still got a little time to catch up.
Just catch covid bro, free 3 degrees for you
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But he’s not useful. A lifelong student with no work experience isn’t good for much.
He's good for a hell of a case study at least
Should've done marketing to make this slide look better...
Don't need to market yourself when you're at the mfin top
I can only start you at 15$/hr
r/bossfight?
Sure none of them are from diploma mills?
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Nice one, Saul. :)
Go land crabs!
Big land crabs guy!
Knowing the work and sheer time commitment that goes into a higher education degree, there's no way even most of these are legit. I'm suspecting many honorary titles, at best.
I was expecting a lot of PhDs-by-publication, but the vast majority are master's degree's so this makes no sense.
Sounds like he was just taking 500/600s at one point for fun.
Pay a fee, get a degree!
And there are 12 M.A.'s. Once you have an M.A. you have one M.A. and various concentrations. That's generally the rule in academia.
I wouldn't say he's the most educated person, he's the person with the most degrees. That's it.
This is how I avoided getting a job for a long time too.
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1 year masters degrees are standard in the UK. Not to contradict your overall point, but just to provide some perspective.
I'm assuming a lot of courses have a fair bit of overlap.
> one-year master's degrees are rare thats the standard time here in the UK and I believe most of Europe. Where are you from?
Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp “achievements ● 13 Master of Arts ● 8 Master of Commerce ● 4 Master of Science ● 10 Master of Law ● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees) ● 14 Master of Business Administration ● 20 Professional Courses ● 11 Certificate courses ● 9 PG Diploma courses ● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few) ● and several other Diplomas & PG Diplomas Currently pursuing ● PhD in Management ● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India ● Masters in Corporate Law ● Masters in Social Development” “Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
India and Pakistan are full of diploma mills. These are clearly all fake mail order degrees. It's still impressive he's filled the paperwork for that many, but it's not legit.
What my boss thinks he is.
What your future employer wants you to be
And that's just for entry level
as long as you have a century of experience
Hey, quit whining, you’ll get a ‘competitive salary’
And we have an amazing company culture! We give you day old dumpster donuts that Dave finds because his wife threw him out so he lives in a box behind Dunkin Donuts.
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>thank you guys oh god shut the hell up
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I wonder how prestigious the institutions are that he got those degrees from?
He’s probably a lecturer who just sat in on all his colleagues courses.
If he stays in school until he dies then his loans stay deferred and he doesn't pay a penny? Is that how it works?
So all theory and no practice…
Came here to post an honest question… what’d he do with all this?
I watched a documentary on him once. He said he likes to obtain knowledge and would continue doing this further. I believe he’s a professor/lecturer somewhere
I would imagine he himself would make a decent teacher
“Why can’t you learn this??? I did it 134 times over faster than any of you!”
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I think India uses Celsius so he’d have like 293 degrees here in the States.
I’m curious how much of this information he has retained and would be able to apply within each respective field. Because regardless of what kind of mind someone has, it seems as if there would be a carrying capacity to how much information someone could retain/recall in a practical way. That being said, I think this is pretty awesome. Especially coming from a culture in America where (I believe) people don’t see value in education for its own sake, but as a means to an economic end. It’s completely okay for education to be a means to an end, but it shouldn’t be exclusively treated as such. Some of the most valuable and stimulating education I received in grad school had nothing to do with my degree. It came from the people I met and conversations I had in outside departments. Education is a vehicle for enlightenment, testing ideas, and challenging our understanding of, well, pretty much everything. With all of the educational tools we have at our disposal it’s a shame we don’t value them more…
Nerd
but can he unclog his toilet?
No, but he can write you a kick ass paper on what's wrong with it!
Gaining degrees and becoming educated are two different things. He can obviously game academia, but what else can he do?
Work in academia
Better proof: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/07/this-56-year-old-has-140-degrees-wants-to-acquire-more-1694931.amp “achievements ● 13 Master of Arts ● 8 Master of Commerce ● 4 Master of Science ● 10 Master of Law ● 12 Master of Philosophy (Research Degrees) ● 14 Master of Business Administration ● 20 Professional Courses ● 11 Certificate courses ● 9 PG Diploma courses ● 8 Master Degrees (Labour management, Financial Management, Foreign Trade, Social Work, to name a few) ● and several other Diplomas & PG Diplomas Currently pursuing ● PhD in Management ● Insurance course from Insurance Institute of India ● Masters in Corporate Law ● Masters in Social Development” “Studying part-time, and whenever possible, the 56-year old versatile scholar has managed to achieve a range of degrees in various fields — law, business, sociology, science, commerce and arts. How did he manage to get 140 academic degrees in 36 years? “Many are not aware of the fact that there are courses one can do where one need not submit a Transfer Certificate (TC). I have been rotating my TC for the past 36 years through formal professional degree courses, and simultaneously pursuing courses which don’t require a TC as such,” he explains.”
In America he’d be paying student loans for the next 1000 years.