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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 24, 2006 [SPOILER]

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Go Tigers!

I think he is referencing the Missouri Tigers.

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Don't know why I hadn't noticed this before. Why did you graduate three times Jan?

Cause smart people don't just do it once silly.

:-D, Bionerd!

I've done it 2 times-- working on my 3rd. How smart I am is probably a matter of opinion...

You're super super smart. Wait til you get three under your belt, then you'll be super^3 smart

Thanks... I do feel like I'm faking it half the time though!

me too

When I was a professor, I always felt like I was faking it too. But that's OK. I faked it pretty well. I think the people who actually come to believe that they know what they are doing are dangerous and should be fired.

Lots of people graduate often. I'm a bit unusual in that I got BS, MS and PhD from the same university. I didn't mean to. It just worked out that way.

My husband has 4 degrees, but they're all undergraduate. He got an AS at a junior college, then earned two bachelors degrees because he was indecisive. Years later, he went back and earned another associates degree, this one in fire science.

Graduate school did become much easier to handle when I realized that *everyone* was faking it. And, I agree, Jan, the ones who do believe they know what they're doing are way too pompous to be effective teachers.

My brother got three BS degrees, one by accident. He'd taken so many miscellaneous classes that he got a degree in "General Studies" without intending to.

I knew one fellow who was a little too good at faking it. He could pick up the jargon of any hot engineering research area and talk convincingly like he knew what he was doing. He had an amazing resume. He'd been at all sorts of cool research labs, including JPL. But one quickly discovered that his ability to actually do anything was rivaled only by the character "Wally" in the "Dilbert" comic strip. None of those cool jobs he'd talked himself into had lasted more than a few months, and he didn't stay with us long either.

Lol Jan. Very funny about your brother.
Great description of the fellow faking it.

I've got two degrees and in another year and a half I'll start on my third (Going to make sure the company I work for will pay for it, too).

I had a really good professor who had quite a few degrees, a PhD, two or three master's and I think a few bachelor's as well.

Can you have a PHD on BS ?

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I graduated twice! From the University of MICHIGAN!!! Go Blue!!! I usually print off these puzzles for my 21 year old daughter, but since she graduated from Michigan State, I don't think she'd appreciate this one!!!

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I literally thought of Pixar's Monsters University, and was very confused to see "tigers" in the description. It's rather underwhelming when a giant letter is the initial of a real place.

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