Humor for my Navy and Marine friends

flieger83 said:
VERY close to what I look like now in my program...
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I’ve been fiddling around with the idea of a doctorate but I’d have to pay for it plus I’m too lazy at this point.

I squeezed two master’s from two GI Bills and the district pays me on the MA-plus 30 scale so I think I’ll give up the dream of being called doctor and stick with doc.
 
Devil Doc said:
I’ve been fiddling around with the idea of a doctorate but I’d have to pay for it plus I’m too lazy at this point.

I squeezed two master’s from two GI Bills and the district pays me on the MA-plus 30 scale so I think I’ll give up the dream of being called doctor and stick with doc.
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Funny - I have been considering it as well. I would love to teach engineering in college in my 2nd life, but I don't think I have it in my to grind anymore in school. I guess I could always get one of those PHds that they give online based on "real world experience". If I did that I would change my name to Dr. EEBTTF - that would be cool.
I was fortunate enough to get 2 Masters paid for as well, probably time to ease on out to the pasture...
 
I think I'm just a glutton for punishment. First masters was as a lieutenant (something you need to do to make Major, Lieutenant...so get busy!). In total, Uncle Samuel paid for three. And then an international semiconductor company I worked for said "you're going to be getting out of the engineering and deeper into the business side...you don't have an MBA do you?" When I said no...

But for years I thought "I'd really like to get a Ph.D." and perhaps teach adults.

Okay, FYI...you don't need a Ph.D., or an Ed.D., to teach adults.

So I used my post 9-11 GI Bill and started...

I now have grey hair, have gained more than a few pounds, and hear things that aren't there...all because of "the journey."

It's written...all 338 pages...now all I have to do is appease my methodologist and then it'll go for quality review and if they're okay with it...then I get to do the defense.

And then...well, I might not be here for a few days...there's going to be a serious "time of reflection" required...or at least a LOT of "morning after aspirin."

Steve
 
flieger83 said:
I think I'm just a glutton for punishment. First masters was as a lieutenant (something you need to do to make Major, Lieutenant...so get busy!). In total, Uncle Samuel paid for three. And then an international semiconductor company I worked for said "you're going to be getting out of the engineering and deeper into the business side...you don't have an MBA do you?" When I said no...

But for years I thought "I'd really like to get a Ph.D." and perhaps teach adults.

Okay, FYI...you don't need a Ph.D., or an Ed.D., to teach adults.

So I used my post 9-11 GI Bill and started...

I now have grey hair, have gained more than a few pounds, and hear things that aren't there...all because of "the journey."

It's written...all 338 pages...now all I have to do is appease my methodologist and then it'll go for quality review and if they're okay with it...then I get to do the defense.

And then...well, I might not be here for a few days...there's going to be a serious "time of reflection" required...or at least a LOT of "morning after aspirin."

Steve
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Awesome - what is your area of study and how long did it take you to get to the dissertation phase? Part-time or full-time?
 
EEBTTF said:
Awesome - what is your area of study and how long did it take you to get to the dissertation phase? Part-time or full-time?
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Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

I went on campus one night a week, and the rest was online. By doing it that way, always working on it; on campus and online, it was considered "full time." The academics take about 3 1/2 years. At the end of the academic portion, you should have completed what's known as the 10 strategic points and maybe even a topic prospectus. Once your dissertation Chair accepts your prospectus, you move on to the Proposal. This is where you reveal what you're going to study, you introduce your topic, going into great detail, then you do a VERY deep literature search and review (my school requires at least 50 scholarly references and 30 or more pages of review detail), to find/verify/reveal the gap in literature/knowledge that you have discovered that needs to be examined, and then you write the methodology you'll use to do this. This becomes a three chapter paper; which actually will be the first three chapters of your dissertation; chapters 4 & 5 come later and complete the dissertation.

You will defend your Proposal and if that's approved, then you do the research, data analysis, and write up chapters 4 & 5 and you'll ultimately defend the entire thing.

And then...you party!!
 
flieger83 said:
Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

I went on campus one night a week, and the rest was online. By doing it that way, always working on it; on campus and online, it was considered "full time." The academics take about 3 1/2 years. At the end of the academic portion, you should have completed what's known as the 10 strategic points and maybe even a topic prospectus. Once your dissertation Chair accepts your prospectus, you move on to the Proposal. This is where you reveal what you're going to study, you introduce your topic, going into great detail, then you do a VERY deep literature search and review (my school requires at least 50 scholarly references and 30 or more pages of review detail), to find/verify/reveal the gap in literature/knowledge that you have discovered that needs to be examined, and then you write the methodology you'll use to do this. This becomes a three chapter paper; which actually will be the first three chapters of your dissertation; chapters 4 & 5 come later and complete the dissertation.

You will defend your Proposal and if that's approved, then you do the research, data analysis, and write up chapters 4 & 5 and you'll ultimately defend the entire thing.

And then...you party!!
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Nice. Congrats - what a great accomplishment. You have me motivated!
 
Devil Doc said:
I’ve been fiddling around with the idea of a doctorate but I’d have to pay for it plus I’m too lazy at this point.

I squeezed two master’s from two GI Bills and the district pays me on the MA-plus 30 scale so I think I’ll give up the dream of being called doctor and stick with doc.
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Doc is the better title anyway.
 
A Sea Story
“Smith’s Cranial”​

The Arabian Sea...zero one hundred hours...no moon...less than ideal conditions for night flight operations. An aircraft carrier—90,000 tons of floating city—pitches and rolls in the inky blackness. A phalanx of jets returning from flight operations hits the 300 foot landing zone on deck every 30 to 45 seconds. In the passageway directly below the flight deck Seaman Apprentice Harting (age 19) works with Chief Reiter (age 33) on an electrical panel. A dented flight deck cranial (helmet) with the name “SMITH” neatly stenciled across the back, hangs by the ladder to the flight deck. The young seaman watches the cranial shudder each time a jet slams into the deck. The electrical panel repaired, the young sailor asks: “Hey Chief, who is Smith and why is his cranial hanging there?”

The chief, chewing on a toothpick, glances over his shoulder at the cranial as he secures the electrical panel, and says,

“Lemme tell you, and this is no ****...We had been in the Indian Ocean for ninety days and word was passed that a COD (aircraft with cargo) was inbound with mail and a load of ice cream. Smith was part of the supply crew. We had other incoming fixed-wing so we had to get the COD unloaded and off the deck before the rest of the section came in. Young Smith, in a sweat to get his ice cream, or a letter from his girlfriend, or whatever, almost went on deck without his cranial. The Master Chief caught him up short just about where you are standing and says, Hey Smith, where do you think you are going without your cranial? I don’t want to be writing a letter to your mother after your brains—what little you have—are spilled all over the deck. I got enough paperwork to do!"

"So Smith double-times it back to get his cranial. And lucky he did, in the sweat to get the COD unloaded, Smith took a glancing prop strike to the head. If he didn’t have his cranial on, his brains would have been spilled all over the deck and some young sailor—just like you shipmate—would have had to clean them up. So the Master Chief convinced the skipper that we should hang Smith’s cranial up there as a reminder.”

Six months later, Seaman Harting was painting the bulkhead in the same passageway with Seaman Apprentice Schiff (age 18), who reported on board last week. Seaman Apprentice Schiff said to Seaman Harting, “Who the (expletive deleted) is Smith and what is his cranial doing there?” Seaman Harting replied,

“Lemme tell ya, and this is no ****...last deployment Smith was assigned to a crew that was unloading a COD loaded with ice cream. They were in a sweat to get the COD unloaded because they had fixed-wing coming in and they needed to get the COD off the deck. Smith took a strike to the head. The first one nicked him but the second one took his head right off.”

Seaman Apprentice Schiff said, “No ****? Were you there?” Seaman Harting replied, “Naah, but a buddy of mine was. He had to clean up the brains and **** that were spilled all over the deck.”Seaman Apprentice Schiff said, “No ****?” Seaman Harting, “No ****, and they ended up giving the dude a medal.” Seaman Schiff, “Did they get the (expletive deleted) ice cream unloaded?” Seaman Harting snorted, “I guess so. That’s probably why they gave the dude a medal, posthumously.”
 
I like how everything goes wrong after the Chief and the Master Chief are taken out of the story.
 
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