Tempers Ball

Or a phi thetan?

I guess I'm not metro enough to know what that means...

I thought it was some kinda frat or something but that does not sound like Gerien
so perhaps an academic society of some kind

Yeah, I'm Phi Theta. Finally going on to the third year starting this summer, after a long layoff.

I'm a high school drop out, do I qualify?

Is it worth it? Ruben is thinking of applying. I'm a Phi Beta Kappa, but near as I can tell they're two very separate organizations that only sometimes work together.

For ditch digging...

Yeah Gerien, it's worthwhile.
Phi Theta is good for easy access to a modest amount of financial aid for no real effort.
As you observed, the two organizations are indeed complementary but discrete.

Sure, QD. I dropped out of high school, but I still qualified later on =)

Good to know, thanks.

And I'm a dropout myself. One week into senior year I left.

Wow - we could start the "we fucked up our lives and but turned it around" club.

I didn't drop out of school, college was my only way out of my horrible family life. But then I drank my way out of college. I didn't graduate until 12 years later.

Now look at me

I knew I fucked up by having a normal family and graduating in 4 1/2 years.

You're so wrong! Not saying you aint right. But you're so wrong!

Seriously though, I'm a big fan of participating in academic/trade societies. My biggest breaks have come through having been a part of something, and having an inside connection with someone.
Also, when I was in college. I know participating in MESA was really motivational for me. Some days it was just good to have people, even if strangers, who got what you were doing and trying to accomplish. And it's a good conversational toss in when sales pitching myself.

I'd say go for it.

The funny thing about my having droped out of high school, is that I ended up in basic training 9 days after I turned 17. By the time my friends were graduating. I was already a "combat" medic, E-3, triaging sick call in a troop medical clinic (doctors office for a brigade sized unit), and attending EMT classes. After having done an OJT tour through the hospital, physical exams, drawing blood in the lab to practice "sticking" people, then to the ER and cardiology.

Out of curiosity, what future career field/s is Ruben looking to pursue?

I am a PTK and a PBK (and a BFB besides) but could not take the stress of two kids, a husband, working full time, school full time etc... to go further.

:sad face:

I shoulda' stapled my husband to the stove until I had my Masters while I still had him. But I am so not bitter.

[edit] And as said above, there is money in PTK, but it is mostly for undergrad ed. Are you pursuing another degree? [/edit]

Don't get me started, or we'll turn this into a "I hate my ex-spouse cause they did me dirty while I was going to school" thread.

But I am so not bitter

Psychology.

And Syl, it's for Ruben, not me. I was offered PBK just before I graduated (didn't even know what it was until my Mom screamed "you're a Phi Bet?!!" when I told her). I was never a Phi Thetan, though. Ruben is going to apply. Maybe he'll end up with both.

Me? I just want my Master's so I can get a real librarian salary somewhere and start paying back my undergrad loans.

Good for him, tis a tough go trying to figure out them human types. ;>

No doubt. Well, good luck to him and if nothing else you get the honors tassles and ribbons and crap and it looks good on a resume.

Best of luck to him!

What Nato left out was her explaining that the last half-of-a-year was spending doing blow and whoring herself out on a street corner on 5th and Main.

She had very competitive rates, I give her credit.