toejam
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Post by toejam on Jan 21, 2017 16:22:32 GMT -8
Missouri State University in Springfield Cool. Both my brothers went there.
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ladyblade
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Post by ladyblade on Jan 22, 2017 0:07:27 GMT -8
Awesome!! Being a "non-traditional" student isn't easy, but the skills come back and there are so many more tools out there for those late night reference checks. I don't know what I would do without the internet and wish it was more than dos and modem when I was first in college. :D Good luck, man!
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Post by bass on Jan 22, 2017 3:26:52 GMT -8
Congrats!
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 22, 2017 10:30:16 GMT -8
I don't know what I would do without the internet and wish it was more than dos and modem when I was first in college. HA! I was just grateful that the PC and a word-processor made their way into my life before I finished, and definitely before I had to write a dissertation. I got the PhD before the Internet was much use for more than communication (which I'm not knocking, mind: my husband and I courted via email and an early precursor to chat.
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Jan 22, 2017 10:48:21 GMT -8
I don't know what I would do without the internet and wish it was more than dos and modem when I was first in college. HA! I was just grateful that the PC and a word-processor made their way into my life before I finished, and definitely before I had to write a dissertation. I got the PhD before the Internet was much use for more than communication (which I'm not knocking, mind: my husband and I courted via email and an early precursor to chat. LOL! I had to expand the RAM and install a math coprocessor on my 486 desktop unit in order to run the calculations on my thesis. The processing took over 16 hours of run time. Now a phone app does the same thing in milliseconds.
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Jan 24, 2017 11:24:46 GMT -8
I've often pondered the idea of going back to complete a M.A.Sc. or M.Eng.
Congrats on having the initiative and nailing down the opportunity. Bonne Chance!
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Post by kenv on Jan 24, 2017 12:46:28 GMT -8
Congrats to you Mo! And best wishes. I enjoyed both my masters and Naval War College. I was fortunate in that my employers paid for my grad school while I was also working and continued to pull a salary, so it was not a financial burden for me. But the time burden was at times horrendous.
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Post by hikingtiger on Jan 24, 2017 14:30:33 GMT -8
I was fortunate in that my employers paid for my grad school while I was also working and continued to pull a salary, so it was not a financial burden for me. But the time burden was at times horrendous. Agreed. Though I did have to front the money for tuition (reimbursed after grades were posted), so it was tight for the first semester or so. Usually, the reimbursement would come in just in time to pay the next term's tuition.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Jan 24, 2017 17:08:58 GMT -8
I had to expand the RAM and install a math coprocessor on my 486 desktop unit in order to run the calculations on my thesis. The processing took over 16 hours of run time. Now a phone app does the same thing in milliseconds. I used FORTRAN77 and punch cards. Little green CRTs, teletype machines, and ARPANET.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Jan 24, 2017 17:09:31 GMT -8
I've often pondered the idea of going back to complete a M.A.Sc. or M.Eng. If you're gonna do it, do it while you're young.
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Ed
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Post by Ed on Jan 25, 2017 8:32:14 GMT -8
I used FORTRAN77 and punch cards. Little green CRTs, teletype machines, and ARPANET. You had CRTs?
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Jan 25, 2017 8:53:06 GMT -8
I didn't use the CRTs. Whenever the trunk line went down you'd lose all of your code. That's why I used punch cards.
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Post by kenv on Jan 25, 2017 13:20:59 GMT -8
I used FORTRAN77 and punch cards. Little green CRTs, teletype machines, and ARPANET. I started out on FORTRAN66 using teletype machines and punch cards. We had an interactive operating system of sorts using teletype machines running Dartmouth BASIC on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS). No CRTs and no ARPANET. Aaaaaah, those were the days.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Jan 25, 2017 16:38:20 GMT -8
Well, maybe it was Fortran66. ARPANET was a decade later.
I remember working at NASA in the early to mid 90s. The scientists wanted a terabyte per nanosecond 24/7/365 or they pitched a fit, even though they couldn't analyze all of it. I wasn't at this particular meeting (busy doing orbital analysis or something), but one of the older guys snatched 'em up one day.
"We sent a man to the moon on a 56k link. This ain't Candyland. We can't change the orbits of the things you want study. We can't control where the sun is over the Earth. We can't pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of the air to create new ground stations. Get real."
Or something to that effect, but the low speed link was definitely part of his statement.
I figured out how to put some TOTS (Temporary Orbital Transmission Station? can't remember...) in various places around the world to help out. In reality, a TOTS was nothing more than a trailer in the wilderness that someone would go to every week or so to swap out the tapes. They worked well for the polar orbiting satellites. We could sometimes get a nearby military base at high latitude to do it for us.
As I recall I cobbled together some TOTS, part of the DSN (Deep Space Network), White Sands, and other things to make it work. Coverage is one thing, but they couldn't all work at the same frequencies.
As we used to say in a later non-NASA job, "Yep, I put that together with magic tricks and bike parts."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 2:26:29 GMT -8
Congratulations! I started trying to go for a masters, but it was too stressful for me!
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