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12/14/2006 04:40:27 AM · #1

So, I am done with college! Finished up my B.S. in Geology and I graduate this Friday! hell yeah.

Anyways, I've been waiting for my final grades for this semester because I really wanna see what I got. I've only got half of them posted! Dammit. I did make an A in my Physics class though! Damn, I want my grades.

Oh, and APSU keeps sending me bullshit in my email telling me to do my paperwork for financial aid next year. Dumbasses. I hate college.

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12/14/2006 08:31:55 AM · #2

LOL. You sound like a typical geologist.
:-D

violinist123

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12/14/2006 08:55:07 AM · #3

Hey at least with a geology degree there's little chance that what you learned in the last 4 years is going to be mostly obsolete and irrelevant in the next 18 months...

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12/14/2006 09:37:11 AM · #4

Originally posted by routerguy666:

Hey at least with a geology degree there's little chance that what you learned in the last 4 years is going to be mostly obsolete and irrelevant in the next 18 months...

Ha, ya I guess that's a problem with tech stuff.

Geology is great because the job changes as you advance, which is nice for A.D.D. people. It's fun to be a young geologist camping out and doing field work, getting drunk and burning stuff with gasoline, ATV races, bear-bangers, pepper-spray, lighters and bug aerosol, heli-fishing.

Then, when you're older and more mature, you do more work out of the citified corporate offices. The more computerized end, surf DPC, surf porn, go to fancy strip clubs, get drunk and burn stuff with gasoline.

;-)

violinist123

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12/14/2006 09:43:46 AM · #5

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by routerguy666:
Hey at least with a geology degree there's little chance that what you learned in the last 4 years is going to be mostly obsolete and irrelevant in the next 18 months...

Ha, ya I guess that's a problem with tech stuff.

Geology is great because the job changes as you advance, which is nice for A.D.D. people. It's fun to be a young geologist camping out and doing field work, getting drunk and burning stuff with gasoline, ATV races, bear-bangers, pepper-spray, lighters and bug aerosol, heli-fishing.

Then, when you're older and more mature, you do more work out of the citified corporate offices. The more computerized end, surf DPC, surf porn, go to fancy strip clubs, get drunk and burn stuff with gasoline.

;-)

Yes. In the end, all roads lead to the same destination. Heheh.

12/14/2006 12:11:12 PM · #6

Yeah, I reckon Geologic history has a habit of not changing so much. So far I only have experience in taking classes and camping with my friends, but everything you listed applies, campin out and burnin shit and getting drunk. hehe.

Strikeslip, am I to assume you are a Geologist? The name is a big clue.

12/14/2006 12:37:54 PM · #7

Originally posted by bigalpha:

Strikeslip, am I to assume you are a Geologist? The name is a big clue.

Yes, at the moment anyway. I work for a junior exploration company, and juniors tend to have short life-cycles, then everyone packs up and shuffles to other companies. We're at the end of our life-cycle, and unless we can pull off something incredible I don't think we'll be getting much more in the way of financing.

There's a shortage of young geologists at the moment, and if the price of gold holds, or keeps rising, you'll be in a good spot. The industry was shit for a long time after I graduated, and all but a couple of my classmates gave up and went into accounting or somesuch mind-numbing occupations.

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12/14/2006 01:58:58 PM · #8

Originally posted by bigalpha:

Yeah, I reckon Geologic history has a habit of not changing so much.

Well, I went to school during the transition from "continental drift" to plate tectonics as the dominant theory of geologic evolution -- that was a pretty dramatic reassessment : )

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12/14/2006 02:15:20 PM · #9

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by bigalpha:
Yeah, I reckon Geologic history has a habit of not changing so much.

Well, I went to school during the transition from "continental drift" to plate tectonics as the dominant theory of geologic evolution -- that was a pretty dramatic reassessment : )

I was always under the impression that continental drift was caused by plate techtonics. ;-)

justine

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12/14/2006 02:20:42 PM · #10

Congratulation!!

bigalpha All the best to you.

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12/14/2006 02:21:06 PM · #11

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I was always under the impression that continental drift was caused by plate techtonics. ;-)

Yeah, but the mechanism was unexplained up to that point. Actually, I don't know what most geologists thought before plate tectonics caught on; I saw that other term in an article and stupidly copied it.

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12/14/2006 02:27:10 PM · #12

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I was always under the impression that continental drift was caused by plate techtonics. ;-)

Yeah, but the mechanism was unexplained up to that point. Actually, I don't know what most geologists thought before plate tectonics caught on; I saw that other term in an article and stupidly copied it.

Heck, I'm not even a scientist, yet I knew that plate tectonics is the mechanism that creates continental drift :-) Everything I know comes from reading stuff, and reading more stu8ff, and reading even more stuff, for going on 55 years now...

R.

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12/14/2006 03:04:08 PM · #13

Forget "continental drift" -- it was a poor choice from another source which was supposed to be an earlier alternative theory to plate tectonics.

Like I said, I don't remember what the prevailing geologic theories were prior to the mid-sixties, when the current explanation of plate tectonics driven by expansion at the mid-ocean ridges first gained wide acceptance.

I actually took an introductory geology class at UC Santa Cruz, which was enough to teach me that I'm OK with maps but lousy at identifying minerals. The most interesting thing I learned was that the Earth Sciences building was (stupidly) constructed over a gigantic potential sinkhole, and had to have concrete support pillars run some 120 feet down to bedrock; someday it will be a building on stilts.

12/14/2006 03:08:31 PM · #14

Originally posted by GeneralE:

...plate tectonics driven by expansion at the mid-ocean ridges...

Actually, I believe it's driven by the "pull" at subduction zones. ;-D

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12/14/2006 03:13:53 PM · #15

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
...plate tectonics driven by expansion at the mid-ocean ridges...

Actually, I believe it's driven by the "pull" at subduction zones. ;-D

Oh, circulating magma pulling down the subducting crust?

You'd think if it was "pull-driven" that there would be more tearing on the ocean floors; upwelling magma at the mid-ocean ridges pushing the crust into the subduction zones makes more intuitive sense to me. But, that class was a long time ago ... : )

12/14/2006 03:56:47 PM · #16

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
...plate tectonics driven by expansion at the mid-ocean ridges...

Actually, I believe it's driven by the "pull" at subduction zones. ;-D

Oh, circulating magma pulling down the subducting crust?

You'd think if it was "pull-driven" that there would be more tearing on the ocean floors; upwelling magma at the mid-ocean ridges pushing the crust into the subduction zones makes more intuitive sense to me. But, that class was a long time ago ... : )

Ooh, I just took a look at Wikipedia on Plate Tectonics, and it's great. I wish I had it when I was in school. Scroll down on the page and you'll find Slab Pull, which is what I was refering to.

When I was in university, we had a two week field trip through the French & Italian Alps to look at Ophiolites, which are the sequence of rock formed at mid ocean ridges. Once upon a time deep below the ocean surface, now thust up into the Alps. We had many a good drunk while over, and burned some stuff with gasoline of course. I even had the opportunity to chase down and tackle pick pocket.... good times. :-)

12/15/2006 01:49:31 PM · #17

I though plate tectonics was a combo of push and pull; not necessarily one or the other. Unfortunately, the only geo jobs around where I live is Environmental :( I am not ready/in a position to move yet, so I'm gonna get stuck doing environmental work. Not too bad, as long as I don't have to sit at a computer all day long.

So, I graduate in an 1 and 15 minutes! Maybe I'll post some pics later (read: tomorrow, or the day after).

In true geology form, I 'decorated' the top of my hat with scrapbooking stick-on. There's a fire, beer, hotdogs and a canoe.

12/15/2006 01:58:09 PM · #18

Originally posted by bigalpha:

In true geology form, I 'decorated' the top of my hat with scrapbooking stick-on. There's a fire, beer, hotdogs and a canoe.

Haha, way to pimp that hat.

I missed my grad as I had to leave for work right away. I picked up my degree at the geology department office and got my handshakes there.

Nothing wrong with environment work!