Your college years

[Greg Myers]

Looking at another thread about building models while attending college (http://www.modelcars...showtopic=64288 ) got me to thinking. Tell us about your college years.

I started out at a wonderful two year school in Thatcher Arizona in their Automotive Tech program. Eastern Arizona Junior College 1965-1967 gave me an AA degree in Automotive Technology. From there I was on to the great Arizona north country in Flagstaff, Northern Arizona University 1967-1969, earning my Bachelors degree in secondary education. And yes, I built models in the dorm.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Greg Myers

[moparmagiclives]

I moved to Phoenix in 98 to start at UTI for automotive technology after high school. Had nothing but my cloths with me. Eventually I found out what a real hobby shop looked like, and I picked up a 53 or 54 Chevy delivery (wish I had that still) spent the next two years messing with it on and off wile living life. Move away in 2000, left it all again, wasn't till after I got maried that I was settled down enough to find the free time to start building again.

[cobraman]

I was one of those people who just could not stand school and could not wait to get out of high school. Unfortunatly for me I persued a career in warehousing and did do fairly well being a manager of a fortune 500 company for 27 years retiring from there in 2005. I could have done better with more schooling. I did not make that error with my daughter. We were able to get her in a 4 years private college and she is now in her final year of law school in California. She will work with her mind and not her back like her "old man".

[Mercman]

Went back after being out of HS for 7 yr's. Lasted 2 days.

[Agent G]

Enlisted in the Marines three days after HS. I was reasonably assured Vietnam was over, and I would have an uneventful enlistment. April '75 I was in Saigon for the evacuation. (30+ years later I learned it was called Operation Frequent Wind.)

In '76 I was informed of a program called the Platoon Leaders Course and that it was highly "recommended" I join. I had been to junior colledge in San Diego so Ohio State took all my credits and enrolled meas a full time student. Ohio State is a huge feeder for the Army's ROTC program so one little Marine didn't even phase them.

Shortly thereafter I received a degree in Art History and a commission as a First Lieutenant in the Marine Reserves.

While working as a police officer I attended the University of Missouri St Louis and received a BS in Administration of Justice. Any cop with a degree was a rarity back then, and we few received additional money for said degree. Now it's a requirement to join.

I have some stories to tell regarding my time as a Buckeye, but the statute of limitations is still running.

G

[Art Anderson]

I was in an unusual situation for 1962: Graduated from HS on Thursday, June 2, by 1pm Sunday June 5, I was waving goodbye to my parents from the entrance to Howard Residence Hall, Parsons College in Fairfield IA, ready to start the summer trimester there.

Now, I'd love to say it was 8 trimesters (2 years 8 months) and out, but it wasn't. My folks agreed to pay for the first two years (4 trimesters) of college, after that it was up to me (two sisters coming right behind me, 2 and 4 years younger). It took 4 years of study, and 4 years gathering up the $$ to pay for my Jr and Sr years, but I did receive my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration on Saturday, June 6, 1970.

Oh, and did I mention that I built model cars all the way through college?

Art

[Harry P.]

In college from 1962 through 1970?

I guess you must have really liked that campus lifestyle!

[Scott Colmer]

I was a mediorce high school student, preferring to work on cars to studying.

I also was lucky enough that my parents were able to pay for college for me. It was important to my father that his sons be the first Colmers to get a degree. But it took me a looong time to get going in the right direction.

I went to Solano JC in 1980 and unfortunatly upheld my same standrads. Then went to Diablo Valley JC - because a friend said there were babes there. That was pretty much a wasted year as partying was my focus. My grades went from mediocre to poop.So I went back to Solano JC and actually improved. At the end of that year, I had switched my major from Business to English.

In 1983 I was off to Sacramento State college, It still took a while to get my feet under me, but by the last year I met a fantastic teacher who showed me just how much I could learn and understand. I also had friends with good study habit. That made a huge difference. The last year I was all As and Bs. We still had a lot of fun. Best years of my single life. That's another set of stories.

I liked it so much I stayed in school - on my dime this time - and went on to get a MA in English to go with my BA. Turns out knowing how to write was a great help in a business career too.

My brother also got his MA. Dad was pretty happy. He said that was our inheritance. Teach a man to fish.

Scott

[bigphoto]

I never went to college but I dated a lot of college girls does that count?

Seriously though I took some auto mechanic courses after HS but they weren't telling me things I didn't already know at the time so I quit most of them except the auto body because the instructor taught me how to lead. The classes were free and most of the teachers treated everyone like they were morons because many of the students had to be there for welfare or unemployment and people like me really were trying to learn something.

Edited September 27, 2012 by bigphoto

[MachinistMark]

Bit of a blur really...

[blackandwhite]

spent a year at the local community college. transferred out to WIU, got booted for grades after a semester (went in on academic probation), and then spent the 2nd semester at the community college out there. Came back home and went back to the same local CC and put a hold on it at that point...4 years later Im still on hold

[Monty]

Best four years of my life, and not necessarily for the pop culture reasons that spring to most people's minds. First, going out of state helped me put the cliques and social castes that are part and parcel of a small town high school way behind me. Second, I had a little more incentive, thanks to my dad's wisdom. He co-signed for my student loans, but emphasized that any forthcoming loans would depend on the previous year's GPA. Since I had worked for a few years after high school, I was old enough to live off campus with two friends for all for years. Long story short, where I had occasionally done enough to get by in high school, I thrived in this atmosphere.

As far as models, I only built two during those years. This one, which we were required to buy and build for an art class. I kept it "box stock".

and this one.

I met a very pretty girl there whose dad ran a Chevy dealership in the western part of the state. The funny part was, she loved classic ('65-'73) Mustangs, and I had a '73 fastback at the time. I couldn't find a model of mine, so I built this one for her. Painted it Testors Sapphire Blue with a nicely detailed engine bay, interior and chassis, not to mention the four perfectly done white outline letter tires that came with the kit. You guys would've loved it. She, OTOH, wasn't exactly overwhelmed, but she did keep it on one of her shelves till I lost track of her a year or so later.

Go Pokes!

Edited October 2, 2012 by Monty

[Rob Hall]

Moved from HS in S. Florida back home to Ohio and did my undergrad at Kent State ('88-92) majoring in Computer Science w/a minor in Mathematics. Had an enjoyable 4 years overall...did my masters in CS at Kent '92-94. Enjoyed on- and off-campus life in NE Ohio, remember going to the Flats in Cleveland w/ friends pretty often for the weekend nightlife.

I then moved to Ann Arbor, Mi for 3 years to pursue a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the U. of Michigan. In June '97 when I decided to leave academia and go corporate (leaving grad school ABD) and moved to Colorado.

At Kent, I had a 4cyl '86 Mustang LX for my college car, which I ran snow tires on in the lovely NE Ohio winters. It got totalled two weeks after I moved to Ann Arbor, so I switched to an '88 Bronco II 4x4 that I drove through my Michigan years. I kept my '87 Mustang GT stored at home in Ohio and mostly drove it during the summers.

[Dragline]

I went to URI for 3 years. Didn't build one model during that time. I chased girls and played in a band then. Model cars were the LAST thing I was thinking about.

Bob

[charlie8575]

My seven years at Fitchburg State College were spent studying, working a little when time/interest/job availability permitted, an occasional date, dealing with a lot family issues, and activity with DeMolay and the Masons after I turned 21.

I poked at a lot of projects and kept as active as I could with building and Classic Plastic Model Club. I didn't do a lot of the stupid partying-type stuff or hang around a lot with the other students. Something I have a little bit of regret with, but that I didn't end up with a lot of the social ills that many of my friends did, I don't regret.

Charlie Larkin

[Chas SCR]

In HS we was one of 3 schools in Michigan to have the first C-N-C mills and lathes, So they offer a 3yr deal if you take the class all HS you get your apprenticeship program and then added on extra 3hrs a day my sr year for programing class and then after HS I got a job at Denso USA as I'm working there I also took class for Industrial Engineering Design at that time was a 2yr degree.

[Art Anderson]

My seven years at Fitchburg State College were spent studying, working a little when time/interest/job availability permitted, an occasional date, dealing with a lot family issues, and activity with DeMolay and the Masons after I turned 21.

I poked at a lot of projects and kept as active as I could with building and Classic Plastic Model Club. I didn't do a lot of the stupid partying-type stuff or hang around a lot with the other students. Something I have a little bit of regret with, but that I didn't end up with a lot of the social ills that many of my friends did, I don't regret.

Charlie Larkin

I attended Parsons College, off and on, from June 1962 until I received my BA in June of 1970. There were, back then, a number of us students who were model car builders, and we built what we built right there in our dorm rooms (well, when I joined "Turner House", which had been the nicest hotel in Fairfield IA until bought by the college, and turned into the men's "Honor Dorm" for students with high GPA's--our Head Resident took a very dim view of hobby stuff in the rooms!). Going back to campus in 1966 after a 2-yr layoff, (Turner House had been destroyed by fire in the meantime), and being by that time a bit of an older student, I was given my own room in Howard Hall (the other two beds were blocked), I could build a model car without any interference. Same in 1967. After laying out for 1968, I returned, this time as a full time student, back to Howard Hall, again a private room, and I built a dozen Indianapolis Car models from June 1969 through May 1970 AND maintained a 4.0 GPA for those three trimesters. For some silly reason, the resident counselors (the college tried to get me to take that role, but I wanted nothing to do with that!) were more concerned about a periodic "burning rope" aroma (pot) than with my occasional airbrushing of automotive or AMT lacquers!

As a sidebar: In the fall trimester 1969, I took an elective course, "Art & Design", and used as my class project, a scratchbuilt model of George Souders' 1927 Indianapolis Winner, the Duesenberg that Peter DePaolo won with in 1925, down to hand laced wire wheels, with a body and chassis done from scale drawings I made from an early book on historic Indy cars. Now, that was fun!

Art

[rel14]

HS to US Army for 5 yrs, went into welding and fabaracting for the next 40 yrs,,Docs put me on Disability, and a Proud DAV.

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