Would you go back to university?

[biffvernon]

and MOOCs.

I've signed up for one of those. This one:

https://www.coursera.org/course/warmerworld

Whether I have the self motivation to stick it out for a whole four weeks... well, we'll see

[Snail]

I started a course for learning Python and only stuck with it for 2 weeks!

[biffvernon]

Learning Python? Reticulating or just fainting in coils?

[Snail]

Not snakes, computers!

[clv101]

I started a course for learning Python and only stuck with it for 2 weeks!

Python's great. I'm using it on a daily basis these days.

[RenewableCandy]

I could never master the Silly Walk, personally

[Mean Mr Mustard]

I started a course for learning Python and only stuck with it for 2 weeks!

Python's great. I'm using it on a daily basis these days.

[BritDownUnder]

My advice is to do something useful though, meaning a science or engineering. Don't worry about the loan!

My usual response to this type of question, one roundly criticized back when the world was supposed to end, but looking a little better now that it hasn't (surprise surprise) is if you go to university, you take the most difficult program they have available, in the most difficult specialty you can manage, and do your best to be better than everyone else in the program.

With the proliferation of interesting but irrelevant topics of study (women's studies, basket weaving, the meaning of life, leadership) it turns out that just having a degree has been devalued by the proliferation of such nonsense, and it is now necessary, even when the degree comes from the better schools (Ivy League for example), to examine the actual subjects studied and degree achieved.

Don't over-specialise though. I did first time around doing synthetic organic peptide chemistry and have watched all the research laboratories I worked at shut down in the UK (Parke-Davis, Pfizer etc). I would have been much being an Analytical Chemist. Plenty of jobs still and could live in my home county Notts and not the 'posh and expensive' South-East where the research labs seemed to be based.

I am trying my best this time around to be an engineering generalist and stay employable.

I have heard that there are people in their sixties in the UK getting student loans and that the loan holder will likely die before ever paying it off. Don't know if there is much truth in it.

[RenewableCandy]

I recommend more history on how ridiculous peak oil claims once were...."blah blah blah...."

You really are a boring bugger Ralph.

Appears to come with knowing more about peak oil than the peak oilers. They do have a tough time with this. But I will just chalk up your comment to the usual "yes we know how badly we understood what was going on but we were SOLD so well by TOD and Ruppert and ASPO that it is THEIR fault!".

I wouldn't mind so much if you were entertaining in your trolling. But you're like a stuck record. You really do need to work on introducing a bit more variety to your tired script mate.

It isn't possible. The more I can prove

but that's the point. Your posts are not only boring (and of course condescending) but they don't prove anything. I mean, you have to ask yourself (or rather, your Masters have to have a serious sit-down and ask themselves) why you are here? If you want to persuade us here on Board that there exists no energy problem, you're not exactly going the right way about it are you?

[Ralph]

but that's the point. Your posts are not only boring (and of course condescending) but they don't prove anything. I mean, you have to ask yourself (or rather, your Masters have to have a serious sit-down and ask themselves) why you are here? If you want to persuade us here on Board that there exists no energy problem, you're not exactly going the right way about it are you?

You removed the best parts, and best questions Renewable. What a surprise. It is rather embarrassing, that there are those who pay attention to these things, and then there are the zealots who, for some reason, do not.

As far as "proof", if you cannot compare posts at this very website, with what ended up happening, no amount of proof will ever suffice.

You see what you wish to see.

Look up backfire effect if you need an explanation for what has happened to you, don't take my word for it.

If you want to claim that the backfire effect isn't running full steam through your blood stream, fine, go read the thread around here on Euan's Nails in the Coffin article at TOD.

Don't take my word for how badly the amateurs screwed the pooch on this one, go take his.

[biffvernon]

and MOOCs.

I've signed up for one of those. This one:

https://www.coursera.org/course/warmerworld

Whether I have the self motivation to stick it out for a whole four weeks... well, we'll see

Ooops, I just signed up for another one:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cli ... -solutions

Future Learn seem an interesting venture, owned by the OU but partnered by the top two dozen universities. This is their first batch of courses, just about to start, and I rather fancy it could become a very big thing over the next very few years. Just three dozen short courses announced so far, covering a wide range of topics.

[Mean Mr Mustard]

and MOOCs.

I've signed up for one of those. This one:

https://www.coursera.org/course/warmerworld

Whether I have the self motivation to stick it out for a whole four weeks... well, we'll see

Ooops, I just signed up for another one:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cli ... -solutions

Future Learn seem an interesting venture, owned by the OU but partnered by the top two dozen universities. This is their first batch of courses, just about to start, and I rather fancy it could become a very big thing over the next very few years. Just three dozen short courses announced so far, covering a wide range of topics.

Duly noted for later on this year, post-OU. Inky swots, we must be...

[emordnilap]

Hear hear.

[Little John]

"Ralph" contributes nothing useful or interesting to any of the discussion here.

You often use that type of response for anyone who doesn't agree with your view who questions your statements. Usually in a more abusive tone than that. Why is your view so right, and other's so wrong?

Oh do give the childish pettiness a bloody rest Woodburner. You seem to expend the vast majority of time on here making these non-posts

[woodburner]

It's a pity you two are so aggressive isn't it? Either abuse or bullying or both, and frequently ridicule. Of course neither of you would dream of admonishing others, would you? You both need to get a life.