Hello young friends! Good on you for planning for the future at such a young age.

So as the title suggests, I'm an Army veteran and civil engineer (specializing in structures) and work for the world's largest public works agency. I have a bachelor's and a master's in civil engineering as well as a master's in engineering management. I'm also a licensed Professional Engineer.

I've worked a variety of very cool jobs including a year-long stint as park engineer for a national park in Arizona. I also work alongside different disciplines within engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc.) so I have a good idea of what they do.

Ask away.

What's the difference between the two. Every article I have read has either said different things or is of no use. Can someone explain it in simple terms?

Pretty much, I'm a Junior in high school and want to be an officer in the military (any branch). The thing is, I really just don't want a college education at all, but it's what I go to do, so I guess I'll go to college if I have to. But, I don't think I'm that competitive for a normal academy, so I've been thinking, what's another way for me to become an officer. I don't really want to go enlisted then to OCS9 (or all the other names for officer candidate school) or warrant officer. I really want to go straight to officer. What's my best route, and how competitive am I?

I go to a private college preparatory high school.

Freshmen Year: Football, Intermural Basketball 4.00gpa

Sophomore Year: Intemural Basketball, in the Aviation Club 4.00gpa

Junior Year: Cross Country, Track, Intermural Basketball 3.897gpa

ACT: 24

Air Force def. Colorado 30-23 (OT)

Army def. UTSA 31-13

Navy def. ECU 42-10

Texas A&M def. Lamar 62-3

Virginia Tech def. Furman 24-17

The Citadel def. Georgia Tech 27-24 (OT)

VMI def. ETSU 31-24 (OT)

Norwich Univ. def. St. Lawrence 30-24

US Coast Guard Academy def. Nichols 24-23 (OT)

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America, fuck yeah.

For some background:

Job: After working for nearly a year as a part-time fullstack web developer using Django & React, I was promoted to a full-time position and started making a $60k salary, which I've been at for a couple months now. I'm now dependent on that money and have an apartment. I enjoy my job and I like my team, but the company is very small. I feel like the experience I've gained has been excellent. I've also been able to gain some experience with using AWS and managing that kind of infrastructure.

School: I transferred to Georgia Tech last semester and am just about to start classes for this semester, with the registration/drop deadline being later this week. Nearing halfway through my degree, so sunk cost fallacy is also feeling strong.

12 credit hours is the target for a state scholarship. But that load seems like it'll be a lot to balance with 40-hr work weeks. Going with fewer hours seems more manageable, but it also feels like the timeline for finishing my degree would be stretched a lot further into the future.

Motivation for getting my Bachelor's degree in CS seems lessened because I already have a job that pays what feels like a lot, being 19.

Overall, I just don't wanna murder myself with trying to balance work, school, and (of course) life. I know that a degree is very valuable, especially from this school compared to other institutions in my state, but is it a blatant waste of an opportunity to pass up on that to focus more on the work I already have? or could I rely on my work experience being likely to open up more opportunities in the future?

EDIT::

Holy moly. Was not expecting more than a couple replies. Everyone, thank you for your wisdom. I usually take advice from internet strangers with a grain of salt, but with such a huge sample size of people saying not to quit, it's hard to dismiss that. For this semester at least, I'm staying in school, and will re-evaluate my job if the semester proves too difficult. I can't state enough how much I like my boss, he's a super understanding guy. I do expect the company to be flexible and facilitate my educational growth, I just haven't seen exactly how much flexibility they're willing to give.

Also- about the senior dev thing- I was mistaken and I apologize for the confusion. I'm not super knowledgable about job titles and everything so far. Thought senior dev was more about the responsibilities than actual seniority (which makes a lot more sense). Thank you

Incoming Rook to Norwich University(The Military College of Vermont). Just interested in hearing some of the other experiences and cultures of other military colleges.

Before I get started with all the amazing colleges still looking for students like you, I'm gonna link some posts you might find helpful at this stage of the admissions journey:

So you were Deferred. What do to now? It's time to think about writing that Letter of Continued Interest!

Step by Step Guide to Interviews (with loads of potential questions and tips)

Financial Aid Resources

You do have an Amazing Personal Essay inside you

Making your peace with Supplemental Essays

Also, here’s my folder with lists of colleges that have historically been generous with international students: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pu179ZFhaTlFBqepzIB1W7dPhfVxIle2

So back to colleges still accepting apps... I just sorted on Common App to look at all the schools with deadlines on Feb 1 or later. There are some truly incredible schools there, y'all.

The actual common app list is much longer than this. I've only included schools that I've personally visited and liked or met their admissions team, or I know someone who has visited and liked it, or I know someone who's attended and been happy. If you have schools for me to add, please send them my way. This is just mostly from the Common App, so there are schools that aren't on Common App that I haven't listed. I've included a few non-Common App schools that I just happen to know have later deadlines.

If you have schools for me to add, please put them in the comments!

* If there's an asterisk next to a school, that means there are no app fees!

February 1

* TCU: beautif

https://twitter.com/theragex/status/1481654380952621056?s=21

I think that mostly everyone has finished their applications and has a six to eight months period of (mostly) free time. (if not for exam ofc). So what are you intending to do? Which skills are you going to take up, and so on?

While applying for an ROTC Scholarship I was told that "anything officer trumps enlistment" as in if you are signed up to go to bootcamp and recieve an ROTC Scholarship or acceptance to a military academy you will instead go to college.

Before graduating highschool I was accepted into a Senior Military College, I was going to attend but I was unable to get a loan. I am sticking it through with plan A 2.0 and enlisting. Sometime after bootcamp, if I am accepted again into the college, would it trump my enlistment?

I am looking for the best episode to play to a classroom of high school seniors who will be attending community college next year.

Themes to think about: Campus life, time management, class selections, majors or anything that would be applicable and appropriate.

Yes. I am a for real Community College professor and my family and I absolutely love the show.

Just to preface this post, I am a current senior at Duke University majoring in Economics and Computer Science graduating next May.

In the twilight of my slightly above average college career, I've had time to reflect on my four years at Duke and I've realized that the hardest part of this school was the application process. I will admit that I didn't take the hardest course load possible (not a math/engineering major), nor did I perform the greatest (3.84 GPA - just outside of Latin Honors). However, when I think back to my previous years, the classes, and the workload, it honestly wasn't that bad.

To begin with, I was (am?) an exceptionally average Duke student. My stats coming into college:

• 1490 SAT

• 33 ACT (34 super scored)

• Decent public high school (3.97 GPA)

• No noteworthy awards

On paper, I was as average as they came. Sure I wrote some decent essays, but I was not an intellectual powerhouse (especially at Duke). Yet, for the most part, the classes I have taken have not seemed exceptionally difficult. At Duke, it is almost impossible to fail. In fact, it is exceptionally difficult to get a C in most classes if you go to office hours and attend class. Of course, there are some exceptions and truly exceeding in a class does require a certain level of drive, intuition, and the like. Though, on balance, it really isn't much to fret about. With a reasonable amount of effort, you will pass and you will succeed. It gets better guys I promise.

Four years ago, I was a textbook example of imposter syndrome. I came into school thinking I was going to be in the bottom 10%. But that's simply not the case. The hard part about Duke (and many other peer institutions) is the application process and all of you are almost complete with that. Keep powering through and things will get easier. Good luck to you all!

HERE'S PART 1 IF YOU MISSED IT.

This is a small familiarization guide focusing on the Junior & Senior Military Colleges (J/SMC). My aim is to be concise & brief. I will go over the history, benefits and a few other under-the-table facts for us veterans. I highly encourage you to call the colleges for questions. The best person to speak to is the Recruiting Operations Officer at ROTC.

Backgroud of J/SMCs

In order to understand J/SMCs, one must understand the Corps of Cadets and the service academies. The academies' concept is simple: train young civillians and immerse them into the service to be a leader, hopefully for the long run. J/SMCs concepts is different: train civilians to serve, but part-time. The founder of this new concept, Citizen-Soldier, Alden Patridge, graduated from USMA and was one of USMA's superintendents. He left his position and founded his own SMC, known as Norwich. The Citizen-Soldier concept culminated into today's Reserve Officer Training Corps. This is why the academies do not have ROTC. However, the J/SMCs have a Corps of Cadets & ROTC. That's a very brief summary. Much of our Military History focuses on wars & politics, but if you read about the SMCs, you'll find SMC's reshaped many of our commissioning programs today. Unfortunately, today only a few J/SMCs remain standing.

The Junior Military Colleges

JMCs awards 2-year degrees and a few have a high school program integrated. They still thrive under the Corps of Cadets. Just FYI, their uniforms are ugly as fuck, just sayin’.

• Georgia Military College
• Marion Military Institute
• New Mexico Military Institute
• Valley Forge Military Academy
• Wentworth Military Academy

The Senior Military Colleges

SMCs award 4 year degrees, ROTC & a Corps of Cadets. They still mimic the lifestyle of the Academies. Remember, you're paying them to smoke you.

• Norwich University
• Texas A&M University
• University of North Georgia
• The Citadel
• Virginia Military Institute
• Virginia Tech

Eligibility (including Corps of Cadets)

• Be admitted
• Pay your tuition bill
• Don't swag your prior service around
• Age limit is enforced by a few. If enforced, request a waiver. 9 times out of 10, they are granted to vets. No joke.

Veteran Status & Perks of SMC

As a veteran, you have special privileges at the SMCs. This is not a complete list, as p

submitted my Vandy app 11 minutes before the deadline.

my eyes hurt from staring at the screen for so long.

please don’t procrastinate.

please.

I can't decide on which is going to be better for me, my cumulative GPA is 3.3 and I'm ranked 102 out of 360 right now. I've been talking to an army recruiter and already did the ASVAB, I got a high score and should be able to get a good computer job. If I were to go with the college route I would try to get a computer science degree. I'm in an AP computer science class right now and have been enjoying it a lot, so I'm thinking of going down that career path. I just don't know what would be better to do, for army the pros are

• Free Dental, so I can have "perfect" teeth.

• I'd have more pay probably.

• Experience in a possible job.

• College would be payed for.

• I could go to any college.

But, the pros for going to college are

• I would be going to the same one as most of my friends.

• I should be able to get a lot of the price down from FAFSA and other need based scholarships from the college directly.

• I would be able to grow my hair out, which the only reason I cut it was because I started thinking I would go with the army (probably doesn't seem important, but I really do miss it).

• I have a close friend that offered me a graphic design job, I have class experience with that.

• If I ended up with a programming job the debt might not be a big issue.

• One of the bigger reasons I first wanted to go military was because I had no idea what I wanted to do, but now I have an idea of what I want.

• I would have more freedom this way.

So, I just don't know what I should do, I have people suggesting to go with both side. Any opinions on this would be appreciated.

Edit: Just to clarify a bit, I wouldn't go military if I went to college. I don't really have plans to make a career out of the army.

Where to start? With the recent uptake in well connected stakeholders speaking about the Phenomenon, one excellent post by UrdonotWreav

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/naj1l5/religious_zealots_within_dodusg/

Put some clear names to senior Pentagon officials who could be putting a certain slant on the phenomenon being Demonic.

I won't comment on the validity of these claims, but I do want to draw your attention to a book by Nick Redfern (a few of you have probably stopped reading now, rest of you please bear with me) who published a book called

FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife

It's pretty wild - even by the standards of this subject matter. A few highlights:

• Nick Redfern interviewed a series of individuals using pseudonyms (starting with a Mr. Richard Duke), who were part of a Group in the US intelligence/military community which was known as the Collins Elite.
• The Collins Elite are religious (fundamentalist Christian mainly, though not exclusively) individuals who interpreted aspects of the UFO/entity experience to be demonic in nature.
• Alistair Crowley channelled a demonic entity called Lam which helped in opening a portal for the Phenomenon to increase.
• The brilliant scientist Jack Parsons, an admirer of Crowley, also assisted in portals opening because of his demon summing rituals and predilection for sex orgies (having worked in aerospace, I feel as if I missed out on a lot!...) - he was killed at age 37 in very unusual circumstances. Parsons founded Aerojet Corporation and played a pivotal role in the development of solid rocket boosters and countless other rocketry innovations. His role in the Apollo program cannot be understated.
• The phenomenon has tailored itself to suit the culture of the times: in the 1950s, entities operating saucers looked human and were supposedly from Venus, which roughly aligned popular thought then. As the general population of the world has grown in knowledge of the scale of the Universe and conditions of Venus, the aliens have changed the story.
• It seems aliens operate in the Astral plane to devour human souls i.e. demonic.
• Calling on Jesus can stop abductions.
• Abductions run through family generations due to the "sins" or permission granted by forebears.

etc etc...

Many of the points in the book are found elsewhere, but this is the first time I have hear