I know that there are more than three FFN members who have a college degree or want one

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Permalink Reply by Lee Huff on May 27, 2009 at 12:02am

As for me, I'm working towards an Associate's Degree in Nursing. I Start the actual program this fall. Unfortunately, I will have to re-take my Organic Chemistry, as I got a D on my final.

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Permalink Reply by LadyChaplain on May 28, 2009 at 12:43am

Graduated Summa Cum Laude on 5-16-09 with my BA in Political Science... headed to law school in the fall!

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on May 28, 2009 at 9:45pm

Lawyers are the root of all evil...just ask Shakespeare! (Just kidding, of course)

Congratulations anyway.

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Permalink Reply by LadyChaplain on May 30, 2009 at 11:36pm

:-P thanks

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Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on June 9, 2009 at 11:24am

Its official I have completed my last class with CSU and in 6 to 8 weeks will be getting my diploma in the mail. Havent decided if I will walk or not but I have until October to decide that.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on June 9, 2009 at 9:17pm

Congratulations

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Permalink Reply by Keri on September 1, 2009 at 3:40pm

As for me, I've got it good. The dept I work for is in a small college town with a city close by that has a couple of universities and comm colleges. My fire dept is a combination with 9 career guys, 6 residents, and a handful of volunteers. The resident program is setup for college students. We get to live in the fire station, work shifts with the career guys, get lots of training, and get paid a monthly stipend. You are required to be taking a minimum of 8 credits each quarter (except summer) at one of the five local colleges/universities to be part of the resident program. And the days you are on shift you are excused to go to class. I go to the state university that is just a block away for the station, I love being able to be a ff/emt while going to school full time. The dept puts our education first for us residents, so if we need more time to work on a lab or do any other hw its no problem, but also the university profs are great about letting us run on calls if we want/need to. Since our dept has a yearly contract with the university, our career guys have been talking about trying to get the university to finanicly support the resident program in some way i.e. tution or books or both for the 6 residents (although some to go school in the city, so they would still be on their own) but with the economic situation right now that probably won't happen at least for the next few years.

I am majoring in Electrical Engineering (BS) and Criminal Justice (BA), and minoring in Math, Physics, and Sociology. I didn't start working at the fire dept until part way through my second year of school, which would partly explain why my degrees will have basically nothing to do with firefighting.

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