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Schools I've Attended

I honestly don't know what the names of my pre-school and kindergarten were.  I'll have to look them up and get back to you.

Phillips-Osborne School -- I attended first grade through seventh here, while it was still just Phillips School.  It's a small private school on the campus of Lake Erie College.  My parents felt it was extremely important that I get a good education and they sacrificed a lot for it.  The school recently merged with another and their website is no longer active.

John R. Williams Junior High School and Riverside High School -- these schools were right next to each other, but the schools have since merged into one.  I was only at the two of them together for three years. 

Case Western Reserve University -- I only attended Case for one academic year. 

Lakeland Community College -- I attended Lakeland off-and-on starting when I was in high school, after Case briefly.  I received my Mixology certificate here.

Cuyahoga Community College -- I just took a couple classes here when I was starting to return to college finally after some time off.  I took some calculus classes and Japanese here.  I really liked my first Japanese instructor, Sensei Kazumi.

Cleveland State University -- I received both my undergraduate degree in Classical and Medieval Studies (with minors in Mathematics and Physics), as well as my Masters degree in Applied Mathematics. I wasn't really happy being here at first, but this place has been the best to me so far, and I finally had to get over that initial instinct.  I've met a lot of good people here, too.

Indiana University, Bloomington -- I went here in between my two stints at Cleveland State.  I received a Masters degree in Linguistics.  I really wanted a Ph.D., but.... I'm going to stop now.

Nova Southeastern University -- I attended their distance education program in Management Information Systems, and received a Masters degree in that subject.  I never visited their campus, though.

University of Pittsburgh -- I attended the Ph.D. program in Mathematics, here.  I passed the 'harder' of the two preliminary exams, but I was totally stuck on proofs by construction... and I learned that while I liked math, spending 100+ hours a week on it wasn't so much fun.

Ohio State University -- I started in January 2009 to work on my coveted degree in Astronomy, and maybe some other stuff. They switched from quarters to semesters in the middle of my program, but I managed to finish a B.A. degree in philosophy (they screwed up my physics/astronomy plan).

Southern New Hampshire University -- I started working here in 2015, and then started on a masters in American History in 2017. Then I worked on a B.S. geoscience degree which I am finishing in 2024, summa cum laude, with a minor in creative writing. May do a masters in data analytics next.

University at Buffalo -- I started working on a Ph.D. here in Computational and Data Enabled Science and Engineering in 2019. Unfortunately, it was a mess. My advisor dumped me 4 months in. Then COVID. The new advisor gave up on me after a year. I'm not giving up. I will have my Ph.D. one way or another.

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