Let's brag: Speed run

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  1. Mac Juli

    Mac Juli Well-Known Member

    Hello!

    Sometimes, you are in hurry completing your degree because you have a deadline to keep. Sometimes you hurry up to save money. And, sometimes, speed is just an end in itself.

    When I did a PG Cert in Marketing, I managed to get 9 graduate credits in six weeks. My caffeine consumption exceeded any sane amount, I sleeped barely four hours a day, but I managed to finish it in the minimum amount of time permitted.

    So, let's brag a little: What was your best "speed run"?

    Best regards,
    Mac Juli
     
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  2. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    So far, I completed my MBA in 12 months (the minimum time permitted then). For my Ph.D. program, I completed my coursework (15 courses/45 credits) in 19 months. If I finish the program by the end of Spring 2021, like I hope to, then it would take me approximately 31 months (2.5 years).
     
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  3. Mac Juli

    Mac Juli Well-Known Member

    Dang. My English no good when I sleeped too little.
     
  4. Mac Juli

    Mac Juli Well-Known Member

    MBA in 12 month? I am impressed!
     
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  5. Thorne

    Thorne Active Member

    I've had a few speedruns, usually to try and best my old records.

    While still in high school, I finished an entire semester's worth of coursework in two weeks for all but one class based on my teachers' published syllabi, then cut class to go work on projects, study independently, and hang out with friends.
    In Community College, I decided to get my CCNA Security and CCNP, so I spent about 400 hours of time in the lab (not including my mandatory lab-time for my CCNP class) over the course of 8 weeks and took all four exams in two days, then immediately applied for the job opening for a lab technician to build my resume. Sadly, none of this mattered for employers outside the school, so I ended up letting my cert lapse because I didn't feel like spending more money on a failed experiment. It did net me 12 credits at WGU though.
    To finish my Bachelor's degree, I completed 71 credits in a 4-month stretch. While waiting for WGU to confer my degree, the whole one day that took, I jumped in and did the FEMA IS certificate for good measure.
    Then, most recently, I completed the whole ENEB MBA programme (plus others) in under 3 months by taking advantage of the lockdown and studying 10 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. Contemplating doing Marketing (one class out) and Project Management (because it's easily marketable) just to fill up my extra time while looking into other graduate programs that interest me.

    I helped a friend of mine plan a degree some time ago, the guy put me to shame. He did 124 nontraditional credits in 7 weeks and his TESU capstone immediately after, going from Zero-to-Bachelors in under two months. Sadly, he hates higher education and wants nothing to do with grad school, but he has one heck of a story to tell prospective employers!
     
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  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    AA in 8 weeks. BS in 18 months. BA in 3 more months. It slowed a bit after that.
     
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  7. Thorne

    Thorne Active Member

    Gah, meant to say three months. I curse thee, 10 minute timer of doom :p
     
  8. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Beer and pizza - got both in under 19 minutes. About 40 years ago. :)
     
  9. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Dang. My German no good und es ist nie wichtig, wie lange ich geschlafen habe. :)

    (and it's never important how long I slept.)
     
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  10. asianphd

    asianphd Active Member

    My best "speed run" is trying to finish 44 UG credits in one term while working on a research project and at the same time trying to finish a Coursera specialization. It seems crazy, but I managed to have some overlap subjects.

    Now during COVID, I am trying to experiment a bit. I am trying to finish 4 years of the MIT curriculum in 1 year. (Yes I got no certificate or something, but at least I become familiar and have basic understanding of the subjects). Inspired from https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
     
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  11. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    How about long run, 11.5 years at UNISA and still going. Lol
     
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  12. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Don't you get time off for good behavior? How long was the original sentence, anyway? And - just asking, of course - what, exactly, are you 'in' for? :)
     
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  13. eriehiker

    eriehiker Active Member

    I passed 20 Davar tests in one month when they had a $99 all-you-can-test month. That is just about 60 credit hours that became part of my TESU BSBA. I also completed all of the FEMA credit courses in just about one month during the Covid-19 hard shutdown because COSC decided to stop transcripting the credits and I figured it was now-or-never. That ended up being 60 credits as well.
     
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  14. Acolyte

    Acolyte Active Member

    I finished my Master's in a year - with a couple of weeks off in the middle. It was an accelerated program.
     
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  15. Mac Juli

    Mac Juli Well-Known Member

    You don't say?! :)
     
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  16. Acolyte

    Acolyte Active Member

    :D:D:D
     
  17. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member


    Orginally it eas supposed to be 5, then each year it just kept going. My South African funding cut off at 7, 24K Rand a year is all on me. This year, no tuition due to Covid, but still not finished..lol
    If this goes to July 2021, I will be tied with the longest doctoral student in the UNISA History Department^history". Yea me!
     
  18. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    24K Rand a year is a relatively small tuition fee - $1581 a year - but for soooo long! You have way more patience than I do, sir. I hope you manage to finish before Unisa exhausts even your commendable store of patience. Granted, tuition is exceedingly low by North American standards, especially for a doctoral program, but even so, I think you're being required, in other ways, to "pay a price" that is beyond what a school should exact from a student.

    I wish you the best with your program and hope I will get to read of your great success. It will be well-deserved, indeed. In more than one way.
     
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  19. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    @Tireman 44444 Sorry. Post above is meant for you - I left out a "4"
     
  20. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    As I understand, you finished your dissertation literally years ago and are waiting to defend right? I would be very frustrated that the school is not letting up.
     

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