"Washout" Thread

Give them numbers?

 

This Washout thread hadn't been posted to in about two years.

I washed up this morning.

 

I've been washed up for a couple-three decades at least. Just hangin' on by a thread, makin' trouble.

 

Cape Breton University's Master of Business Administration in Community Economic Development for me. I was doing quite well, and doing work at the same time. I gave them almost everything from my work and from student funding, unfortunately the student funding was cut, due to them deciding that the program should not have been funded in the first place, and did not meet requirements. So I was left high and dry with half of an MBA. Gotta be honest, that really hurt financially, and I'm still not happy about it, but I ended up going to a much better university, Robert Gordon University ("RGU") in Scotland, and while I don't WANT to look back, it was an expensive lesson. I'm actually considering a second masters at RGU, they are getting more and more online stuff now, and while they are not the cheapest option, you get quite a bit out of the coursework, and a nice degree that is WES Canada ready.

 

LOL classic forum-ready pun

 

ooof sorry to hear, but don't fall off of the horse, there are other options abound

 

I decided to wash out (up?) on the Certificate in Value Creation from the Madden Center for Value Creation at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. The program design was incompatible with my hearing impairment, which meant it took twice as long for me to finish a module as with other institutions' programs. Such a slowdown is usually something I can overcome, but the program was too overtly political for me, with its emphasis on Austrian economic theories. I chose not to force myself to ingest it, leaving no choice but to wash myself out.

I actually felt a sense of relief when I made the decision. At least I wasn't paying for it.

 

It’s highly disappointing that the program was designed this way.

 

My hearing impairment is primarily misophonia. The course had only one lecturer, who spoke in a manner that made it extremely painful to listen to him. My impairment doesn't happen with everyone's speech, just those with specific "wet" speech mannerisms. (Many videos on other channels use filters on their audio to eliminate this effect, but that adds costs...)

I've gotten around this in the past by using written transcripts, and muting the sound so as to rely on closed captions. (In person I use different noise-subtraction earphones.) It just took too long with this course, as I'd have to stop the video every few seconds to understand what the lecturer meant by what he was saying.

 

Extremely interesting. A Google search indicates that it is a very rare thing with a wide range of trigger sounds between people that have misophonia. Thank you for sharing. I wish you well!

 

I washed out/dropped of the UC PhD in IT. I was excited by the program, and enjoying it. But with two kids and a wife who need my attention and student loan debt ticking upward, I had to make a choice. Instead of coursework, I'll be spending 2025 tinkering with some National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) datasets to keep my statistical knowledge up. Maybe I'll stumble on something publishable and get a paper out of it.

 

After a very trying time--military, divorce, kids, etc.--I dropped my Union program in 1994. I resumed it in 2002 and graduated the next year with a PhD.

 

I've post some of this before but washed out of BA in Religion from Oxford Brookes. Seemed like a good idea at the time but lost interest and had no real purpose. "Sort-of" washed out of a MA in Business Ethics from University of Wales. I didn't finish the MA but exited with a GradCert. Very positive experience but got burned out trying to balance life and study. Ended up pursuing moral philosophy at Leeds. Washed out of a MA in Buddhist studies from University of Wales; crap program IMO.

 

I washed out of high school. It took awhile, but the last grade I successfully completed was the 8th.

 

In 1985 and 1986 I washed out of high-school, twice, kind of. The first time was in 11th grade. I was kicked out of one school then dropped out of the next. Came back as a senior the following year because I had enough credits to still advance grades. Got kicked out of that school well before graduation. Ended up graduating later that summer via correspondence from Citizens High School which was my first distance education experience. I believe Citizens is still around today, but they were located in Georgia at the time as I recall...now in Florida, but I digress.

 

When I was at Leicester, I had a terrible time convincing them that the Chief Learning Officer was a scholarly subject to study. First, because what would be the foundational theory, and second, what the heck is a CLO? I was really frustrated by this, so I flew over there to discuss it with a leading faculty member. I finally offered to leave the program with a lesser award (probably an MS or MPhil). That changed everything. Instead, I was asked to write a paper specifically addressing the issue. It was accepted and I proceeded with my study. I baked that paper right into the thesis, so it wasn't a waste of time. But it did slow my down by months.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I created a grounded theory on the CLO. My feeder theories were human resource development (which is a foundational theory in my field and is made up of four other theories: ethics, systems, psychology, and economics), adult learning (androgogy), upper management teams, and strong structuration. And as I've said before, despite the non-PhD title of the degree, it was a scholarly, not professional, degree. The idiots at WES couldn't see that no matter what I provided them from Leicester.