I went to Renssealer (sp) Polytech in Troy NY. That is where I first started playing Civ I.

University of Maryland.

It was in running their computer labs there, that I got my first taste of multiplayer first personshooters...when we hooked up all the machines to play Doom. We also set up the huge overhead projector in one of the auditoriums to do the same. :D
I was already a gaming addict by then though.

I went to the International Business College of the Romanian-American University of Bucharest. Does that tell anyone anything? It’s one of the least relevant things I’ve ever done in my life. They have a nice new building design though.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/sediu.jpg

Iowa State University. So I was really with the Cyclone, not the Hawkeye.;) Anyway, I got my Master in Computer Science there about a decade ago.

Went to three, looking for a forth ( must have a masters by internet as I live and work in Brazil.)

Emmaus Bible College, Dubuque Iowa--Bible Theology
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago--Bible Theology
Northeastern Illinois Univ, Chicago -- Education (Special Education)
(NOT Northwestern ((I wish it was Northwestern)))

Anyone have any ideas on a masters program by internet?

Oh, I almost forget to mention that the first computer was invented at Iowa State University. Yeah, they will hurt me bad if I forget to mention that.;)

University of Virginia--back when they had a nuclear engineering department
:mad:

Almost went to Virginia Tech. Had a scholarship albeit a small one and everything.

Lehigh University for a business degree and the College of William and Mary for a law degree.

Hotrod--I bet you were at RPI when a bunch of the folks I work with were there. Know anyone who went to work for the nuclear navy?

In Centrale Lille (North of France)
UMIST (UK) for a MSc in Information Engineering

University College London, England, 1961-64, theoretical physics.

UCL was established in 1826 by a group of people inspired by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham to counter the dominance of the established church in British education. Jeremy's efigy is still resident at the college, when he has not been "borrowed" by the students of other rival colleges in London.

Cambridge University, England - BA MA Theoretical Physics
Sussex University , ditto - MSc Astronomy
York University, ditto - research in computational astrophysics

Southern Illinois University (BS Industrial Engineering)
Fairleigh Dickinson University MBA

Looking for a program and college for my PHD. I am not having much luck here as I want to go nights and still be able to work.

Imperial College, London - MEng (Electrical Engineering)
MIT - MS (Naval Architecture)
MIT - PhD (Marine Hydrodynamics)

:)

Leeds University, England BSc Medicinal Chemistry (1998-2001)
As above MChem Medicinal Chemistry 2001-2002
Got loads of my hall mates into civ but none of them still play :(

My alma mater is Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. They have a live camara shot at:
http://www.info.cornell.edu/CUHomePage/CornellStream.html

It looks like winter 3/4 of the year but its still beautiful.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/LibeTower.jpg

I did my masters at Case Western Reserve but my heart still lies in Ithaca.:love:

Go BIG RED!

Originally posted by AlanH
University College London, England, 1961-64, theoretical physics.


Queen Mary College London in the Mile End road - Astrophysics. Nearly went ot UCL but decided Astrophysics sounded better than Astronomy.

Penn State University - Erie Campus
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania - the "Fighting Scots". Complete with bagpipes and all.

Hergrom

I went to Penn State for a year and a half, then I transferred to Millersville Univ, both in PA, same degree Computer Science.

I'm on 4th year (out of 5) of computer science at University of Wroclaw.

I went to Antioch College in Ohio, where I majored in Creative Writing and took full advantage of a pass/fail grading system that's much more forgiving than the Jason one. Our sports teams are called the "Radicals," except there have been no extramural sports teams in about 70 years.

Originally posted by mad-bax


Queen Mary College London in the Mile End road - Astrophysics. Nearly went ot UCL but decided Astrophysics sounded better than Astronomy. I wento for interviews at QMC and King's as well. King's were very snooty and made it clear they thought it very unlikely I'd meet their entrance requirments. Well I did anyway, and turned their offer down :) . QMC looked great, but I fell in love with the idea of living in central London for three years, and went for UCL.

University of Bergen and College (soon to get the university-title) of Stavanger, both Norway.
Got a degree combining law and business.

Stanford University......American Studies degree which hasn't stopped me from destroying Lincoln when appropriate.

Currently doing an Open University degree - it's like a correspondance course but is a valid alternative to conventional degrees.

So I'm attending university at home.

undergrad... Kalamazoo College in Michigan
Graduate.... Cornell University's medical college in NYC

Technical University of Vienna Austria, Msc in electrical engineering
Rotterdam School of Management, MBA with an exchange scholarship at the Sloan School of MIT

Originally posted by Moonsinger
Oh, I almost forget to mention that the first computer was invented at Iowa State University. Yeah, they will hurt me bad if I forget to mention that.;)

That must have been before you were born. When was the Iowa State computer invented?

The home of the Fighting Gators - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

94' - BS in Environmental Engineering
98' - MS - Environmental Engineering / Radiological Health Physics

Moonsinger - Iowa may have invented the computer, but UF invented Gatorade :)

Wow, there a lot of engineers here. I feel in good company.

University of California, Davis with a Bachlor's Degee in Aerospace Engineering. I now work at the Navy's premier weapons research and development laboratory where I hold the title Chief Scientist in the Propulsion and Energetics Systems Division. It sounds a lot more impressive than it actually is, I'm really an old guy who is about to retire.

I only went to Spokane Falls Community College to study Music (jazz performance, Saxaphone :cool: ) I should have went on to a bigger school but, I was, am an Idiot:mad:

I only took a couple classes outside of my music program. Sociology and Philosophy.

No degree. and I don't play my horn much anymore:(

I started my degree at Hatfield Polytechnic, which changed to a University during my course becoming The University of Hertfordshire (http://www.herts.ac.uk/). I studied Computing Mathematics, half the course spent with those doing a Maths degree, the other half learning how to use computers for solving mathematical problems.

It's interesting that OneFastWarrior should mention music, as I've recently (if you consider 2 years recent) taken up the piano! Between practising the piano, reading sf/fantasy and playing GOTM I don't seem to have much time for work or my other hobbies of sleeping/eating :).

Originally posted by Svar
That must have been before you were born. When was the Iowa State computer invented?

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. Here is the link to it if you want to read more:

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml

Graduated from prestigious Genesee Community College - Associates in Computer Repair

Soon to be attending RIT in Rochester, NY - Telecommunications Engineering

ControlFreak - I love Ithaca! One of the coolest places I've ever been. :)

I went to NY State Kindergarten... ;)

Wow, with all of these (astro)physicists, engineers, computer scientists, etc. playing the GOTM, it is no wonder that I'm still in the bottom half!! I am impressed by so many of your credentials, and none more so than yours, Alexman--MA and Ph.D. from MIT! :goodjob:

About me, I attended a small, private university in Nashville, TN, USA. I received a B.A., with majors in Psychology and Spanish and a minor in Business Administration. Like you, Creepster, I have wanted to continue working (teaching) and get my graduate work completed, but my field of choice (Romance Languages and Linguistics) just isn't available online. So, I recently resigned my teaching position and am looking to return to school full-time in order to complete my graduate work.

Stanford -- 1980-85, BA, Independent Studies (Jewish Studies)
UC Santa Barabara -- 1985-87, MA, Religious Studies
UC Santa Barabara -- 1987-94, Ph.D., Religious Studies -- Dissertation Topic: The Politics of Redemption: Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah ha-Kohen Kook and the Origins of Gush Emunum (i.e., feel free to ask me questions about what's on here, but no flames, thanks)

University of Pisa, Italy.
PhD Aerospace Engineering one week ago.

Which will explain why I am always a bit reluctant to build the Spaceship -too much paperwork! ;)

-University of California, San Diego, California (B.S. Mechanical Engineering)
-Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics).

Anyone go to Imperial College in London? I'm thinking of going there for my PhD

Congratulations, Karasu!! :goodjob: That's got to feel good!

Northwestern University - BA in Computer Studies (that's Computer Science with a software focus)

At the University of Queensland, Queensland *, Australia :
* Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) '77-80
* Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) '77-'81
* MBA (Finance) '90-'94

* Queensland - the Sunshine State - "Beautiful one day, Perfect the Next ". Do come and visit one day.

Originally posted by Bam-Bam
University of Virginia--back when they had a nuclear engineering department
:mad:

I work in C-ville with a bunch of Wahoos and live in Crozet.

I went to college at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina (BA-History). I later got a BS in CIS at Limestone College.

Originally posted by civ_steve
Northwestern University - BA in Computer Studies (that's Computer Science with a software focus)

Computer Studies isn't a BS degree? That's wierd.

I'm at Central Michigan University. 2 more years then i'll have my major in History so I can teach high schoolers :)

Put me down for the University of Toledo, majoring in Art History and Studio Art with a concentration in Photography. I'm trying to quickly get myself into graduate school at Toledo for this Fall. What can I say? I'm a Rocket-fan! I want a MA in English with a concentration in English as a Second Language. With the Master's degree, I would like to land myself a university or gymnasium postition teaching English in Europe.

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/gehrytoledo/view2sm.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/gehrytoledo/detbacksm.jpg
There it is, the University of Toledo's Center for the Visual Arts. It was designed by Frank Gehry around 1992 or so. I like it. :)

I also went to Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and majored in math/computer science, but that was 20 years ago.

I also got a PhD in computational number theory at the University of Southern California.

Originally posted by ltccone

Originally posted by civ_steve
Northwestern University - BA in Computer Studies (that's Computer Science with a software focus)

Computer Studies isn't a BS degree? That's wierd.

At the time it was based in the College of Arts and Sciences (ALL BA degrees), not the Technological Institute (ALL BS degrees), and it required a non-technical minor - mine was Economics. It might have changed; this was 20 years ago :)

Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD

Originally posted by utahjazz7

There it is, the University of Toledo's Center for the Visual Arts. It was designed by Frank Gehry around 1992 or so. I like it. :)

I attended UT in the late 70's, for a couple of years until I realized I was spending all of my time in the computer lab (I was a Pharmacy major). They shared an IBM 360 with Bowling Green, but had their very own DEC PDP 11/70 :love: Went back home to Cleveland and got a mostly irrelevant 2-year degree in computer programming at Tri-C. Now I is a komputer profeshunal in the SF Bay Area.

Thanks for the photos of the "new" buildings. I wonder if I'm still on probation for "borrowing" carpeting out of University Hall to use in my dorm room? :ninja:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/Latrobe.jpg
1987 BA (Hons) majoring in The History and Philosophy of Science.

Everyone thought I was crazy when, after completing my BSc (Pure Maths and HPS) in 86 I did an arts honours year :crazyeye:

University of Birmingham Medical school (BSc, MBChB hons): ages ago.

Univeristy of Tasmania,.
Hobart, Tasmania.
B.Sc. Comp. Sci.
Grad 2001

I just graduated from Case Western Reserve w. a BA in biochemistry, minor in CS.

Gehry also designed the new building for the management school. But due to recent events, I don't think they're as happy w. it anymore. I think it just looks ugly, myself..http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/lewis/photosHome/bellflower.jpg

Humboldt University in East Berlin
Got a degree in agriculture.
It was back when Berlin was still divided.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- SB Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley -- PhD Mathematics

I got my B.S. from Baldwin-Wallace College (small school outside of Cleveland). I then got my M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern.

I went to high school in Brisbane, Australia (social sciences) and got my PhD at Stockholm University, Sweden (philosophy). It certainly is a majority of computer geniuses out there (I envy your skills - my skills seem to be to complicate what appears to be easy in human behaviour - hey, maybe it is simply easy, then what? :eek: )

King's College, University of London - English Law. Stirling University for an MEd

What a waste of time! War Studies would have been far more beneficial for GOTM :)

University of Hard Knocks....

Really, though...I went to Antelope Valley College (junior college) for 2 years, after which I couldn't afford to transfer to university. One of these days...

I plan to major in History and Computer Sciences if I can pull it off. Right now though, I can't see myself back in school for quite some time. My wife wants kids...badly. I want to finish school first. We'll see who wins this battle. As if I have a chance...I don't usually win the wars at home. :groucho:

Ghostwind

Indiana University, A.B., '72

Originally posted by hotrod0823
I went to Renssealer (sp) Polytech in Troy NY. That is where I first started playing Civ I.

I also went to RPI, although when I went there, CIV was still just a board game, and modems were 300 baud.

I got thrown out of high school in '88.


Later!

--The Clown to the Left

I partied my way thru 4 years at Southern Connecticut State University. Majored in Graphic Design. No degree. The art dept. had one computer and one scanner. It was reserved for upperclassmen only. This was in 1988. Now, we can't do the job without them. I managed to not get kicked out of the dorms with a GPA under 2 my entire career(under 1 my first year!). I was such a slacker... God, those were good times....

Rock on!:goodjob:

Went to Alfred State College in Alfred associates in engineering science degree then
-> Clarkson University in Potsdam NY for a BSEE with a concentration in electric power.
-> Clarkson U MEEE with a project in nonlinear control of an electic motor.
my advisor: http://www.clarkson.edu/experts/showres.cgi?id=16
I live in seattle now but grew up in the finger lakes region of NYS. Its a very beautiful area of the US.

West Chester University, nee West Chester State College, BA American Studies, '75...

And for those of you who have never visited the Finger Lakes region of New York...you don't know what you're missing. Not as spectacular at the area around Seattle, but still a beautiful area.

Yale University, class of 2003. Majored in Engineering Sciences (Electrical). Spent most of the time playing Civ 2 and 3.

Although if I could do it all over again, it would probably be East Asian Studies (Japan), which explains my name and current location...

Hey Firaxis! You do know that Edo and Tokyo are the same city, right? And where's Hideyoshi and Nobunaga as Great Leaders? If you're going to include Tojo and Hirohito, you might as well leave in Hitler for Germany...

MA in languages at Uppsala University. Uppsala University is spread out over the city but here is a shot of the original building.

The words "To think freely is great. To think rightly is greater" are inscribed overhead. In my own thinking that is a bit unfair to us humanists.... However, "To read 1000 novels is great, to read 10000 novels is greater" is not so great either.

I think my choice to play CivIII has more to do with a recent interest in Social Science, which has never been my strong suit, than with languages.

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Home of the legendary hockey team!

Megalou,

Do all Universities in Sweden have flying squadrons of UFOs over their campus buildings?? Particularly if those UFOs are shaped like Civ3 coal resources; very interesting. ;)

:lol: cracker,

UFOs? No, it's a good guess but the truth is we usually eat macadam for breakfast and then go up in balloons to take care of ALL our daily business. The balloon testers themselves are the worst eaters.

Seriously, I'm very glad YOU should ask because it is in fact a *SPOILER*. OH NO! I HAVE COAL ON MY MA SCREEN SHOT! THe red ink will float like blood!

You can also see it as a way to raise questions in order for me to reply so I can get the Avatar I long for before I die. There are so many sensible posts I have to try crazy ones.

Sincerely, and not on drugs,
Megalou

Originally posted by sourboy
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Home of the legendary hockey team!
Sorry for the loss of your ledgendary coach (more famous for coaching the Miracle on Ice American Olympic Team). Getting hit by a car in your 60s doesn't seem a fitting end, not even if the car was a zamboni.

Blekinge Institute of Technology (http://www.bth.se/eng/), back there now to finish up my degree in 'computer security and forensics'.

btw there are no coal UFO's over the school :)

B.A. small school in OK, USA
M.S., Ph.D. Colorado State University

In Colorado, the coal resources appear in the stocking of the university every Christmas, courtesy of the state legislature. It's a great school in spite of that.

IbnSina,
I didn't get any of that. What does the university get for Christmas? If it is literally coal and not a metaphor, why? Might I propose to put stockings in the stockings if you have trouble staying warm? And why do you say stocking in singular? Is your college so poor it only owns one sock?

Please explain.

Edit: My therory is that coal is indeed a metaphor, having to do with frightfully difficult tests.

Originally posted by Megalou
IbnSina,
I didn't get any of that. What does the university get for Christmas? If it is literally coal and not a metaphor, why? Might I propose to put stockings in the stockings if you have trouble staying warm? And why do you say stocking in singular? Is your college so poor it only owns one sock?

Please explain.

Edit: My therory is that coal is indeed a metaphor, having to do with frightfully difficult tests.

I'm sorry about that colloquial reference ;-) I think that in many countries we hang "stockings" (which here are ornamental socks) during the Christmas holidays in the hope that St. Nicholas or Santa Claus or whoever will fill them with goodies on Christmas eve. We get one stocking per child - no double-dipping. If children are "bad" then we threaten them by saying that Santa Claus will put coal in their stocking (instead of goodies).

My point was that CSU (like most state universities in the US) is at the bottom of the list of funding priorities for the government. It does pretty well anyway in terms of hiring quality faculty - school administrators just promise ski vacations and other recreational opportunities instead of actually paying professors. On the other hand, it is probably true that the school is so poor that it can only afford one sock!

P.S. The difficult tests only occur for mathematics graduate students...

Megalou, I think he is referencing the US(and possibly other countries. I'm not up on my Christmas around the world info) custom of hanging stockings(one for each family member) on the mantle and receiving gifts from Santa Claus in them after his visit. If you receive Coal it indicates you've been a naughty little boy or girl.

Edit:Oops! I didn't refresh, sorry about stepping on your toes.:confused:

Thank you, both. Hanging stockings is mainly an anglo-saxon thing, isn't it? I thought the coal was for heating. Interesting.

Here is a good read about Santa Clause:
http://www.the-north-pole.com/history/

Penn State University (Pennsylvania) for Landscape Archtecture and Geography. Now that I do urban planning for a living, it figures that I'm a total builder when I play CIV.

Boston University
BA International Relations
Class of '89

Originally posted by ControlFreak

Sorry for the loss of your ledgendary coach (more famous for coaching the Miracle on Ice American Olympic Team). Getting hit by a car in your 60s doesn't seem a fitting end, not even if the car was a zamboni.

Actually he fell asleep at the wheel. He was in Northern Minnesota playing a charity golf game & his friends convinced him to stay for another 9 holes or something....feel asleep on the drive back.

Fox Sports Net had a tribute video on a couple times this week about Herb Brooks - he was quite a guy.