Your Major/College/Career

[Zylo]

Go ahead.

Okay so here's how a co-op works:
I attend my university for fall and spring semester for my first and second year of college. Then in the summer semester after my second year, I attend co-op. Then in the fall semester, I attend my university, then spring semester I attend co-op, and so on and so forth until I graduate.

A co-op is like an internship, except I get paid (and get paid pretty well). It is a program for engineering students so they get real experience in their field before they graduate and nine times out of ten, the company you co-op'd for will hire you full time when you graduate college.

In my case, I'm waiting until the fall of my 3rd year (fall of 2012) to go on co-op and I will be taking classes this summer. Basically, I never have summer break again. T-T

[Cheesecake]

Ah we have that too sort of, pretty much paid internship.
I got put in a large factory that makes certain parts for cars though, wasn't really much fun.
I'm looking at work in a more private sector, less industrial kind and more custom requests from clients.

[flrnprdmn]

The German system works like this:

Kindergarten (3-6 Years age)
Elementary School (1st - 4th grade)
Secondary Schools
> Secondary Modern School (5th - 9th grade)
> Middle School (5th - 10th grade)
> Grammar School (5th - 12th/13th grade; that's being discussed by the government atm)
University

In Australia it's just

Primary School 5-11/12 years old
High School from 12/13 - 17/18 years old (depending on what state/school you're at)
Then TAFE and Uni are whatever age. :P

[Zylo]

I think it's interesting just how different the education system is in each country.

Also want to add to Sarah's post that the final two years of high school aren't compulsory, you can leave as long as you are leaving to work full time, go to TAFE or to get an apprenticeship.

[Cheesecake]

Over here it's

Kindergarden 3-6
Elementary 6-12
Secondary 12-18

After that you have a degree in what you chose and if you want you can go to university

[Steffany686]

I am majoring in DDT or Drafting and Design Technology. I will be finishing up this Spring semester!

[lordgandalf]

I did the following
Kindergarden
Elementary
10th Grade (vmbo as its called in dutch)
intermediate vocacional education - IT engineer
intermediate vocacional education - Digital Investigator
Currently im working in the IT.
At work they are talking about getting to a University of Professional Education.

[SocomKiller18]

I'm a Information Technology major at AASU (Savannah, GA) - 3rd year out of 5 or 6. Rock on