Sarah Palin's Extensive College Career
Sarah Palin cares about education—which makes total sense since she went to at least four different colleges over the course of six years before getting a degree from the University of Idaho in 1987, the Associated Press reports.
Palin's collegiate career began in the one state younger than Alaska, where she attended Hawaii Pacific University in the business administration program. She started in the fall of 1982. Next she headed to North Idaho College, a two-year institution, where she was a general studies major for two more semesters, spring and fall of 1983. Although she never received a degree there, she received the school's Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award this past June.
In the fall of 1984, she transferred to the University of Idaho, where she majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She stayed until the spring 1985.
The next fall, Palin headed back to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College, just 14 miles from her hometown, Wasilla.
After one semester, she returned to the University of Idaho, which she attended for three more semesters—spring 1986, fall 1986, and spring 1987. She (at last!) graduated with a degree in journalism. After her roundabout tour of higher education, she worked a short stint as a sportscaster at a station in Anchorage, reporting on the Iditarod and Detroit Pistons basketball. Check out the video.
There are also some reports that she attended the University of Hawaii at Hilo for a couple of weeks just after her high school graduation, but there seems to be no record of her enrollment.
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IQ Professor
O.K. Saprophagous, eater of dead things. (Saprophyte would have been more familiar to many of us.)
Sacciferous: Posessing a sac.
Sackbut: Ancestor of the trombone.
Saltigrade: proceding by jumping.
I am impressed beyond werds. The way these "s" words all join up in an aboriginal aliquot of alliteration is astounding! I would be better if it made some sort of sense, but What the hey!
eh?
IQProfessor from my home state
Did you really just patronize the whole internet by telling them to go look up 'analogy' gramps? That was your ace in the hole you saltigrade saprophagous sacciferous sackbut? I also have two degrees, and a fake honorary doctorate from the University Of People Who Refer To 'god' As A Proper Noun Are Too Old To Matter, and I say that you should look up 'arrogant kumquat' in your Highschool Yearbook, stare into those eyes that were once yours, and try to find the moment when your ego lead you to lose touch with reality.
Oh, and BTW, Sarah Palin is a giant idiot.
this is the person who would lead global strategy?
Stop and think.... You are talking about putting a person in the most powerful strategic position in the world. This is supposed to be the toughest job interview in the world. I'm sure its fun for her to have gotten a local position in a little town, then get swept into the governer's office because of turmoil and corruption, quit the first real job as governor, turn on the presidential candidate that you are supposed to be helping into office midway through the brief time between convention and election... and act like it was her own presidential run.... Do you want that person setting policy that affects the entire world? Do you want that person commanding troops and determining the outcome of this country and the world? A strong woman would be great. Maggie Thatcher was as smart and stable as she was tough... But Sarah?
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