Summary of Coursework 

....at Kent State University while working toward a bachelor of science in advertising degree - which was earned in 1993. 

Listed below, you will find a list of college courses completed by Tom Wible at Kent State University.  It should be noted that all four (4) years of the degree were completed on-site at the Kent State University main campus, located in Kent, Ohio. 

Campus life was part of the education.

Certainly, a large portion of any student's four-year college education could be the experience of living on campus and learning how to get along with all types of people.   You move outside of "the bubble" that had been your high school community.   And you begin to meet people who are very different from yourself.  In many cases, you may appreciate the differences how each life experience may be different from your own.   For me, all of that took place while living in each of the Kent State dormitories - be it time freshman and sophomore year living in the Dunbar Hall.    Then, junior and senior year, when there was space for me in that dwelling called McDowell Hall -within the Twin Towers complex, itself.  I lived on campus all four years.  Meeting people who were from vastly different backgrounds and learning to communicate with each of these classmates was all part of that college education.      

Four (4) years of living life at the main campus at Kent State opened my eyes to the sheltered life that I had lived for over 18 years.   A "good life" of 18 years - yet - a sheltered life.   Life in a bubble.   Then at year 18 into 19, I arrived at the Dunbar Hall.   You see, since the 1970s I had grown up "way out in the sticks."   And while the campus at Kent, Ohio is not exactly Manhattan, it most definitely was (and probably still is)  quite a melting pot.    Young people with fairly different backgrounds and young people with different life stories.  All of them interesting, to me.  Admittedly, these were a cohort of young people who could get themselves to college - one way or another - for at least that first semester.    

Now, I'll return to the point that I was making.   I mentioned, how as a kid, my family and I lived "way out in the sticks...."

Picture the farthest suburbs of Cleveland.   And this is where the suburbs lead-out to the countryside.  And the countryside becomes the rolling, hardwood forests.   A small town.   Mass every Sunday.  Mom is in the kitchen, cooking three (3) square meals a day.     Admittedly, since the 1970s I had grown up in "a bubble" that I had lived most of my teenaged-life in, up until that point.  Much of that life was good  - and I'm grateful to my parents for that.  But it might not have been real-world.  We did have a television.  Not cable television.  Broadcast television only with reception of channels 3, 5, and 8.  

Every New Year's Eve I'd see Times Square on the television. 

My parents sprang for two of the first home computers for us kids, back when home computers had first been invented......  

First, a Texas Instruments TI99/4A.  

Then, a Commodore 64.  At the time, I felt that this machine was absolutely state-of-the art.   And for that era - it was.  It felt like working with the future.    As a kid from the countryside, I was in absolute amazement with this device.

My friends and I would get together on weekends and work on programming in BASIC.  When we had spent the entire days on computers, then we'd build plastic models of things in the winter months.

Anyhow.  Then, when you spring from the nest and live on campus you hear the life stories of others.   One ponders the world outside the bubble.   I would not have learned all that, if I had lived back home and had gone the community college route.

And I'm not "dishing the dirt" on the community college route.  Certainly, I know folks who achieved greater success than I did and they went to a community college, for, perhaps, a  career in nursing.  You know.  A scrub nurse.  A charge nurse.  These careers are great.    And I tell the people so.  "Your career is amazing.  Nurses save lives.   I wish I had the brains and the ability to be a nurse."   I believe that 100-percent.  We all have different talents.  And when you think it's the end of the road, a nurse appears and saves the day.  These nurses are amazing people.

Nevertheless,  four years of living in a shoebox-sized dorm room forces one to acquire the skillset needed to get along with other people.  And much of it became a camaraderie that has lasted a lifetime.  And even when feelings were hurt (I'm sorry) or when I screwed-up, I learned from it.   I did so in a relatively safe environment and my classmates did, too.  Perhaps even, with a sense of humor about it as we look back on the experience.   

Ad Agency Internship - in Downtown Cleveland

The coursework, listed below, concludes with real-world experience: an internship at an advertising agency located in the Landmark Office Towers of Cleveland, Ohio which is adjacent the Terminal Tower, itself.   A bachelor's degree in advertising was earned upon completion of the internship.

Diploma earned: 
bachelor of science in advertising
with a concentration in marketing

Kent State University, main campus

Browse a few of the textbooks that had been part of the coursework at Kent State.
  

See the textbook covers from the early 1990s
alongside my remarks about each text in a webpage entitled:

As detailed above, it was from 1989 to 1993 that I earned a four-year degree in advertising.   Starting in 1993, for decades, I worked in media, worked in med sales.  Then, I continued my studies in sales and marketing at one of the best sales training programs in the nation.  This training began several decades later in life.  The sales training seemed more useful than an MBA.  I'd been in sales all my life.   Plus, my employer was willing to send me to one of the best sales training programs of that era - sales training developed by David Sandler. 

 From year 2000 to 2003, I became a student of Sandler Training.  I studied sales and leadership at The Training Center in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.  Learn more about this training at the link below.