i am going to school to get a degree now.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An academic degree is a qualification awarded to students upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, typically including bachelor's, master\u2019s and doctorates, often alongside other academic certificates, and professional degrees. The most common undergraduate degree is the bachelor's degree, although in some countries lower qualifications are titled degrees (e.g. associate degrees in the US or foundation degrees in the UK) while in others a higher-level first degree is more usual. An early type of academic degree was the ijazah, issued at madrasahs in the medieval Islamic world since the 8th century. The modern system of academic degrees later evolved and expanded in the medieval university, spreading across the world as the institution did. The origins of the doctorate (\"licentia docendi\") can be traced back to the \"ij\u0101zah al-tadr\u012bs wa al-ift\u0101'\" (\"license to teach and issue legal opinions\") in the medieval Islamic madrasah education system. The ijazat was equivalent to the Doctor of Laws qualification and was developed during the 9th century after the formation of the \"Madh'hab\" legal schools.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "An academic degree is a qualification students get after getting a higher education and I'm only 6 months from mine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Congratulations! I have an Associates degree! What is your field of study?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Thanks, an AA in Healthcare Administration. The most common degree is bachelor's degree but not sure I'm going to keep going"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Right! Well I guess it depends if you can get a good job with an AA. I know many who have gotten Bachelor's and Master's degrees."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "From my research I should! I find it interesting the different degrees evolved around the medieval university times"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow! Yes, and there are so many of them! My guess is there are more university and colleges presently today than there ever was!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I suppose that's a good thing. It would be harder in other countries though. Only in the U.S. and U.K. do associate's degrees exist. Other countries start with higher degrees"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't know that! I wonder how long associate's degrees have been around?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure about them in particular. There was a degree starting in the 8th century that was given called an ijazah."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Neat! ijazah? Do you know what people did with this degree?"}]