This is so true. Got my BS in Bio as a non trad student and spent a couple years floating around doing field work in fisheries. It was amazing work but it didn't pay shit and since I was too old to live in poverty for a few years until I could score a permanent gig at a field office my options were go get a graduate degree or go back to the real world. Now I'm building swimming pools, haha.
I read this article, got confused and lost interest.
profession.mla.org
One of the core things you learn in business school is how to use MS Office. Few things make me rage more than speaking to someone in business who can't use Excel.Business students should be forced to work in an actual business fulltime for at least 3 years before going to business school.
Plus, most of the real lessons of business school are likely lost on kids who haven't ever worked in one.
This is what being a teenager was when I was younger. We got our work papers the day we turned 14. A good half a decade of shitty fast food/retail jobs before graduating high school.
When you did your undergrad did you not have a mentor with a lab of some sort that you could volunteer and get some experience in? I always thought you were some sort of engineer type that would have had helped out on various projects.I read this article, got confused and lost interest.
The Humanities as Service Departments: Facing the Budget Logic – Profession
I'm going to concede the point via apathy and agree with you that if a dept or degree is highly valued but competing with teachers of that subject is expensive because those teachers are actually valuable outside of college, it should be subsidized in some other way than bilking students with tuition cost that doesn't scale with the value of their degree or classes taught.
Health care and accounting are two of the few degree tracts that should lead to gainful employment for decades. It's really hard to replace either with AI and we are getting older than shit every day.
The kids looking to get into competitive programs probably aren't majoring in gender studies. They are the folks college was designed for.
You can do that in under 60 hours at community college. There's no way that's a core skill of being a business major at a 4-year university.
Me too, but it's a different experience if you're doing it to pay rent vs movie tickets and beer.
It is actually. It's part of the pre-business core. They give it a fancy name, but it's how to use Excel and PowerPoint.
Those research grants bring in revenue that fund and grow the research programs, and therefore grow the standing of the department vs other competitive research organizations, but they don't actually fund the undergraduate education in that department. In fact, grant money is heavily regulated and accounted to make sure it's paying specifically for what the grant is written for and not being spent on other things.
So you literally just told me it's a pre-requisite to get into the program, not a core part of the program.
Still is on the side of the campus where real shit is getting done.
Hm, not really. As a computer science major I did my first two years at a community college and worked as a computer lab bitch. I went from that to an degree-relevant internship at an automotive engineering place and did that for the rest of my college. I didn't bother working at my school.
cew.georgetown.edu
I mean failure like you wanted a physics degree so you could work as a physicist researching quantum mechanics or whatever. Not that you wouldn't have a career. Or a chemistry one so you could sit around in a chemistry lab playing with vials.