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Are You Getting an Arts Degree?
EmptyMemory:
--- Quote from: metro. on March 06, 2012, 12:23:05 AM ---I go to school in British Columbia, Canada.
It's currently 7C but early today it was 12. The weather here is weird, there's still snow on the ground for example.
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Ugh, getting up to SFU was such a pain last week.
I'm not here to put down everyone in Arts, but I do think that going to university for the sake of going to university is probably the easiest way to throw away $3500 in tuition (and, more importantly, 4 years of your life). I don't think I'm alone in supposing that most of the people in Arts fall under that description. If they have that kind of money to throw around, they should spend it "soul searching," or figuring out what they want to do with their lives (career wise, of course), instead. Go backpacking in Japan, go volunteer internationally, but an Arts degree?
No thanks.
Saras:
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on March 06, 2012, 01:01:37 AM ---There aren't many ambitious career paths open to anyone with just a Bachelor's degree anymore, regardless if its Arts or Sciences I'm sorry to say. Teaching and Social work require further training as well.
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You can start a business with anything.
--- Quote from: buchno on March 06, 2012, 12:09:45 AM ---I've never understood why one would go for the Arts Degree, when it is the one subject you learn better at home by yourself (programming languages may fit this category as well), other than laziness.
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Unless you'll get a job in a company that's fucking huge, you'll probably need a basic understanding in economy, business, design, management and project management. To go alongside your coding. It is also considered that someone with CS degree tends to write better code as well. While I'm a bit sceptical about that, it does give you a decent foundation in all things IT, bedroom programmers only really tend to learn one, two or three things.
--- Quote from: EmptyMemory on March 06, 2012, 06:27:29 AM ---I'm not here to put down everyone in Arts, but I do think that going to university for the sake of going to university is probably the easiest way to throw away $3500 in tuition (and, more importantly, 4 years of your life). I don't think I'm alone in supposing that most of the people in Arts fall under that description. If they have that kind of money to throw around, they should spend it "soul searching," or figuring out what they want to do with their lives (career wise, of course), instead. Go backpacking in Japan, go volunteer internationally, but an Arts degree?
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Voluntourism
EmptyMemory:
--- Quote from: Saras on March 06, 2012, 06:58:23 AM ---
--- Quote from: EmptyMemory on March 06, 2012, 06:27:29 AM ---I'm not here to put down everyone in Arts, but I do think that going to university for the sake of going to university is probably the easiest way to throw away $3500 in tuition (and, more importantly, 4 years of your life). I don't think I'm alone in supposing that most of the people in Arts fall under that description. If they have that kind of money to throw around, they should spend it "soul searching," or figuring out what they want to do with their lives (career wise, of course), instead. Go backpacking in Japan, go volunteer internationally, but an Arts degree?
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Voluntourism
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Haha, video was funny, and while it does hold some truth to it, it doesn't really provide a counter-solution to the issue I bring up. At worst, you could spend the would-be-wasted-tuition-money on something else that would give you insight into what you want to do with your life. As to what exactly? I don't know, that's what I was hoping people to discuss. I wasn't, however, expecting to be linked to a video that effectively calls my idea "stupid."
metro.:
Well it did just happen. So dealllllll.
In a roundabout response to Saras, and his apparent defensiveness about Arts degrees, I understand getting a degree in something you love. However, 4 years of interest as opposed to slogging through 4 years to get to a place you'd rather be, seems like a small price to pay for the rest of your life, no?
That's my main point. Getting a degree in.... archaeology might be hella interesting, but unless you plan on going digging so to speak, what was the point?
Saras:
--- Quote from: metro. on March 06, 2012, 07:14:26 AM ---Well it did just happen. So dealllllll.
In a roundabout response to Saras, and his apparent defensiveness about Arts degrees, I understand getting a degree in something you love. However, 4 years of interest as opposed to slogging through 4 years to get to a place you'd rather be, seems like a small price to pay for the rest of your life, no?
That's my main point. Getting a degree in.... archaeology might be hella interesting, but unless you plan on going digging so to speak, what was the point?
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Mate, I'm a chemist specialised in nanomaterials.
And I kind of hate art degree majors.
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