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metro.:

--- Quote from: Saras on March 06, 2012, 07:26:57 AM ---
--- 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.

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Lol I never called you an Arts major :)

I wouldn't do something that insulting. Just was making the point I guess I was attempting to when I started this point. People are illogical, and it pisses me right off.

deadskin:

--- Quote from: metro. on March 06, 2012, 12:32:29 AM ---
--- Quote from: i_am_otep on March 06, 2012, 12:24:45 AM ---maybe to some people it's not all about getting the best paying job...

maybe they just want to do something that they actually enjoy..

and yes, every bit of sunshine in Vancouver is something to go crazy about.

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What job are you going to get with an English or Sociology bachelors?

Aside from teaching and social working.

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Dunno bro, but enjoy your lifelong job as a TA.

abc cuz:
I'm a first year arts student majoring in Psychology and Writing Studies with a conjoint in Fine Arts (which is another degree people tend to talk shit about) so i find this whole rave pretty offensive. I'm only in the first semester of studies and while i'm probably not doing as much as my mate in biomed, i'm still working pretty hard. you should probably be raving about the general douchebags that go to uni for the sake of going to uni, not just arts students, as there are many that take the degree seriously and have to put up with all this bullshit from everyone thinking their degree is superior, even though people from every degree piss around and annoy others, its not just arts students. I'm not a hundred percent sure what exact job i'm going to get out of arts because i'm doing it because i love it, but the two job main areas it have an idea of it leading into for me is writing (whether it be novels or journalism or thesis') and pshycholigical research (psych is more like a science but its under the arts degree as well as science in my uni so to me you're talking shit about it as well)
Come at me, all you art's haters. Tell me why your degree is better!

 :laugh:

metro.:
Oh, I'm not telling you mine is better or worse.

I'm just saying yours is shit. Mine might be equally shit for valid reasons. If you want to do research, oh boy. Good fucking luck. Psychology post graduate work is some of the hardest to get into, because there are so many Psych majors. It's a pseudo science so to speak, it's simply applied Biology. Which by some long chain is Applied Math, but that's for another day. Also, if you want to do research, it's typically suggested you do the Science portion of it, as it leads to more...well relevant skills.

Loving something is dandy, sure go for it mate. Just consider your future too, being a penniless writer that can't get by is terribly romantic, but depressing all the same. I've changed my mind a million and a half times about what I want to do for the rest of my life, and now that I've finally settled on something, well maybe something, it's no where near where I started. Do I love the path it will take me to get there? Perhaps not, but is the end product worth it? Of this, I can be no more sure then the previous statement, yet as far as I can tell, yes.

Please explain how you're working very hard, please. I'm quite interested.

abc cuz:
just because you've settled on something doesn't mean you can now gloat and go around calling other peoples degree's shit because you think they haven't thought about it. i've thought about it all my highschool life, going from wanting to be do sportssci to teaching and finally deciding on arts, not because it was easy to get into or easy to do, because i actually think its going to get me somewhere. you're saying its going to leave me without cash, but where's your degree going to take you? all uni students now days are struggling to get jobs, even on their masters in engineering and environmental science like my brother.
my view of working hard might be different to yours, but i'm doing 4 different papers so i study each one of them on and off every day, as well as learning japanese, doing my fine arts work, and writing. put all that together and it really cuts into my anime time :( but i guess not all of that is arts work, maybe about half. anyway, its still hard work depending on what you're going for. the people you're targeting are the majority that get c+'s at best, this group is the majority in all degrees. you've still got to work your ass off in an arts degree to get an A, its not like they're just gonna give it to you for turning up and spouting some bullshit on a piece of paper, like most people that don't do it believe.
also, you never said your degree is better but your inferring it by putting down other peoples degrees by saying they're out raging while your studying hard on your precious paper.

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