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Are You Getting an Arts Degree?
metro.:
Yay! People discussing with thinly veiled anger towards each other, exactly what I was aiming for!
As it turns out, I was correct in the assumption that people getting Arts degrees think they're difficult, which I find interesting. Regardless if they are or not, maybe it's just the way I think that makes them easy? But I took a second year Psych class last semester, and ended up with a better mark then most of the kids getting psych degrees. Not being like oh fuck I'm fantastic, I just think it's the mentality that you go into courses with.
I study hard, and often, and I think that that's probably the difference maker between getting an Arts degree and getting a different degree. As it's been brought up, Arts degrees "help you think" or something, but if you already think that way, regardless if it comes from Nature or Nurture, it makes those classes much easier. Just like having a photographic memory makes getting a Science degree quite a bit easier. Or a Law degree for that matter...
As pointed out, getting a degree means less now then it did even 10 years ago, thus it's a base requirement to become, for example, a middle manager. Honestly, that position seems like hell, it's the definition of a dead end job, and thus the idea of people aspiring to it is very hard for me to grasp. Yet, it would seem to many people that is the dream. Work a steady job, with a steady pay that doesn't change too much and isn't too challenging.
I think that's where the disconnect is, because that sounds like hell personified.
SirSkyRider:
I wonder.
Well, getting a degree is always based on what standards your professors/lecturers have. If they have low standards, getting a degree is a piece of cake. If they have high standards, it may be a bit more difficult.
Before I switched to my current subjects, I was doing geography and biology. The standards with geography were pretty much the same as with art history now except for the idiotic bureaucracy that those fuckheads (sry for the expression) practiced - it drove me mad. I handed in a paper once which was good in terms of content and grammar/expression/etc. I still failed because I had a problem formatting something exactly the way they wanted. I failed because of a page number.
THAT has NOTHING to do with science or being a good and observant learner. THAT is a huge STUPIDITY.
metro.:
Goes back to getting a degree is just learning how to get a job, Can you follow instructions?, was probably the methodology behind the fail.
Is it stupid? Fuck yes.
But things like that will happen regardless of the degree you get, I understand your frustration though, I'd associate shit with Geo if that happened to me too.
And I didn't already hate it.
SirSkyRider:
lol.
Getting a degree and getting a job should be two different things. You go and study something because you are interested. If you only want a job you could as well do an apprenticeship.
Well, that's at least my view on this affair.
metro.:
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 08:54:06 PM ---lol.
Getting a degree and getting a job should be two different things. You go and study something because you are interested. If you only want a job you could as well do an apprenticeship.
Well, that's at least my view on this affair.
--- End quote ---
So the only way you should get a job is to become a tradesmen?
Sorry, the jobs I want to do, don't have that kind of set up...
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