Back to school, back to school.
to show dad that I'm not a fool.
Got my lunch pack up,
my boots tied tight.
I hope I don't get in a fight.
Oh, back to school, back to school.
(Billy Madison)
That is how I feel right now. After the long Christmas break it is really hard for me to get motivated to go back for my last class. I have one more class and my thesis before I graduate with a Sport Management Masters. Which is strange becuase I really don't want to be a sports manager, just have the degree. Basically it is a resume builder to show I can learn.
I ask the fine people of 'For the Masses', why the heck do I have to spend 2 1/2 years in graduate school and spend close to $12,000, to prove I can learn? To have a peice of paper?
I think Leonardo's character in 'Catch Me If You Can' had the right idea. Give me the job and I will learn then. Basically I learned a bunch of general knowledge from college and when I get a job I have to learn a bunch of stuff that only pertains to that job. OK, so what do I do with the general knowledge? Put it on my resume of course.
OK gang, one more semester. Then it is off to bigger and better things. Unless I get a job before then. In that case getting my masters will just be a burden. I was getting the degree so I could get a new job, if I have the new job before I finish then where is the motivation? Just the same, I hope I get a new job before I graduate.
I will keep you folks posted (by "you folks" I mean RJ, Dan, and Kasey, the only people that read my blog).
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Why pay a butt load of money to go to film school when you can just learn everything on a set? It's how our system works. I think some people feel more comfortable to see that you spent the time to get a master's rather than working for two years. At the same time, you could work for two years, they like you but you don't have your master's.
I enjoyed college but do I remember all of the English classes, the Pysch class, phiolospy? Not so much but what i did learn was how to think, to write, to look at things in a different point of view. You may think that this isn't important, that you can learn it on your own but I feel, in my case anyway, that I needed someone to push me. Look at what you've done. You are married, with a kid and another on the way, you have a job, going to school and it still works.
I think education is the most under rated thing to people who are smart because in the end, they look at how stupid a class is, how pointless a paper is but over look how it's challenging you to think about it. Thinking is good and I think that if more people actually think, we'd be a far better place.
Well put dan, well put. I do like college, I understand the concept. We don't want doctor running around saying "I saw another doctor do this once so I can do it" There is a need for formal training. I know i have learned a buttload of life lessons in college. I have learned to think, to work hard, to never give up. I can't really say I have learned a ton of book stuff, just enough to get by.
Masters is a whole new ball of wax though. I loved my undergrad, it was hard work, but the atomosphere was so much fun. Now, I just want it to be over, give me the degree and let me go on my way. Now that i have a wife and kids and job, I don't want to hassle with class, I just want to get the degree so people will hire me and say "oh he has a masters degree, he must be smart" Not necessarily. I swear, Dan, you would easily be considered the smartest person in some of these classes becuase you have lived life. People like you and I think about things subjectively, we don't try and recall stuff we read or things we have heard, we create original thoughts. You would be supprised at how dumb some of my fellow students are, or their lack of creativity. I never felt smarter than the rest of the class in my undergrad, but in my masters I answer all the questions that the teacher asks the class just because other students are shy or don't have an opinion or simply don't know the answer. That is crap!!
Dan, you would dominate these classes because you have an "outside the box" opinion to share. That is really all the Profs are looking for, someone who will think for themselves. I am afraid a lot of the morons who sit next to me will get the same degree I have (maybe not with the same grades) and be veiwed as just as smart. That is a major flaw in the system.
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