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Sunday, April 11, 2010
What School Has Taught Me
1. Education is a privilege, not a right.
2. An expensive one at that.
3. Like everything else, universities are a business. First priority is making that money.
4. Going to school will not necessarily make you smarter.
Just look at the prizewinners who get into the UofA for crying out loud.
5. Attending a public university in Arizona is an embarrassing blemish on your resume.
6. College is a great way to get trapped in the debt system. Debt that you'll be paying off for the next 20+ years of your life.
And you already spent roughly 20 years in school, from the time that you are 5 to adulthood.
Unless of course you come from a privileged family who pays for your tuition, board, and weekly hair appointments, and in that case, ignore this whole post as you don't know your ass from your elbow.
Trust me, you don't.
7. Study what you're most interested in out of sheer love and desire for knowledge, not because you think you'll get a high-paying job.
Cuz ya won't.
Unless you're one of those science-y people. In which case, I envy your superior intellect and career choices.
8. Getting a degree is not job training per se.
Getting a degree is a thankless task to test your perseverance and skills at dealing with your professors' countless pesky assignments and following through.
9. Surviving college does build character and improve your work ethic.
10. I absolutely believe that knowledge is power, and as such, everyone should have an education.
Even if it's just for that magical slip of paper.
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I agree that education is really important. You have to have that slip of paper even if you didn't really learn that much throughout college. I feel like I worked really hard in high school and college has almost made me dumber. I don't work nearly as hard as I did back then and so many of my classes I took I didn't really learn anything in like my TRADs and INDVs, but getting an A was nice for my GPA. I am glad I stayed in state though. I can't even imagine the loans I would owe if I ventured somewhere else. I do want to get out of here soon though because tuition and fees keep going up more and more. My sister is coming here next year and her tuition is like three thousand more than mine was.
I couldn’t agree with you more on your points that you made. I am very very very fortunate to have my parents who are giving me the greatest graduation thanks I could every want- graduating debt free. My parents have been instrumental in my education at the U and I will owe them greatly for picking up that tab. On the other hand I feel that you made an excellent point in that college is not job training. Ever since I tell people im almost out of school they keep asking me what journalism job im going to get. When I say none I took the major because I wanted to explore my interests in that field they walk away puzzled. I have always felt that having an education, no matter what that may be, even if you were going to become a PE teacher I feel that having that piece of paper that says you graduated from a university and went through all of the BS day after day and completed all of the assignments and tasks that have been handed to you really means something. I mean standing next to somebody who hasn’t had that degree really just proves that you are something greater than them. I gave 5 years of my life to the U of A and I may not be a genius and may not have learned everything I wanted to or thought I could but I feel that just making and pushing after that 5 year commitment and sacrificing a lot of money from a full time job and having loads of extra stress about assignments will further a being for their whole life. I may not know I learned something at the U of A till I turn 50 or 60 or older, that degree will help me accomplish my endeavors for all my life, and im darn tootin proud of it.
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