this is exactly why there is going to be a HUGE flood of PhD's and masters students soon. It is going to cause some serious problems.
PhDs are less of a worry. Talking to business majors over the last five years of working at colleges with big business programs, if you get a PhD you're almost entirely not hireable because you'd have to be paid so much more than a MBA candidate. I'd say its pretty much just educators, mental health, and researchers going that far.
Yeah, going into college I always said I wanted to finish ASAP and get out there and start working but lately I'm thinking I may go for some graduate school. All of the professors (and others) telling us how worthless sociology or BAs in general are combined with no jobs to be had makes me wonder why leave? School's a pretty good gig. And yeah I'll be a in a ton of debt but I'd still bet that I end up with a significantly better job than those who only have a HS degree to their name. The debt is a killer but I think in the long run the degree would yield a better quality of life? And if all that is moot then, as mentioned above, just experiencing it is pretty dope (even with all the douche bags I love to complain about lol). Its like extending child hood but with the advantages of adult hood. Everyone I know who's out there with just a HS degree is pretty miserable right now and a lot of them tell me how looking back they wish they could have worked themselves into college. Lots of them are getting married and have kids too, its like they skipped over the whole young adulthood era and went straight to the find-a-spouse-get-a-job-settle-down era.
Going to college was the most fun I've ever had in my life. I even loved grad school and was lucky enough to get work to pay for it. The women in school were incredible!
When professors assign shit that the TAs don't even know how to do. How the hell are the regular students supposed to figure this shit out if the TAs can't do it?
I've got a couple of bad professors right now. I hate when they lecture on stuff that's not in the book, and seems way more advanced than an introductory class should be.
I'm old enough to remember writing papers longhand and then having to type them. Between my freshman and sophomore year, my school installed a computer center geared toward word processing. I never had my own computer as an undergrad. As a grad student, I couldn't have lived without my laptop.
I got out of college in the mid-90s, and I wore a pager during my first job when I worked for Gallo Wines. No joke, I'd have to go to a pay phone and call the number. Then, when I finally got a cell phone in '97, they didn't pay for it, and I still had my pager. So, since I was paying for it, I'd find a pay phone. Man, I miss those days when you could just disappear for a while.
I resisted until 2004(?), or thereabouts. People actually had proto-smart phones before I had a phone. Then again, I didn't convert from vinyl until about then, too. barfo
Nah dude, at PSU it's take it or leave it. One of my classes is a req and there was only one available this term. It's so full that we literally have people standing in the back of the room and sitting in the aisles. It's gotta be some kind of fire code violation. People show up for the class 30 minutes early just to get a seat.
