I'm not sure what you listen to on Sirius but their main draw, the Howard Stern Show, started advertising 2 days into their broadcast. You can bet that since it is tolerated now, they will slowly creep in more across their line-up. I just purchased a new car that came with XM free for a month. I turned on the comedy channel and what did I find? Yep. Ads.
He probably listens to everything but Howard Stern. None of the music channels have ads (except for the occasional ads for other Sirius content, for instance ads for other channels the listener might be interested in). On Sirius at least, I don't recall hearing any ads on the comedy channels either (except, again, ads for other channels). On the news channels you run into ads, but largely unavoidable since many (like CNN Headline News) are basically audio feeds of the TV/radio networks (which will have commercial breaks regardless)...so they need to fill the time. I imagine it might be the same with sports (don't listen).
But overall, aside from the talk radio it's not as though ads are particularly common on Sirius. And they certainly deliver on their promise of commercial-free music, which is what most subscribers are looking for. That, and perhaps a station that isn't country or top 40 for those of us out in the boonies. While I wish their playlists would go a little deeper and be less hit-driven on the specialty channels, it's definitely a leap from what's available over the air across much of the country.
...isn't really that big of a deal. With the exception of those on GPA-based scholarships (most of the engineering students I know with state scholarships requiring a 3.5 GPA lose them, while I'm sure many liberal arts majors manage to keep them), it just doesn't matter. As everybody else here has said, when you go for your first job you're competing against other engineering majors, not film majors.
No, what gets me is the fact that we're required to take the same number of core classes as arts majors, or in the case of my university _more_. Our engineering program requires an additional 3 or 4 credit core class above and beyond what the university requires, even though we're already taking ten more credits than any other major that I know of to get our degrees. I can deal with the fact that many/most other majors honestly do have an easier time in their programs than we do. But for some reason it's the insult added to injury of knowing that the only reason I'm at 18 credits this semester is because somebody somewhere decided that as an engineer I absolutely _need_ to take a music class.
You know what I say? Make music majors take a statics and dynamics course. Or hell, just require them to take calculus to fill their math core requirement, instead of MATH 101: Addition for Artists.
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But overall, aside from the talk radio it's not as though ads are particularly common on Sirius. And they certainly deliver on their promise of commercial-free music, which is what most subscribers are looking for. That, and perhaps a station that isn't country or top 40 for those of us out in the boonies. While I wish their playlists would go a little deeper and be less hit-driven on the specialty channels, it's definitely a leap from what's available over the air across much of the country.
...isn't really that big of a deal. With the exception of those on GPA-based scholarships (most of the engineering students I know with state scholarships requiring a 3.5 GPA lose them, while I'm sure many liberal arts majors manage to keep them), it just doesn't matter. As everybody else here has said, when you go for your first job you're competing against other engineering majors, not film majors.
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No, what gets me is the fact that we're required to take the same number of core classes as arts majors, or in the case of my university _more_. Our engineering program requires an additional 3 or 4 credit core class above and beyond what the university requires, even though we're already taking ten more credits than any other major that I know of to get our degrees. I can deal with the fact that many/most other majors honestly do have an easier time in their programs than we do. But for some reason it's the insult added to injury of knowing that the only reason I'm at 18 credits this semester is because somebody somewhere decided that as an engineer I absolutely _need_ to take a music class.
You know what I say? Make music majors take a statics and dynamics course. Or hell, just require them to take calculus to fill their math core requirement, instead of MATH 101: Addition for Artists.